Google Assistant can now control Philips Hue scenes

Before you ask, yes, Google Assistant does support Philips Hue lights. But it didn’t have the ability to control preset scenes like with the Amazon Alexa or Hue apps—until today, that is. This means, you can now ask Assistant to adjust the lights based on the scenes you’ve set up in the Hue app. However, you might need to remove and re-add your Hue lights to Assistant or sync them to get this to work.

Source: 9to5Google

‘Jane The Virgin’ star Gina Rodriguez to play Carmen Sandiego for Netflix live-action movie

If you grew up in the ‘90s, the name Carmen Sandiego will be a familiar name to you. And since everyone seems to want to bank on nostalgia these days, it comes as no surprise that there will be a live-action movie based on the character. It’s just been announced that Netflix is tapping Jane the Virgin and Annihilation star Gina Rodriguez to play the titular role. Rodriguez is already slated to voice Carmen in a reboot of the popular animated series.

The actress is listed as a co-producer of the project under her I Can and I Will production company. The movie will be a standalone film about the red-hatted traveler and doesn’t have a writer or director attached to it just yet.

Source: Engadget

Microsoft's Edge browser comes to iPad and Android tablets

Microsoft has made Microsoft Edge available for Apple's iPad and for Android tablets, bringing the same experience, look and feel of their browser to competing platforms. Microsoft previously launched Edge on iPhones and Android phones so this is a continuation of that rollout.

Who benefits from this? Microsoft ecosystem users who want to sync between their PCs or Surface devices and their iPads or tablets. I've used Edge extensively on my Surface Laptop and while it is generally ok, I find it isn't as robust with working on certain CMS (Content Management Systems) and it also isn't widely adopted for multimedia (some Canadian content providers like CTV or Global TV refuse to run video on Edge). If you're enamoured with Edge, then you can now have it on your tablet.

Google chooses ChromeOS over Android for tablets and education

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google, it seems, has made a Sophie's Choice and given preference to its ChromeOS over the more popular Android OS to run its upcoming tablet products like the recently launched Acer Chromebook Tab 10. This really comes as no surprise since Google's recent forays into the tablet space with Nexus and Pixel devices have been lacklustre, to say the least. The last tablet Google released that made any sense was the Nexus 7, that was around five years ago. It seems developers didn't have much incentive to develop apps for the tablet form factor, which resulted in stagnant apps that felt like half-measures.

ChromeOS is the platform Google is going with for Chromebooks and tablets and all of a sudden, we're seeing Google in a different light as a computing platform competitor. Why is this a power move by Google, because it already has a foothold in the education market and has a variety of cloud connected apps and solutions that fit most schools and universities like a glove. By adding tablets to the mix, Google is giving students a more portable, personal and tactile medium that has similar benefits to Chromebooks.

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