Watch Metric's new video 'Dark Saturday,' which was shot exclusively on iPhone X

Metric is back with a new album and their first single 'Dark Saturday' is being released as a video. The video which was directed by Justin Broadbent and was shot entirely on iPhone X. The throwback-guerilla style black and white video is reminiscent of early alternative music videos with a lot of nuance, energy and great use of the iPhone X.

"The band and I agreed that shooting on an iPhone would be a good way to immediately connect a visual style to the authentic feeling of this record", said Broadbent. "Because it was a 'run and gun' style video, we needed our footprint to be tiny and quick but the video quality still needed to be high. I think this also let the band relax, not having a huge camera and lights around while allowing me the freedom to try things on the fly.  Even the design of the final video looks like four separate screens magically lining up together."

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Sonos Beam smart soundbar now available in Canada

Sonos Beam will be officially available via www.sonos.com and global retail partners starting tomorrow.

We tested this Alexa-powered soundbar and smart speaker and found it to be, "one of the best products that launched this year and is the smartest choice for assistant-enabled speaker buyers who have a need for a soundbar for their TVs, as well as a powerful and expandable smart speaker that also manages the highest-fidelity and best quality audio in the $499.99 price range." Sonos Beam continues to impress as we've used it in tandem with our Vizio TV to watch World Cup and Wimbledon Finals, stream shows from Netflix as well as play the latest games on the Xbox One S and the PlayStation 4.

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Apple celebrates Emoji Day with 70 new emoji across its platforms

As emoji continue to proliferate as one of the preferred ways to communicate, the need for more specific and more inclusive emoji continues to grow. Apple is giving users of iOS and Mac OS 70 new emoji to express themselves better including a range of Canada-specific icons. Some Canadiana-focused Emoji include a lobster, bagel, racoon, hiking boot and cold face.

More than 70 new emoji characters are coming to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac later this year in a free software update. The new emoji designs, created based on approved characters in Unicode 11.0, include even more hair options to better represent people with red hair, grey hair and curly hair, a new emoji for bald people, and new smiley faces that bring more expression to Messages with a cold face, party face, pleading face and a face with hearts.

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Apple TV app has a solution to watching Wimbledon Men's and World Cup Finals concurrently

Sports fans will have a quandary on Sunday July 15 when the World Cup final game between France and Croatia conincides with the Wimbledon Men's Final match. Apple TV App has a solution. 

Anyone with an iPhone, iPad or Apple TV can use the Apple TV App to easily access either broadcast, while also receiving real-time notifications if either match gets super close. The Apple TV App gives viewers an easy way to switch between both telecasts, right when the action demands it. 

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