Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he has no respect for the SEC in peculiar interview
Earlier this year, explains a voiceover narrating a 60 Minutes interview with Tesla’s brilliant-yet-erratic CEO that aired on Sunday, Elon Musk “began acting … well, …
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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A bunch of millennials explained in a survey why they despise phone calls
If you need to get in touch fast with someone who falls in the millennial demographic category, you’re probably aware that you’ve got tons of …
China angrily denounces the arrest of Huawei’s CFO, calls the US a ‘despicable rogue’
Two state-run media outlets in China have come out with blistering attacks on the US related to the arrest in recent days of Huawei’s CFO …
Prediction: The next ‘Friends’-style scramble at Netflix will be over ‘The Office’
If you’re ranking the TV shows and movies that comprise Netflix’s voluminous streaming library by what people spend the most time watching more than anything …
US general has a question for Google: Why will you work with China but not us?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is scheduled to testify before Congress next week, and he’ll potentially face questions on a number of thorny issues ranging from …
‘Aquaman’ opens big in China, and Warner Bros. is already planning a sequel
Jason Momoa is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend, one more bit of high-profile publicity for Aquaman. The Warner Bros./DC superhero flick he’s starring has already …
Why does the new PG-13 version of ‘Deadpool 2’ exist? ‘It’s a family movie. Also money.’
It’s only about 30 seconds long, but a newly released clip from the PG-13 reworking of Deadpool 2 that opens next week includes some delightful …
Alexa is teaching itself to get better at understanding what you mean
One of the drawbacks of relying on a voice-based digital assistant like Alexa is you may be interacting with it without the benefit of a …
Verizon gives first responders a discount (after throttling some firefighters’ plans)
Verizon has announced today an expansion of sorts related to the discounted plans it already offers government agencies. Now, the carrier is taking that benefit …
‘Game of Thrones’ script notes prove Tyrion really is in love with Daenerys
Deep within a citadel in the ancient city of Los Angeles, an order of maesters that operate a library for the Writers Guild of America …
Report: Chinese intelligence operation behind Marriott hack
A juicy new tidbit has been discovered as part of the massive hack of Marriott we told you about just a week ago that included …
Google pulled a batch of malicious apps with more than 2M downloads from the Play store
It’s happened again. Another batch of apps that exhibit malicious behavior has been found and pulled from the Google Play store — but not before …
Google is finally fixing its incomprehensible messaging apps strategy
As we and others reported last night, Google has confirmed it’s shutting down its messaging app Allo that never really caught fire in something of …
Apple just shed new light on its streaming TV plans by trying to buy the rights to ‘Friends’
The possibility that NBC’s mega-successful 90s sitcom Friends might disappear from Netflix less than a month from now was a major entertainment industry story a …
watchOS 5.1.2 with Apple’s revolutionary Apple Watch ECG app is now available to download
The software update that brings the highly touted electrocardiogram app to the Apple Watch Series 4 is finally available to the public. It follows the …
Goodbye to Allo: Google confirms it will shutter its short-lived messaging app
In a turn of events pretty much everyone outside of Google saw coming, the search giant is apparently poised to wind down its Google Allo …
Google is testing a way for Search to be your TV Guide for streaming apps
If you watch a lot of the content streamed by players like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and the like, at some point you can feel a …
Your local coffee shop may start streaming Apple Music soon
Ben Thompson, the tech analyst behind the influential and widely read Stratechery blog, published a kind of mea culpa a few days ago in which …
Yandex, the Google of Russia, is launching its first smartphone
The search company known as the Google of Russia already does a lot of things to which you can make comparisons with similar services and …
Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series may be getting secret help from Peter Jackson
It’s widely known at this point that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gave a directive to the team leading the development and commissioning of the company’s …
Mark Zuckerberg’s response to leaked Facebook emails: We’re actually the good guys
Facebook’s brutal year of one bad news cycle after another has continued pretty much interrupted, with today offering the latest bit of fuel for the …
Samsung’s target demographic for its foldable phone will be middle-aged professionals
There’s so much about Samsung’s soon-to-be-released foldable phone that’s just so, well, far-out and wildly different from everything else on the market today. There’s everything …
250,000 people (and counting) signed a petition over Tumblr’s porn ban
Well, that didn’t take long. Tumblr announced a major change to its platform Monday — the wholesale banning of adult content starting in two weeks …
Hulu and AT&T are working to make TV ads more annoying than ever
Nothing in life is as certain as death, taxes and the relentless expansion of advertising to every conceivable digital and real-world blank canvas that revenue-hungry …
Samsung apparently wants to bring ‘force touch’ to its smartwatches
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Here’s another reminder that Samsung’s mobile business needs a jolt
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Quora discloses major breach that affects 100 million users
You can’t exactly get a sense of the severity of the data breach that Quora disclosed late Monday, which came in the form of a …
Tumblr is banning all adult content in a major shift for the Verizon-owned platform
Tumblr is implementing a major shift to its platform starting later this month, one that has some users up in arms but will make it …
Spotify is testing a feature that will let you import your own songs
Spotify has been working to make its platform more open and useful, such as the streaming music giant’s plan to let musicians use Spotify’s app …
Netflix confirms ‘Friends’ will stay on the service through 2019
Three years after landing on Netflix, there’s been an uptick in chatter over the last couple of months that NBC’s mega-popular sitcom Friends may be …
