Canada’s on Twitter, eh!

We now have an official country Twitter account! Well, it took a while but it now joins the ranks of Great Britain, Israel, South Africa, and Sweden to have official country accounts. These accounts are usually meant to promote tourism and stay away from any political matters. We don’t know yet what direction this account will take but it has published three tweets so far with one saying it will be a “shop window for everything that makes Canada the best country in the world.” You can follow the official English account here and the French account here.

Source: The Verge

Review: Google Nexus 6

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

One of the most confounding products to come out of Google’s Nexus program, the Nexus 6 leapfrogs the Nexus 5 in terms of size, weight and pricing, while serving as the second official vessel of Google’s next generation Android Lollipop OS. 

There was a time when purchasing a Nexus device meant getting the very latest software and hardware on an affordable yet high-spec device. Buying into the Google Nexus ecosystem was like purchasing the future months before it happened and I, like thousands of other phone enthusiasts, often bought first and asked questions later when it came to these Nexus branded smartphones.

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Vysk case brings privacy right into your hands

Even if you’re not a huge Hollywood celebrity like Jennifer Lawrence, you still have to worry about your texts, pictures, and videos getting hacked into. Vysk wants to allay fears with its cell phone case system. Their case is designed to encrypt communication for you. It has proprietary apps meant to scramble your data and built-in shutter to cover the camera and prevent it from spying on you. The Vysk case is available on Best Buy and their site.

Facebook creates Privacy Basics tutorial

If you’ve ever wondered how Facebook really uses your data and what information gets accessed by the site, you don’t have to remain clueless about it. Facebook has introduced Privacy Basics tutorial to help you learn to stay private on the site as well as understand how the app uses your information. The tutorial comes with three different categories: “What Others See About You,” “How Others Interact With You,” and “What You See.”

Facebook plans to update its privacy policies and terms of use next year so this would be a good place to see where you are with the service. If you have any feedback or criticism about the new policies, you can visit this page.

Source: Facebook | Via: Lifehacker