Pokémon Home is almost here and we have all the details!

What you need to know

Pokémon Home will offer a basic and a premium plan.
The Premium plan will cost $16 annually.
The Premium plan will offer significant benefits over the Basic plan, including storage of up to 6,000 Pokémon and backwards compatability with the Pokémon Bank.

With Pokémon Home being released in the next month, Nintendo has just announced details, including pricing. Pokémon Home will have a free Basic plan with limited features, as well as a paid Premium plan with considerably more to offer. The Premium plan will be offered through the Nintendo eShop and will cost $3 a month, $5 for three months, or $16 for a year, excluding tax. Six different features were outlined in this announcement:

Moving Pokémon from Pokémon Bank
Number of Pokémon that can be deposited
Number of Pokémon that can be placed in the Wonder Box at once
Number of Pokémon that can be placed in the GTS at once
Room Trade
Judg…

Just a week after the Surface Duo SDK came to Windows, it became available for macOS.

What you need to know

Microsoft released the Surface Duo SDK on macOS.
The SDK allows developers to try out features and optimize apps on the dual-screen device’s OS.
The Surface Duo runs a version of Android built around the device having two screens.

More developers can try out the Surface Duo’s version of Android, thanks to an update from Microsoft. Just a week after releasing the Surface Duo SDK for Windows developers, Microsoft made the SDK available on macOS (via MSPU). The SDK allows developers to optimize apps for the Surface Duo’s dual-screen experience and to try out the various dual-screen functionality of Microsoft’s upcoming Android phone.

Following the release of the Surface Duo preview SDK on Windows, our senior editor Zac Bowden tried out the customized version of Android that’s included. In his hands-on video, Bowden shows off how the Surface Duo will handle apps opening acr…

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Mmm, ramen

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Poocha Chubugga Oom Chickee! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! This is the must-have case for fans of Lilo and Stitch. There is also a pink version in t…

”That’s like Captain Kangaroo, your new engineer. A MacBook Pro? What are you talking about? You can’t get anything out of that thing.”

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Musician Neil Young has given an interview to The Vergecast.
Discussing the MacBook Pro, he described it as a ”piece of crap” with ”Fisher-Price” quality” audio.
He also said that Steve Jobs told him ”We’re making products for consumers, not quality.”

Musician Neil Young has described the 16-Inch MacBook Pro as ”a piece of crap” with ”Fisher-Price” quality audio in an interview with The Vergecast.

From The Verge, Young sat down with editor-in-chief Nilay Patel to discuss making music on the go, specifically how artists were sacrificing audio fidelity for the sake of convenience.

Young said he had no problem with teenagers writing hits in their bedrooms, but that the problem was when people start trying to record on a MacBook straight to MP3.

Patel said to Young: ”Right. But I’m saying… I’m looking at the new 16-inch Ma…

Are you searching for an excellent game for your Switch but want to get great deals? We’ve found the best games for a fraction of their price!

Have you played all of your Nintendo Switch games, and you’re looking for a bit more fun? I know how pricey they can be, especially if you’re on a budget and can’t spend $60 on a game. Here at iMore, we have found some great games currently on sale. If any of these types of games spark your interest, be sure to check them out by clicking the links below.

Pre-orders available on Amazon right now
Physical game cartridges on sale now
eShop games on sale this week

Pre-order options on Amazon

Here’s every game you can pre-order on Amazon right now. Just click the title to check it out!

SNACK WORLD: THE DUNGEON CRAWL — GOLD – Available February 14 – $50
Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection – Available February 18 – $30
Gods & Monsters – Available February 25 – $60
Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories – Available March 1 – $60
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Completing the Pokédex and catching all the cool-looking Pokémon is one of the biggest drives for Pokémon fans. If you’ve been playing Sword and Shield for a while, you might have noticed that Clobbopus and Grapploct are especially difficult to capture. That’s because they have tiny catch rate percentages. We’ll walk you through the best way for catching either of them and will also explain how to evolve a Clobbopus into Grapploct.

Where to get Clobbopus and Grapploct

Clobbopus and Grapploct both spawn on Route 9, both in the icy water and on land. Both evolutions can appear in any kind of weather, however, their spawn rate is only 30%, so they can be a lot harder to come across than some other Pokémon.

You’re far more likely to get a Clobbopus to stay inside your Poké Ball since it has a catch rate of 33.8% while Grapploct’s catch rate is only 11.9%. For this reason, it might just be easier to catch a Clobbopus and then make it evolve rather than catching a Grapploct and a…

Shut up and take my money!

What you need to know

Let’sGoDigital has published an unbelievable new iPhone 12 concept.
It was made by Jermaine Smit – aka Concept Creator.
It features beautiful, crisp edges like the iPad Pro.

Let’sGoDigital and creator Jermaine Smit have published a new iPhone 12 concept that is out-of-this-world stunning.

The outlet posted the incredible concept from the Dutch designer yesterday, January 27. The video description says:

The iPhone 11 pro series brought a new design for the camera, But with the iPhone 12 pro rumors are there that we will have back the flat frames!
With that I created a iPhone 12 pro series!
with flat sides and enhancing the design we saw with the iPhone 11 pro series!
Yes, the iPhone 12 pro max has an extra sensor for TOF.

His reference to TOF is in regard to rumors that the next iPhone will feature Time-Of-Flight sensors. That’s according to Ming-Chi Kuo. TOF uses LED or laser technology to work out how far away ob…

Huawei will get some access though, and says it is ”reassured” by the news.

What you need to know

The UK government has made its decision on the use of Huawei hardware in its 5G networks.
Huawei will be excluded from the ”core” parts of the network.
There will be a 35% cap on ”high-risk vendor” access to non-core parts.

Reports suggest that the UK government has made its decision regarding the use of Huawei hardware in its 5G networks, excluding it from ”core” parts of the networks.

However, Huawei will get limited access to non-core parts, with a 35% cap on ”high-risk vendor access”. According to Zoe Kleinman:

BREAKING: Huawei to be excluded from ”core” parts of 5G networks – 35% cap on ”high risk vendor access” to the non-core parts— Zoe Kleinman🎙️💻🤖 (@zsk) January 28, 2020

The BBC notes that it will also be excluded from areas near military bases and nuclear sites. In a statement the firms UK head Victor Zhang said:

”Huawei is reassured by the UK government…