Legendary car designer discusses Tesla’s Model 3 and the future of electric cars
“I believe good design is about finding beauty — an emotional connection with the consumer.” Those words might sound reminiscent of Apple’s celebrated design guru. …
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
We asked every member of Congress with a computer science degree about Apple’s war with the FBI
Just because Apple and the FBI avoided an historic showdown in court this week over a previously issued court order for Apple to create a …
Beyond gaming: VR will soon change how we work, not just how we play
Bob Berry has been waiting for this moment. For years, he’s been among the crowd of geeks that’s anticipated a time when the technology and …
New food startup aims to be ‘GPS for your kitchen’
Just as the Internet of Things is going mainstream, here comes … the Internet of Food. The team behind connected kitchen startup Innit said in …
Meet your new digital butler
Ali Ahmed’s newly launched on-demand shopping and delivery app Dispatch is riding the wave of a trend that should continue to pick up steam in …
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Don’t leave space exploration up to private companies
Neil deGrasse Tyson was not among those of you unreservedly cheering the implications of Jeff Bezos’s tweet last week announcing that the Amazon founder’s private …
One of Apple’s first employees talks Steve Jobs movie, Tim Cook and more in exclusive interview
Heading to the theater to watch a big-budget Hollywood treatment about the life of a friend you met in college who died only a few years …
New documentary premiering Wednesday on Netflix pulls back curtain on ‘Back to the Future’
Pepsi has a limited run of a special product on the way – Pepsi Perfect, a promotion set to arrive on October 21. Along those …
Linux creator explains why a truly secure computing platform will never exist
Twenty-four years ago this month, a Finnish developer with a sharp tongue who’s regarded by some as one of the most influential programmers alive today …
DDoS attacks are getting much more powerful and the Pentagon is scrambling for solutions
No wonder the Pentagon has announced it’s working on a plan to fund tools and researchers to help organizations defend themselves against the pervasive threat …
Photo sharing site Imgur is growing up
One way to go about building a company, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone once told me, is to start by creating something fun. If you do …
DuckDuckGo founder on privacy and why he doesn’t track users like Google
When Gabriel Weinberg, founder of the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo, first started working on the concept for it almost a decade ago now, he didn’t …
Game of Thrones Season 6: New Director Shares Inside Look, Teases What’s to Come
Mind-boggling. That’s the way Jack Bender – one of five newly announced directors who’ll be responsible for two episodes each in the coming sixth season …
Ex-Apple Exec Rips Company for ‘Arrogant’ Apple Music Launch
Apple Music’s stumble before the service has even gotten out of the starting gate, via the initial decision to not pay artist royalties during the …
Will the Periscope Revolution Steer Twitter’s Future?
To get a sense of why Periscope has come to be regarded as the buzzy new social app of the moment, a good place to …
Flipboard CEO: Apple didn’t surprise us because it’s always been watching us
Apple’s unveiling of a Flipboard-like news hub during its annual developer conference Monday didn’t come as a surprise to the team behind the now 5-year-old …
The team behind iconic iOS app Camera+ has just released a game-changing video editing app
Third-party iOS camera app Camera+, which launched five years ago this month and brought a companion app to the Apple Watch this week, is known …
Exclusive interview: Xbox co-founder discusses the future of gaming
Ed Fries in recent days took a trip from Seattle down to New Mexico Tech, his college alma mater that had decided to bestow on …
Ex-Googlers launch exciting new iPhone app that could change the way you read the news
A pair of ex-Googlers is bringing another player to the news app space today with their launch of Spotter, an app that crawls hundreds of …
Welcome to the great Atari reboot
Fred Chesnais has plenty of ideas about how to rebuild a once-great video game company. Among the most important to the chairman and CEO of …
Amazon’s roadmap for 2015: Move fast, launch as much as possible
From the expansion of its one-hour delivery service to new cities to the testing of product deliveries directly to customer car trunks and the expansion …
Sony’s Crackle is about to make its big move to win cord cutters’ hearts
If the shift to Internet TV can be said to represent something of a modern-day Gold Rush, the wave of prospectors scrambling to strike it rich …
Life after Obama: Why the president’s 2012 campaign CTO left politics
For the next chapter of their careers, two prominent technologists from the Obama 2012 re-election campaign decided to trade politics for the startup life, building …
Interview: Inside OK Go’s latest music video, which isn’t really a music video at all
OK Go’s newest music video, filmed in Shanghai, is as much fun to watch as any of the band’s previous video projects. That’s because, no …
Interview: Hip hop pioneers De La Soul change the game again with crowd-funded album
When groundbreaking hip-hop trio De La Soul decided it was time to make the group’s eighth album “And the Anonymous Nobody” – its first release …
‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ review: Pulling back the curtain on Apple’s iconic founder
Some of Apple’s highest-ranking executives, including CEO Tim Cook and senior vice president Eddy Cue, among others, have been lavishing praise on “Becoming Steve Jobs” …
Inside a content revolution five years in the making
For some context about how far the content consumption platform Flipboard has come in its now five-year history, start with a number: 15 million. That’s …
