What to expect from Google's big Pixel announcement today

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It's Google's big announcement day today and we expect a lot of products and innovations to be unveiled. A year ago, we saw the launch of the Pixel phones, Google Home, Google WiFi, Daydream VR headsets and the Google Assistant. It took a while, but Canada now has all these devices and services and feature parity with their US counterparts. What do we expect Google to unveil in today's launch event?

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Forza Motorsport 7 is the gold standard of realistic racing simulators

Forza Motorsport 7 is now availale on Xbox as well as Windows 10. 

In “Forza Motorsport 7,” players on the Xbox One family of devices will experience racing at silky smooth 60 frames per second and collect over 700 Forzavista cars, including the largest assortment of Ferraris, Porsches, and Lamborghinis in any racing game. With over 30 world-famous environments and tracks featuring dynamic weather and race conditions that change every time you return to the track, no two races are the same in “Forza Motorsport 7.

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Microsoft shutters Groove streaming music service, sends customers to Spotify

Never shy about killing off unprofitable businesses, Microsof has decided to end its Groove streaming music service and is now sending Groove customers to market leader Spotify. Microsoft will shut down its Groove Pass music streaming service on December 31st and will no longer sell music or provide a music streaming service (It will, however, continue to sell TV shows and movies). Hit jump for details.

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Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini passes away

Intel CEO Paul Otellini, pictured with Apple's Steve Jobs is credited for helping bring Intel chips into the Mac ecosystem

Sad news today from Intel, former CEO Paul Otellini has passed away at 66. Otellini took the reins of the processor giant in 2005 and served as chief executive until his retirement in 2013. Otellini was a lifelong Intel employee and the first non-engineer to serve as CEO. He came on board at a time when mobile processors and the standard of Wi-Fi technology was just beginning to surface. 

“We are deeply saddened by Paul’s passing. He was the relentless voice of the customer in a sea of engineers, and he taught us that we only win when we put the customer first,” Brian Krzanich, his successor and current Intel CEO said in a statement.