Apple Music is coming to Amazon Echo devices this December

In a surprising move from Apple, the company just announced it’s bringing Apple Music streaming service to Amazon Echo. It’ll be coming to Amazon Echo speakers starting the week of December 17. When it does come to Amazon, this mean Apple Music subscribers can ask Alexa to play their favorite songs, artists, playlists, albums, and Beats1 radio stations right from an Echo speaker. This integration will launch as an Apple Music skill, which you can enable within the Alexa app. From there you’ll be able to link your account and start listening to Apple Music in the similar way you could services like Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Pandora are integrated into the service.

Source: MacRumors

Disney and Netflix cancel Daredevil leaving two shows out of the original six

Just as news that Netflix is raising prices for subscriptions, we are getting news that the company, along with Disney, who owns the rights to Marvel characters, is killing off Daredevil after three seasons. The move was expected after Netflix canelled Iron Fist and Luke Cage earlier this year and there has been no talk of bringing back The Defenders.

Daredevil has been the best adaptation of a Marvel character on Netfilx and the third season was outstanding in many ways. Disney is focusing on its own streaming service (no news of whethe this will be available in Canada), while Netflix has promised to let The Punisher and Jessica Jones "run their course", it looks like the Marvel Cinematic Universe's time in Netflix is coming to a Thanos finger-snapping end soon. 

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‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ shares storyline of Christmas special, details on season 2

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We’re going to see little Sabrina show up in the upcoming Christmas special of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Young Sabrina be played by 12-year-old actress McKenna Grace, who is in another Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House, and easily passes off as Kiernan Shipka’s younger sister. Shipka plays Sabrina Spellman in the Netflix series. As for the special will be about, Netflix summarizes it as, “During our holiday special, we’ll get to see what Sabrina was like as a precocious tot. And while The Church of Night celebrates the Solstice, that doesn’t stop Li’l Sabrina from asking Santa for something special.”

Aside from this update, “it’s been revealed that Alexis Denisof and Jedidiah Goodacre will be playing recurring guest stars in season 2. Denisof will play Adam Masters, the partner of Mary Wardwell. He’s described as “handsome and charming” with his character returning to Greendale after working overseas for Physicians Without Frontiers. Masters doesn’t know his fiancé has been taken over by the demoness Madam Satan. Meanwhile, Goodacre will play Dorian Grey, the owner of a nightclub called Dorian’s Grey Room. He’s described as “very good at keeping secrets, especially his own—a cursed portrait he hides from prying eyes.”

Source: NME

Google Assistant adds new features, including Pretty Please functionality

Google is hoping to help remind your children to remember their “please” and “thank you” with the latest update to Assistant. The Pretty Please feature, which was first announced at Google I/O, is now live as an optional functionality on your Google Assistant. If you say these two magic phrases (“please” or “thank you”) to Assistant, Google says it’ll respond with “delightful responses.” For example, say something like “Hey Google, please set a timer for 5 minutes.” It’ll reply “Thanks for asking so nicely. Alright, 5 minutes. Starting now.” It’ll be enabled for all voice matched users (those who have their voices registered with the app) and it’ll work with both the smart displays and speakers.

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