This week, Sonos now supports Apple Music, how you can make your workout seem so much better, a digital expo for teens, a video game for grown ups, a new camera drone that will follow you around, and how you can get rid of that pesky drone that keeps spying on you.

Sonos welcomes Apple Music

Last December, Sonos initiated a beta test to get Apple Music running on its wireless speakers.

Well, the testing is over. Effective today, Apple Music is fully supported by Sonos. Find out how you can get it all running on your Sonos system.

Your personal info could be at risk using wearables

New research conducted in Toronto indicates that many wearable fitness trackers do not meet required standards of privacy and security.

That means that they can be used to track your location, they can be exploited with fake records, and the user data is vulnerable to modification or deletion.

The work comes from Open Effect and the Citizen Lab, using funding from Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

In one of the procedures, a Jawbone Fitness Band was used to feed data to Jawbone that a user had taken 10 billion steps in one day.

Out of eight devices that were part of the test, only the Apple Watch had “no technical vulnerabilities”.

Good thing insurance companies aren’t requiring us to wear health trackers.

Oh, wait.

Digital Media Youth Expo at Argyle Secondary in North Vancouver

The fourth annual Digital Media Youth Expo runs this Saturday from noon until 3 p.m. Hosted by Argyle Secondary’s Digital Media Academy, it’s a great opportunity for youth ages 12 to 24, parents, and other educators to get a sense of how diverse and fascinating the opportunities are in digital media.

Post-secondary institutions and companies who employ people to work in digital media will have booths at the Expo, and a number of speakers, from photographers to animators to digital effects specialists will be speaking.

It’s free to attend the Expo. It’s all taking place at Argyle Secondary.

Firewatch is a game for grown ups

This game. I played through it over the weekend, stealing a couple of hours here and there when I wasn’t playing soccer with a bunch of five-year-olds or snowshoeing with my family. I finished Firewatch on Sunday night, and have been thinking about it ever since.

It’s really just a simple story. it doesn’t feature aliens or military conspiracies. You don’t have to survive a zombie outbreak. There are no swords. Or guns.

You contribute to the story as you reveal it by exploring the world and by choosing how you want your character to respond to dialogue choices.

And the conversations are between adults and about adult things.

These conversations hinge on the actors saying the lines, of course, and Cissy Jones, as Delilah, and Rich Sommer, as Henry, are fantastic. They bring these characters alive, fill them with loneliness and confusion and anger and fear and all the other emotions that adults have to wrangle.

Firewatch is available now, for Linux, OS X, PS4, and Windows. It’s only $20, and while it’s not going to give you 80 hours of game, you’re an adult, right? You don’t even have 80 hours.

Spend your precious time on something a little different, like Firewatch, that was made for you.

Read my interview with one of the game’s designers, Nels Anderson, at the Straight.

Lily, the flying robotic camera

Lily is a camera. But it’s unlike any camera that’s ever existed before. It’s a camera drone, capable of unmanned flight and waterproof, so it can also float on the water.

It’s designed to use GPS to follow and film whoever is in possession of a tracking device.

The thing couldn’t be easier to launch, either. You just toss it in the air and Lily knows to start flying. And Lily flies itself, too, avoiding obstacles and swooping around you as you cycle, or run, or snowboard, or kayak.

Its battery is rated to provide 20 minutes of flight time while recording HD video at 60 frames per second. And it can take still photos, too.

And when you’re done, Lily lands gently in your hand. Or on the water.

The company, started by a couple of UC Berkeley robotics grads, generated some 60,000 presales worth $34 million in just a couple of days after announcing Lily at CES last month.

You can preorder, too, for only US$799, but you have to ship it to a U.S. address when Lily gets released in August. The price will increase to $999 at that time.

Training eagles to take down drones

If drones are becoming a problem in your world, perhaps you should enlist some help.

Authorities in the Netherlands are exploring the use of eagles to take down drones.

The company providing and training the raptors, Guard from Above, says that, “in nature, birds of prey often overpower large and dangerous prey. Their talons have scales, which protect them, naturally, from their victims’ bites.”

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has been engaged to make sure that the birds are not doing damage to themselves in the process of intercepting drones.