Amazon Prime Video saves 'The Expanse'

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos just announced that Amazon Prime Video will save The Expanse which will see a Season 4 coming to the streaming video service. This is huge news as fans of this transcendent science fiction series based on the books from author James S.A. Corey, The Expanse was cancelled by Syfy Channel in the US ( Space channel in Canada) earlier this month which prodded millions of fans to rally behind the show and launch a #Savetheexpanse movement.

Based on a series of nine books, The Expanse TV series (shot here in Toronto) is one of the best cast, intelligently produced and engaging sci-fi shows on TV. The beauty of the show is that while it is on its third season, it's barely scraping the tip of the iceberg of this epic show. Kudos to Amazon for seeing the value of good programming. This alone is worth the subcription to Amazon Prime Video.

Nokia has ‘some new stuff to share’ at May 29 event

It’s been less than a couple of weeks since Nokia launched the X6, but it seems HMD Global still has more Nokia news to share. The company is hosting a May 29^th event in Moscow at 7:40 p.m. (12:40 p.m. ET, 9:40 a.m. PT), which will also be live streamed. According to HMD Global’s Chief Product Officer Juho Sarvikas, they have “some new stuff to share.” The tweet about the event included the hashtag #ChargedUp, so it could be something battery-related. The event date is almost here so we don’t have to speculate for too long.

Source: Android Police

PayPal will soon support single sign-in across all Google services

As it stands, you need to input your PayPal credentials separately every time you make a payment on any Google service. But that’s about to change. In a blog post, PayPal says it’s working on “deepening” its relationship with Google and one of the ways they plan to do that is allow for a single sign-in into all Google services. This means, if you input your PayPal details into YouTube, for example, these can be accessed on all the other services without needing to login again. There is no specific timeline yet for when this feature will come. But PayPal says “soon.” One other thing this method would allow is to let users choose PayPal as an option for peer-to-peer payments using Google Pay Send.

What to expect at Apple's WWDC 2018

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple has announced that the WWDC 2018 Keynote will be livecast out of the McEnery Center in San Jose so the world can tune in to their Safari browsers (or Edge, Chrome or Firefox) or Apple TVs to see the announcements unfold. WWDC kicks off on June 4.

What's expected this year aside from the yearly updates to iOS, watchOS, macOS and other surrounding operating systems and ecosystems is more focus on Machine Learning, possibly a Siri redux hopefully making the pioneering but stunted smart assistant more of a player in the market.

Apple hasn't had a major event for 2018 but it has had various OS 11 and 11.3  issues as well as growing dissatisfaction with aspects of its hardware products like the keyboard on the MacBook Pro, reports of iPhone performance throttling due to sub-optimal batteries on older devices as well as a number of products announced but never shipped (AirPower, AirPods charging case).

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