As Xbox One X ships, Microsoft Canada has a contest to win limited edition consoles

Xbox One X is the world's most powerful console and Microsoft's gaming platform for a 4K and HDR future. As the console hits stores today, Microsoft Canada is marking the occasion by offering gamers a chance to win ultra-rare Xbox One X consoles.

Teaming up with Bryan Espiritu to create custom consoles based on the different neighbourhoods in Toronto. 

Using the Frenzy app, anyone in the dropzone—the south end of Trinity Bellwoods Park—can vie for a chance to win one of four custom Xbox One X consoles at 4:00 p.m. ET today, November 7^th, 2017. Once the countdown reaches zero, the first four people to complete their order will win.

You can now fully disable Bixby on Galaxy S8 devices and Note8

It seems like a hard-fought battle but finally Samsung has acquiesced to the demands of the users of being able to disable the Bixby button. It can now be physically disabled so it would no longer summon up the Bixby Home screen. At first, they disabled it but it could still wake up the phone’s display like the power key would. The latest update though completely disables the button. The caveat, though, is you need to update all Bixby-related apps (Bixby, Bixby Home, and Bixby Service) on your Samsung Galaxy S8, S8 Plus, and Note 8 to the latest version to disable the feature.

Source: Android Authority

Google Assistant can now identify songs playing near you

Now you no longer need a third-party app to identify songs for you. Google Assistant can now name songs for you. All you need to ask is “What song is this?” or “What song is playing?” for it to answer you. Google Assistant will then pull up a card with the title of the song, the artist, release date, genre, possibly lyrics as well as links to YouTube, Google Play Music, and even Spotify. It takes a few seconds to a minute for it to work and it might not work on lesser known songs—and for that you might have to rely on the likes of Shazam.

Source: The Verge

A new yet-to-be-released Google file management app helps keep your phone clutter free

It might come this week, in the next month, or somewhere down the line, but Google seems to have a new app it’s working on to help you manage the mess of files you have on your phone. We all know how files can wreak havoc later on when it comes to your phone’s performance. The app called Google Files Go has shown up on the Play Store but as Android Authority reports, you can’t just yet. A message says the app is part of an early access program that’s currently full. The screenshots above show what you can do with it though. It can do things like suggest apps to delete in case you haven’t used them for a while.  It’ll also help you find duplicate files or images stored on your phone as well as view all your files and filter these by source.

On top of that, the app is also making it easier to transfer files to someone else’s phone even while offline. It seems Google Files Go is part of the company’s Android Go program, which is designed to offer the Android experience to phones with as low as 512MB RAM and those with little onboard storage. It makes sense that this feature will be made available to them. Again, we don’t know anything past these features and there is also the possibility that only Android Go devices will gain access to it. We just now have to wait and see.