Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 8/5-8/11

Review: Samsung Galaxy Tab S4

Don’t expect old Sonos speakers to get AirPlay 2 support

Epic Games confirms ‘Fortnite’ will skip Play Store release

Google rolls out Android P "Pie" starting today

UAG releases two new protective cases for Surface Go

Essential Phone gets Android Pie update on the same day as Google Pixel

Guide to the best sites for back to school shopping

Fossil brings Google Pay, GPS, and heart-rate tracking to new smartwatches

Marvel movies will stop coming to Netflix starting with ‘Captain Marvel’

Samsung starts mass production of cheaper 4TB SSDs

Samsung commits $22 billion to AI, 5G networks, and smart car technology

Qualcomm sends out invite for Wear OS chip launch on September 10th

Razer set to launch Razer Phone 2 by December 2018

Samsung unpacks Galaxy Note 9 flagship with 4,000 mAh battery, improved S Pen

History of Samsung's S Pen and how it defined the Note line

Samsung unveils updated Galaxy Watch wearable

Sonos One and Beam get Alexa Announcements

Skype now has Spotify integration, too

Samsung and Spotify team up for long-term partnership

Marvel is celebrating its decade of hero movies with exclusive IMAX screenings

Spotify tests out skippable ads for free users

Former chief vehicle engineer at Tesla comes back to Apple and its secretive self-driving car program

Beta invites for ‘Fortnite’ on Android start going out to Samsung devices

Capcom to release a ‘Z Version’ of ‘Resident Evil 2’ remake in Japan

Capcom plans to have two versions of its Resident Evil 2 remake in Japan. One is going to be a standard version called Biohazard RE:2 and the other will be the more mature Biohazard RE:2 Z Version. The former will carry a CERO D rating, which restricts it for 17 years old players or older; the latter comes with a CERO Z rating, which is meant for 18 years old or older players. The “adult version” will contain more gore than the standard one. Biohazard RE:2 will censor some of the gore and violence in the Z Version. Now, we can’t say how much it’ll censor as the game is still in development.

Source: Game Rant

Beta invites for ‘Fortnite’ on Android start going out to Samsung devices

Fortnite's exclusive Galaxy outift

As announced at the recent Samsung Unpacked event, Epic Games planned to bring Fortnite: Battle Royale exclusively first to the Samsung Galaxy owners starting from the Galaxy S7 and above. Those who get the new Galaxy Note9 and Galaxy Tab S4 get the exclusive Galaxy outfit. The beta invites have started to roll out to Galaxy users and starting tomorrow, August 12, it’ll be coming to other devices the game’s beta will be available on. As we’ve reported before, you can download the game from Fortnite’s site. We listed under the cut the devices the game will be playable on.

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Former chief vehicle engineer at Tesla comes back to Apple and its secretive self-driving car program

A recent hire (or re-hire) shows us that Apple might not be ready to give up on its self-driving car program just yet. Doug Field, the former vice president of Mac hardware, left Apple to join Tesla as its chief vehicle engineer. Now, Field is back with Apple and is working on the company’s “Project Titan” self-driving car program. He was in charge of Tesla’s vehicle production and engineering before CEO Elon Musk to over production after the company failed to meet its first-quarter goal for the Model 3. Field took a leave of absence in May and then left the company altogether.

Field’s return to Apple is an interesting move as reports claim that Apple has been scaling Project Titan back with hundreds of people leaving the division. Apple is reportedly focusing on finding carmakers to partner with to develop its self-driving software. With Field back, it could suggest that Apple might still be thinking of producing the cars itself. But, of course, this is something we won’t know until Apple confirms the news.

Source: The Verge