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.
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 has been making the rounds doing press for his new movie that opens this weekend, Welcome to Marwen, which is about a nice …
Attention, whichever director is going to move forward with the inevitable Home Alone remake: Please give the enterprising young Kevin McCallister a smart speaker to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Jacob Snow, a technology and civil liberties attorney for the ACLU, has been making the rounds telling media outlets that a newly publicized patent from …
Talk about inauspicious timing. Facebook announced a bevy of new updates today for its Portal video chat hardware that already had some people a little …
The kiosk set up at the site of Taylor Swift’s Rose Bowl concert in May stopped many fans in their tracks, and they came in …
People seem to be actually answering their phones less and less these days, also using them to make fewer calls when texting and social network …
The presence of Waymo self-driving cars in Arizona has certainly kicked up a hornet’s nest, it seems. People are bullying, harassing and even outright attacking …
No matter how much we read about hacks and data breaches and the importance of taking solid security precautions, one of the unchangeable truths of …
US consumers who feel a sense of foreboding that ultimately turns to sticker shock whenever they get their cellphone bill for the month have good …
Well, that didn’t take long. When you’re one of the premiere technology companies on the planet, aligning yourself with brands that so blatantly rip off …
Ahead of CES 2019 in just a few weeks, Samsung is unveiling a new 2-in-1 notebook PC today, in addition to teasing three additional product …
We’re starting to get a clearer picture of who authorities believe is responsible for the massive hack of the Marriott hotel chain in recent weeks …
We’re calling it now. Pixar’s next original feature — titled Onward and set for release in early 2020 — is going to recapture the magic …
The list of the most-Googled items over the course of the year is always a fascinating look back at the people, places, events and moments …
2018 has arguably been a boring year, bordering on an outright slump, for the global smartphone market, with a new analysis of shipment figures showing …
Maybe the third time really is the charm. A pair of cops, plumbing the depths of the evil that men do amid the horror and …
Netflix famously keeps data about viewership and other user behaviors close to the vest, often to the consternation of the Hollywood and other partners that …
You’d think that the nation’s lawmakers — the ones with the power to decide how the country spends its billions, when we go to war …
Here’s one more bit of pushback to add to all of the denials and counters and head-scratching that accompanied the October publication of a bombshell …
We’ve reported in depth at this point that Samsung remains the top global smartphone maker in the world as ranked by shipments, though its numbers …
Is Wade Wilson — aka the Merc With the Mouth, aka Deadpool — secretly a Nickelback fan? It sure seems that way in a new …
The hip, New York City-based streetwear fashion brand Supreme is so popular in Asia that Samsung has decided to launch an official marketing partnership with …
Google never could figure out a coherent story to tell that would spur greater usage of its flameout of a social network. And now it …
