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Episode 117: The Apple event and the Huawei event

Wrecked By Tech

English - March 27, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 39.6 MB
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In this week's episode, the guys take you through all the fun stuff from Apple's "show time" March 25 event and a brief-but-thorough rundown of the Huawei event the day after.
Speed Round:
- The CRA's online tax hub was down for about a day
- Fido's going to charge you $10 if you call them for something you can solve yourself
- IKEA is delaying their smart blinds because of a firmware update
- Google is putting doodle animations in the search widget of some of their Pixel phones
- Opera for Android has free VPN service now
- Chromium-based Edge leaked and seems decent
- "KilledbyGoogle.com" is a fun Google graveyard

In this week's episode, the guys take you through all the fun stuff from Apple's "show time" March 25 event and a brief-but-thorough rundown of the Huawei event the day after.

Speed Round:

The CRA's online tax hub was down for about a day
Fido's going to charge you $10 if you call them for something you can solve yourself
IKEA is delaying their smart blinds because of a firmware update
Google is putting doodle animations in the search widget of some of their Pixel phones
Opera for Android has free VPN service now

Chromium-based Edge leaked and seems decent
"KilledbyGoogle.com" is a fun Google graveyard

Links:

Apple playfully turns on its March 25 event live stream early, showing an empty Steve Jobs Theater - 9to5MacHere are all the Canadian publications coming to Apple News+Apple TV+ video streaming service to launch in Canada in fallApple announces 'Apple Arcade,' its video game subscription service | MobileSyrupApple announces 'Apple Card,' coming to U.S. this summer80 percent of merchants in Canada accept Apple PayHuawei Mobile IE on Twitter: "Thanks for the warm up, now on to the main event… #RewriteTheRules #HuaweiP30 #AppleEvent… "Huawei P30 launch live blog: everything that happened at the Paris event | TechRadarCRA back online after 'technical issues' shut down website | CBC NewsFido to charge a $10 fee when you call in, use live chat for some transactionsIkea’s smart blinds have been delayed to later in 2019 - The VergeGoogle Doodle animations appear in home screen search widget for someOpera for Android gets built-in free VPN after brief testingMailchimp and Shopify break up | TechCrunchMicrosoft’s new Chromium Edge browser leaked online - The VergeKilled by Google - The Google Graveyard & Cemetery

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