Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup - 11/11 – 11/17

Fresh Air: The 2018 MacBook Air Review

Netflix ends support for Nintendo Wii

Microsoft To-Do’s ‘Planned’ smart list comes to iOS

Sony Xperia XZ Premium, XZ1, XZ1 Compact get Android Pie update

A visit to Google's Hardware Store in SoHo reveals the company's retail aspirations

Surface Go with LTE advanced begins shipping on November 20

Report claims Samsung’s foldable phone could cost US$1,770, tipped for March 2019 launch

Spotify gets official Apple Watch app

Amazon Echo Button gets a bit more useful

First look at Alienware's M15 gaming laptop

Alexa to let you use voice commands to add smart home devices to groups

Google's 'Night Sight' mode for Pixel phones is a game changing low-light solution

Flagship Apple Champs-Élysées retail store mixes modernity with rich Parisian history

EA will be remastering ‘Command & Conquer’

Final Cut Pro X gets updated with workflow extension functionality

Tidal comes to Amazon Echo

Microsoft pulls testing of ads in Windows 10 email client

Facebook Messenger begins rollout of its unsend feature to mobile users

New Wear OS update brings battery-saving features

Facebook might soon let you watch videos with someone else on Messenger

Earlier this year, Facebook launched at feature that let people in Facebook Group’s watch videos in sync together. It seems this might be something that’s coming to Messenger. Developer Ananay Arora discovered a new code added to Messenger that suggests there will be a “Watch Videos Together” feature on the messaging app. It’ll work similar to Watch Party in that you can drop a video in a thread, ping the person or group thread so you can all watch at the same time. It’s presumed this will work with videos hosted on Facebook, which would make sense but could also mean you can’t do remote Netflix marathons on this. Facebook told TechCrunch this is an internal test so don’t expect to see it anytime soon. But since it’s something that already exists in another part of Facebook.

New Wear OS update brings battery-saving features

Google is bringing some new features we’re more than happy to welcome to its Wear OS platform. The new “H update,” as the company calls it, is bringing important things like a new Battery Saver Mode, which will kick in automatically when it falls below 10 percent. Your Wear OS smartwatch will also fall into “deep sleep” if it hasn’t been worn for 30 minutes. There’s also a new “Smart App Resume” feature that will keep your place in Watch Apps if you leave them and then decide to come back. And there will also be a new two-step power off so you don’t have to dig through the power menu in the settings.

Wear OS team says the update will be rolling out to users over the coming months but cautions that some wearables might not be immediately eligible for the update. The smartwatch manufacturers will determine when to roll this out and functionality may vary by device.

Source: Android Headlines

Facebook Messenger begins rollout of its unsend feature to mobile users

After testing out the much requested unsend option for Facebook’s default messaging app, the feature is now rolling out to some markets—namely Poland, Bolivia, Colombia, and Lithuania—with plans to bring it to more markets as soon as possible. It’s officially being called “Remove for Everyone” and it’s available for both iOS and Android versions of Facebook Messenger app. Messages can be removed from a recipient’s inbox within the first 10 minutes after it’s been delivered. (No, it won’t work with old messages sent years ago.) And when you do choose to remove a message, a tombstone will be kept in its place to let everyone in the thread know you deleted a message. Facebook will also retain the messages for a few minutes after they are unsent to make sure you can still report it. The social network thinks this is one way to dissuade bullies from using the feature to harass other users.

Once the feature goes live here, you can unsend a message by tapping and holding on it. As long as you’re within the 10-second timeframe, you’ll see the options Remove for Everyone and Remove for You. If you decide to remove it for all users, you’ll get a pop-up that’ll alert you that the message will be permanently removed but can still be reported. Other unsend features are also reportedly being developed for Messenger, including being able to let a thread expire after a certain amount of time with all the messages being erased as well as being able to set individual messages to expire in a thread after a set time.

Source: BGR