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Life insurance coverage is something that all Canadians should have; whether you’re single or have a family. Protect yourself and your loved ones and avoid leaving the burden of any final expenses with your loved ones in the event of your death. If you have a family, it’s especially important to make sure they’re covered – mortgage, loan, education and day-to-day expenses. With so many different life insurance companies in Canada, it’s important to understand what each company is known for and specializes in before making your decision. Here is a list of the Canadian  life insurance  companies along with a brief description about each company. Assumption Life A major insurer in Atlantic Canada with product offerings including life insurance, group insurance, critical illness, travel insurance and much more. Insurance is available for most provinces in Canada. BMO Insurance Get the protection you need with BMO Insurance. Offering competitively-priced life insu...

DC Comics and Marvel is the iOS vs Android of cinema. While Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is still one of the best superhero franchise ever made, Marvel has enjoyed more success as a collective film franchise. 2018, for Marvel at least, looks very exciting and one of the  releases   is just around the corner. Let’s take a look at the top Marvel films that we are extremely excited for! Avengers: Infinity War Release date:  April 27th, 2018 Cast:  Rober Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johanson, Chadwick Boseman The third part of this epic superhero franchise, the Avengers unites a lot of the famous superheroes from MCU as well as the comics. The recent success of Black Panther meant that the anticipation around the film is even more. This time around, the Avengers will unite to fight Thanos as he attempts to take all the six infinity stones. The film will have appearances from the Guardians of the Galaxy ...

1. Netflix’ Original Content Over thei past few years, we’ve seen Netflix shift away from licensed content to producing its own content. Remember when Netflix dropped half of its catalog to free up funds? A reasonable move, considering how much Netflix spends on original content. To be fair, the original TV series on Netflix are a little hit and miss. For every  Narcos ,  Stranger Things , and  Mindhunter , you get duds like  The Get Down ,  Gypsy , and  Hemlock Grove . The original movies are way better in general, including masterpieces like  Beasts of No Nation  and  Mudbound , with the occasional eye-rollers like  Death Note  and  The Discovery . But hit and miss content is okay. The fact that Netflix experiments with ideas and stories that Hollywood won’t touch? That alone is worth the price of admission. And the amount of exclusive content on Netflix is only going to skyrocket in the years t...

Overview If you’ve been keeping up with computer news over the last few days, you might have heard about Meltdown and Spectre, and you might be wondering what they are and what they can do. Basically, Meltdown and Spectre are the names for multiple new vulnerabilities discovered and reported for numerous processors. Meltdown is a vulnerability for Intel processors while Spectre can be used to attack nearly all processor types. The potential danger of an attack using these vulnerabilities includes being able to read “secured” memory belonging to a process. This can do things like reveal personally identifiable information, banking information, and of course usernames and passwords. For Meltdown, an actual malicious process needs to be running on the system to interact, while Spectre can be launched from the browser using a script. Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and other vendors have been releasing patches all day to help protect users from this vulnerability. Some of th...

We know that Sony is finally planning to change the design of its phones, and we might have just got our first look at what that change will involve. Georgian site  Vortex.ge  claims to have acquired design drafts for two upcoming Sony handsets and has created renders based on them, one of which is a very angular flagship which has a mirror-like back. There are curved sections of a different shade at the top and bottom, while the front has a seemingly large screen of apparently 4K resolution, and small bezels above and below. It’s a striking design, but most striking is the claim that the fingerprint scanner will be built into the screen. That’s something that both Apple and Samsung have been rumored to be working on, so it could be a big win for Sony if it gets there first. The site also claims this phone – which might be the Sony Xperia XZ Premium 2 – has a Snapdragon 845 chipset, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a dual-lens rear camera and f...

Buying gifts, even for your close friends and family, is not easy. You might gift them a book they may never read. Or a gift voucher that they may never use. But if they’re an Android fan or an Android power user, you can drastically narrow down the options for some awesome holiday gifts they’re bound to love. 1. Google Home ($49 – $129) Last Christmas  was all about the Amazon Echo , and we have a feeling that this one will be all about Google Home. Or at least it can be for your friend who already  uses Google Assistant on their Android phone . utting up a Google Assistant-enabled smart speaker in the living room or the kitchen can be super helpful. The full-size Google Home is a bit expensive, but you can gift them the new smaller and cheaper Google Home mini. It has the same features, just in a smaller package, with smaller speakers. Google Home can do a lot. It will play music for you, answer all your questions, play trivia games,  talk to...