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🧑‍💻 Happy Friday! This weekend will cap off IFA in Germany, and we have lots more announcements (and awards) coming over the weekend. For now, though, I want to highlight a form factor that we think has the potential to shake up a product category that hasn’t really evolved in decades.

Yes, I’m talking about foldable laptops. Or foldable-screen laptops? Whatever you want to call them, we went hands-on with two new models at IFA 2022 in Berlin: the Asus Zenbook 17 Fold and the Lenovo X1 Fold (2022). Both managed to impress us, and although there are still a few kinks to be worked out in the form factor, we wouldn’t be surprised to see a lot more foldable laptops in the near future.

📸 Sony announced the Xperia 5 IV earlier this week, but it’s missing a key feature that gives the line its identity (Android Authority).

🙏 Rumor suggests Google is still working on a foldable, likely to come in 2023 (Android Authority).

📈 Speaking of foldables, Samsung’s latest foldables doubled shipments in one key region, mostly on the back of the Z Flip 4 (Android Authority).

🐤 Twitter starts testing an edit button, but you have to pay for it (The Verge).

👓 Lenovo announces consumer AR glasses that can tether to iPhones (Arstechnica).

🛰️ Great news for rural areas: Android 14 will bring direct satellite support to smartphones (Android Authority).

🧑‍💻 The USB Promoter Group has announced USB 4 version 2.0, with a whopping 80Gbps of bandwidth (Tom’s Hardware).

🎮 Halo Infinite is finally getting Forge Mode, but it comes at the cost of split-screen co-op (IGN).

💰 Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard will be sent for an in-depth review unless it addresses UK watchdog’s concerns (Bloomberg).

👮 Here is the manual for the mass surveillance tool cops use to track phones (Vice).

Anyone with an Amazon Alexa at home knows that the tech doesn’t always correctly answer your query, but adding children into the equation further complicates things. But for musicians with songs about poop, this has unexpectedly led to huge profits.

Essentially, when a kid tells Alexa to “Play the poop song,” the service searches through Amazon Music to find the closest match. For artists, this offers a level of discoverability not found on Spotify or YouTube. One artist, Matt Farley, told Buzzfeed News that 30% of his income comes from Amazon Music, despite it being far less popular than other services. He estimates that his big hit, “Poop Poop Poop Poop Song” has been streamed 8 million times on the service.

Tired of listening to poop songs your kid asks for? Here’s how to change Alexa’s name and prevent it from happening.