Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 07/10-07/16

Get to see more of the ‘worst superheroes ever’ in the new ‘Suicide Squad’ trailer

Microsoft kicks off 2016 Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto

Preview of iOS 10 Public Beta

Land Rover wants to take autonomous vehicles to all terrains

There’s still a ‘Gambit’ movie in the works

Roku app for Windows 10 Devices now available in Canada

Samsung’s set to unveil Galaxy Note7 on August 2nd

Niantic Labs and Google are working to fix full account access given to ‘Pokémon Go’

Peak Design has three new bags now on Kickstarter

Canadian designed yoga mat is made for travellers

Share your travel tales while on-the-go with Fido Roam

Nest's new camera brings IoT outdoors

TIFFxPOP features high-end VR experiences from around the world

Apple Camp is back for the summer!

Google’s accepting submissions from North American developers for its Indie Games Festival

Review: HBO's Vinyl Season 1

Microsoft exec claims they won’t hit 1 billion device installs target by 2018 for Windows 10

Google Keyboard introduces new themes on Android

Android app CTRL-F finds words from real-world documents with your smartphone’s camera

Android app CTRL-F finds words from real-world documents with your smartphone’s camera

This new Android app is making it easier for you to navigate “real life” reading and research. CTRL-F helps you find words you need from a real-world document or book by taking a photo of said text. Using the app is pretty straightforward. Take a photo of the text and then the app analyzes this text to create a searchable version on your smartphone. After that, you can just search for said term and have CTRL-F highlight that for you. There are conditions to making this app work for you, though. You need to take a fairly-lit, focused, and straight photo. Don’t expect it to read weird fonts or bad handwriting.

CTRL-F isn’t the first of its kind with other scanning apps having built-in text recognition. But if you just want a single-purpose solution for finding text and don’t need to save your searches, you should check this out. Developers say there will also be an iOS version of the app.

Source: Lifehacker

Consumer Reports calls on Tesla to rename Autopilot feature

Following reported accidents involving Teslas that had Autopilot engaged, well-known publication Consumer Reports is calling out to Tesla to change a few things. One is that the car manufacturer should change the name Autopilot and another is to remove the Autosteer feature. According to Laura MacCleery, vice president of consumer policy and mobilization at Consumer Reports, "By marketing their feature as ‘Autopilot,’ Tesla gives consumers a false sense of security. In the long run, advanced active safety technologies in vehicles could make our roads safer. But today, we’re deeply concerned that consumers are being sold a pile of promises about unproven technology. ‘Autopilot’ can’t actually drive the car, yet it allows consumers to have their hands off the steering wheel for minutes at a time. Tesla should disable automatic steering in its cars until it updates the program to verify that the driver’s hands are on the wheel."

Tesla stands by their decisions and the technologies they put into the car saying that they do “over millions of miles of internal testing, to ensure that drivers supported by Autopilot remain safer than those operating without assistance.” And it doesn’t plan to disable their features but will work to make sure their consumers know how Autopilot actually works.

Source: Consumer Reports | Via: SlashGear

Google Keyboard introduces new themes on Android

You no longer have to just pick between “material light” or “material dark,” there are now multiple themes to choose from as the background of your Google Keyboard on Android. Android N will be introducing themes but if you aren’t playing around with the developer preview yet, you can start by customizing your keyboard first. Aside from picking one of the preselected themes (there are blacks, reds, pinks, blues, etc.), you can also use a photo of your choice to act as your keyboard background. With features like this, Google is looking to compete with third-party launchers and keyboards that offer variety, too. Unfortunately, it isn’t on the Google Keyboard on iOS yet. But we won’t be surprised if Google brings the update there soon.

Some of the other new features include additional languages for gesture typing and suggestions, the inclusion of recently used emojis in the suggestion strip, support for Android N, and bug fixes such as including passwords with Talkback and missing key labels. You can download the app from this link.