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.
University student Zamaan Qureshi, who works on social media for the ad-hoc group of activists who call themselves the Real Facebook Oversight Board, was gobsmacked …
New sales data is out from Counterpoint Research about Apple’s iPhone 12 series, which the company unveiled in October last year about a month later …
Data associated with 1.3 million users of the Clubhouse app — including their name, username, User ID, numbers of followers, and more — has been …
This is going to surprise absolutely no one, but less than a week after word that more than half a billion people had their personal …
One of the things that often goes hand-in-hand with the countless hacks and data leaks we’ve written about in the past, and which continues to …
Among the latest bits of news out of Hong Kong is an episode involving smugglers, a cache of stolen goods, and a high-speed boat chase …
Not a week goes by anymore, it seems like, when we don’t have multiple hacks to report on, as well as a fresh data breach …
If you were trying to design Android malware in such a way that the appearance ensured it mimicked one of the most popular smartphone apps …
Here are a couple of new data points that will add more fuel to the ongoing iOS vs Android debate. First, US teenagers really, really …
Most of us, when we think of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, probably fixate on the stereotype of him as a detail-obsessed quasi-workaholic, whose near-mania …
Here is definitive proof, in case anyone still needed any, that people on the internet really, really love dunking on the state of New Jersey. …
Here’s a hypothetical scenario. There’s a house on your street that, as bad luck would have it, keeps getting broken into by thieves. Over and …
Among the many buzzy pet projects and aspirations which you sometimes hear tech moguls like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg talk about that fall outside …
Ahead of Apple CEO Tim Cook participating in an interview with The New York Times’ Kara Swisher released on Monday — an interview which generated …
The Apple blogosphere, as well as the technology industry press as a whole, has been buzzing for the last several days over the prospect of …
Monday was already shaping up to be a lively news day for tech journalists. That’s when the next episode of Sway, the podcast from The …
There is a truism among security experts, IT professionals, and the like which holds that systems are generally only as secure as their weakest link …
On a Wheel of Fortune broadcast just a few days ago, contestant David Pederson was all set to solve the puzzle and collect his cash. …
Over the past year as the coronavirus pandemic dragged on, I began to notice something happening to my Gmail account inbox — a phenomenon attributable …
The longer the coronavirus pandemic has dragged on — which is to say, the longer I’ve gone without being able to travel, which is something …
Not only is there a good chance that Chinese authorities are watching citizens at any given moment in the country, where surveillance is so pervasive …
The Android mobile operating system tends to attract an outsized share of scrutiny when it comes to the prevalence of scammy, malicious apps that target …
New York leaders have reached a deal to legalize weed across the state, a move that represents another victory in the state-by-state push by pot …
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before — a time-traveling TikTok-er has just returned from the future, claiming to have visited Earth in 2027 …
Here are some things we know for certain about Pixar movies. For one, they have a baked-in audience for each new release, a consequence of …
The NFT craze keeps rolling right along, following a string of high-profile announcements and top-dollar sales that we’ve covered in previous posts. Among the new …
Security researchers have found a new example of Android malware that is almost as devious as it gets, in terms of the way that it …
Apple’s streaming TV service Apple TV+ is still nowhere near the size of rivals like Netflix, Amazon, and the like, in terms of its library …
These days, there are so many scam alerts, hackers trying to sneak malicious apps onto app store platforms, and legitimate-looking apps that turn out to …
Chances are, your social media feeds on Thursday night probably included some pictures and videos of the night sky from the Pacific Northwest, thanks to …
