Subscribe to Spotify Premium, or thinking about upgrading to it? We have some awesome news.

Spotify on Thursday announced that Premium members can now, for a limited time, add Hulu‘s basic ad-supported plan to their account at no extra cost. Hulu recently lowered the price of this plan to $5.99 a month (from $7.99), but now Spotify Premium subscribers can get it for free.

To add Hulu to your existing Spotify Premium account, just visit the “Your Services” page and press “activate” on the Hulu banner.

If you’re new to Spotify Premium, you can sign up for the bundle right here. You’ll get your first month of Spotify Premium and Hulu for free; after that, it will cost $9.99 a month.

Once you get it set up, just go to the Hulu app or hulu.com to start streaming shows like Fargo, The Handmaid’s Tale, Seinfeld, and more.

The offer will be available until June 10 “or while supplies last,” so don’t waste any time if you want to take advantage of this great deal.

This new offer comes after the music and video streaming companies over the summer offered a bundle that included Spotify Premium and Hulu’s ad-supported plan for $12.99 a month. Those who signed up for that bundle will see their bill “automatically reduced” to the regular Spotify Premium price, Spotify said today.

Meanwhile, Spotify Premium for students includes Hulu’s ad-supported plan plus Showtime for just $4.99 per month. That offer is available to US college students enrolled at Title IV accredited institutions; to sign up, head here.

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New marketing for Huawei’s upcoming P30 smartphone has been caught trying to pass stock images as photos taken by the product’s camera.

Last Friday, Huawei’s CEO for its consumer business group, Richard Yu, posted a collection of sample images for the upcoming phone through his account on Sina Weibo, a popular social networking service in China. All nine ads hyped up the P30’s camera by featuring individual images presumably taken by the phone and it’s powerful “periscope zoom” camera.

However, a few users noticed the sample images appeared to be too good to be true. It turns out they were right. At least three of the pictures are up for sale through suppliers of stock imagery. 

One of the photos, which features a young child and three ducklings, was actually taken four years ago by photographer Jake Olson. In an email, Olson told PCMag that Huawei didn’t get permission to use his photo, but he said the picture was likely made available on Getty Images.

So far, Huawei hasn’t commented on the stock image use, which was noticed by GSMArena. But it isn’t the first time the company has been caught passing off professional-grade photos as smartphone-taken images. In 2016, users noticed a promotional image for the company’s P9 handset actually contained some EXIF metadata that indicated the photo was taken by an expensive DSLR-camera.

Two years later, the company committed the same blunder, specifically in Egypt. Through an Instagram post, a Huawei-hired actress accidentally revealed that the company had used a DSLR camera to take a still shot that ended up in the TV commercial to promote its Nova 3 handset. (In its defense, Huawei noted the ad did show a short disclaimer that stated the product images and content were provided for reference only.)

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Confused about pricing of Tesla cars and features? Get ready to get even more confused. 

Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that Autopilot pricing is “reverting to normal” — meaning the prices go back up after they’ve been lowered recently — next Monday. 

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To recap: In late February, Tesla said it’s moving to online-only sales in order to reduce vehicle prices. Then, a few days ago, the company reversed that decision, saying it’ll keep more stores open, but the prices of vehicles — all but the base price Model 3 — are going up by 3%. 

In between those two decisions, Tesla also changed the pricing of its Enhanced Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features, significantly lowering the prices for folks who bought a Tesla without them. This didn’t really sit well with people who’d bought the features together with the car and paid a higher price for them. 

Now, Tesla is backpedaling on that decision as well. In a tweet Tuesday, Musk said that the “lower price shouldn’t have been offered” in the first place. “Was done so because some simply couldn’t afford it. Prices revert to normal on Monday,” he wrote. 

The silver lining is that people who have a Tesla car eligible for the upgrades, and haven’t bought them, can still take advantage of the reduced prices before Monday. 

However, Tesla’s back and forth on pricing for both the cars and the extra features has been horribly confusing. Let’s hope the company will keep things a bit more simple and straightforward from now on. 

As a girl, I used to wake up and start my day by reenacting the movements of Sailor Moon‘s moon crystal power transformation. Though I didn’t know it, it was my extremely dorky version of a morning affirmation. It made me feel powerful, invigorated, imbibed with a uniquely girlish magic.

If one could distill that sensation into a game, you’d get Sayonara Wild Hearts.

Arriving on the Nintendo Switch later this year, the platformer from award-winning indie game studio Simogo combines anime vibes with a punk-pop soundscape reminiscent of Grimes. Part endless runner, part rhythm game, part music video, it delivers what the tiny Swedish game studio is best known for: a singular, gorgeously designed, full-bodied experience unlike any other game of its ilk.

Every moment of the hands-on preview felt like a never-ending free fall into pure inertia and exhilaration. Imagine the heart-in-your-throat feeling you get at the top of a rollercoaster, only sustained over the duration of an entire game level.

Unlike Simogo’s previous hits, there’s little emphasis on narrative. After establishing a vague mythic backstory, you dive head first into the neon fever dream world of an unnamed female protagonist, who transforms into a badass masked biker. You navigate the vibrant metropolis of impossible architecture at breakneck speeds, overcoming new obstacles introduced in each level. 

You dive head first into the neon fever dream world of an unnamed female protagonist, who transforms into a badass masked biker.

“It’s about being bombastic and spectacular,” said Simon Flesser, the creative lead of Simogo’s two-person team, over Skype. “The little story there is is just an excuse to have cool characters do cool stuff.”

But no one pulls off cool for the sake of cool quite like Simogo does.

The story is vague and surface level, but heightens the visceral experience of otherwise standard endless runner mechanics. There’s nothing new about collecting hearts or timing button presses correctly while racing down a road. But Sayonara Wild Hearts‘ effervescent visual and musical palette, along with in-air sword battles with rival lady biker gangs, makes them feel fresh as hell.

“A strong framing is important, even if it’s not done textually or with story. You miss out on that connection between the player and the experience if you don’t feel like a game is speaking to you with a specific personality or voice,” said Flesser. “It has to reach out with its hand to let the player in. And for lots of games, the absence of personality pushes people away.”  

What makes Sayonara Wild Hearts so unique also comes down to Flesser’s unique relationship to music as someone with synesthesia. He often sees music in colors, along with other odd sensory crossfires.

“It’s hard to talk about because it’s so intangible. And euphorbia is a very intangible feeling too,” he said.

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But the palpably euphoric experience of sound and music that became Sayonara Wild Hearts clicked into place when he was messing around with the early prototype and listening to a pop playlist of Carly Rae Jepsen, Sia, and Churches.

The pink icing on the delightful neon cake that is Sayonara Wild Hearts is its decidedly feminine world. From what I can tell, the world is entirely made up of women, from the characters to the pop singer.

“Really we wanted the world to be female-centric simply because we think we have enough male-centric games. And that’s boring,” said Flesser.

Its girlish spirit isn’t ever condescending or self-congratulatory, either. Sayonara Wild Hearts simply uses the feminine as a pastiche for a traditionally masculine, action-heavy type gameplay. Without calling attention to itself, this makes for one of the most quietly empowering female experiences I’ve ever had in a video game.

Because in Sayonara Wild Hearts you kick ass by overcoming every wild new thing the world hurls at you, never missing a beat, never taking a breath to slow down. And really, isn’t that a distillation of what being a woman in this world is like? Only in this version, you get to hack those enemies with beautiful dancer-like sword fights.

“To be honest the entire game is just trying to be as inviting to everyone as possible,” Flesser said.

It certainly does that, and more. Because through Sayonara Wild Hearts’ badass flips and tricks, I might’ve just found my new geeky lady magic infused morning affirmation ritual.