Instagram’s horizontal swipe mess happened because everyone loves Stories so much
If the furor that erupted over Instagram’s botched test this week that inadvertently became a wider update of the app taught us anything, it’s this. …
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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Elon Musk’s attorney says the First Amendment lets you call someone a ‘pedo’ on Twitter
Everybody knows Twitter is basically the Wild West of the Internet and not a place where the things people say should be taken seriously. That’s …
LG is going to show off sleek new soundbars at CES that support Google Assistant
We’re slowly starting to get a sense of some of the new tech and gadgets that will be on display in a few weeks at …
T-Mobile CEO’s 2019 predictions are mostly a bunch of digs at the competition
At this point, taking digs at the competition is practically baked into T-Mobile’s identity as a company — even down to the way it refers …
Marvel suggests X-Men and other Fox characters could join the MCU in 2019
Disney CEO Bob Iger is on record as saying the company wants to experiment with a new Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise once Avengers winds down, …
Android TV is on a hot streak – and growing especially quickly outside the US
2018 was certainly a great year for TV. We binged as much of it as ever, services like Netflix kept cranking out new series for …
Samsung is going to show off a bunch of weird new stuff at CES 2019
An ASMR microphone, a custom perfume service and an auto-adjusting computer monitor stand that helps users with their posture are among eight projects Samsung announced …
Jack Black is bringing his zany persona to a YouTube channel focused on gaming
YouTube’s newest gaming personality is funny, eccentric, weird and very famous. We’re talking, of course, about Jack Black, who also very much knows his memes …
Netflix will reportedly release a ‘Black Mirror’ choose-your-own adventure movie on Friday
If you’re still in the post-Christmas, pre-New Year’s holiday haze with lots of down time and a whole lot of nothing to do, you may …
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. …
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 …
The great debate over whether ‘Die Hard’ is a Christmas movie has now been settled
If you’re a pop culture junkie who barely hesitates before answering “Die Hard” when asked for the name of your favorite Christmas movie, this post …
Minnesota Attorney General sues Comcast for allegedly overcharging customers
We know this will come as a shock to many of you, but the cable giant Comcast has become synonymous among the general public with …
Squeezed by US-led opposition, Huawei was still able to ship 200M phones in 2018
If there was any lingering doubt about the fact that Huawei doesn’t need support from the West to realize its ambition of being a leader …
Analyst: Google’s speakers and Pixel phones are turning its hardware into a $20B business
Thanks to Google’s enduring moneymaking machine, its parent company Alphabet remains a titanic force of advertising. However, according to a new analysis, a separate powerful …
UK police had to resort to ‘military-grade’ technology to stop those airport drones
Well, you had to figure this kind of thing was coming. After the UK’s second-busiest airport was forced to close in recent days because of …
Prediction: As shows continue to leave Netflix, some people will return to DVDs
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 …
Here are the most Googled queries in each state around Christmastime
The Christmas holiday is a time of gift-giving, family get-togethers, and singing carols. We get time off from work, we get to spend time with …
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
CES is just around the corner — not that you need to remind tech journalists who are already seeing their email inboxes fill up with …
‘Aquaman’ opens in the US this weekend, but has already made a killing overseas
DC’s newest superhero flick Aquaman has already made a big … impact at the box office. (You thought we were going to say splash, didn’t …
Amazon’s huge lead in the smart speaker race is starting to shrink
Smart speakers represent one of the next great battlefronts as the biggest tech giants race to capture new territory in the war for user attention …
New addition to Apple’s executive team shows how serious the company is about AI
The conventional wisdom among the tech cognoscenti has been that Apple lags behind rivals like Google and Amazon when it comes to its efforts in …
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
The latest privacy red flags to emerge out of Facebook — thanks this time to a bombshell New York Times report that uncovered all kinds …
Almost 130,000 people asked Alexa to explain what ‘Fortnite’ is in 2018
It’s that time of year. The time of year when the world falls in love, like the song goes, and when the tech giants start …
Why is Apple allowing iPad Pros to leave the factory with a slight bend?
A number of iPad Pro owners have taken to social media as well to MacRumors forums to complain about a physical flaw they’ve seen develop with …
