Facebook’s News Feed is about to look a lot different thanks to augmented reality ads
At an event for reporters and marketers today in New York City, Facebook announced a new option it’s testing for advertisers, a way to use augmented …
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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Teenage app researcher gets the scoop on new Snapchat camera feature using Amazon
Word of a new Snapchat camera feature in the works — which would let users scan products and send them to Amazon listings — sent …
Looming fine means Google might have to stop forcing its own apps onto Android devices
Google may be about to get hit with a multibillion-dollar fine from European regulators that stems from the company’s longstanding policy of requiring Android device …
Alexa vs. Google Assistant: One is better at commerce, the other at understanding you
With the smart speaker wars heating up and voice looking to be one of the next major computing platforms, Amazon and Google have taken commanding …
Apple is still trying to convince us what an iPad is good for in its new ads
Towards the end of his life, there was a moment at an All Things D conference where Steve Jobs was explaining his bullishness on iPads. …
Apple reminds us how the App Store changed everything ahead of its 10th anniversary
Developers from legendary Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto to the makers of games like Candy Crush and Temple Run, along with representatives of HBO, Major …
Things are looking worse than ever for HTC
Is this the beginning of the end for Taiwan-based smartphone market HTC? The company has generated a steady stream of bad news in recent days …
Somebody thought a politics-free version of ‘SNL’ in China sounded like a good idea
Almost as soon as you learn that NBCUniversal licenses a version of Saturday Night Live to be produced locally in China with help from the …
Your call is very important to Google’s robot and will be answered in the order received
Google knows none of us particularly enjoys dealing with customer service phone calls. Which is why the tech giant thinks its Duplex AI — which …
Tinder swipes right on GIF-y looping video in profiles
Tinder has seen a string of product-related headlines in recent days, and here comes another: Today, the company has started the global rollout of Tinder …
SNK celebrates 40th birthday by revisiting the golden age of video games
SNK, in honor of its 40th anniversary, is bringing a lineup of old-school, pixelated goodness to the Nintendo Switch this fall in the form of …
Insiders say they designed social media to be ‘behavioral cocaine’
One of the recurring quotes often delivered with humorous resignation by a member of the Bluth family on Arrested Development was the perennially meme-able line, …
Yes, your phone is spying on you and these researchers proved it
It surely says something about the dark side of technology that as time goes on, many of us are increasingly likely to believe the worst …
Funko is starting a breakfast cereal line so we can all feel like kids again
After turning basically every pop culture figure and character you can think of into a collectible, now breakfast cereal is next in line to get …
Don’t touch that ‘Fortnite’ cheating app unless you enjoy malware
Some lessons are so simple, but they need to constantly be repeated because we all — well, we never seem to learn. Like this lesson …
Facebook calls it quits on three apps it’s shutting down over low usage
Lately, it’s seemed like a lot of the news out of the world’s largest social network is over privacy flaps and glitches that tinker with …
Shocker: New report says Facebook owns four of the five most-downloaded iOS apps ever
With the tenth anniversary of the launch of the iOS App Store just around the corner, here comes a report released today from App Annie …
Facebook apologizes for yet another privacy screw-up
Facebook has acknowledged a new bug that improperly tinkered with user settings — this time, a bug that affected more than 800,000 users and unblocked …
Samsung Frame TV update brings more style to the glass rectangle on the wall
Samsung is bringing a larger collection of virtual artwork to its line of Frame TVs, which the company first introduced in 2017 and which use …
Instagram reportedly testing Q&A feature in Stories
Another day, another report of a new feature coming soon to the fast-changing Instagram app that in recent days alone has seen the arrival of …
We got a first look at the new Amazon series from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail, the creator of the hit TV series Mr. Robot, is gearing up for a busy rest of 2018 — and we’ve got a first look …
Analyst says Google can dominate Amazon if it offers Home Mini smart speakers for free
Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak is responsible for a stream of news headlines this morning thanks to a call he’s issued to Google in light …
Mysterious Motorola video has us wondering what ‘big announcement’ is in store
Motorola is using an 11-second video with no sound to tease a “big announcement” coming next month during an event at its Chicago headquarters. A …
Dodge brings slew of upgrades car buyers will love to 2019 Charger Hellcat
Dodge has unveiled details of a refresh along with some upgrades for its sleek-looking 2019 Charger Hellcat, most of which are under the hood. The …
Mobile game maker Oh BiBi raises $21M to build the next ‘Fortnite’
A Paris-based mobile gaming studio called Oh BiBi has raised $21 million to build the next big thing in on-the-go, casual gaming, with an eye …
Pentagon furor may have distracted Google in bid to buy GitHub
Google’s Cloud CEO conceded at a Fortune Magazine event in San Francisco Wednesday something many people suspected — that the Mountain View-based computing giant got …
Few people are actually using Amazon’s Alexa to shop on Amazon
British consumers are buying technology with embedded voice assistants and asking it do things like … help them boil an egg. That’s one of the …
Snap gaming platform on the way now that Facebook has copied everything else
The parent company of Snapchat is working on something new, along the lines of this AR “game” I’ve swiped across a few different lenses in …
Now you can block TV spoilers and annoying political rants on Facebook
There are plenty of reasons members of the general public have begun to sour on Facebook. It’s not cool. Instagram is simpler. Privacy issues. That …
Google’s creepily human-like Duplex AI is coming to the real world
Google is getting closer to introducing its new Duplex AI into the real world, Duplex being the assistive AI that Google built to talk like …
