Starlink Internet pre-orders begin in Canada. DoorDash buys a salad salad-making robot company called Chowbotics. Hackers try to poison the water supply for a Florida town near Tampa Bay just before the Super Bowl. Canada's COVID Alert app will collect more data. Exploring Anishinaabe culture in Minecraft. United Arab Emirates and China reach Mars, the USA arrives next week.

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First Apple Car expected to be fully autonomous. iPhone adult content filter blocking the word 'Asian' from phones. Clearview AI facial recognition tool broke Canadian privacy laws. Play over 500 free demos in the latest Steam Game Festival. Scientists teach spinach to send e-mails. Google uses your phone cameras to measure your heart rate. Madden 21 predicts the Super Bowl winner.

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Facebook wants help from the Canadian government to regulate content.  Chromebooks just had their best year ever. Rogers owes us $8 million from an old class action lawsuit. Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studio. The South African government releases its own browser just to re-enable Flash support. What3words app is increasingly being used by Ontario’s emergency services to find people who are lost. A U.S. billionaire buys SpaceX flight for the first all-civilian space mission.

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Apple surpasses $100 billion in quarterly revenue for first time in its history and an Apple Watch saves a cyclist that was swept into a river. The "World’s Most Dangerous Malware’ is disrupted by a global police sting operation. Alexa can now bark like a dog to scare people away. Your VR experience could get better thanks to a balloon. Microsoft introduces Inuktitut to Translator. A web browser with more tabs.  Plus, a snarky weather app.

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Investor exuberance pushes BlackBerry share price to 9 year high - for no rational reason.  Canadian among private space crew paying $55M US each to fly to the International Space Station. Apple launches Fitness+ ‘walking experiences’. Neil Armstrong’s boot print and other artifacts left on the moon are now protected by US law. Hyundai rolls out an adorable customer service robot for its showrooms.

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A new version of Canada's COVID Alert App. Pizza Hut testing delivery by drone. A flying racing car called the Carcopter. Toronto's Tucows closes their software download site. And, a web browser that makes sure your games run properly.

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Canada's Competition Bureau wants you to change your telecom provider. Save the environment by turning off your webcam during meetings. The amount of energy used by bitcoin mining. A smart collar that translates dog barks into emotions.  PLUS - A live review of the Roku Streambar that combines a streaming stick and a soundbar.

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In this episode....

BlackBerry sells 90 patents to Huawei

Amazon says it spent months warning Parler about violent posts

Period tracking app settles charges it lied to users about privacy

Samsung announces new Galaxy S21 smartphones, at prices lower than the Galaxy S20 phones last year

Samsung’s object eraser will let you remove people from the background of your photos

From the Consumer Electronics Show...

GM teases Cadillac electric vehicle with full-width touchscreen

Cadillac shows off a single-seater drone concept

ASUS’ ZenBeam Latte is a coffee cup-sized portable projector

GoodMaps Explore is already a helpful navigation app for people who are visually impaired

Sony working on the 360 Reality Audio platform

Targus’s creates a ‘Virus-Killing’ Desk Lamp 

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In this episode...

Replacements for WhatsApp

Apple Self Driving Electric Car

Parler Problems

The Consumer Electronics Show: New products including a robot that can load the dishwasher, a leather covered laptop, smart bathtub that creates fog, intelligent toothbrush and warming sex toys.

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