Friday
Feb262021

Amazon Echo Show 10 retails for $330 in Canada

 

If you wanted to get your hands on the Echo Show 10, we could now tell you that it's available on Amazon.ca. You can buy the smart display for $329.99. You can choose between the Glacier White and Charcoal options.

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Friday
Feb262021

How to enable dark mode on Google Maps

Source: Google

Another one of the new features Google plans to roll out for Android is essential for those who drive in the dark. Google is bringing dark mode to Google Maps, which it has started testing in late 2020. But now, the company plans a broader release of the feature "soon."

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Thursday
Feb252021

Uber Eats will now serve the Saanich Peninsula

This is the area covered by Uber Eats in the Saanich Peninsula (Source: Uber Eats)

Uber Eats is bringing its services up the Saanich Peninsula. It will offer food delivery, online ordering, and pick-up just north of Sidney and then stretching into Saanich. It will exclude an area west of John Dean Provincial Park. Uber's food delivery arm has been available in Victoria since 2018. If you want to use the service, you'll need to download the Uber Eats app.

Source: Victoria News

Thursday
Feb252021

Find out if your passwords were exposed with Android's Password Checkup

Source: Google

Another one of the new features Google is rolling out will let you know if you are using unsafe passwords. Chrome users will be familiar with Password Checkup, but now it's coming to Google's mobile operating system, too. It will work for Android devices running on Android 9 and above.

Google keeps track of hacks where passwords are exposed. And when you enter a password into an app with Autofill, it will warn you if your password was leaked. If you want to get more details about this upcoming feature, you can check this blog post.

Some of the other new features we've written about include Schedule Send for Android Messages, new Android TalkBack capabilitiesGoogle Assistant locked screen support, Android Auto updates, and Dark Mode for Google Maps.