Apparently, enough people bought Samsung’s last 18-inch tablet that it’s making a new one
Samsung is apparently working on another ginormous Galaxy View Android tablet, this one being a 17-inch Galaxy View 2. Android Police is out with a …
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.
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Here’s a first look at Facebook’s “Aloha” voice assistant that might power its smart speaker
Facebook is serious about raising its voice. An app researcher has discovered what appears to be code inside the main Facebook app and its standalone …
Google Fit just got a big update that includes Apple-like rings to track goal progress
Google has begun rolling out what it says is the biggest update to Google Fit since its launch in 2014, taking the lid off a …
Study from Vanderbilt professor finds Google tracking is even creepier than you thought
Maybe Google’s motto all this time should have been “Don’t be creepy” instead of not being evil. Maybe that would have produced a different reality …
EU to social media companies: Take down terror content in less than 1 hour or pay a fine
European Union regulators keep making headlines for their increased willingness to take big tech companies like Google to task over everything from perceived anti-competitive behavior …
The Spotify vs Apple Music war is heating up, and Nicki Minaj thinks she was caught in the crossfire
Spotify didn’t waste time in responding to a hot take from Nicki Minaj over her new album Queen only debuting at number two on the …
Dark Sky is one of the most popular weather apps, and it just got a major overhaul
Dark Sky is one of the most popular smartphone weather apps among both iOS and Android users, and it’s just announced a major overhaul that’s …
Twitch is going to start forcing all Twitch Prime members to watch ads
One of the most popular features of Twitch’s Amazon-esque Prime benefits program is going away in a little less than a month. Twitch Prime members, …
Google’s creepy location-tracking policy just landed the company a brand-new lawsuit
Right on the heels of an Associated Press investigation confirming that Google creepily tracks user movements and locations even after they’ve tried to forbid that …
Fitbit’s sleek new Charge 3 sports a premium design and loads of advanced health features
Fitbit is calling the Charge 3 activity tracker it announced today a feature-packed band that amounts to its smartest yet, thanks to loads of goodies …
Game of Thrones star: Final season will be ‘heartbreaking’ and you’ll have your ‘mind blown’
So it’s going to be like this, apparently. The final season of Game of Thrones doesn’t get here until 2019, but the cast is starting …
Do people actually listen to Beats 1? Zane Lowe won’t say in this new interview
Gregarious DJ Zane Lowe is very much the personification of how Apple Music wants its streaming music service, which includes a more traditional live radio …
Netflix, please stop this experiment with ads before it’s too late
From the very beginning, an ad-free experience has always been one of those big benefits Netflix has touted for users, partly as a differentiation from …
Google just made some great changes to its search results page
Google keeps moving farther and farther away from presenting you with a page of search results that’s mostly a collection of blue links, with a …
Elon Musk says he sometimes can’t sleep without Ambien and ‘the worst is yet to come’
It’s been a little more than a week since Elon Musk sent that now infamous 9-word tweet about taking Tesla private, the tweet that landed …
Tom Cruise might make Green Lantern his first superhero role
In brightest day, in blackest night, here’s a rumor that might not be right — but Tom Cruise, according to the Internet grapevine, has apparently …
Sony announces two new games to celebrate selling 3 million VR headsets
We still don’t know how many Oculus Rift or HTC Vive headsets have been sold, but Sony, meanwhile, is trumpeting a milestone figure today: Three …
Looks like Facebook overreacted with that Boston data firm it suspended last month
Facebook acted fast last month to suspend a Boston-based data analytics firm, Crimson Hexagon, from accessing Facebook and Instagram once reports surfaced suggesting the social …
Google just confirmed it still monitors your location data even with that setting turned off
The Internet lit up earlier this week with headlines all stemming from an Associated Press investigation that came to this creepy conclusion about Google: the …
Not that Apple should worry, but it looks like Google’s first full-time store is coming
Google appears set to be finally moving to correct one of the key differences between the company and Apple, which uses a retail footprint of …
In a first-ever public peek at its roadmap, ARM touts laptop chips that will outmatch Intel’s
ARM wants to get inside your laptop. For the first time, the company has published its product roadmap that covers the next two years and …
Study shows kids can be swayed by peer pressure from robots, because this is the future we deserve
Robots are coming to take our jobs — and trick our gullible children. The conventional wisdom has long been afraid of the first half of …
Video games are nice, but Amazon badly wants Twitch to be the next YouTube
This could get interesting. Twitch has reportedly been approaching big stars like Will Smith about streaming live, and it’s likewise been quietly making overtures to …
This 18-karat gold-plated iPhone is better than any Rose Gold, and it will only set you back $127,000
Everyone already regards iPhones as among the ultimate status symbols, with an army of fans that don’t care how expensive the pricey handsets get. They …
Alexa and Cortana can now be summoned on rival devices, in case that excites you
If you’re the proud owner of an Amazon Alexa-powered device who’d prefer to summon the digital dulcet tones of Microsoft’s assistant Cortana instead of Alexa …
New figures show Apple’s HomePod continues to lag behind more popular smart speakers
The $349 HomePod smart speaker Apple released earlier this year hasn’t yet won more than 6 percent market share, thanks in part to a late …
This new vulnerability affecting Intel processors sounds pretty scary
Secure enclaves are supposed to be just what the name implies, the most secure parts of a chip — the region that a computer’s operating …
MoviePass fixes a bug that apparently renewed some users even after they cancelled
This doesn’t sound desperate at all. Fresh on the heels of announcing a price increase then immediately reversing it, the service crashing, then drastically limiting …
Samsung says its new AI-based Wi-Fi system is smarter and promises better connectivity
Samsung has a big update to its Wi-Fi product line that the company announced today, for which it’s using AI-based mesh wifi tech from Palo …
Twitch has apparently spooked YouTube into paying big bucks to keep creators happy
What do you do when you’re a well-established, deep pocketed technology giant facing tough competition in the form of savvy upstarts that are increasingly stealing …
