Review: iPad Pro

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The iPad Pro shines as a large, powerful tablet that’s designed primarily for content creation, but which also delivers an unparalleled way to read content and watch videos and photos.

Easily one of the most anticipated products to come from Apple, the iPad Pro is clearly aimed to create a new niche for powerful iOS-enabled tablets that extend the initial focus on entertainment, content consumption and multi-touch, to a more creative and productivity focused place.

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GIFT GUIDE: 10 Cool & Useful Tech Gadgets For Families

By Sonya Davidson

While wandering through the Toronto Eaton Centre with my son last night before a show and remembered that there was a new Telus concept store. Since the kid had NOT given any hints as to what he's going to ask Santa for, this was a good opportunity to see what would make his list. 

If you've been to the newly renovated level recently (located just below the future home of Nordstroms) you'll find this new full shopping experience store. Telus is branching out even more to become more than a service provider and accessories retailer to the devices they carry. You can read about it here.

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VTech breach is largest hack targeting children

Hong Kong based tech toymaker VTech was hit by a massive breach which exposed data on 6.4 million children and their parents. VTech said in a statement on its website that the children's profiles included only name, gender and birth date. Stolen data on their parents included name, mailing address, email address, secret question and answer for password retrieval, IP address, mailing address, download history and encrypted passwords. The hackers also stole photos and chat logs from VTech's Kid Connect service, which allows adults to use their smartphones to chat with kids using VTech tablet. 

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Facebook's Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan to donate $45 billion to charity

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have made a number of big announcements. The couple has formed Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, an organization with the mission to advance human potential and promote equality.

The Initiative's areas of focus will include personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities. The bigger announcement was that Priscilla and Mark are contributing 99% of their Facebook shares -- currently worth about $45 billion as of today -- during their lives to advance the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative mission. Last but not the least, the couple also announced the birth of their daughter, Max Chan Zuckerberg, who was born Thanksgiving Week and is the inspiration for their charity.