Apple rumored to unveil redesigned Find My Friends app with Tile-like functionality
Engineers at Apple are currently working on an app with the code name “GreenTorch” that would combine the company’s existing Find My iPhone and Find …
Andy Meek is a reporter based in Memphis who has covered media, entertainment, and culture for over 20 years. His work has appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Forbes, and The Financial Times, and he’s written for BGR since 2015. Andy's coverage includes technology and entertainment, and he has a particular interest in all things streaming.
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Watch Millie Bobby Brown, Steve Aoki and Ninja react to the Galaxy Fold
“What! You’re folded!” raves Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown, snapping the phone closed in her hand. Likewise, Grammy-nominated DJ and producer Steve Aoki. “I …
Hackers unleashed 40 million cyberattacks on Ecuador after Julian Assange’s arrest
Julian Assange’s arrest at the end of last week by British officials who finally snatched him at the London embassy in Ecuador where he’d been …
Capcom’s new 16-game mini-console will make you feel like a kid again
We’ve seen a handful of video game companies, including Nintendo and Sony, launch super retro mini-consoles that are packed with classic video games, and it’s …
Netflix just added another 10 million subscribers, will experiment with top 10 lists
Netflix is just out with its earnings results covering the first three months of the year, and a key highlight of the companion shareholder letter …
Apple helping rebuild Notre Dame is a perfect example of how it’s changed under Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted early Tuesday morning that the company would be donating money as a way of helping French officials rebuild the Notre …
‘Game of Thrones’ season 8 premiere watched by a record-breaking 17.4 million people
HBO has just released its audience stats for the premiere of Game of Thrones season 8, which the network says drew a record 17.4 million …
Facebook is copying Snapchat again with a new way to browse the News Feed
Facebook’s new Snapchat-like “Stories” format could be about to completely transform your News Feed, if the latest scoop from app researcher Jane Manchun Wong comes …
Everywhere you can buy Samsung’s Galaxy Fold when it goes on sale next week
Reviews of Samsung’s much-hyped foldable phone have started to trickle out, with many of them — like this one from The Verge — seeming to …
Amazon is reportedly preparing to launch a free music streaming service
The streaming music landscape is about to get a little more fractured, with yet another deep-pocketed tech giant set to enter the field. Amazon, sources …
Prediction: Apple Arcade may end up being a bigger winner for Apple than its TV service
After formally unveiling the subscription-based video game service last month that it’s planning to launch this fall as part of a shift toward services and …
Millennials are the demographic most open to self-driving cars, but not by much
Ford chief executive Jim Hackett made news a few days ago when he seemed to pour a bit of cold water on the carmaker’s autonomous …
A ‘Game of Thrones’ VFX specialist shows us how they digitally bring dragons to life
Mark Spindler’s official title with the visual effects company Pixomondo is compositing supervisor, which means he’s responsible for taking different VFX elements and wizardry and …
Facebook’s latest mishap involves bizarre messages printed on Oculus controllers
Facebook is certainly dealing with its fair share of privacy snafus at the moment, a number that’s swelled considerably over the past 12 months or …
‘Veronica Mars’ returns with eight new episodes on Hulu in July
This has been a jam-packed week of news for Disney and its myriad brands and franchises, with Thursday featuring a ton of long-awaited detail about …
This is Netflix’s secret weapon in the fight against Disney and Apple
This weekend, pop culture fans around the world will turn their attention again to the fictional continent of Westeros, where a bitter, treacherous fight for …
Disney just announced a price and launch date for its Disney+ streaming service
We already knew the streaming wars were going to get a lot more interesting this fall, and at an investor day presentation this afternoon from …
LG trademarks a rollable display because weird smartphones are apparently the future
Time was, it would have seemed utterly bizarre to think a smartphone manufacturer as big and mainstream as Samsung would bring a handset to market …
LinkedIn just added Facebook-style reactions
Just because Facebook is mired in a teeming mess of scandal right now doesn’t mean its competitors are completely ignoring the way the largest social …
Google’s Pixel is winning over plenty of Android users, but iOS users are staying put
A new study published by Counterpoint Research sounds like good news for Google’s efforts to expand the user base of its generally well-regarded Pixel smartphone …
Netflix is getting its own SiriusXM radio channel starting Monday
Netflix announced a deal today that will bring the streaming giant’s content to, for the first time, audiences of another subscription media company — opening …
Google wants to start making more money from Maps, and we all know what that means
Google is reportedly about to bring a version of the same playbook that turned its best-in-class search engine into an unstoppable money machine over to …
LG’s transparent foldable smartphone design barely looks like a phone at all
It was probably inevitable that we’d eventually see a smartphone design that combines transparent screens with a foldable form factor. LG has just patented a …
Samsung: We will remain the global smartphone leader for the next decade
Never mind that Samsung Electronics Co., the global smartphone maker leader as ranked by device shipments, reported a 60 percent slump in quarterly operating income …
Netgear unveils the Nighthawk AX4: The first Intel-based Wi-Fi 6 router
Netgear has unveiled a family of new Wi-Fi 6 routers today, including the Netgear Nighthawk AX4 — the first Intel-based Wi-Fi 6 router on the …
Thanks to hits like ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ movie theaters have nothing to fear from Netflix
If there’s anybody you’d think would be among the first to proclaim that Netflix and its rival streaming services are eating away at the business …
Roku just got a new update that makes it easier to use in almost every way
One of those super-annoying headaches that goes hand in hand with cord-cutting and the era of on-demand streaming video entertainment is the maintenance of multiple …
The ‘Game of Thrones’ showrunners dropped clues in this Spotify playlist
If you want to know how Game of Thrones Season 8 is going to end, the series’ two showrunners are here to set the record …
Catch up on all 7 seasons of ‘Game of Thrones’ before Sunday with this 2-minute clip
If you don’t have time to go on a marathon Game of Thrones binge before the first episode of the eighth and final season airs …
‘Avengers’ directors reveal which two movies you need to watch before ‘Endgame’
The release of Avengers: Endgame, if you somehow weren’t aware, is less than three weeks away now. And in addition to the Internet still drowning …
