Starz Launches on iOS and Apple TV as Standalone Streaming Service for $8.99 Per Month

Paid-cable network Starz today announced a new standalone monthly streaming service that will be available to users as an app on iOS, Apple TV, and Google Play stores. Starz’s entry into the standalone service market follows fellow networks HBO ($14.99/month) and Showtime ($10.99/month), but will come in at a cheaper price of $8.99/month.

The new Starz app can be authenticated as a companion to users who have traditional cable packages, but won’t offer live streaming, unlike Showtime’s service. The network did say that one unique feature will be that users can download full episodes of any show to watch offline. The Apple TV version of the Starz app will support the universal search function of the new Siri Remote, as well.

Starz CEO Chris Albrecht said, “Starz has entered the market today with an enormous value proposition for consumers. Our programing will now be more widely available to the 20 million broadband only homes of cord nevers, cord cutters and cord shavers, including Millennials and other underserved consumers who need other viable subscription service options.

To celebrate its launch, the network will make the first episode of the second season of Outlander available on April 7 (two days before its official premiere) to any of the app’s users. Starz said that the service will give subscribers access to more than 2,400 selections every month, including original programming like Outlander and the anticipated premiere of American Gods, as well as feature-length films like Avengers: Age of Ultron and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The Starz app is available to download today on the fourth-generation Apple TV and iOS App Store [Direct Link] for free.

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Fitbit tips and tricks: Get more from your Flex, Charge HR, Blaze and Surge trackers

Fitbit has been in the activity tracking field a lot longer than many of its competitors and its experience brings one of the best fitness platforms out there when it comes to presenting how much, or how little you move in an easy-to-understand format.

It delivers the data but it does so in a simple and user-friendly way so you aren’t swamped with too much detail. The Fitbit app is comprehensive though and while the basic features it offers might be obvious, some of Fitbit’s best functions are a little harder to find.

Don’t worry though, we are here to help. This feature highlights all the tips and tricks of the Fitbit app to help you get the most out of your fitness tracker. We’ve also added in a couple of specific tips for the Charge, Charge HR, Flex, Surge and the Blaze at the end to give you an extra helping hand. For those still deciding which Fitbit tracker is right for you, we have a separate feature explaining the differences between them all so be sure to check that out too.

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Fitbit app Dashboard tips and tricks

Edit what you see in Dashboard: On iOS, tap edit in the top left and untick the metrics you don’t to see appear. On Android, hold down the metric you want to remove and drag it to the red cross.

Edit the order of the Dashboard: Again, tap edit in the top left and drag the metrics up and down using the three lines on the right. Make sure you press done in the top left when you’re finished.

How to see a different day’s activity: Tap the left or right hand arrows in between the Fitbit banner and your Fitbit device. The information you first see on the Dashboard when you launch the Fitbit app will be what will be available for each day you go back.

How to manually log food, exercise, weight, sleep and water: Tap on the + in the top right hand corner and select the metric you wish to manually log.

How to track a walk, run or hike with connected GPS: Tap the + icon in the top right and select Track Exercise. Make sure the Track option is selected at the top and choose run, walk or hike from the first menu by tapping on it. Press start at the bottom of the screen and the Fitbit app will use your phone’s GPS to track your run, walk or hike.

How to setup voice cues during exercise: Like above, tap the + icon and select Track Exercise. Select the Cues menu and you can set which ones you want to hear, if you want to hear them at all, at what frequency you’d like to hear them and at what volume. You can also get to the voice cue settings through the Account tab by heading into the Exercise Tracking menu under the Settings section.

How to control your music from the Fitbit app: To turn on Music Control, tap the + icon again, select Track Exercise and tap the Music Control menu. From here you can turn shuffle on or off and select what music you want to play with options including Last Playing, All Music and Recently Played.

How to see a breakdown of your daily activity: From the Dashboard, select the metric you want to see more information. This will bring up a summary in a list format of your entire history by day of that particular metric, such as steps. There is a graph at the top that shows a weekly summary but a further tap on any of the days listed will give you an hourly summary for that day in a graph. You can also hold down on a particular hour to see the information in number format for 15-minute intervals.

How to set a silent alarm on your Fitbit device: If your Fitbit supports a silent alarms feature, you’ll be able to set it up in the Dashboard tab by clicking on your tracker at the top. You can either turn on an alarm if you have already set one, or set up a new alarm.

How to turn notifications on or off on your Fitbit device: If you have a Fitbit that supports notifications, these can be turned on or off by selecting your tracker in the Dashboard tab and tapping the notifications menu. It will depend on which device you have as to what options appear here, if any.

How to see your Fitbit’s battery level: Tap on the name of your tracker at the top of the Dashboard to see when it last synced, as well as what software build and battery level it is on. There is also a battery indicator next to the name of your tracker at the top of the Dashboard.

How to select your main goal on Fitbit: Fitbit offers the choice of four mains goals – steps, distance, calories burned and floors climbed. To choose the one you want to concentrate on, tap on your Fitbit tracker at the top of the Dashboard and scroll down to Main Goal.

How to manually sync your Fitbit: To force your Fitbit activity tracker to sync, click on it at the top of the Dashboard and scroll down until you see Sync Now at the bottom. You will also see All-Day Sync above it, which if you turn on ensures your Fitbit syncs automatically.

Set an Hourly Activity Goal on Fitbit: If you want to make sure you take 250 steps each hour between certain times in the day, you can set this up by clicking on your activity tracker at the top of Dashboard and scrolling down to the Hourly Activity Goal option. It allows you to set a start time and an end time and you can choose anywhere between five and 14 consecutive hours in a day.

How to see how well you slept on Fitbit: Fitbit trackers automatically monitor sleep if you wear them to bed. To see the data collected, which includes time asleep and sleep quality, scroll down to the sleep section on the Dashboard. Like the other metrics, you’ll see a history if you tap on the sleep section and a further tap will pull up a sleep graph. Tap the graph again and you’ll be able to see more information such as “Restless 9 min” with the exact time.

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Fitbit app Account tips and tricks

How to change your Fitbit profile information: Click on your name within the Account tab and press Edit Your Profile. From here, you can change your picture, birthday, height, weight and gender.

How to see your Fitbit badges: To see all the top badges you have earned by walking around with your Fitbit, head into your name in the Account tab like above. Clicking on each badge will show you when you last earned it and allow you to share it.

How to see all your Fitbit badge collection: If you want to see every badge you have earned since owning your Fitbit tracker, click on your name in the Account tab and scroll down past Top Badges until you hit Badge Collection. Tapping on this will show you all your achievements and again, you can click on each one to see when you earned it and share it.

How to make your Fitbit more accurate: To get the most accurate reading from your Fitbit tracker, make sure your profile information is accurate and make sure the app knows which wrist you’re wearing your Fitbit on. In the Account or Dashboard tab, click on the activity tracker itself at the top. The first option menu is wrist, which when selected will allow you to choose between dominant and non-dominant. It will adjust your Fitbit accordingly.

How to change your activity goals on Fitbit: Select Activity under the Goals section within the Account tab. From here, you can change your step goal, distance goal, calories burned goal, active minutes goal and floors climbed goal.

How to set an exercise goal on Fitbit: Selecting Exercise under the Goals section within the Account tab will allow you to choose the number of days a week you are aiming to exercise for.

How to set a sleep goal on Fitbit: Selecting Sleep under the Goals section within the Account tab will allow you to choose a Time Asleep goal.

How to set a weight goal on Fitbit: Selecting Nutrition and Body under the Goals section within the Account tab will allow you to select your overall goal, such as lose weight or maintain weight, as well as your goal weight, start date and starting weight.

How to set a goal body fat percentage on Fitbit: Goal Body Fat percentage is once again under the Nutrition and Body goals section in the Account tab. Fitbit offers you an indication of what a normal range would be based on your gender, but you can choose whatever you want to aim for.

How to remove weight and body fat goals altogether from Fitbit: If you don’t want to see weight or body fat goals at all then go into the Nutrition and Body Goals section in the Account tab and tap the three dots in the top right hand corner. You can then choose to remove the weight goal or the body fat goal, or both.

How to set a custom heart rate zone on Fitbit: Not all Fitbit trackers have heart rate monitors, but for the ones that do, it is possible to set a custom zone. Within the Account tab, head to the Settings section and open the Heart Rate Zones menu. Turning the Custom Zone toggle on will allow you to set an upper limit and a lower limit.

How to change the metric units your Fitbit registers your activity in: Head to the Advanced Settings menu under the Settings section in Account. Selecting the Units menu will allow you to change between centimetres and kilometres or feet and miles, kilograms, pounds or stone and ounces or milliliters.

How to change your Fitbit’s sleep tracking sensitivity: Like metrics, adjusting sleep tracking sensitivity is found in the Advanced Settings menu. You can choose between normal and sensitive.

How to change which day your Fitbit starts the week on: You want to start your week on a Sunday instead of a Monday? No problem. Again, head to Advanced Settings and tap on the Start Week On menu. The options are only Sunday or Monday though.

Which apps are compatible with Fitbit: There are several apps that will link up to Fitbit, including MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, Strava, MapMyRun and RunKeeper. To find out all the compatible apps, head to the Account tab and scroll down to Compatible Apps. It will take you to the Fitbit website page that lists them all.

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Fitbit app Challenge and Friends tips and tricks

How to set yourself a challenge on Fitbit: If you need a little extra motivation, there are four challenges you can set yourself within the Fitbit app. Just tap the Challenges tab at the bottom of your app screen and select the challenge you want to take on.

How to find Fitbit friends: Head to the Friends tab and click on Add Friends. This will allow you to search through your contacts, Facebook and email. To add a friend, just tap the add button on the right.

How to send a message to a Fitbit friend: Under the Friends tab you will see all your Fitbit Friends. Clicking on friend will allow you to send a message to them, as well as cheer them and taunt them. You’ll also be able to see their top badges and a click on each badge will show you how many times they have earned it and when it was easy achieved.

How to see how you’re doing compared to your friends on Fitbit: To see the step leaderboard, head to the Friends tab in the Fitbit app and you’ll be greeted immediately with how you are doing compared to your friends. It’s a rolling leaderboard so no slacking or you’ll be heading for the bottom.

How to see your Fitbit messages: To see all your messages from your Fitbit friends, head to the Friends tab and tap messages on the top bar.

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Fitbit Charge and Charge HR tips and tricks

How to tag an activity on the Fitbit Charge and Charge HR: The Charge and Charge HR will automatically track some activities but if you want to make sure your device picks up whatever activity you’re about to do, hold the button on the left of the display down until it vibrates. Hold it down again when you finish and a summary of your workout will appear in the Fitbit app where you will be able to tag it.

How to customise the order of what you see on your Fitbit Charge or Charge HR display: Select your activity tracker at the top of the Dashboard and scroll down the screen to Customise Display. From here you will be able to hide or show the metrics you want to display by ticking or unticking them, as well as reorder them using the three lines on the left to drag and drop in the position you want. 

How to change what you see when you tap your Fitbit Charge or Charge HR: The Fitbit Charge and Charge HR both come with a tap gesture feature that allows you to see the metric of your choosing with a double tap on the main body. To change this metric, click on your tracker at the top of the Dashboard and select what you want to see.

How to turn quick view on or off on your Fitbit Charge HR or Charge: The Fitbit Charge and Charge HR also come with a Quick View feature that will show the clock when you lift your wrist or flick your wrist. To turn it on or off, head to your tracker at the top of the Dashboard, scroll down to Quick View and choose your preference.

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Fitbit Blaze tips and tricks

How to return to the Home clock display quickly on your Fitbit Blaze: Press the button on the left of your Blaze’s display and you will be returned to the home screen no matter where you are in the menu options.

How to customise the clock face on your Fitbit Blaze: There are four clock face options for the Fitbit Blaze, each of which has its own tap-sensitive interactive features. To change click on your Blaze tracker at the top of the Dashboard in the Fitbit app and select the Clock Face option to change.

How to turn off notifications or access music controls on your Fitbit Blaze: You don’t need the Fitbit app to access music controls or toggle notifications on or off. From the home screen on the Blaze, a swipe down from the top will bring these options up. If you are in exercise mode or another screen other than the home display, hold the top right button down for three seconds and they will appear.

How to use the Fitbit Blaze to turn your music up or down: When in exercise mode on the Fitbit Blaze, if you want to control the volume of your music, hold the top right button down for three seconds. You’ll then be able to pause, play and skip tracks as well as use the top and bottom right buttons to adjust the music level when in the music control screen.

How to see your notifications on the Fitbit Blaze: An upward swipe from the bottom of the home clock display will pull up your notifications, which can be deleted by swiping right on the notification itself. If you are in exercise mode or on a different screen other than the home screen, hold the bottom right button for three seconds and your notifications will appear.

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Fitbit Surge tips and tricks

How to control your music from the Fitbit Surge: Make sure your Fitbit Surge and your smartphone are connected via Bluetooth and then start playing a playlist on your phone. Pressing the Home button on the Surge will display what track is playing while the Select button will allow you to pause and the Action button will enable you to skip a track.

How to change the exercise list on your Fitbit Surge: To change the exercises and the order at which they appear on your Fitbit Surge or Fitbit Blaze, head to the activity tracker tab at the top of the Dashboard and select Customise Display to change things around.

How to change the clock face on your Fitbit Surge: Like with the Blaze and Charge HR, you can change the clock face on your Fitbit Surge by tapping on its section in the Dashboard tab of the app and heading into the Clock Face menu. 

How to ensure you get a good heart rate reading on the Fitbit Surge: The Fitbit Surge uses Fitbit’s PurePulse heart rate technology, like the Blaze and the Charge HR. To get a good heart rate reading, the company recommends wearing your activity tracker slightly higher up your arm, one finger width from the wrist bone. It also tells you not to wear it too tight.

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Fitbit Flex tips and tricks

How to make the Fitbit Flex more secure: The Flex’s fastening is a little less secure than other Fitbit devices but the company does offer rubber bands that can be placed around where the strap overlaps to make sure it doesn’t come off even if the pins come loose.

How to find out how close you are to your goal on the Fitbit Flex: Double tapping the Fitbit Flex will display the LED lights. There are a total of four so you can work out from how many light up how close you are to your goal.

For more information on Fitbit and its devices, visit our Fitbit hub for all news and reviews.

Samsung first to market with 10-nanometer DRAM

Intel may have delayed its 10-nanometer CPUs, but all systems are go for Samsung’s 10-nanometer-class DRAM chips. The company is now mass producing the first DDR4 chips using the tech in 8Gb sizes, ahead of competitors SK Hynix and Micron.It will produce SIMM modules this year varying from 4GB for laptops up to 128GB for enterprise servers. Samsung also promised to reveal 10-nanometer mobile DRAM “in the near future.”

The company released 10-nanometer NAND flash for SSD’s and other storage products last year, but shrinking DRAM to that size is tougher. That’s because volatile memory requires a capacitor to go with the transistor, meaning all the components have to be smaller. The difficulty is further multiplied because it has to “stack very narrow cylinder-shaped capacitors that store large electric charges, on top of a few dozen nanometer-wide transistors, creating more than eight billion cells,” Samsung says.

To build them, it improved its quadruple patterning technology (first used for its NAND flash), where multiple lithographic exposures are taken to increase the resolution of chip features. The result is a chip that’s 30 percent faster and 20 percent more power-efficient than Samsung’s last-gen 20-nanometer RAM. The RAM will likely arrive in laptops first, but PC builders should be able to buy modules based on the tech before the end of the year.

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Japanese internet cafes’ latest service is VR theater for one

Smokey Japanese internet cafes aren’t where the possible future of entertainment is typically revealed to the press, but here I am. An association of said internet cafes and entertainment complexes will roll out a virtual reality ‘theater’ service across Japan, starting with 31 establishments in the Kanto region. Importantly, it’ll feature content that people might actually want to watch: a quick VR take on popular anime series Attack On Titan as well as a full 15-minute Ghost In The Shell 360-degree CGI movie. For better or worse, Gear VR will be powering the service, and to make it seem all the more futuristic, some cafes will have egg chairs to sit in. Cool, yes. But, comfortable? Well…

The Attack On Titan comics, and resulting anime and movies, are huge in Japan. People love it, and the antagonists: big creepy looking giants with huge grins, are scary and perfect for VR. Alas, it reeks of an IP cash-in. It’s only five minutes long, and it looks like it was made for smartphones — which it was, I guess. Weird clouds of smoke suddenly obscure vision, and it all looks rather hastily put together. While your character zip-lines from building to building, you move at an almost constant velocity. We’ve all sat on a swing: that isn’t how it works. Japanese people will have to pay 600 yen (just over five dollars), for such a brief video. Those rights must have been expensive.

It’s also notable that none of the content is interactive and the focus for now is on video, although the companies involved say they are looking into offering more immersive experiences (and possibly even games) as VR continues to propagate. (Yep, Oculus Rift was mentioned.)

This was the first time I’ve seen disposable masks made especially for use with VR headsets. That spongey contact area between your face and the screen might be touching a lot of people, but in typical Japanese style, they’ve come up with a solution — a disposable paper mask that surrounds your eyes. No more Oculus Rash.

On the other hand, Ghost In The Shell:Virtual Reality Diver is what happens when you invest money and effort into your VR content. Despite screaming for a higher-resolution hardware to do it justice, the beautiful GOTS: VRD is a self-contained mini-story that blends well with the iconic anime movie and series that followed it. Without spoiling it, it’s thrilling, pretty and — simply put — well-made.

‘Ghost In The Shell:Virtual Reality Diver’ is what happens when you invest money and effort into your VR content.

Interpia, which is behind the chain of internet cafes, has connections with Samsung, which partially explains why the service is arriving on Gear VR over other more comfortable, more advanced headsets. It’s also obviously cheaper hardware to set up. While the “Telepod” egg chairs make for a futuristic photo opp and offer a degree of privacy, but they’re not necessarily the best option when you’re craning your neck around inside a VR movie. VR Theater’s spokesman said that these pods will be limited to only a few branches at launch.

VR Theater attempts cuts away the steep price of entry for a tech that’s still in teething. Gear VR itself requires a specific model of smartphone (and Japan is a country of iPhone users), while HTC’s Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR all have price tags approaching that of a standalone console. That’s the point: if someone is already hitting up an internet cafe to play darts, read magazines, or use the internet, then they might be willing to pay 600 yen for a short video “experience” — and there will free content available on the VR Theater headsets as well. The service is pitched at people who haven’t yet experienced (or even heard of) the recent developments in virtual reality. More people means more potential customers, and more demand for better, grander VR content: this may be just the start

Adidas designed a wearable for PE class

Last year, Adidas made a commitment to help young students stay fit and healthy. This idea was born after the sportswear giant teamed up with Interactive Health Technologies, a firm that provides a connected fitness-assessment platform to schools in the US. Together, they created The Spirt Challenge, which encourages students from kindergarten through high school to be active. In exchange for doing that, they get rewarded prizes such as apparel, equipment and scholarships. And now Adidas is taking its efforts one step further, introducing a wrist-worn wearable designed for physical education classrooms.

ZONE, as the device is called, is a heart-rate monitor that uses the cloud to share a student’s personal fitness data with teachers. By doing away with the one-size-fits-all approach to PE classes, Adidas wants to give schools an alternative solution to keep better track of each individual, based on their different levels of health. Other than monitoring heart rate, Zone features NFC for syncing and, according to Adidas, “enough memory and power to keep up with a busy school schedule.”

Most importantly, even before today’s announcement of the ZONE wearable, the program seems to be having a positive effect on schools. “During the 2015 school year, 600,000 children were connected to the IHT Spirit System, a 140 percent increase in student engagement year over year,” Jen Ohlson, co-founder and president of Interactive Health Technologies, said in a press release. “With the help of the new Adidas ZONE for IHT Spirit, IHT is on track to hit their 2016 target of daily interactions with one million students nationwide.”

Roku’s new $50 stick fits a quad-core CPU in a smaller frame

Roku’s last Streaming Stick was plenty of things: Compact, inexpensive and perfect for bringing on vacation. But you wouldn’t call it fast, per se. That’s something Roku aimed to fix with the latest version of the Streaming Stick, which packs in a quad-core CPU to deliver eight times the processing power of its predecessor. Even more impressive, this new Stick is almost as small as a USB flash drive and it’s still $50.

While the company won’t speak about any RAM or storage improvements, reps say they’ve tweaked the device’s antennas for better reception. It doesn’t support 802.11ac WiFi yet, but you can at least get 5Ghz 802.11n. The new Stick sports Roku OS 7.1, which offers a few improvements when it comes to following movies and TV shows.

There’s also a slightly redesigned remote, which is a bit smaller than Roku’s last few remotes. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a headphone jack or voice control support. On the bright side, the new Roku mobile app offers both of those features. The ability to stream audio from whatever you’re watching right from your phone, in particular, looks particularly handy for all Roku users.

In a brief demonstration with the Roku Stick sitting in an enclosed A/V cabinet, it was noticeably snappier than the previous model. Simple things like navigating around menus quickly, or scrolling through Netflix titles, was almost as smooth as the more powerful Roku 4. As a frustrated owner of the last Stick, this one looks like an improvement in just about every way.

The new Roku Stick is up for preorder today, and it will hit stores later this month.

Zepp’s redesigned sport sensor tracks your swing more accurately

For Zepp Labs, a young startup from Los Gatos, California, the goal with its first multi-sport sensor was clear from the beginning: To help baseball, golf and tennis players improve their game. Now, more than two years after the introduction of that product, the second-generation Zepp has arrived. At its core, the new swing-analyzing gadget remains nearly the same, but there are notable developments both on the inside and outside.

Most notably, Zepp redesigned the sensor to be smaller and round, something it needed to do make it fit in baseball bats and and tennis rackets. This is part of the company’s efforts to create an open-source standard for integrated sensors, as we saw in a recent partnership with Old Hickory, one of the biggest manufacturers of wood and aluminum bats. Eventually, Zepp hopes to partner with other companies to build its sensors directly into sports equipment.

Aside from that new shape, the second-generation Zepp is also more accurate, thanks to an additional accelerometer (two total), plus the existing pair of gyroscopes. The battery lasts twice as long too, as the sensor now features low-energy Bluetooth — Zepp claims this translates to about eight hours of use when it’s fully charged. That’s welcomed progress if you plan to take it with you on long practice sessions, or if you just don’t want to worry about plugging it in every time you’re not using it.

Naturally, Zepp made the companion iOS and Android app better as well. You’ll notice a more guided experience than before, whether you’re practicing for baseball or golf. For example, Smart Coach pinpoints specific areas of your game that need work, based on how it evaluates the swings you take with your bat or club. The application transforms that data into a recommended training plan, which gives you a set of swinging drills to better your chances of making solid impact with the ball. If you’re actually improving, you’ll get congratulated upon competing each plan.

And it works as expected. I’m terrible at golf and, after a taking a few swings at a sporting complex in New York City, Zepp’s app was smart enough to know my weaknesses right away. By color-coding my deficiencies, I knew I needed to put extra effort on the length of my backswing and the way I was swinging the club. Not that I wasn’t already aware of my atrocious stance, but it’s helpful to know in real-time what exactly I should be focusing on.

The Zepp 2 arrives in stores today for $150 (£130 in the UK), while the updated app is set to hit the App Store and Google Play momentarily.

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ICYMI: Chocolate science, firefighter tech and more

Today on In Case You Missed It: You may want to switch careers after seeing the chocolate formula MIT researchers got to dig into; Georgia Tech came up with a heads up display for biometric tracking and environment information for firefighters; and Blue Origin landed its rocket for the third time, like bosses.

Also someone made a drone with a functioning chainsaw and you can see the destructive video here. As always, please share any great tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.

Save up to 60% on the HTC One M9, A9 and more

HTC has unveiled some new deals to really make this week a special one. You’ll be able to save up to 60% on select products with the HTC One M9, A9 and more all seeing some degree of reduction in price.

Here are all the listings that are part of the HTC Hot Deals:

• HTC One M9 – $399
• HTC One A9 – $389
• HTC Desire 626 Series – $149
• RE Camera – $79.60
• Nexus 9 – from $239

Sale prices will kick in once you’re heading through checkout. The promotion ends this evening at 11:59 p.m. PT. Picking anything up from the sale? Let us know in the comments!

Updated Nexus factory images with April’s security patch are now available

Google has released a batch of factory images for supported Nexus hardware as part of the April security patch roll out. Should you not wish to wait for the OTA release, you can choose to go alone and download the latest images directly from Google to flash your device yourself.

New images have been published for:

• Nexus 5X
• Nexus 5
• Nexus 6P
• Nexus 6
• Nexus 9
• Nexus 7 (2013)
• Nexus 10
• Nexus Player

For a full list of the images for Nexus hardware, be sure to check out the Google Developer website for more details and download links. And for those of you who are new to this manual route of updating, we’ve a handy guide that’ll get you started on the right foot.

• Everything you need to know about the April security patch