BGR

Boy Genius Report, commonly known as BGR, is a blog focused on technology and consumer electronics. It was established in October 2006 by the mysterious online figure known as Boy Genius (or BG/BGR). The site provides updates and news on the latest happenings in the mobile gadget industry. On April 27, 2010, BGR became part of Penske Media Corporation.

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Jon Bernthal will return as The Punisher in Spider-Man: Brand New Day

1 week ago | bgr.com | Jacob Siegal

Home Entertainment Movies Published Jun 20th, 2025 8:00PM EDT Image: Giovanni Rufino/Marvel If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Another familiar face from the Marvel Cinematic Universe is suiting up for the next Spider-Man movie. According to Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter, Jon Bernthal will reprise his role as Frank Castle (aka the Punisher) in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, marking the comic character’s first...
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...
Leaks reveal T-Mobile is considering 36-month installment plans

1 week ago | bgr.com | Jacob Siegal

Home Tech Mobile Published Jun 20th, 2025 4:40PM EDT Image: Michael Buckner for BGR If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. As expensive as smartphones have become, buying a phone outright is difficult for many of us. As a result, financing through a carrier is often the best option. For years, that meant signing on for a 24-month plan, but a few years ago, Verizon and AT&T increased the lengths of their plans to 36 months...
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...
All the new anime coming to Crunchyroll in summer 2025

1 week ago | bgr.com | Jacob Siegal

Home Entertainment TV Shows Published Jun 19th, 2025 6:15PM EDT Image: Science SARU If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Anime has gone mainstream. If you need proof, then look no further than Sony’s $1.175 billion acquisition of the anime streaming service Crunchyroll in 2021. While Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, and Max have all expanded their selection of Japanese animation content, no service can really compete with...
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 to get $10 off your YouTube TV bill for the next 6 months

1 week ago | bgr.com | Jacob Siegal

Home Tech Apps & Software Published Jun 19th, 2025 1:15PM EDT Image: YouTube TV If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. If you’re a long-time YouTube TV subscriber, you undoubtedly remember late last year when the monthly price increased to $82.99. The live TV service is now more than twice as expensive as it was five years ago, and there are sure to be more price hikes to come. That’s the bad news. The good news is that...
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....