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Last week, LG revealed that its G4 flagship is ready for unveiling on April 28th and today we have some more design details thanks to a major leak.

The leak comes via LG themselves, who temporarily launched an "LG micro site" before removing it.

On the front of the device, there's a single LG logo and a single speaker grille, while the back houses the camera, volume rocker and power button. The device has been updated to a 5.5-inch QHD display, and the camera has been redesigned to a 13MP F/1.8 lens.

The back continues to have a removable battery, and LG showed off leather casing in addition to the standard plastic. Because its removable you can switch out different leather cases with plastic and vice versa.

LG's latest will likely launch with Android 5.0 if not 5.1, and will include wireless charging capability, NFC, and even HDMI-out via the SlimPort-enabled USB port.

A few lucky Amazon Prime users have been using the Prime Stations service for some time but now all mobile users with a membership have the ability (that means you, Android).

If you have a Prime membership ($99 per year) for Amazon, and have downloaded the Amazon Music App for your respective device (iOS, Android, Kindle Fire) you now have access to Prime Stations, "an ad-free, internet radio service you can enjoy at no additional cost to your Prime membership."

Amazon continues: "With Prime Stations, you can find a genre or artist you like and hit play to hear a continuous stream of music that you can pause, replay, or skip as many times as you'd like. As you listen and give songs a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, each station will adapt to your music tastes."

Basically, the service is similar to Pandora One, where you can listen to millions of tracks based on a track or artist or song you like in playlists.

A reserach company specializing in digital commerce, Slice Intelligence, has revealed their first date for Apple Watch purchases. The data is an estimate based on around nine thousands online customers and suggests that the Sport version of Apple Watch was the most popular as expected.

According to the data 957 000 Americans ordered an average of 1.3 Apple Watch products. 62 percent of the over one million Apple Watches were the cheaper Sport version. The average cost of the Apple Watch Sport was $382.83 and the stainless steel Apple Watch $707.04. The all around average spending was $503.83.

As much as 71 percept opted for the larger 42 mm version and the smaller 38mm case was more popular amongst the Sport byuers. The Black Sports Band was the most popular choice amongst both Apple Watch and Apple Watch Sports buyers. Just over a half of the Apple Watches were bought with the Black Sports Band.

Slice also reported that approximately 48 000 of the recently announced new Macbooks were sold. A whopping 42 percent of whom also pre-ordered an Apple Watch.

Apple has unleashed their hefty checkbook in an effort to bring exclusive music to their new Beats Music streaming service.

Among the hit makers approached by Apple are Taylor Swift, Kanye West and Florence and the Machine, each of which have reportedly been offered millions to partner with the service.

Jay-Z's new rival high quality FLAC streaming service Tidal has been making similar bids, with reports circulating that it is offering up to 3 percent of the company and $3 million in exchange for exclusivity.

Gaining Taylor Swift could be a game changer as the artist recently, and very publicly, shunned Spotify and streaming services in general claiming they did not respect musician's value.

For Apple, a company that has $180 billion in cash, paying to gain marketing for a service that is dying to differentiate itself seems like a small price to pay.

Publisher Square Enix has made an interesting announcement this weekend; launching a cloud-based 'Final Fantasy XIII' for iOS and Android, as long as you live in Japan.

You must have a connection better than 3MB/s to play the game, which is a tiny 20MB download and then streamed from G-Cluster servers.

Since the game was built for console, the screen has touch targets that will match the PS3/Xbox 360 controller scheme the game was intended for.

The game costs 2000 yen, about $15 USD.

Last night, HBO got hit pretty hard by leakers as the first four episodes of the upcoming 'Game of Thrones' season hit the Internet in full (non-1080p) glory.

Season 5 of the blockbuster series is set to premier tonight on HBO at 9PM but now 40 percent of the season has been leaked.

HBO should be particularly upset by the leak as the show's launch coincided with the launch of their standalone streaming service - HBO Now - which is available without a cable subscription.

If you are a GoT fan, it's best to stay away from social media for a while until the spoilers die down. The first episode is said to have already been downloaded over 500,000 times.

HBO's smash hit Game of Thrones returns today with season five but quite a few have already acquired the first four episodes. The first four episodes of the new season are already out on BitTorrent sites – and therefore for millions to grab.

According to TorrentFreak the episodes were downloaded over 100 000 times in the first three hours and they quickly spread to all popular BitTorrent sites. The video and the sources suggest that it was leaked from review copies sent to the press.

If there's a silver lining to this it might be that the videos are relatively low quality and the first episode will officially air in approximately 12 hours in all the 170 countries it is shown.

According to a new report, Google has been working on bringing its Android Wear smartwatch platform to the iPhone, a move that would put Google once again in direct competition with Apple.

Currently, the developing platform for iPhone supports basic functions like notifications (texts, missed calls, etc) and it supports Google Now cards and voice search.

Google did not confirm but did say "that we always want as many users as possible to enjoy our experience, so in terms of enabling more people to use Android Wear we're very interested in making that happen."

While there will be plenty of Apple fans that would love access to more than just one smartwatch, there is a chance that Apple will deny letting the app into the App Store, outright.

Samsung has confirmed today that it is having supply issues for its new Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone, with the company confirming that there are difficulties manufacturing the curved displays.

JK Shin, the company's mobile boss, warned there would be limited supply of the Edge model due to the manufacturing process, and that the issues could be around "for a while."

Without giving any predictions, Shin did say they expect the S6 and S6 Edge to outsell their predecessor, the S5, which sold weakly compared to predictions.

By all accounts, the phones are already a hit, seeing over 20 million in pre-orders. The S6 has a 5.1-inch OLED QHD display, up to 128GB internal memory, 3GB RAM, 16/5 MP cameras, a fingerprint scanner, curved glass on the front and will launch with Android 5.0 with Samsung's own UI on top.

SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket company, has just a released a great 2 minute video of its Falcon 9 rocket launch in crisp 4K resolution.

The 'supercut' has slo-mo footage, HDR footage and any angle you could imagine of the rocket.

SpaceX is launching another Falcon 9 next week, delivering cargo to the International Space Station and then trying to land on an autonomous drone ship out in the ocean although it has failed to land safely the last two attempts.

Check the video below:

Activision has teased the next game in the blockbuster Call of Duty franchise, Black Ops 3.

As they do every year, the publisher is preparing a new COD title, and it's time for a new Black Ops title.

There's literally nothing in the trailer, but the company does mention that more info is coming April 26th.

Check the teaser here:

Last year, Facebook annoyed users by splitting off their Messenger service into its own dedicated app that you had to download if you wanted to be able to send messages.

The company is somewhat remedying that situation now launching Messenger.com, an in-browser version of the popular chatting service. While you can still use Messenger from within the desktop Facebook page, Messenger.com allows you to just use the chat service, without any other distractions like games or timelines.

You can send pictures, stickers, and the gigantic Like emoji. What you cannot do, however, is send or even record voice messages.

You can go check it out here: Messenger

HTC has launched the metallic One M9+ for China, a slightly larger and feature-full version of the recently launched One M9.

The M9+ has a QHD 5.2-inch display, runs on the new MediaTek premium 2.2GHz Helio 64-bit octa-core processor, has a fingerprint reader, a circular 20MP rear camera with new "Duo Camera" for 3D effects, 3GB RAM, the same UltraPixel selfie camera and 32GB internal storage.

While the fingerprint reader is new, there have a few complaints about the design, which looks like a home button and splits the bottom grill in half.

Finally, the device has a 2840 mAh battery with promised battery life in line with competition.

"HTC is excited to bring the HTC One M9+ to customers in China, where we have worked closely with mobile operators to create a phone with the right balance of screen size, processor performance, software, and radio network compatibility to meet consumers' needs. Ranging in other markets will be confirmed locally at a later date. The One M9+ is not currently planned to be released in North America or Europe, where we believe our flagship HTC One M9 is the best choice for blazing fast performance, incredible sound, and network compatibility across the broadest range of operators," read HTC's statement.

Disney has announced this week that the blockbuster 'Star Wars' series will be available as HD digital downloads for the first time ever, starting on Friday.

Dubbed 'The Star Wars Digital Movie Collection,' downloaders will get all six of the films and some bonus features. Each movie is also available individually if you are not a fan of specific movies (looking at you Phantom Menace).

"Since the debut of the first film nearly 40 years ago, Star Wars has become a worldwide phenomenon with legions of fans from every generation," said Alan Bergman, president, The Walt Disney Studios. "It's only fitting that audiences enjoy this legendary saga and its many fascinating behind-the-scenes stories on a wide variety of devices."

Here's the full list:

The team over at Popcorn Time has announced that their iOS app is now available for non-jailbroken devices, a massive launch that the team has been teasing for over six months.

iOS beta version 1.2 was also launched in conjunction, adding Chromecast and Apple TV support along with a ton of performance fixes and bug fixes. Free VPN will also be added in the coming days, notes the team.

"Ever since we released iOS for jailbroken devices in September 2014, we've been wrecking our brains to find a solution that will enable iOS users who don't want to jailbreak their device and use Cydia to also enjoy Popcorn Time on their iOS device.

Our relentless pursuit for a solution led us to a fruitful collaboration with another group of brilliant developers who came up with the awesome solution of making an iOS installer," said Popcorn Time.