Associate Editor
Jacob Siegal is Associate Editor at BGR, having joined the news team in 2013. He has over a decade of professional writing and editing experience, and helps to lead our technology and entertainment product launch and movie release coverage.
Virtually every major retailer in America is finding new and clever ways to turn the entire month of November into one nonstop Black Friday sales event. Office Depot is the latest to join in on the fun with its Countdown to Cyber Monday, which has already begun and will be over at the end of …
If you’ve been following the Pixel 2 XL debacle, you know that fresh problems have been cropping up with Google’s new flagship phone ever since it launched in late October. First there were the display problems, which include image retention (or burn-in) and color inaccuracy. Then Google started shipping Pixel 2 phones without the operating …
When Samsung announced that it would launch its own virtual assistant called Bixby alongside the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8, we were skeptical. When we actually got our hands on the phone and tried it for ourselves, we were disappointed. Not only was Bixby a subpar virtual assistant compared to the likes of Google …
If you were worried that December’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi would be the last you’d ever see of the new generation of heroes we were introduced to in The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has some good news for you. During the latest edition of The Star Wars Show, Kennedy sat down to …
Now that the first wave of iPhone X shipments have arrived, Apple wants to make sure that new owners understand all of the ways that the iPhone X differs from its predecessors. In order to help familiarize consumers with all of the changes, the company published a guided tour video earlier today highlighting the biggest …
Another record-setting edition of the free iOS games of the week as we have 11 free games worth downloading on your iPhone or iPad this week. We’ve got RPGs, city-builders, arcade games and a 1v1 online knife battling game. In other words, you should be able to find something you’re looking for in this week’s …
Stressed out over what you’re going to have for lunch today? Forget to pack something? Fret no more, because today just so happens to be National Sandwich Day — yet another holiday you probably didn’t know existed until you saw it online this morning. But unlike some of the other food-related celebrations, National Sandwich Day …
While Apple fans celebrate the launch of the iPhone X, Google fans are having to come to terms with the fact that the Pixel 2 has been one of the most problematic phones released since Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7. Ever since the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL shipped last month, they have been making …
When Microsoft finally unveiled the Xbox One X at E3 earlier this year, I was fairly critical of it. I just couldn’t see where the company expected to find a market for the 4K console, especially when taking into consideration the fact that every Xbox One exclusive title is also available on PC as part …
We’re just a day away from the iPhone X, and I’m sure many of you are anxiously awaiting a package tomorrow. And if you missed the chance to preorder the phone, you may be one of the brave souls waiting in line at an Apple store. Either way, why not take this time to download …
