Sonos Beam smart soundbar now available in Canada

Sonos Beam will be officially available via www.sonos.com and global retail partners starting tomorrow.

We tested this Alexa-powered soundbar and smart speaker and found it to be, "one of the best products that launched this year and is the smartest choice for assistant-enabled speaker buyers who have a need for a soundbar for their TVs, as well as a powerful and expandable smart speaker that also manages the highest-fidelity and best quality audio in the $499.99 price range." Sonos Beam continues to impress as we've used it in tandem with our Vizio TV to watch World Cup and Wimbledon Finals, stream shows from Netflix as well as play the latest games on the Xbox One S and the PlayStation 4.

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Apple celebrates Emoji Day with 70 new emoji across its platforms

As emoji continue to proliferate as one of the preferred ways to communicate, the need for more specific and more inclusive emoji continues to grow. Apple is giving users of iOS and Mac OS 70 new emoji to express themselves better including a range of Canada-specific icons. Some Canadiana-focused Emoji include a lobster, bagel, racoon, hiking boot and cold face.

More than 70 new emoji characters are coming to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac later this year in a free software update. The new emoji designs, created based on approved characters in Unicode 11.0, include even more hair options to better represent people with red hair, grey hair and curly hair, a new emoji for bald people, and new smiley faces that bring more expression to Messages with a cold face, party face, pleading face and a face with hearts.

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Nintendo promises more updates for ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’ on the Switch

If you wanted more out of your Mario Kart 8 Deluxe experience on the Nintendo Switch, you’re getting that. Nintendo’s head of software development Shinya Takahashi confirmed in a Twitter video that there will be more updates to the popular Super Mario game. He, however, didn’t elaborate on what the updates will bring and when they’re arriving. One of the latest announcements is the game is now compatible with Nintendo Labo.

Mr. Takahashi answered a few questions on some of his favorite #NintendoSwitch titles, including The Legend of #Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and #Splatoon2! pic.twitter.com/UsKJKHNfLT

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) July 12, 2018

Source: GameSpot

Netflix’s ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ opens its social media accounts

While we don’t have a release date just yet, Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina aptly opened its official Twitter and Instagram accounts on Friday the 13^th. You can now follow closely and get hints about the upcoming Sabrina the Teenage Witch reboot. While the teasers are rather cryptic, these do give us a hint of what the series is going to be like.

Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is behind this darker take on Sabrina’s life. It is based off the comic book series of the same name and has been said to be “tonally in the vein of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘The Exorcist’” with Sabrina trying to navigate her life has a half-witch, half-mortal while “standing against evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.”