Macaulay Culkin reprises his role from ‘Home Alone’ in Google’s clever holiday ad
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 …
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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Netflix is going to start making about 90 movies a year
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 …
Facebook Messenger is adding a new skin-smoothing selfie mode to its camera
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 …
Facebook thinks you might actually pay for and watch HBO on its social network
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 …
Movies starring women outperform male-led films, new study shows
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 …
A new mid-range tablet is coming from Samsung in the first quarter of 2019
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 …
Survey: More people than ever are able to go a whole week without spending physical cash
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 …
Amazon patent hints at using doorbell cameras to build a suspicious persons database
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 …
Facebook’s Portal just got a slew of updates, for those of you who actually bought it
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 …
Taylor Swift used facial recognition tech at an LA concert to track creeps
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 …
Robocalls are out of control, and these were the most common types in 2018
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 …
Arizonans are slashing tires, throwing rocks, and pointing guns at Waymo cars
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 …
Using one of the worst passwords of 2018 is a great way to get hacked
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 …
Study: US consumers pay more for wireless data than just about anywhere else
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 …
Surprising no one, Samsung is ‘re-evaluating’ its partnership with that fake Supreme brand
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 …
Samsung unveils the Notebook 9 Pen, a new 2-in-1 portable PC with built-in S Pen
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 …
Authorities think agents from China’s Ministry of State Security hacked Marriott
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 …
Pixar’s ‘Onward’ is a suburban fantasy about finding magic in a world of machines
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 …
‘World Cup’ was the most-Googled search term in the world for 2018
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 …
New form factors will give the smartphone market a much-needed boost in 2019
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 …
‘True Detective’ season 3 is going to tap into what made season 1 so great
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 reveals which shows and movies were binged the most in 2018
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 …
Google CEO patiently explains to Congress how Google Search works
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 …
Audit of Supermicro finds no evidence of secret spy chips from China
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 …
New Samsung smartphone series called ‘Rize’ might be on the way
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 …
Attention, Nickelback haters: ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ would like a word
Is Wade Wilson — aka the Merc With the Mouth, aka Deadpool — secretly a Nickelback fan? It sure seems that way in a new …
Samsung teams up with a fake, knock-off brand of Supreme to make products in China
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+ is shutting down four months early because of a new security bug
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 …
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, …
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 …
