Major museums around the world start banning selfie sticks

If you love carrying your selfie stick around with you everywhere, you might want to keep those at home or at the hotel room when you plan on visiting museums. Some of the museums that have banned the use of these selfie accessories include the Smithsonian, Louvre, MOMA and Met museums in New York, Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art, LA’s Getty Center, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and Seattle’s Museum of Art. Aside from that a formal ban is pending at Versailles palace and Centre Pompidou in France. Perhaps it’s time you wean yourself off them, right?

Source: Engadget

Apple Watch comes to Canada on April 24. Price range is from $449 to $13,000

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple finally released more information on the Apple Watch including launch date and pricing. The new wearable is coming to Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK and the US on April 24. Pricing information for the Apple Watch editions was also revealed at today's event

Apple Watch is available in three collections and two sizes, 38mm and 42mm per collection, Apple Watch Sport, priced at $449 (CAD) and $519 (CAD); Apple Watch, available from $699 (CAD) to $1,459 (CAD); and Apple Watch Edition, crafted from custom rose or yellow 18-karat gold alloys, with prices starting at $13,000 (CAD).

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Apple udpates MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, includes new force touch trackpad in some models

While the big news today was the new 12-inch MacBook, Apple also saw to it that fans of their more affordable MacBook Air and professional focused MacBook Pro portable lines got some good news by way of substantial updates and new processors.

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display now features the all-new Force Touch trackpad, fifth generation Intel Core processors  (Broadwell) and Intel Iris Graphics 6100, the Pros also has two times faster flash and longer battery life. The new 13-inch MacBook Pro with a  2.7 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of memory and 128GB of flash storage starts at $1,549 (CAD).

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Apple reveals new 12-inch MacBook with Retina Display starting at $1,549

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple today took the wraps off the long rumoured premium 12-inch MacBook featuring a Retina Display. The smallest Macbook in Apple's growing line of portables, the MacBook weighs two pounds and is 13.1 mm thin. The slight size, low weight and stunning display (with a resolution of 2304 x 1440), it is also the first Mac to ship with only only one port. MacBook now features the new USB-C port for data transfer, video out and charging in a single connector. Battery life is rated at 9-hours.

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