Canadian Reviewer's best tech Gift Guide 2018

 

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

2018 has been an amazing year for consumer technology. We’ve seen a multitude of smartphones with stunning camera capabilities and powerful performance. Laptop computers and professional-focused tablets and 2-in-1’s is stretching the boundaries of portable computing and are forcing us to ask, “what is a computer?” The real question for 2018 is, “what isn’t a computer?”

Smart home technology and personal assistants have become smarter, more integrated and are starting to emulate real people. They’re also coming with displays and a variety of sizes to suit more needs. Below is a list of products that we’ve used and reviewed and would be happening to recommend as technology gifts for 2018.

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Instagram helps visually impaired see photos with AI descriptions

Instagram is making its service more accessible to the visually impaired with its latest update. There is a new artificial intelligence system that’ll automatically generate descriptions of the photos. These can be seen through screen readers that the visually impaired users use to browse the Feed, Explore, and Profile sections of the app. The feature makes use of object recognition technology to identify what items are in the image. If you want to describe the image yourself, you can add custom alternative text as well. You can head to Advanced Settings when posting a photo and there should be a new Write Alt Text option there.

Android Pie starts rolling out to Huawei P20 series in China, international market could soon follow

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Huawei has begun rolling out Android 9.0 Pie via the EMUI 9 skin in China. It’s being reported that it’s hitting both the P20 and P20 Pro units. It’s the final build and it brings with it Huawei’s take on Google’s Digital Wellbeing app—Digital Balance—as well as better volume controls, GPU Turbo for smoother gameply, and gesture navigation. There is no word yet when it’ll be hitting the international market but with this being the final build, it shouldn’t be that long of a wait.

Source: GSMArena

Ariana Grande’s ‘thank u, next’ music video broke YouTube’s comment section

When Ariana Grande premiered her music video for “thank u, next” it became such a big thing that at one point it hit 829,000 concurrent viewers, making a record for Premieres on YouTube. But that isn’t the only record the video broke. According to a tweet from Team YouTube, "the thank u, next video was so good, it broke the internet (or at least delayed YouTube comments from posting for a bit)." The video now has over 82 million views but at the time it came out, it pulled out so many commenters that YouTube just couldn’t keep up with them all.

This isn’t the only big thing for Ariana on YouTube. She has a four-part docuseries airing on the streaming service that documents here recent Dangerous Woman tour, which shows her life on the road (including the time after the tragic Manchester attack) and entire songs from the shows. It’s being released for free weekly here, but all episodes are also available for YouTube Red subscribers to watch now.

Source: Mashable