Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 10/30-11/05

Google wants you to save Magic Cat Academy with Halloween Doodle

Rear-view cameras to be required on all cars made after May 2018

Toyota turns your smartphone into a car key with Smart Key Box

Microsoft set to release VR headset details at December events

Google opens the door to J.K. Rowling's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."

Google set to open first pop-up stores inside Best Buy locations in Canada

Seagate outs external SSD for the Xbox

Review: ASUS ZenBook 3

OWC's ThunderBolt 3 Dock brings much needed expansion to new MacBook Pros

Netflix might be considering offline playback

Google's Pixel XL adoption is faster than Nexus 6P

Bell Fibe TV service now available on Apple TV

Watch: The latest Wonder Woman trailer shows why it might be the best DC movie yet

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ rumoured to be ditching the iconic title crawl

Analyst: Apple's iPhone captures 103.6 % of smartphone profits in wake of Samsung Note fiasco

Apple reduces pricing of USB C dongles

Blizzard celebrates ‘Diablo’ anniversary by remaking the game in ‘Diablo 3’

Record Bird adds Apple Music integration, keeps you posted on new releases by your favorite artists

WhatsApp tests its own Snapchat Stories clone

If this ever make its way out of testing, another Facebook-owned app will be getting the Snapchat Stories treatment. WhatsApp is testing what it calls Status, a new feature that will let you share photos and videos you can overlay with emojis and text and it stays up for 24 hours. According to BGR India, the feature is currently available to registered public beta testers of the app using rooted Android or iOS devices.

The app on Android gets a new Status tab between the Chats and Calls tabs. It doesn’t take over your ability to share a status message on the service. What it does is create a new channel for users to share visual content with their contacts. At the moment it doesn’t allow users to manually delete Status updates after they’ve been shared. And they can’t be set to have longer or shorter lifespan online. You can specify which contacts can get the updates. This feature seems to be in line with Mark Zuckerberg’s push to prioritize video content as they try to drive video ad revenue. It’s something that WhatsApp can now take advantage of as it changed its privacy policy to basically allow business to show ads to users. Now, we have to see if this makes it out of beta.

Source: TechCrunch

Record Bird adds Apple Music integration, keeps you posted on new releases by your favorite artists

Record Bird makes it easy for you to find out if your favorite musicians releases new material. The iPhone app now adds Apple Music integration to its existing support for Spotify and Facebook. Version 1.3 of the app gets access from Apple’s music streaming service to scan for artists in your library. The artists it finds will automatically be added to your list of followed artists. When new material is released, the app will now offer quick links to stream via Apple Music or buy the song from iTunes. Aside from getting a glimpse of the new releases, the app also has a Discover pane to bring your attention to new artists you might like. The app is available for free download on the App Store.

Source: Apple Insider 

Blizzard celebrates ‘Diablo’ anniversary by remaking the game in ‘Diablo 3’

Blizzard thought it would be best to celebrate the 20^th anniversary of the original Diablo game by remaking said game in Diablo 3. The game will land in the game through an anniversary update called “Darkening of Tristram.” This update introduces the graphics, gameplay, and style of the first game to Diablo 3. There will be a 16-level dungeon with four main bosses from Diablo. You will be limited to the 8-degree-of-freedom movement and the old-school filter to invoke the vibe of the original game. The update will be free when it comes out. Those who are in the Diablo 3 Public Test Realm server can play the game as early as next week.

Source: The Verge