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.
In addition to seeding iOS 16 beta 7 on Tuesday, Apple also rolled out the first iPadOS 16.1 beta. Apple confirmed that iPadOS 16 won’t be ready when iOS 16 launches next month, so iPadOS 16.1 will be the first public version of the software. But iPadOS 16.1 is more than just bug fixes — …
As always, Hulu has an interesting mix of original content, licensed shows, and great movies arriving in the month of September 2022. One of Hulu’s biggest original series, The Handmaid’s Tale, returns for season 5 in September 2022. This may be the show’s final season, but Hulu has yet to confirm this. The Mighty Ones, …
On Tuesday, Apple confirmed reports that iPadOS 16 will launch later than iOS 16 this year. Typically, the company launches all of the major software updates around the same time in the fall. In recent weeks, rumors had started to crop up that while iOS 16 was almost ready, iPadOS 16 needed more work. Those …
Apple rolled out iOS 16 beta 7 and iPadOS 16.1 beta 1 on Tuesday, August 23. In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that “Apple engineers finished work on this past week” on iOS 16. The update will likely roll out in early September alongside the iPhone 14 series. …
Amazon shared a new trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Tuesday. This is the third trailer that we’ve seen in the last two months as Amazon ratchets up its promotion ahead of the show’s premiere. The first two episodes of The Rings of Power will be streaming on Thursday, …
If a digital platform doesn’t have advertising now, you can bet that it’s just a matter of time until it does. Netflix and Disney Plus are each introducing ad-supported plans in the coming months, despite both services launching without ads. Sooner or later, the companies simply can’t resist the call of ad revenue. That appears …
Netflix has yet to share much information about its upcoming ad-supported plan, but details are slowly starting to leak out. For example, Bloomberg reported last Friday that Netflix won’t always show commercials on the new plan. Sources claim that the streaming service will not run ads during kids’ shows or on new original movies.
Prepare to laugh along with the new releases on Netflix for the week of August 21. If you’re in the mood for unscripted hijinks, check out Chad and JT Go Deep on Tuesday for pranks galore. If you’d rather watch a scripted comedy, Me Time has a loaded cast that includes Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Hart, …
September is by far the biggest month of 2022 for Prime Video. At long last, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premieres on Amazon’s streaming service this month. As we learned earlier this week, the first two episodes of Rings of Power will be available on September 1st starting at 6 p.m. …
Earlier this week, Apple rolled out a series of software updates for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Apple’s release notes explained that the updates included “important security updates,” but the company didn’t offer any additional details. A short time later, Apple published pages on its support site describing the security content of the updates, and …
