Interview: Secret messaging app Confide wins new fans in the Trump era
It started with an email, which led to a swapping of voicemails, which led to several days of back and forth until the two professionals …
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.
Articles by Andy Meek
The robots are coming (to deliver your groceries)
The future will feature a lot more pizza bots instead of pizza boys if London-based delivery robot maker Starship Technologies has anything to say about …
Interview: Survios is pushing the boundaries of VR to go ‘beyond reality’
2017 is going to be another banner year for virtual reality, with a continued torrent of new content flowing into the mainstream and a steady …
Inside X-Force Command, IBM’s cutting-edge cyber security facility
Seated at a row of computers inside IBM’s new office in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass., an unsuspecting employee has just clicked a malicious link …
Interview: Minority Report science advisor shares his vision for the future of computing
John Underkoffler is known for his imaginative vision for the future of computing, thanks in part to his work as a science advisor on the …
Interview: Can VR help us understand what it means to be human?
Dan Cook, the founder of EyeMynd BrainwaveVR, is the kind of person you have a conversation with that meanders beyond technology and eventually encompasses… the meaning …
New AI-based digital assistant comes to… gas pumps
Cortana, Siri, Alexa, meet… Miles. Through February, the oil and gas giant BP is testing a new kind of pump technology at several gas stations …
Interview: CBS Digital gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how TV shows are made
If 2016 has provided a bumper crop of compelling TV content — in the form of everything from Westworld to all those Amazon and Netflix …
New OK Go video packs a lot into ‘One Moment’
It’s an understatement to acknowledge that a lot tends to happen in an OK Go music video — those trippy, creative spectacles that have seen …
‘Uber for doctors’ wants to change the way we heal
The road to the husband-and-wife team of Nick Desai and Dr. Renee Dua landing a $26.9 million Series A funding round for their Santa Monica-based …
Meet the professor who will help robots learn common sense
Sergey Levine is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley whose research is focused on the thing our parents used to make such a fuss over, …
Interview: John McAfee wants to protect you from the next big cyber threat
Computer security legend John McAfee’s social accounts have been racking up the retweets, likes and shares in recent days after he posted an image of …
New app co-created by Elon Musk’s estranged wife could be a game-changer for retail
When 24-year-old author and entrepreneur Stacey Ferreira dropped out of NYU last year to participate in the Thiel Fellowship, the grant program launched by PayPal …
VR brings new reality to theme parks of today and tomorrow
A company in Salt Lake City says it’s about to break ground on the amusement park of the future — one built especially with VR …
The high-tech hotel of the future is already here
If the Starwood hotel chain has its way, the hotel room of the future will be more of a customizable set of experiences that listens …
A look at what companies are cooking up in the most important room of the smart home
The California-based smart kitchen startup Innit has been cooking up an expanded master plan for itself this year that’s brought it millions in new funding …
Hot new app uses augmented reality to bring concerts to your living room
A startup team based in Ireland that includes some ex-musicians and fans of the potential inherent in augmented reality is building a company to essentially …
Interview: Meet Yubl, the hot new messaging app you’ve never heard of
Time was, companies big and small were scrambling to launch new social networks. Back when people still talked with a straight face about dislodging Facebook …
Meet the robots that will help us win the wars of the future
If former Marine and entrepreneur Sean Bielat has his way, the law enforcement officer tentatively approaching a vehicle in the future after making a traffic …
A behind-the-scenes look at what makes Mr. Robot so good
News accounts have abounded in recent days of computer hacking, systems intrusions, big data grabs and the like, with examples that range from the recent …
Interview: Meet the Ex-Googlers building the self-driving big rig trucks of the future
For ex-Googler Lior Ron, long-haul big rigs might seem like an unlikely next step in a career that’s so far included stints as an Israeli …
How a Netflix co-founder wants to make movie theaters way better
From the northern California Video Droid movie rental chain he once owned to later co-founding Netflix and then moving over to Redbox as president, Mitch …
Chatting you up: Former Facebook exec is using AI to build the ultimate chatbot assistant
What do you get when you take the former head of platform at Facebook, a former Mozilla engineer, veterans of other companies like Microsoft and …
Going Rogue: Entertainment industry vets build VR startup with Michael Bay
To longtime film, animation and video game production executive Pete Blumel, the increasingly hot virtual reality space represents the “perfect bridge” to bring together almost …
Interview: Spaces is the most exciting VR startup you’ve never heard of
Virtual reality startups like Spaces, a new Los Angeles-based VR shop, are in a race for eyeballs. For some companies in the space, it’s about …
Letting it ride: Entrepreneur bets it all on a $6,800, 84 mpg microcar for the masses
All of the buzz around the cars of the future — from the millions of dollars in investment sloshing around the industry to the glitzy …
Interview: Ex-Redditors launch a new platform they say is ‘healthier’ than Reddit
What do you get when you combine the functionality of Facebook groups, Twitter hashtags, the e-commerce options of a site like PayPal and the communities …
Welcome to the future of holographic computing
Ask Sebastien Motte and John Howard about the post-smartphone future of computing innovation, and the two Seattle-area technology industry veterans will happily talk at length …
Interview: Son of Spock actor Leonard Nimoy making doc about his dad
In a November 2015 episode of The Big Bang Theory — “The Spock Resonance” — Jim Parsons’ character Sheldon can be seen at one point addressing …
Meet Rep. Ted Lieu, a Congressman who says encryption is a ‘national security priority’
Ted Lieu is one of the few bona fide computer geeks in Congress. Even if you didn’t already know the California Democrat is one of …
