Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 06/18-06/24

Review: Motorola Moto E4

Google to rely on AI and human oversight to help stop terrorists

You now have the option to have Cortana as your default assistant on Android

Motorola Moto Z2 Play and JBL SoundBoost2 coming to Canada in July for $800

Chevrolet Bolt EV earns top safety ratings from IIHS

Apple introduces more lessons for kids to learn about coding and creativity

Netflix brings ‘Choose your own adventure’ format from books to the screen

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns

Spotify is now available in the Windows Store

Emporio Armani joins the smartwatch market

Apple reportedly asking music labels to take smaller revenue cut from Apple Music

LG rumoured to be launching V30 at IFA

Review: Sennheiser HD-1 in ear wireless headphones

Vancouver's RAC7 Games featured in App Store's Canada's best game makers

Airbnb goes after wealthy travelers with new premium tier

Report claims Tesla wants to build its own streaming music service

LG X power 2 keeps you up and running all day

Google Home and Assistant gets French Canadian language support

Google Home and Assistant gets French Canadian language support

Ahead of Monday’s launch for Google Home, Google adds French Canadian as a language option for Assistant and by extension Google Home. You can select the option on the control app or try telling Assistant to switch. According to The Android Soul, you can just say “Ok Google, speak to me in French Canadian.” Some of the other languages that will be supported in the future include Brazilian-Portuguese, Japanese, German, Italian, Korean, and Spanish.

Source: Engadget

LG X power 2 keeps you up and running all day

If having a long-lasting battery is what you want and need, LG is bringing in the X power 2 to the country. This smartphone packs in a 4,500mAh battery with QuickCharge 2.0 to make it easy to charge that hefty battery. It promises up to 18 hours of talk time, 18 hours of video, or 19 hours of web browsing. The X power 2 runs on a Snapdragon 425 quad-core processor, 1.5GB of RAM, 16GB internal storage (expandable up to 2TB via microSD), and Android 7.0 Nougat. This smartphone also packs in a 5.5-inch HD display, LTE connectivity, and USB OTG support. The LG X power 2 will become available at the following carriers: Fido, TELUS, Koodo Mobile, Bell, Virgin Mobile, Videotron, Freedom and Bell MTS. Check with your other local retailers for availability dates.

Report claims Tesla wants to build its own streaming music service

Rumour has it Tesla is currently in talks with music labels to build its own streaming music service in its cars. Why are they doing this? Because they can. According to music industry sources, the company is talking to labels to help create this music service that will be bundled with the cars. There are supposedly going to be multiple tiers of the service, starting off with a Pandora-like web radio offering.

Why they won’t just integrate existing services, we can’t say. A Tesla spokesperson told Recode, “We believe it’s important to have an exceptional in-car experience so our customers can listen to the music they want from whatever source they choose. Our goal is to simply achieve maximum happiness for our customers.