Huawei Mate 30 Pro will be available in Canada on May 8

The Huawei Mate 30 Pro will be available this month in Canada. Starting May 8, you can purchase the flagship phone through Staples, Newegg, The Shopping Channel, and Visions Electronics for $1,399.99. It must be noted that the Mate 30 Pro doesn't have Google Play Store and Google Play Services installed because the U.S. ban placed on the company still stands. You'll have to use Huawei's AppGallery to get apps, or you can use Huawei's Phone Clone app to transfer apps from your previous devices.

The Mate 30 Pro is powered by HiSilicon Kirin 990 processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and EMUI 10. The smartphone has a 6.53-inch waterfall display, quad-camera setup at the back, dual selfie cameras, and a 4,500mAh battery.

Source: MobileSyrup

Taika Waititi will direct, co-write a new 'Star Wars' film

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Academy Award-winning director Taika Waititi is crossing over to another big Disney-owned franchise as he's set to direct and co-write an upcoming Star Wars film. In case you didn't know, Waititi is known for directing Marvel Cinematic Universe's Thor: Ragnarok and the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder film. He's actually also worked in the Star Wars universe when he directed the season finale of The Mandalorian.

Waititi will co-write the film with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who worked on Oscar-nominated movie 1917. It isn't known yet what the film will be about, but it's going to be released in theatres. There will also be a new Star Wars series coming to Disney+ that is in development from Russian Doll writer Leslye Headland. Disney and Lucasfilm haven't divulged when these projects will be launched.

Source: Star Wars

Review: Dell Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme Tablet

Text and photos by Emily Chung

The Dell Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme Tablet is “built for the toughest jobs”, Dell boasts. While I don’t have an extremely harsh working environment, I own an auto repair shop and you can imagine the amount of dust, oil, grease, hazards, etc that we have onsite. I was curious to use the rugged tablet at work, and find out how it would perform for us. Hit jump for our hands on review of this rugged ultraportable.

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Ask Google Assistant to launch Stadia games on Android, Chromebooks

It's much easier to launch a Google Stadia games on your Android phones and Chromebooks. All you need to do is ask Google Assistant. You can say something as simple as "Play [insert game]" to have either device launch the title for you. It's easy to access on Chromebooks since all these laptops have a Search/Launcher key in place of Cap Locks so that you can launch Assistant from there. If you'd rather not have to scroll through the games you own, this method is a quick way to get to what you want. Now, if you don't own the title yet, you'll just be presented with a regular search term.

Source: 9to5Google