Apple Music releases curated 'Canada's top 150 songs of all-time' playlist

Apple Music Canada’s editors are helping our country celebrate Canadian music talent by releasing the top 150 Canadian songs of all-time. During the next three weeks, Canadians are invited to tune-in to Apple Music and count-down the music of all genres appreciated around the world through four amazing playlists.

To start, listen here to discover songs 101-150, plus 50 songs showcasing the top 50 tracks by Canada's “The Next Generation” of artists: applemusic.com/canada150 

For each playlist, artist Douglas Coupland has created four playlist covers for Apple Music, where elements of “Carr War Canoes” are featured - see sample of the first playlist cover attached. “Harris Holofile Iceburgs” if featured on the cover the Next Generation playlist.

Thoughts on Apple's HomePod

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

San Jose, California - Apple's newest product category since the Apple Watch in 2015 (or, it can be argued, since the EarPods last year) is their HomePod speaker revealed here a few days ago and which is coming to the US in December (with mid-2018 availability in Canada likely).

In typical Apple fashion, the company comes rather late into a market that's already quite mature. Amazon's Echo can be credited for creating the connected speaker/voice assistant space, and it's a huge seller in the US, Amazon's even expanded their product line to smaller Dot speakers as well as licensing Echo across various OEMs, including high-end speaker brands.

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How to watch today's Apple WWDC 2017 Keynote

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

San Jose, CA - Apple has taken over the city of San Jose for this year's WWDC. The company will cover various updates to its tentpole technologies like iOS, macOS, watchOS, HomeKit, CarPlay and others and new hardware is heavily tipped as the Apple Store is currently down. 

Apple is streaming their Keynote. Below are the requirements for playback.

• A Mac on OS X 10.8.5 or later, running Safari 6.0.5 or later
• An iPad, iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 7.0 or later
• A 4th generation Apple TV, or a 2nd or 3rd generation one running 6.2 or later
• A Windows PC running Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge browser

Stay tuned for our live coverage of the event and any announcements here later today.

Apple bolsters News app initiative by hiring New York magazine's Laura Kern as 'Editor in Chief'

Apple is apparently setting out to do for news what it has done for radio in Beats 1. The company reportedly hired New York magazine editor Laura Kern to serve as Editor-in-Chief for Apple News. Kern has worked at the popular magazine as well as for the New York Times, and while there's no official announcement from either party or any detailed job description, Kern could be called in to add a critical eye to the curation of the news and editorial direction of the News app.

In the wake of 'Fake News,' proliferating social media, most notoriously on Facebook, many technology companies are taking a more proactive approach to the news and features that run through their services. The Apple News app is pre installed on iPhone and iPads, it is an aggregator of news and features but an editorial team led by an editor of Kern's calibre could ensure snafus and fake news items are minimized and thus creating a better reputation for Apple News as a go-to source of trustworthy information.

Source: AppleInsider