Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 03/13-03/19

Portable hydroelectric plant can charge your smartphone

Review: Samsung Galaxy S7

WhatsApp, Facebook, Snapchat reportedly working on boosting encryption

New 'Indiana Jones' movie coming in 2019

First look at the 2016 Chevrolet Spark

Instagram to ditch chronological order of its feed

Video review: Sony A6300 vs. Sony A6000 comparison

HP and Movado expand smartwatch portfolio with over 25 new models

Medical Grade EKG analysis coming to Apple Watch via 'Kardia Band'

TomTom outs new Golfer smartwatch

Apple's Tim Cook makes cover of Time for fight with FBI

Official trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse released

Genesis teases its New York sedan concept

Facebook and WhatsApp pull support for BlackBerry OS devices

Samsung's experimental Hum On! app can turn your humming into a piece of music

Facebook rumoured to be unveiling ‘Bot Store’ at F8 conference

Nike unveils production version of its self-tying shoes

Locker helps wipe your smartphone if you lose it

Twitter drops TweetDeck’s Windows app, stops support by April

Twitter is looking to “enhance” the user experience of TweetDeck and has opted to stop support for its Windows app starting April 15^th. In conjunction with that, Twitter’s encouraging users to just head to the browser to use the app. And if they’re signed into Twitter or even its analytics website, you’ll be automatically be logged into TweetDeck. Some users will already be seeing this change but Twitter is currently working on making it available to everyone. For users, who are wary of making the change, Twitter is reminding its users that they can pin the site to your task bar via Chrome (Customize and control > More Tools > Add to task bar).

Source: Twitter | Via: SlashGear

Locker helps wipe your smartphone if you lose it

It’s an unfortunate incident when you lose your phone and definitely more devastating when it gets stolen. But sometimes what makes that more harrowing is losing the data on said device and giving others access to your personal information. A new Android app can help you avoid this fiasco. Locker from Zygote Labs will give you a specific number of times you can unlock your device. If you exceed said number of tries, the data and content of your device will be wiped. You’ll get a warning when there are just four attempts or less left when you try to unlock your Android phone. A new update was released recently to support Norwegian and Finnish languages. The app is open source so anyone interested in helping develop the app or just explore it more can do so through the GitHub repository.

Source: Android Community | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

Apple reportedly hired Amazon exec to lead corporate security operation

Rumour has it Apple has managed poach Amazon’s vice president of information security days ahead of its meeting with U.S. prosecutors in court over a highly contentious encryption battle over an iPhone connected to the San Bernardino terror attack. Reuters via Fortune reports George Stathakopoulus has been working for Apple for about a week already to head its corporate security operation. It’s said he’s reporting to CFO Luca Maestri. He is supposedly responsible for securing corporate computers used to design and create products and software. He’s also working on systems storing sensitive customer data.

There’s no confirmation yet if he’s been hired and his LinkedIn page still lists Amazon as his employer. But according to Fortune, a reporter called Apple’s switchboard and asked to speak with Stathakopoulus and was then connected to a person who answered, “George’s office.”

Source: Apple Insider