Apple Watch AirPod holders exist, because why not?

Accessories can be useful and fashionable—sometimes you get one without the other. In this case we might be leaning towards the former. Elago created a US$14.99 (around CA$20) silicone Wrist Fit band that can slide on “most” 38mm and 42mm Apple Watch bands and hold your AirPods for you. It’s not the most elegant execution but again, some people might find some use for these.

Source: Engadget

Sony Xperia XZ2 comes to Bell and Freedom Mobile

Sony Canada has just announced that its newest device: the Sony Xperia XZ2 has landed on our shores. It’ll be available through Bell and Freedom Mobile as well as many The Source locations across Canada. For contract pricing, the Xperia XZ2’s plan on Bell starts at $299 on a Premium Plan. It comes with a $200 trade-in offer that runs until the end of June. Outright pricing through Bell is at $1,099. If you get it through Bell, the carrier promised to bring next generation network speeds to the Xperia XZ2.

Now, if you want to get it through Freedom Mobile, it starts at $0 on a MyTab $20 and $50 plans. Outright pricing through Freedom is at $1,000.

Update on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 10:59PM by Nicole Batac

Updating pricing for the Bell plans. It starts at $99 on a Premium Plus Plan and it's also available at $299 on a Premium Smartphone Plan.

Apple's HomePod speaker coming to Canada on June 18

A year after they debuted at WWDC 2017 and six months after they went on sale in the US, Apple's Siri-powered speaker is finally coming to Canada. The long wait would have been well worth it for Canadians looking to sink $449 into the Apple Music connected speaker because a new software update now makes it capable of creating stereo pair and multi-room functionality.

This is thanks to an update in iOS 11.4 which brings AirPlay 2 as well as compatibility with other AirPlay 2-enabled speakers when they become available, "so Siri can control music playing on speakers from Bang & Olufsen, Bluesound, Bose, Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Libratone, Marantz, Marshall, Naim, Pioneer and Sonos."

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Active Shooter simulator game on Steam is insensitive to victims of mass shootings

Updated on Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 9:27PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It is May 2018 and there have already been 23 school shootings in American schools, that's one school shooting a week.

What's more alarming than the frequency of these shootings is the thought that these horrific acts are the new normal, that they are inevitable, and that they are bound to happen again.

This is why Active Shooter, a first-person simulator video game is a bad idea.

The game puts players in point of view of either an active shooter killing students and cops in a school or a SWAT operative, is a terrible and deeply insensitive idea. While the game's developers Revived Games and distributor Valve/ Steam can trivialize this as another first-person shooter, or a 'Dynamic SWAT simulator', it's clearly an expoitative and deeply insensitive game.

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