Google Home smart speaker coming to Canada on June 26

Canadians now finally have a smart home assistant coming in Google Home. Google Home is coming to Canada on June 26th and is available for pre-order starting today from the Google Store and Best Buy Canada. With it, Google is bringing Google Assistant to Canadians in both English and French. The device can be used to access news and weather, play music, set alarms, solve math problems, tell jokes, control home automation devices and can even make phone calls. All you have to do is say “Okay Google.”

Check out Google Canada’s blog for additional details.

Adobe Scan makes it possible to scan documents and transform them into PDFs

Adobe's latest app enables scanning, editing and transformation of documents into PDFs for easy sharing.

Adobe Scan turns your phone or tablet into a scanning tool that automatically recognizes text. It allows users to capture images in a snap and transform them into brilliantly clear Adobe PDFs. Available on iOS and Android, Adobe Scan connects users to the world’s best PDF services, created by the people who invented PDF.

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BlackBerry KEYone now out of stock in US

There's been a resounding demand and anticipation for TCL Communication's BlackBerry KEYone smartphone which officially launched yesterday. The device has already broken pre-order records at Rogers, more than any other BlackBerry device before it. Now, the BlackBerry KEYone is out-of stock in various retailers in the US.

Steve Cistulli, President of TCL Communication North America, tweeted earlier that the device was seening 'extremely high demand," and both GSM and CDMA variants are out of stock from Best Buy, Amazon and even Blackberry's own website. This is all positive new for TCL Communications and for BlackBerry users.

Swift Playgrounds 1.5 offers expands coding education to robots, drones & musical instruments

Apple today announced that Swift Playgrounds, its educational coding app for iPad, will offer an exciting new way to learn to code using robots, drones and musical instruments.

Swift Playgrounds is perfect for students and beginners learning to code with Swift, Apple’s powerful and intuitive programming language for building world-class apps. Apple is working with leading device makers to make it easy to connect to Bluetooth-enabled robots within the Swift Playgrounds app, allowing kids to program and control popular devices, including LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, Sphero SPRK+, Parrot drones and more. The Swift Playgrounds 1.5 update will be available as a free download on the App Store beginning Monday, June 5.

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