LG officially announced that its first curved self-healing smartphone, the G Flex, was presented with a Gold Award earlier today, along with 26 of its other products at the iF Design Awards conference in Denmark. This came as quite a nice surprise to the South Korean company seeing that the Flex was the first handset on the market to feature a vertically curved display, and there was no real certainty that it would be welcomed by the public.

Amid weeks of speculation about the upcoming Samsung Chromebook 2, the Korean manufacturer has finally unveiled a duo Chromebooks. These devices feature 11.6 inch and 13.3 inch displays respectively, so it will look to target the Apple MacBook Air, which dominates the small notebook segment.

With the release of Android 4.4 KitKat, the Paranoid Android team decided to go back to the drawing board and make all their primary features much more elegant looking and simpler to use. While this move is for the overall benefit of their users, the downside is that adding all its previous features has been taking its own sweet time.

Today, the team has released PA 4.1 that brings back one of the major features of their ROM — Pie. 

Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform for creative projects, hit a major milestone today, when it officially racked up $1 billion in pledges.

According to the company’s statistics page, its $1 billion in total funds represents $859 million backing successful projects — with the $1 billion total referring to all projects, including those that are still in progress, or else which failed to reach their funding goal.

To date, there have been 57,121 successful Kickstarter projects — earning the company just under $43 million in the 5% cut that it takes of all successful projects.

HTC has halted the rollout of its Android 4.4 KitKat update for HTC One handsets in the United Kingdom after users began “experiencing difficulties” with the new software. The company promises it is working hard to resolve the issue, which should be available again soon.