Some Amazon drivers are going to extremes like peeing in bottles to make deliveries on time
Neither rain nor snow nor the absence of a bathroom facility will apparently stop Amazon drivers from their appointed rounds. With apologies to our vamp …
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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Google is pulling the plug on its experimental Inbox email app
Google has been in kind of a weird position for a little while now relative to email, what with its popular Gmail app and the …
Some doctors worry the new Apple Watch health features will freak us all out, WebMD-style
Apple trotted out cardiologist Ivor Benjamin, who’s also the president of the American Heart Association, during today’s product showcase at the Steve Jobs Theatre to …
Samsung is launching an LTE-powered tracker this week to help you stop misplacing things
Samsung is launching an LTE-powered GPS tracking device at the end of the week that you can attach to anything from a backpack to keys …
Apple is opening a glam new store in Paris on one of the swankiest streets in the world
The Champs-Elysées is a famed avenue in Paris that’s home to cafes, theatres, super-luxe shops — and, soon, a new flagship retail store from Apple. Apple …
If Netflix cut your bill by $3 – but started showing ads – tons of you would still cancel
Netflix, if you’re listening — there are more warning signs that your current dalliance with the ads that you’re not really referring to as ads …
Arizona might slap a huge fine on Google over location tracking practice
A bombshell report from The Associated Press a few weeks ago, which explained how Google stores location data from some of its services when people …
It looks like Amazon is leaning towards Washington DC for HQ2, based on a ton of clues
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is set to headline a meeting on Thursday of The Economic Club of Washington DC, a city that just so happens …
Details of a new silver version of the Galaxy Note 9 just leaked
Samsung’s newest flagship phone, the Note 9, has only been out for a few weeks, but we’re now getting word that a new color option …
By the end of this year, almost half of the country will own a smart speaker
There’s been a bit of conventional wisdom out there up to this point that most people who own smart speakers — which isn’t a majority …
As if this was a surprise: Most teens would rather text than talk to you IRL
In what should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, a new poll of 1,141 teenagers, the findings of which are out today, shows …
Apple might have to raise prices on some products in the US thanks to Trump tariffs
Over the weekend, President Trump acknowledged via a tweet (how else) that Apple might raise prices on some of its products as a result of …
A major Game of Thrones Season 8 plot detail just leaked thanks to a lawsuit
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, the actor who plays Jaime Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones, is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against his former manager Jill Littman. …
Samsung’s fans are nowhere near as enthusiastic as Apple’s, according to this study
The hype cycle, the buzz machine, the rumor mill — however you want to describe it, excitement is at a fever pitch for the new …
Smoking pot and promising us a human-computer interface: Just another day for Elon Musk
Tesla’s gonzo co-founder went on a podcast, said he’s probably a few months away from announcing a human-computer interface called the Neuralink, and then he …
The Pentagon is going to spend $2 billion on AI because things are getting serious now
If North Korea’s dear leader wakes up tomorrow, takes a crazy pill and decides to lob a nuclear missile at the U.S. mainland, there’s a …
Jude Law has been dropping some pretty intriguing hints about his role in Captain Marvel
Expectation about the role Jude Law is playing in the upcoming Captain Marvel movie is kind of building to a fever pitch at this point, …
Amazon is opening a checkout-free Go store in New York City
Amazon is now branching all the way to the opposite coast by way of expanding a rollout of its checkout-free Amazon Go physical store concept. …
Mark Zuckerberg blames all of Facebook’s problem on all those pesky human users
Mark Zuckerberg sums up a lot of the challenges Facebook has been confronted with this year in a new post he published today to his …
Paul McCartney is livestreaming a ‘secret’ gig on YouTube Friday to coincide with new album
To coincide with the release of his new album Egypt Station tomorrow, former Beatle Paul McCartney has been teasing details on social media of a …
Apple just came up with a model for how to cooperate with law enforcement
Technology companies are fielding a growing number of requests for user data from law enforcement agencies, now that so much of our lives is tied …
This job posting from Apple could mean its AR glasses are closer to being a real thing
Could Apple’s secret effort to bring a pair of AR glasses to fruition be closer to becoming, well, a real product? Maybe, if this job …
Tablet sales are plummeting, but Amazon hopes you’ll buy its new dirt-cheap models anyway
Amazon has unveiled a pair of new tablets today that, while we all know tablet sales in general are sinking like a stone, the company …
EU regulators give long-awaited approval to Apple’s Shazam acquisition
We don’t yet know how much Apple agreed to pay or what its plan is for the service. Nevertheless, European regulators said today they’ve given …
Netflix is trailing HBO, Hulu and Amazon when it comes to quality content, one analysis shows
Netflix by the end of this year will have spent an insane amount of money on content — some $13 billion, according to an Indiewire …
Tech industry is built around hijacking users’ attention, says Google research paper
In keeping with the new trend in tech toward a focus on “time well spent” and how more emphasis needs to be put on users’ …
Instagram might be building a standalone shopping app to get those sweet, sweet e-commerce dollars
Instagram is making headlines today over the fact it’s apparently building a standalone shopping app that could move the company into the realm of e-commerce, …
Ouch: 44 percent of younger users have deleted Facebook from their phone, Pew study finds
On a day when its chief operating officer was on Capitol Hill this morning getting a grilling from DC lawmakers, Facebook is also the focus …
More details leak about Samsung’s upcoming foldable Galaxy phone
Now that DJ Koh, the CEO of Samsung’s mobile division, has suggested the company might unveil its long-awaited foldable smartphone later this fall, we’re getting …
Former Apple software engineer describes demoing for Steve Jobs, and it doesn’t sound fun
There’s been no shortage of insider stories about how demanding a boss Steve Jobs could be and how exacting a quality standard he expected everyone …
