Chris Smith

New York

Senior Writer at BGR

Writer at Freelance

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

Articles

8 new Android 16 security features that will make your phone safer than ever

1 day ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Security Published May 13th, 2025 1:30PM EDT Image: Google If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Google hosted its Android Show: I/O Edition on Tuesday to deliver all the Android 16 news that it won’t have time to discuss next week when I/O 2025 starts. That keynote will probably contain so much Gemini and AI talk that Android will only come up in passing. Tuesday’s event had three big themes: Android 16 design,...
Gemini AI is coming to your car, watch, TV, and more

1 day ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Apps & Software Published May 13th, 2025 1:00PM EDT Image: Google If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Google on Tuesday hosted a special Android Show: I/O Edition event streamed on YouTube a week before I/O 2025. This is the event Google needed to go over the big Android 16 redesign and new security features ahead of Google I/O, likely because the developers conference will focus on Gemini and other AI...
Android 16 is getting a huge redesign, and this is your first look

1 day ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Apps & Software Published May 13th, 2025 1:00PM EDT Image: Google If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The main Google I/O 2025 keynote happens a week from now, but that event will probably be so Gemini AI-heavy that Google decided to give Android a special presentation on Tuesday, in the form of an Android Show event streamed on YouTube. The company announced various novelties coming to its Android-powered...
ChatGPT Deep Research just got an upgrade you should try

2 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Apps & Software Published May 13th, 2025 11:03AM EDT Image: OpenAI If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. I’ve used ChatGPT’s Deep Research feature since OpenAI first made it available. I love the in-depth reports more than my usual chats with AI. A lot more effort goes into creating Deep Research reports, as ChatGPT spends more time “thinking” through the topic and collecting the required data from the web. You...
Galaxy S25 Edge just answered 3 big questions ahead of Apple's iPhone 17 Air

2 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Mobile Published May 13th, 2025 6:50AM EDT Image: Samsung If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The ultra-thin Galaxy S25 Edge is finally official. Samsung unveiled the phone late on Monday, several months after teasing it at the main Galaxy S25 Unpacked event of the year. Samsung can now brag that it launched a slim candybar phone well before Apple, even though we all know the Galaxy S25 Edge only happened...
Scary new AI can track you in surveillance videos without even seeing your face

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

Home Tech Apps & Software Published May 12th, 2025 1:10PM EDT Image: BGR If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. If you’ve ever worried that advanced AI tech could be used to track people more invasively than ever, your fears are partly becoming a reality. Veritone has developed an AI model called Track AI that can identify and follow people in video footage of any kind. You might think tech like this can’t be legal, since...
How I watch YouTube with ChatGPT, even though it can't stream videos

3 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Apps & Software Published May 12th, 2025 12:13PM EDT Image: José Adorno for BGR If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. One of ChatGPT’s best features is the ability to summarize information, which I use regularly. While the AI has no problem reviewing text-based content like websites or large PDFs, it can’t yet watch YouTube videos and summarize them or answer questions about the content in those clips. That kind...
Turn images into videos starting with the Honor 400 Series

3 days ago | bgr.com | Chris Smith

Home Tech Apps & Software Published May 12th, 2025 10:19AM EDT Image: Google If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. ChatGPT has recently stunned the world with its novel image generation powers, joining the growing list of AI models that can create incredible images from a single text prompt. Like ChatGPT, Gemini can create images with a simple command, and Gemini also lets you perform powerful edits. Separately, OpenAI,...
Apple's mythical all-glass iPhone may finally materialize as the iPhone 20

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

Home Tech Mobile Published May 12th, 2025 6:50AM EDT Image: Jonathan S. Geller If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Apple released three iPhone models in 2017 to celebrate the iPhone’s tenth anniversary. That was a first for the company, which used to launch only two iPhone variants in the years that preceded that anniversary. The iPhone X joined the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus that year, with the former delivering Apple’s...
The only New Avenger who died tragically had a much better arc before Marvel changed it

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

Home Entertainment Movies Published May 11th, 2025 1:56PM EDT Image: Marvel Studios If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Marvel couldn’t even wait for Thunderbolts*‘s first weekend at the box office to end before spoiling the big reveal at the end, launching a massive marketing campaign on Sunday to promote the film as The New Avengers. The big Thunderbolts* leaks and theories were right. The MCU movie wasn’t meant to be...