BBC Studios' BBC Select streaming service to launch in Canada in 2021

BBC Studios will be launching its new streaming service in Canada and the US in early 2021. BBC Select is described as a TV service for "independent thinkers." It'll arrive on Amazon Prime Video and the Apple TV app, specializing in factual programming, highlighting culture, politics, and ideas. According to BBC Studios, the service will celebrate diverse voices through a candid, unbiased, and occasionally playful lens.

Some of the initial shows you can expect are Louis Theroux's BBC documentaries Selling Sex and Surviving America's Most Hated Family, and Channel 4's Grayson Perry: Big American Road Trip. There will also be exclusives like classicist Mary Beard's Shock of the Nude, Reggie Yates in China, Putin – A Russian Spy Story, and Adam Curtis' All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace.

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How to Use Data the Right Way in Your Business

There are lots of things to focus on in a business – production, marketing, customer services, profit… the list goes on! It can be difficult to make time to review and utilize the data you gather in your business. However, ignoring that data is a fatal mistake. By taking the time to really work alongside the data, you can maximize your efficiency, profit, and plan for any potential disasters. 

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Grogu from 'The Mandalorian' becomes a 3D object on Google Search

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Google continues to expand the augmented reality objects that you can find in Search. This time, it targets The Mandalorian fans. You can search for either Baby Yoda or Grogu (a.k.a. The Child's official name as revealed in the show's second season) on mobile, and it will pull up a Knowledge Panel where you can launch a 3D model of the beloved character.

Similar to other AR objects in Search, you can place Grogu in your space, and you can take pictures of the little creature looking cute in your area. He doesn't do much; he just bobs his head around and looks adorable. But we aren't complaining. This fun feature joins the recently launched The Mandalorian AR Experience for some of the newest 5G-enabled Android phones.

Source: Engadget

Upcoming Snapdragon-powered Android phones can get up to four years of security updates

Google's Project Treble is a modular redesign of Android's low-level system architecture to make it easier for phone manufacturers to update their devices with the mobile operating system's newest version. This program, which launched back in 2017, gets an update with a new partnership between Google and Qualcomm. The two companies will collaborate to improve Project Treble while simplifying the update process for Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered devices.

Google and Qualcomm say that by working together, they can reduce the time and resources manufacturers need to invest when updating their smartphones to the latest Google software, which will extend the lifespan of their products. So, future Snapdragon-equipped smartphones will get up to four major Android platform upgrades and four years of security patches. This upgrade will include the version of Android your phone comes with, so the high-end phones get an extra year of security updates while receiving the same amount of OS upgrades as Pixel phones.

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