The Handmaid's Tale coming to Canada on May 1 via iTunes

Canadians now have an option to stream the first season of The Handmaid's Tale which is based on author Margaret Atwood's award winning novel. 

The Handmaid’s Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism regime that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, “Offred," is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world.

Coming on May 1, the pre-order the Season Pass on iTunes to The Handmaid’s Tale here and watch the double-episode premiere on May 1. View the entire The Handmaid’s Tale iTunes collection, including versions in iBooks, Movies right here.

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Uber loses VP of Global Vehicle Programs

One more Uber executive has left the company. This time its Sherif Marakby, Uber’s vice president of Global Vehicle Programs, who helped launched the company’s self-driving program in Pittsburgh. It isn’t clear why Marakby left Uber but according to Automotive News, it isn’t related to the lawsuit the company has with Waymo. It can’t be said if it’s related to sexual harassment allegations either. Marakby joined Uber back in April after working for Ford for 25 years.

“Sherif’s deep experience and knowledge of the automotive industry have helped us tremendously in working to make self-driving cars a reality,” an Uber spokesperson told TechCrunch in a statement. Marakby joins at least five other execs who’ve left the company in the past few months, including its head of comms, president, head of AI Labs, SVP of engineering, and VP of growth.

Facebook plans to review content reporting system after murder video stayed on its service for hours

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There are unforgettable moments you get to see on Facebook’s video platform these days. Unfortunately, some of them are terrible and gruesome. One of these was the documentation of a deadly shooting that happened in Cleveland, which stayed on the site for hours before it was taken down. The social network says they’re reviewing their content reporting system because of this. According to a statement Facebook released, “As a result of this terrible series of events, we are reviewing our reporting flows to be sure people can report videos and other material that violates our standards as easily and quickly as possible.

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Instagram takes cues from Pinterest with new feature called Collections

If you’ve been saving random photos on Instagram haphazardly, the social network now wants to help you organize them with a new feature. Called Collections, you can now organize your saved posts in a way that makes sense to you. It’s rather similar to how Pinterest does things. But instead of collecting everything you find online, this is limited to what you find on Instagram and these collections are kept private so others won’t see what you’ve been saving.

When you save a post now, you’ll either get the option to create a new collection or add it to an existing collection. For organizing the posts you already have, you can head to your saved posts and tap on the plus icon in the upper right. The feature should be rolling out to both iOS and Android apps now.

Source: Digital Trends