Chris Smith

New York

Senior Writer at BGR

Writer at Freelance

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

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Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google's most powerful AI, is available to students for free

5 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith |Jonathan S. Geller

Home Tech Apps & Software Published Apr 18th, 2025 5:11PM 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. Earlier this month, Anthropic announced a major new AI initiative targeting the education sector. The Claude for Education program includes an AI Learning Mode for students as well as AI tools that the entire faculty can use. Anthropic also announced partnerships with a few educational...
iPhone 16e vs. Pixel 9 comparison on Google's website: Too much?

6 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith |Jonathan S. Geller

Home Tech Mobile Published Apr 18th, 2025 1:23PM 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. The iPhone 16e was just released in March, but this was apparently enough for Apple to become the world’s top smartphone vendor in the first quarter. The iPhone 16e is credited with the win for Apple, which means the affordable new iPhone 16 version is quite popular with buyers. I saw this coming a...
Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's cheapest thinking AI: What you need to know

6 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith |Jonathan S. Geller

Home Tech Apps & Software Published Apr 18th, 2025 11:29AM EDT Image: Google If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After launching the Gemini 2.5 Pro model a few weeks ago, Google has a new AI product ready for testing. Gemini 2.5 Flash is supposed to bring more affordable AI reasoning to tasks that require more thinking. Google lets users specify a budget and turn reasoning on and off depending on the task. Not everything...
Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's cheapest thinking AI: What you need to know

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Chris Smith

2 hours agoNintendo Switch 2 preorders start April 24th and the price is still $449.99The company delayed its original preorder date in the US. Nintendo has announced a new date for when Switch 2 preorders will kick off in the US; April 24th. As a part of the announcement, Nintendo said that the price of the Switch 2 will remain at $449.99 despite fears that the Trump administration’s …2 hours agoThe Cybertruck Is Turning Into a Complete DisasterA catastrophe of epic proportions.
Nintendo Switch 2 preorders will still start April 24 for $449.99

6 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith |Jonathan S. Geller

Home Tech Gaming Published Apr 18th, 2025 9:45AM EDT Image: Nintendo If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. We’ll always remember the Nintendo Switch 2 launch event because it coincided with Trump’s new tariffs announcements that would continue to escalate in the weeks following the Switch 2 release. Just as Nintendo revealed the Switch 2 would start at $449.99 in the US, some $50 more expensive than expected, almost the...
Instagram Blend will slide your friend's Reels into your DMs

6 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith |Jonathan S. Geller

Home Tech Apps & Software Published Apr 18th, 2025 6:50AM EDT Image: Meta If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Instagram is one of the social networks where you might find yourself endlessly scrolling through various feeds and looking at reels, all while dealing with the ads that make Meta money. That doomscrolling experience is curated based on the accounts you follow, your interests, and how you use the app. Meta’s...
The final Thunderbolts* trailer teases a heartbreaking plot twist

6 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith |Jonathan S. Geller

Home Entertainment Movies Published Apr 17th, 2025 7:37PM EDT Image: Marvel Studios If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Thunderbolts* opens on May 2nd, so this week, Marvel decided to drop a final trailer for the highly anticipated crossover movie. The MCU has lacked such big team-ups until now, and Marvel’s surprising decision not to have an Avengers movie in the Multiverse Saga so far has been a huge letdown. It’s no...
Trump administration considering broader DeepSeek ban

6 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith |Jonathan S. Geller

Home Tech Apps & Software Published Apr 17th, 2025 5:28PM EDT Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. DeepSeek’s moment in the spotlight appears to be over, at least for now, as talk of ChatGPT’s image-generation abilities has dominated the AI conversations. Add all the new OpenAI announcements and Google’s various Gemini upgrades, like the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, and there’s almost no room...
ChatGPT just got mind-blowing computer vision powers like in the movies

6 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith |Jonathan S. Geller

Home Tech Mobile Published Apr 17th, 2025 2:32PM EDT Image: OpenAI If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. OpenAI surprised us all with ChatGPT’s new image-generation features, which went viral a few weeks ago. However, it’s worth remembering that the chatbot doesn’t just create images from a text prompt; it can also understand pictures. ChatGPT got its multimodal capabilities last May, which include the ability to look at...
What the heck is OpenAI doing with its ChatGPT models?

1 week ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

OpenAI had a big week when it comes to ChatGPT, unleashing multiple new models that are available to users right away. The chatbot got several new features that are scattered around the various models. OpenAI also managed to make its ChatGPT model choices more confusing than ever. I wouldn’t blame you if you can’t make heads or tails of the various models that are available in ChatGPT right now. They sound like temporary file names for draft documents on your computer that you’ll never open again.