Amazon Music launches podcasts in Canada

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Amazon Music announces the launch of podcasts in Canada, across all tiers of service at no additional cost. For the first time, customers will be able to stream top podcasts they already know and love, as well as new, original shows produced exclusively for Amazon Music and hosted by creators including DJ Khaled, Becky G, Will Smith, Dan Patrick, Jake Brennan, and more. Amazon Music customers can access podcasts in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android, on Amazon Echo devices, and at amazon.ca/podcasts. 

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TikTok rolls out prompts to assess accuracy and misinformation

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The wildly popular social sharing platform, TikTok, has announced further action to help users identify accuracy and misinformation in the content they are viewing. TikTok has partnered with fact checkers to help them assess the accuracy of content. If fact checks confirm content to be false, TikTok will remove the video from their platform. Sometimes fact checks are inconclusive or content is not able to be confirmed, and in these cases a video may become ineligible for recommendation into anyone's For You feed to limit the spread of potentially misleading information.

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Google will no longer make its own games for Stadia

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Google will no longer make games for its Stadia streaming service. The company recently announced it was shutting down its studios in Montreal and Los Angeles. Gaming industry veteran Jade Raymond, who lead the game development division, is leaving the company. But Phil Harrison, Stadia vice president and general manager, wrote in a blog post that Google would continue to invest in the service.

"Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially," Harrison wrote. "Given our focus on building on the proven technology of Stadia as well as deepening our business partnerships, we've decided that we will not be investing further in bringing exclusive content from our internal development team SG&E [Stadia Games and Entertainment], beyond any near-term planned games."

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Amazon Studio unveils official 'Coming 2 America' trailer

It's been YEARS since I had seen the original Coming to America. The film starring Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall opened in theatres in 1988 and became a box office smash grossing over $288 million in total worldwide. It was translated to over 25 languages and has been an iconic movie. Now the highly anticipated sequel, Coming 2 America, is set to have it's global release in over 240 countries exclusively on Prime Video on March 5, 2021. 

In the original, Eddie Murphy plays Prince Akeem Joffer of Zamunda, African royalty who lands in Queens (New York) to find the ideal wife. However, who he was in search of was a woman who loved him for him - not for his title or riches. He takes on a job at the local McDowell's burger joint and learns much about the American culture. It is also where he meets the daughter of his boss. The predictable outcome doesn't stand in the way of this fairy tale story that fans love to watch over and over again. Both lead actors play more than one character within the film which makes this a real gem even to this day showing their incredible range and talent. 

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