Monday, January 22, 2018 at 8:17PM 
Thomson Reuters will host Girls make Games, an international game development program designed to inspire elementary and high school girls to pursue interests in STEM related fields.
Participants will engage in game design, programming, and entrepreneurship workshops led by professional game developers to create their very own video game. Hit jump for details.
Monday, January 22, 2018 at 4:34PM 
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Apple CEO Tim Cook made his first visit to Toronto, Canada. Cook surprised students at the popular Apple Store in the Eaton Centre, one of the country's busiest malls. The unnanounced visit took staff, customers and students by surprise. Cook also thanked app developers, who were running a coding clinic for their contributions to the Apple ecosystem.
The students in question were a class of Grade 7 Students in Toronto's east end who were programming robots dancing on tables using Apple's Swift Playgrounds app on the iPad. Apple opened its Everyone Can Code initiative late last year and this focuses on making technology accessible so virtually anyone can create apps and solutions.
Canada is an extremely important market for us. We have a great team in Canada," Cook said in an interview with The National Post.
There are 120,000 Canadian jobs directly related to Apple's iOS and App Store ecosystem, the company said.
Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 7:19PM
The newest Apple commercial for the iPhone X puts the spotlight on you… or at least your selfies. Hoping to make you feel confident about taking those selfies and, more importantly, emphasizing that they’re the “greatest” at taking selfies (of course, that’s debatable), Apple used a Muhammad Ali monologue to set the commercials tone. The ad just shows many different selfies that emphasize the portrait capabilities of the phone.
Source: The Verge
Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 7:06PM 
Seems like it should’ve been there from the start but it wasn’t. Thankfully, Amazon finally decided to add Alexa voice support to the app. The Amazon shopping app gave access to Alexa voice commands, but it makes more sense to have that within the Alexa app. When the update rolls out, this should give you access to Alexa skills, help you send messages, control music playback, and the like. Hotword detection should work within the app, meaning you can say Alexa and it would respond. But as an Android Police reader pointed out, hotword support doesn’t seem to work even within the app but there is a big Alexa button in the middle of the app’s navigation bar to start voice commands. Hopefully, Amazon fixes this in the future.
