Chris Smith

New York

Senior Writer at BGR

I write and I tweet, sometimes I do both at the same time.

Articles

Here's why ChatGPT needs to know how to make bioweapons

1 week ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Apps & Software Published Jun 20th, 2025 6:30PM EDT Image: OpenAI If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. My bingo card for this month did not include OpenAI telling the world that future frontier AI models coming to ChatGPT will know how to make bioweapons or novel biothreats, but here we are. We can add this capability to the growing list of issues that give us reason to worry about a future where AI reaches...
Gemini AI can now find out the name of the song stuck in your head

1 week ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Apps & Software Published Jun 20th, 2025 3:45PM EDT Image: Christian de Looper for BGR If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Shazam is one iPhone app I use all the time. I practically take it for granted at this point. Every time a catchy song starts playing, I instinctively open Shazam to figure out what it is so I can listen to it later. I don’t always follow through, but I can’t just sit there not knowing (or...
Adobe's free Project Indigo app turns the iPhone into an AI-powered DSLR camera

1 week ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Apps & Software Published Jun 20th, 2025 10:07AM EDT Image: Adobe If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Generative artificial intelligence products like ChatGPT, Gemini, and many others let you create images with text prompts. They also offer powerful editing tools that let you change real photos into anything you want. These abilities won’t reduce our need to take photos and record videos of everything around...
16 billion logins exposed in mysterious, gigantic data breach

1 week ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Security Published Jun 20th, 2025 7:52AM EDT Image: Christian de Looper for BGR If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Researchers from Cybernews have stumbled upon what might be the second largest data breach in history. Containing over 16 billion username and password combinations, the newly found massive database is dwarfed only by a 2024 data breach that contained 26 billion logins. One might be tempted to...
5 iOS 26 Liquid Glass issues that Apple needs to fix before launch

1 week ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Apps & Software Published Jun 19th, 2025 5:00PM EDT Image: Apple If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. I’ve been using and testing Apple’s iOS 26 Liquid Glass design on the iPhone ever since iOS 26 beta 1 was released, and I’m happy to report that it didn’t take me long to get used to the new design language. However, I did warn you that the new design might be a good reason to skip testing iOS 26 beta 1 on your...
How Brad Pitt's F1 movie helped Apple create the iPhone 15 Pro camera

1 week ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Mobile Published Jun 19th, 2025 8:43AM EDT Image: Christian de Looper for BGR If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Brad Pitt’s upcoming F1 movie is shaping up to be the blockbuster sensation that Apple TV needed. The Apple original will hit theaters before streaming online, and that’s probably the best way to watch F1. This isn’t a movie shot with special effects, and that’s the main reason I want to see it....
Samsung’s first Android XR headset and smart glasses reportedly coming this fall

1 week ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Wearables Published Jun 18th, 2025 3:15PM EDT Image: Samsung If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Android XR partnership between Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm was announced well before Apple unveiled the Vision Pro spatial computer. But the three parties were largely silent after that. The Vision Pro commercial launch came last year. The first AI smart glasses from competitors like Meta also became...
Remarkable new AI can tell your age by looking at your eyes

1 week ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Science News Published Jun 18th, 2025 12:36PM EDT Image: blackday / Adobe If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. One of the most impressive areas of generative AI software like ChatGPT right now involves enhanced computer vision. AI can understand and interpret data from images. That’s why we now have such advanced image and video generation models in ChatGPT, Gemini, Firefly, and other AI software. Models like ChatGPT...
iOS 26 Passwords app got a big upgrade, but no one can use it yet

1 week ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Apps & Software Published Jun 18th, 2025 10:42AM EDT Image: Apple Inc. If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Every time we hear about a massive hack or login credential leak, I remind you that you should be using a key piece of software on all your devices to protect your online properties. Password managers can store secure and unique passwords that you don’t have to remember. Some of them can save credit card...
Nintendo just banned a ton of Switch 2 consoles, turning them into offline-only bricks

1 week ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Gaming Published Jun 18th, 2025 7:51AM EDT Image: Nintendo If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling console of all time, and it might be tough to get your hands on one if you didn’t preorder or buy it on release day. What I’m getting at is that it could be hard to replace your Switch 2 if something went wrong and you couldn’t use it anymore. What could happen to it? I’m...