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.
A busy month continues for Netflix as a major original series returns during the week of June 19th. This Wednesday, The Umbrella Academy is back for its third season. The comic book show has become a hit for Netflix as Marvel and DC properties have left for other platforms. This week also sees the arrival …
Apple revealed a number of software updates at WWDC 2022 last week, but iOS 16 was the undisputed star of the show. The redesign of the Lock Screen alone would likely have been enough to get most iPhone owners excited, but there were plenty of other surprises during the keynote. Among them were two exciting …
Last year, WhatsApp announced a new feature allowing users to transfer chat history when switching from iPhone to Android. Initially, the feature was only available on Samsung devices, starting with the Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3. A few months later, Google revealed that all its Pixel phones were gaining the feature. The transfer …
Seven years after cofounding OnePlus, Carl Pei left in 2020 to start a brand new company: Nothing. Nothing’s first product, the Ear (1) wireless earbuds, launched to positive reviews last summer. Now, less than a year later, Nothing has revealed a new device — the Nothing Phone (1). We are still a few weeks out …
Last week, Todd Phillips surprised us all with an Instagram post that seemingly confirmed a sequel to Joker was in the works. Phillips not only shared the title page of the script, but also a photo of Joaquin Phoenix reading it. That post didn’t tell us much about Joker 2, but a new report suggests …
Just days after formally renewing Squid Game for its second season, Netflix has announced a new reality series based on the record-breaking show. Squid Game: The Challenge will feature 456 players competing for a lump sum cash prize of $4.56 million.
Summer is just around the corner, and the weather’s starting to heat up. As excited as we all are to go outside and catch some rays, summer is also a great time to catch up on the shows and movies you’ve missed in recent months. There are now more streaming services on the market than …
Apple rolled out iOS 15.6 beta 3 and iPadOS 15.6 beta 3 on Tuesday, June 14th. With the first iOS 16 developer beta arriving during WWDC 2022, we expect iOS 15.6 to be the last significant update for iOS 15. There shouldn’t be any notable new features or changes in iOS 15.6. Rather, we expect …
Now that WWDC 2022 has come and gone, the next major Apple event will be the iPhone 14 launch this fall. We expect Apple to reveal the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Max, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max in September. But with all of the leaks we have seen, there might not be …
Have you ever seen a trailer or a commercial for a movie or show and asked yourself: “Does this need to exist?” It’s a common question, often targeted at spinoffs, sequels, and reboots of seemingly bygone media properties. It’s also a fairly lazy question without any interesting answers. But I did find myself asking that …
