T-Mobile is using a new ‘Caller Verified’ tool to crack down on spammers and scam calls
There are alarming statistics out there about the extent of the spam and scam call problem in the US, with some estimates putting it as …
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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Amazon-owned Ring has reportedly been spying on customer camera feeds
If you own a Ring doorbell camera system, we’ve got some bad news. The smart home company owned by Amazon, which the Internet retail giant …
Samuel L. Jackson reveals his favorite Avenger, besides Nick Fury
Ahead of the much-anticipated arrival of Avengers: Endgame in theaters on April 26, the actor who plays the fan favorite super spy Nick Fury has …
With no host for the first time in 30 years, the plan for the Oscars sounds kind of weird
The last time the Oscars went ahead with no host was in the late 80s. In lieu of a single overarching presenter, producer Allan Carr …
Advance ticket sales for ‘Captain Marvel’ are already setting records
As of yesterday, we’re two months away from the much-anticipated theatrical release of Captain Marvel. And judging by the results of advance ticket sales which …
T-Mobile added a record number of subscribers in its best quarter ever
T-Mobile absolutely crushed it over the holidays, with the wireless carrier announcing a record 2.4 million net customer additions in the fourth quarter and 7 …
Watch Steve Jobs unveil the iPhone 12 years ago today, in the best product debut of all time
“Every once in a while,” he began, “a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” That was Steve Jobs’ opening for what would go down …
The ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel still doesn’t have a title, but the full cast is now in place
With the final season of Game of Thrones just a few more months away from airing, rumors have already begun to swirl that filming for …
AT&T finally responds to uproar over its fake 5G label on 4G phones
One day after Verizon took out a full-page ad in newspapers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to subtly blast AT&T …
Demand for smartphones in China slows down, spelling trouble for tech giants
When China sneezes, a big chunk of the smartphone industry apparently catches the flu. On the heels of tech giants like Apple and Samsung coming …
Russian church leader: Smartphones are laying groundwork for the Antichrist
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, had to know which particular snippet from a recent interview he gave on state TV in …
Tim Cook says wearables are now a bigger business for Apple than the iPod ever was
Ever since Tim Cook moved into the corner office at Apple on a permanent basis, both he and the iPhone maker itself have been dogged …
Kit Harington: Final season of Game of Thrones ‘seemed to be designed to break us’
It’s hard to believe that it’s finally here. We’re about three months away from the arrival of the eighth and final season of Game of …
Possible drone sighting halts operations at London’s Heathrow airport
It’s happened again. With travelers and UK authorities still reeling from the incident a few weeks ago involving drones spotted deliberately flying close to Gatwick …
Hulu now has more subscribers than Comcast, the biggest cable company in the US
Here’s as good an indication as any about how dramatically the pendulum is swinging the other way when it comes to consumers abandoning expensive cable …
IBM was the top patent recipient in 2018 for the 26th year in a row
For the 26th year in a row, IBM earned more patents than any other US company in 2018 — 9,100, to be exact, with more …
Spotify is turning its Discover Weekly playlist into a brand-sponsored moneymaker
Spotify is embarking on a new way to make money from its product in addition to established revenue generators, like converting as many of its …
Nintendo is already looking past the Switch – and might dump consoles entirely
With Nintendo set to continue bringing its intellectual property like a new Mario Kart game to smartphones at some point this year, it’s natural to …
Samsung follows Apple in forecasting a quarterly revenue decline, thanks in part to China
Today was supposed to be Samsung’s day to shine as part of CES 2019, with the South Korea-based tech giant offering up a slew of …
Apple’s next iPhones might introduce a much smaller notch
Notch-related rumors surrounding new iPhones had already been rampant up to this point, with the chatter encompassing everything from the possibility that 2019’s iPhones would …
Samsung unveils two notebook PCs running Windows 10 Home that will go on sale soon
Samsung just announced during its CES 2019 press conference the imminent arrival of a pair of new notebook PCs — laptops which the company unveiled …
Asus unveiled tons of hardware at CES, including PCs, Chromebooks and more
Asus had already teased a slew of new Chromebooks and even the company’s first Chrome OS tablet ahead of this week’s kickoff of CES 2019, …
Google Assistant will soon be available on 1B devices, mostly thanks to Android phones
The biggest makers of voice command-powered devices are jockeying for prominence at CES this week, with Google and Amazon both using eye-popping numbers to tour …
Withings’ new watch will offer the same game-changing ECG feature as Apple’s latest
At CES this week, French consumer electronics company Withings is set to show off its forthcoming Withings Move ECG, a product it bills as the …
Spammers bombarded mobile phones in the US with 48 billion robocalls in 2018
Preliminary year-end data is in on the explosive growth in robocalls to cell phones in the US, with more people than ever getting bombarded by …
Stop worrying so much about how much time kids spend looking at screens
At this point, we’ve heard so many warnings about the supposed “toxic” effects of too much screen time on children that it almost feels like …
Asus reveals new Chromebooks and Chrome OS tablet ahead of CES
Add Asus to the scrum of tech companies teasing new products and hardware ahead of the tech industry’s big showcase and confab that kicks off …
Prediction: FX and HBO beat Netflix and Amazon at the 2019 Golden Globes
Streaming content giants like Netflix and Amazon keep giving consumers tons of reasons to cut the cord and ditch expensive cable packages, now that the …
Altogether, more than 1 billion people had their data compromised in 2018
From credit card skimming to technology bugs to massive outright hacks, 2018 was one of if not the worst year on record in terms of …
HTC’s phone sales are so abysmal that 2018 was its worst year since going public
Another round of earnings data is out from Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC, and the storyline is unfortunately much the same as it’s been for a …
