Booking.com to celebrate Women in Tech this March

March 8^th marks International Women’s Day, a worldwide celebration of the incredible achievements of women around the world. But who says this has to end at just one day? This year, Booking.com, one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies and a digital technology leader, is honouring International Women’s Day with a month-long series of events in Toronto that celebrate and empower women working in technology, an industry still largely dominated by men.

 Booking.com has partnered with Canada Learning Code, an organization dedicated to ensuring all Canadians – particularly woman and girls – are given equal opportunity to access education in tech. To help provide women with the tools they need to succeed in the tech industry, Booking.com is collaborating with the organization to run a two-part Ladies Learning Code workshop on March 21^st and 28^th.

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Swiss Chalet with the help of Waze updates its digital ordering customer experience

Continuing in the trend of giving restaurant patrons more digital ordering options, Swiss Chalet Rotisserie & Grill is making it even easier for its customers to place an order for pick-up or delivery from one of their 200+ locations across Canada.

After unveiling a new modern restaurant design in late 2017, the brand has launched a new and improved mobile app and has partnered with a number of third-party apps including; navigation app Waze, The Weather Network, and sports team management app TeamSnap. These partnerships will offer all Swiss Chalet customers access to the most convenient and easy-to-use digital ordering technologies.

The partnership with Waze makes Swiss Chalet the first Canadian brand to integrate order-ahead functionality natively in this popular mobile navigation app. The Waze order-ahead feature allows busy customers to order their favourite rotisserie meal before they even begin their daily commute or road trip. This exclusive partnership creates a seamless mobile experience which locates the closest Swiss Chalet restaurant so that the user can order their meal and have it ready for pickup without waiting!

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Consumer Reports names iPhone X as best smartphone camera

If you're wondering which smartphone today has the best camera, Consumer Reports has just named the iPhone X as the top pick.  The number 2 and number 3 spots are also taken by Apple with the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus filling those positions.

It seems Apple has found continued success in its camera hardware, software and computational algorithms that ensure the best possible photo as per Apple's standards. The availability of features like Portrait Mode and Portrait Lighting elevate smartphone photography to an extent.

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New Surface Laptop firmware update improves battery reliability

Surface Laptop users are getting a firmware update today that improves battery reliability but not necessarily improving battery life.

“Today we’ve released a new firmware update for Surface Laptop,” Microsoft’s Brandon Records writes. “This update includes new firmware for Surface System Aggregator Firmware which improves battery reliability.”

Surface Laptop, which shipped with Windows 10 S boasted up to 14 hours of use on that specific version. The update should be visible and available via Windows Update. You can also access it here the Surface Laptop Drivers and Firmware download set..

Source: Thurrott.com