No One Wants a Swivel Phone in 2020, but Apparently, That Won't Stop LG from Trying

While Samsung has already released a pair of foldable phones, its biggest rival, LG, still hasn’t thrown its hat in the game. However, instead of exploring foldable tech, based on a new report, it seems LG may be taking some cues from the past for its next wacky handset.

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YouTube Music transfer tool starts the Google Play Music shutdown journey

Google Play Music is starting the process of transitioning subscribers to YouTube Music, with a new library transfer tool promising to make it easy to switch over ahead of the shutdown later in 2020. Google announced that Google Play Music would be retiring some time back, but it has been slowly adding features to YouTube Music – as well as … Continue reading

Schwarzenegger returns to Predator as Dutch, fills in plot

The game Predator: Hunting Grounds will fill in the blanks with what Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character Dutch has been up to since his appearance in Predator (1987). And it’s no voice-alike, it’s the real deal. After director John McTiernan’s original film, the original plan was to see Dutch return in Predator 2 in the role essentially filled by Gary Busey. Now, … Continue reading

Moog Music Subharmonicon synthesizer leverages the past to make music

While the present global situation has forced many to resort to all kinds of pastimes and distractions, it has also given rise to a newfound desire to create. From the physical to the digital, people around the world are finding ways to tap into their talents and their dreams to produce or try out things they have never done before. … Continue reading

Polestar and CAKE’s new EV partnership makes a whole lot of sense

Polestar plans to bring CAKE’s e-bikes into its electric car showrooms, with the two Swedish EV-makers set to offer two and four wheeled options for those seeking out zero-emission transportation. CAKE’s electric bikes will feature in European Polestar Places, the automaker’s showrooms for its EVs where would-be owners can see models like the Polestar 2 and arrange test drives. Polestar … Continue reading

Poco's F2 Pro is a high-end, all-screen phone for $499

Earlier this year, Xiaomi decided to spin off its sub-brand that created the Pocophone F1. Now known as Poco, the company has announced its latest phone, the F2 Pro, and like its predecessor, it features flagship specs and a slick design. With a 6.67…

Sony reveals PlayStation Studios branding for its own PS5 games

Sony is bringing together its games studios under a single branding umbrella. Starting in the fall, it’ll release all first-party PS4 and PS5 games as PlayStation Studios titles, and it revealed an animated logo that pulls a trick or two from the Mar…

'Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2' HD remaster lands in September

The original Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and its sequel were touchstones of the Y2K era. Alongside pop-culture hits like Jackass and CKY, the games precipitated a huge spike in the popularity of skateboarding in the United States, and spawned more than a…

Moog Subharmonicon review: An experimental synth with an iconic sound

Moog’s current lineup of semi-modular synths all have cute mother-themed names: Mother-32, Drummer From Another Mother (DFAM), Grandmother and Matriarch. But the newest entry — the $699 Subharmonicon — abandons that tradition, even though it’s part…

Facebook deploys AI in its fight against hate speech and misinformation

Even in the year 2020, it’s not very hard to be led astray on Facebook. Click a few misleading links and you can find yourself at the bottom of an ethnonationalist rabbit hole facing a flurry of hate speech and medical misinformation. But with the he…