Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 12/18-12/24

Lenovo rumoured to be working on another Project Tango device

Super Mario Run a runaway success, still not as habit forming as Pokémon Go

Video: Apple AirPods unboxing and first impressions

BlackBerry creates Innovation Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

The Black Keys hesitantly brings latest albums to Spotify

Rogers brings Roam Like Home to more wireless consumers

Tim Cook: "Great desktops," are in the roadmap

Volkswagen to pay out $2.1 billion to Canadian customers due to emissions scandal

Facebook introduces Live Audio, takes on podcasts and the radio

The Apple Beat: Apple's year in Review

Alphabet’s Waymo in talks with Honda regarding self-driving car tech

Pokémon Go now works with Apple Watch

Google plans to release two Android Wear 2.0 flagship smartwatches in early 2017

Tracing your family tree with Ancestry.ca

A look at the top apps for drivers

Apple iTunes offers Boxing Day album sales

Expect around two to three mobile games from Nintendo in 2017

Hyundai wants to make exoskeletons more affordable for industrial workers and the handicapped

‘Alien: Covenant’ gets a creepy first trailer

The follow-up to Ridley Scott’s 2012 film Prometheus is set to hit theaters in 2017 and so the first trailer for Alien: Covenant is out and it’s properly scary. The trailer shows what the crew of the Covenant is up against as they stumble upon a new planet. But things aren’t as they seem as someone gets infected by a deadly xenomorph and things just go extremely wrong from there. 

The big names attached to the 20^th Century Fox film include Michael Fassbender, who plays the artificially intelligent David and is the survivor of the Prometheus expedition, James Franco, Katherine Waterston, and Guy Pearce. Alien: Covenant will be hitting the big screen on May 19, 2017.

Hyundai wants to make exoskeletons more affordable for industrial workers and the handicapped

When you think exoskeletons, car manufacturers aren’t exactly the first ones you think of making these wearable mobile machines. But Hyundai is one such company hoping to make exoskeletons more affordable to a larger number of people. The South Korean manufacturer recently demoed two new exosuit prototypes—the H-Wex, which is meant for industrial lifting, and H-Mex, which is designed for helping disabled people walk. The H-Wex makes it easier to carry heavy loads for a lot of backbreaking work. Meanwhile, the H-Mex will help senior citizens or the handicapped walk. It comes with controls for helping move each leg forward, sitting down, standing up, and even walking up and down stairs.

Hyundai is currently working on getting medical certifications in both South Korean and the United States for the H-Mex by 2018. It plans to deploy demo units by 2019 and 2020 to see how industrial workers and patients react to these exoskeletons.

Source: Engadget

Expect around two to three mobile games from Nintendo in 2017

It took so long for Nintendo to release a game for the smartphone market but now they’re finally seeing how big an industry it is. In an interview with Japanese media outlet Kyoto NP, Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima said the game developer plans to release to two three new mobile titles a year starting 2017. Kimishima believes the mobile gaming market could be one of the primary business divisions of Nintendo.

With Super Mario Run reportedly hitting 50 million downloads around the world, Kimishima believes the iOS game can reach the 100 million download mark. And with the game hitting Android sometime in 2017, that should help. We know so far that two upcoming mobile games will be based on Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem. But we’re curious to see what else Nintendo will have up its sleeve in the coming years.

Source: Android Authority