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 …
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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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 …
Report: Apple secretly met with developers to push subscriptions on the App Store
In the spring of 2017, Apple convened a group of more than 30 software developers at a Tribeca loft in New York City. The iPhone …
Report says Google tracks your location on iPhone and Android even when you forbid it
Death and taxes are two of the most famous certainties in life, but surely we can add another to that list. One involving the absolute …
‘Game of Thrones’ creator says Gandalf’s death is why he constantly kills off his characters
Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin got asked for his vote as part of PBS’ The Great American Read, which features celebrities weighing in …
To keep running a page with a ‘large audience,’ Facebook wants proof of where you live
Anyone who manages a Facebook page that has a “large audience,” which is the somewhat nonspecific language Facebook uses in a new blog post today, …
First Samsung stole the iPhone’s design, and now McDonald’s is ripping off the Apple Store look
Don’t stroll into this sleek new 19,000-square-foot store that opened yesterday in Chicago thinking they’re going to be able to repair your iPhone X here …
Spotify might let free users skip any ad, even though it needs all the ad revenue it can get
Spotify is dependent on the revenue it gets from subscribers and, for all of you moochers who don’t pay anything, the ads that the music …
Uber is working with UT Austin and the army to build what amount to sky taxis
Uber has chosen a pair of partners to help it develop technology for uberAIR, its proposed ride-share service in the sky. The company will be …
Discord built a gamer community, now it’s trying something new – giving them actual games
It’s game time for Discord, the gaming community used to bring together some 150 million gamers that has now decided to get into, well, actual …
Young people are actually trying to get plastic surgery to up their Snapchat game
There apparently exists, in developed Western countries, a not insignificant number of people so enamored with the way social apps like Snapchat and Instagram make …
This is how PlayStation says thank you to fans – with a sleek, translucent blue console
The folks at Sony Interactive Entertainment are announcing a big milestone today, and also a gift of sorts to fans. The number is 525.3 million …
This cute new robot from Anki is definitely the droid you’re looking for
Who among us isn’t a sucker for a cute robot you can play games with, that you can ask questions and that beeps like a …
Facebook is shedding massive traffic – and it’s apparently flocking to YouTube
Four billion. That, according to a new study shared with CNBC by market research firm SimilarWeb, is how many monthly page visits Facebook has shed in …
Disney will launch its streaming service without its biggest brands fully on board
Disney is serious about establishing itself in the streaming video space. Unfortunately, the long-anticipated streaming service it launches next year is going to have a …
Government-backed research suggests millions of smartphones have built-in security flaws
Well, this is comforting. Researchers funded by the Dept. of Homeland Security have found security vulnerabilities built into smartphones at the device level, vulnerabilities that …
The founders of a viral polling app showed Facebook a ‘psychological trick’ to target teens
When we reported last month that Facebook had decided to wind down tbh, the anonymous polling app for U.S. high schoolers that Facebook had just …
Bots just beat human pros at ‘Dota 2’ and it wasn’t even much of a contest
The research initiative co-founded by Elon Musk has successfully trained AI bots to trounce professional human players of the popular arena battle game Dota 2, …
Fossil’s new Wear OS smartwatches look good, but they’re still lacking features
Fossil today unveiled the fourth generation of its Fossil Q line of smartwatches that run Google’s Wear OS and come packed with features like heart …
Defense Dept. finally stepping in because of soldiers’ sloppy mobile device habits
Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff once said during a conversation with me that he uses a fitness tracker to monitor his regular runs, but …
Update to Google Classroom is supposed to make homework suck less
Google decided to get a jump on the new school year by rolling out what it’s described as the biggest redesign yet for Classroom, its …
