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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.
If you’ve filled up your car, oh, anytime in the last few weeks, this won’t come as news to you. The long shadow that inflation is casting over the economy at the moment, it continues to see prices keep climbing for all sorts of goods and services. Including gasoline, the price of which set a …
To some extent, grocery shortages of one kind or another have been an increasingly commonplace occurrence in parts of the US in the aftermath of the pandemic. It’s a product of everything from labor shortages to disruptions in the supply chain, to cite just two factors. Perhaps none have carried the urgency of the current …
There’s been a slew of bad headlines in recent weeks out of Netflix, which is being forced to implement a huge course correction in the way it does business at the moment. But make no mistake — the streamer is still spending big, as much as $17 billion a year or more this year alone …
Americans across the country are set to get another round of free money soon, in the form of everything from tax rebates to stimulus checks, gas cards, and more. The giveaways and handouts, almost exclusively from state governments, come as US inflation remains stubbornly high — although, that said, the month of April did see …
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that Hollywood will never, absolutely ever, run out of new WWII stories to tell. Even when Hollywood does run out, they’ll just keep inventing more, since this is apparently the military conflict that viewers never get tired of. And now — atop a pile of content that includes everything …
Sonos on Wednesday announced an expansion of its lineup of home theater and portable device products, via the debut of new color variants for the Sonos Roam, along with the introduction of the Sonos Ray — a new ultraportable compact soundbar. The Roam is the company’s ultraportable Bluetooth smart speaker that now comes in Olive, …
Well, now we know. No sooner did I walk through the details on Monday of the last time we saw Lalo Salamanca in this season of Better Call Saul — in which I also noted a fan theory that he’s headed to investigate whatever happened to Werner Ziegler — than Lalo reappeared, finally, and did …
Costco is truly a paradise for deal-hunters, offering low prices on everything from grocery staples to furniture, toilet seats, wireless earphones — and even caskets. Talk about a store that covers the breadth of human experience. Costco, for the uninitiated, is truly a rare kind of American retailer. It has such a dedicated community of …
The long-awaited final episodes of Netflix’s crime drama Ozark, which debuted on the streamer a few weeks ago now, definitely produced one of the most divisive TV endings in recent memory. I was pretty unimpressed with the show’s ending (*spoilers ahead*, so stop right here if you’re not caught up) which sees the Byrdes pretty …
Spain produced one of the biggest Netflix hits of all time (the five-season La Casa de Papel, aka Money Heist), a fact that’s worth bearing in mind when any new Spanish-language content debuts on the streaming service. Of course, additional titles along these lines, like Netflix’s just-released Welcome to Eden, might not turn into a …
