Sunday
Apr022017

‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ shows Guy Ritchie’s signature cinematic style

The latest and final trailer for the King Arthur: Legend of the Sword movie shows how much of a Guy Ritchie film it is. You get quick cuts combined with pop-heavy soundtrack, and artful fast- or slow-motion movements. Ritchie puts that all on display in this latest take of the King Arthur lore. The film has some big names leading the charge including Charlie Hunnam as King Arthur, Jude Law as his Uncle Vortigern, and Eric Bana as Uther Pendragon, to name a few. The trailer looks pretty badass and we’re hoping the film delivers. It’s set to come out in Canada on March 24.

Saturday
Apr012017

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 3/26-4/1

Saturday
Apr012017

Android Wear 2.0 comes to six more smartwatches

After the first three smartwatches got the Android Wear 2.0 update, Google had to halt the release to more Android Wear wearables because of a last-minute discovery of a bug. Thankfully, Google was able to fix that quickly and rolled out the new operating system to six more watches, which includes the Fossil Q Marshal, Fossil Q Wander, Michael Cors Access Bradshaw, Michael Cors Access Dylan, Nixon Mission, and Polar M600. This means nine out of the 19 devices expected to get Android Wear 2.0 have already gotten the update. Unfortunately, older generation Android Wear watches won’t be getting the new OS.

Source: SlashGear

Saturday
Apr012017

Twitter drops the egg avatar, supposedly to combat abuse

Twitter’s default egg avatar is the signal that the user who owns that account hasn’t uploaded a photo yet. It’s an integral part of Twitter’s identity. But it looks like Twitter is shedding this part of their image for two reasons. One is they want to replace it with a silhouette icon to encourage users to upload profile photos of themselves. Another is to combat abuse. Yes, you read that right. Twitter thinks since abusive accounts usually don’t upload profile photos and have the egg profile picture there is now “an association between the default egg profile photo and negative behavior.” While we don’t think that’s the actual solution to the issue, Twitter thinks it is. What they are doing though is taking out something that has been heavily identified with the service, which we think is a mistake.

Source: TechCrunch