These are the first apps you should download on your new iPhone or Android
New iPads, Android phones, Samsung flagships and a myriad of other shiny new tech toys are likely being unwrapped in homes around the country today. …
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.
Over the years, he’s interviewed legendary figures in entertainment and tech that range from Stan Lee to John McAfee, Peter Thiel, and Reed Hastings.
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Huawei and Samsung are going to wage a fierce war in 2019 for smartphone supremacy
Next year is going to mark a turning point, one way or another, for some of the tech giants that have a lock on the …
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Next year is going to be pretty interesting for Netflix subscribers, to put it mildly. According to analytics firm Jumpshot, more than half of the …
Here’s why Amazon’s Alexa says random creepy things like ‘kill your foster parents’
At this point, it seems clear that Amazon executives don’t get bent out of shape when they hear about the Alexa digital assistant blurting out …
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Microsoft executive says Surface hardware with all-new form factor is in the works
Some of you might consider it an upside down world that sees a high-profile Microsoft executive interviewed and praising the company’s well-regarded, successful line of …
Google Assistant might come to Samsung TVs in 2019
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‘Aquaman’ opens in the US this weekend, but has already made a killing overseas
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Amazon’s huge lead in the smart speaker race is starting to shrink
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New addition to Apple’s executive team shows how serious the company is about AI
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Study: Amazon, Hulu and Netflix probably have too much overlap to subscribe to all three
Given how much of a major shift we’ve seen in where the average person gets their TV and movie fix from these days — the …
UK authorities may give police ‘new powers’ because of morons flying drones near airports
Barring any last-minute surprise, the second-busiest airport in the UK may finally reopen again before the end of the week after being forced to close …
Elon Musk is giving students in Flint, Michigan $423,600 to buy Chromebooks
After promising in October to foot the bill for water filtration systems to make sure schools in Flint, Michigan have access to clean water, billionaire …
Study: If you pay the average person at least $1,000, they’ll #DeleteFacebook
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Apps available for download in Google’s Play Store marketplace frequently expose kids to content that’s inappropriate and even trick some youngsters into unwittingly making in-app …
Steve Carell just confirmed he’s never returning to ‘The Office’ as Michael Scott
Steve Carell has been making the rounds doing press for his new movie that opens this weekend, Welcome to Marwen, which is about a nice …
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If any of you watched director Alfonso Cuaron’s black-and-white cinematic epic Roma that landed on Netflix this weekend — the movie that pretty much the …
Facebook Messenger is adding a new skin-smoothing selfie mode to its camera
About a month after app researcher extraordinaire Jane Manchun Wong tweeted out one of the latest of her many scoops — that Facebook Messenger is testing …
Facebook thinks you might actually pay for and watch HBO on its social network
If you’re not posting as many status updates these days, Facebook is hoping it can at least convince you to open the app and watch …
Movies starring women outperform male-led films, new study shows
Hollywood filmmakers looking to maximize their returns at the box office might be interested in taking a look at the results of a newly published …
A new mid-range tablet is coming from Samsung in the first quarter of 2019
2019 is already shaping up to be a busy year for Samsung, which has a slew of hardware releases teed up that includes everything from …
Survey: More people than ever are able to go a whole week without spending physical cash
Here’s an idea for an experiment: Could you go an entire week without ever paying for something with actual paper currency? Without ever having cash …
