OnePlus release red version of the OnePlus 6

OnePlus just made official a new color variant for its current flagship: the OnePlus 6. The new color will simply be called Red. It takes off from the popularity of the Lava Red edition of the OnePlus 5T but the company wanted it to be “passionate with a level of visual restraint.” According to OnePlus, it wants the quality to be similar to amber but have “an enduring appeal that will last for years to come.”

Using a new film coating process, OnePlus was able to achieve that “amber-like depth and clarity.” The company also made use of a new evaporated layer of brightening film to get that glossy transparent layer over the red coating. This new color option will be exclusive to the 8GB/128GB variant but will carry the same $769 price tag as the other color options. It’ll be available in all markets where OnePlus phones are sold starting July 10.

The Wasp was supposed to have debuted in ‘Captain America: Civil War’

While Ant-Man and the Wasp properly put Evangeline Lilly’s Hope Van Dyne/The Wasp as a central character in the film, her debut was supposed to have happened earlier, like Captain America: Civil War earlier. But Ant-Man and the Wasp director Peyton Reed explained to IGN why this didn’t happen, “There was a point, really early on, where was going to be introduced in Civil War. But there just simply wasn’t screen time to do justice to that character, so we’ve done it here.”

And Marvel seemed to be aware of how late the introduction of The Wasp has been and that it really was a long time coming. “This whole movie was about putting her at the forefront and was about making good on the promise of the end of the last film where she says, 'About damn time.'" Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige tells ComicBook.com. "And that whole movie was about the fact that clearly she was qualified to put on a suit and do what was right but she kept being prevented by her father, for reasons that were revealed in that film and reasons that have to do with her mother and now, of course, she becomes the key hero to attempt to rescue her mom and seeing that father-daughter relationship repaired in this movie was something that was great fun for us and to see here step in the forefront.” What do you think? Would you have wanted to see The Wasp earlier? Let us know your thoughts when you see the film. Ant-Man and the Wasp comes to theatres starting July 6.

Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition will soon support Spotify

If you’ve made a kid-friendly playlist for your child, you can soon stream that through their Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition. Amazon will soon let parents pair their kids’ devices with their Spotify account. This integration will automatically filter out any songs with explicit language, which parents can toggle off in Amazon’s FreeTime dashboard. But now, at least your child can listen to his or her favorite song without needing you to play it for them.

On top of this, the Echo Dot Kids Edition is getting new Disney content, such as character alarms and an updated “Disney Dailies.” The latter is a skill that lets kids listen to jokes and other content from familiar Disney characters. Amazon is set to roll out the update this week.

Source: The Verge

Drake shatters first day release records on Spotify and Apple Music

On the first day of release of Drake’s Scorpion album over the weekend, it has broken a number of streaming records already. According to SpotifyCharts.com, the album’s individual track totaled 132,450,203 streams on the first day, which was 50,000,000 more than the previous record set by Post Malone’s recent album Beerbongs & Bentleys. Spotify has confirmed that the record has been broken by a large measure but isn’t confirming the numbers officially, saying SpotifyChart’s numbers may not be fully accurate. If the album numbers continue to at this rate, it could easily reach a billion streams within the first week. Post Malone also currently holds the record with 236,500,546 streams in the U.S. and 411,816,710 globally in its first week. Drake was also the one who previously held that first-week record for 22-track mixtape More Life, which set the record at 385 million streams.

For Apple Music, he’s also broken the single-day record as well with over 170 million streams, which the Canadian superstar previously held for 2017 release, More Life. That mixtape was streamed 89.9 million times on the first day.

Source: Variety