Senior Writer
Chris Smith has been covering consumer electronics ever since the iPhone revolutionized the industry in 2008. When he’s not writing about the most recent tech news for BGR, he closely follows the events in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and other blockbuster franchises. Outside of work, you’ll catch him streaming almost every new movie and TV show release as soon as it's available.
Whether it’s done for publicity to raise awareness or to save money during production, the iPhone can be used to replace professional cameras and even to shoot entire movies. That’s a point Apple made a while ago by using iOS devices to record entire commercials. Filmmakers listened, and earlier this year news broke that Sundance hit Tangerine …
It’s not an easy feat, but it’s entirely possible to shoot entire movies in one single continuous take. That’s the case with a new European movie called Victoria, a thriller that tells the story of an action-packed wild night.
The Martian is the talk of the town, an incredible space movie that makes traveling – and surviving on Mars – seem entirely plausible. Using technology that’s carefully inspired from what’s currently available to astronauts, Andy Weir invented an adventure in space that’s scary, yet very enjoyable. NASA certainly helped out with the movie, as director Ridley …
Streaming services are wildly popular right now, taking advantage of our insatiable need for entertainment. Music, movies and TV shows are available from a variety of companies, further encouraging cord-cutters to ditch their cable subscriptions. Sites like Netflix, HBO Go, Hulu, Amazon and others offers access to countless hours of content, though there’s one major roadblock …
A lot of people probably aren’t recording a lot of 4K videos with their smartphones, particularly if they only have a measly 16GB of storage to work with. Yet, as the following video will show you, 4K video recording can be flat-out awesome. In this particular case, we’re looking at a water droplet floating inside the International …
Everybody loves the Smurfs, magical characters from our childhood ready to deliver a ton of whacky adventures. However, in the modern day and age, there are some real Smurfs you can only hope you never have to deal with. As Edward Snowden has revealed, Smurf is the codename of an advanced spying tool used by GCHQ to infect …
At one point during Samsung’s Galaxy S6 presentation in early March, the company triumphantly announced Samsung Pay, bragging that unlike the competition’s similar product it’ll work with any existing payment terminal. The move was a direct response to the iPhone 6’s Apple Pay feature introduced a few months earlier, which gave a significant boost to …
Material Design is one of the cornerstones of Google’s Android when it comes to overall design and user interface elements, and the company hasn’t been shy about wanting to use the same design principles for mobile and web apps. Google has slowly updated its mobile apps to Material Design surrounding Lollipop’s launch last year, and the company is moving forward …
After various reports claimed that Dell had been eyeing EMC as a merger target, Dell on Monday finally confirmed it’s indeed going to purchase the company, creating a “premier end-to-end technology company.”
Liked Fargo (the movie and TV series)? The Big Lebowski? Burn After Reading? No Country for Old Men? You have the incredibly imaginative Ethan and Joel Coen to thank for these films, and many other ones. The brothers have also received Academy Awards for Fargo (in 1996) and No Country for Old Men (2008), so they …
