Pre-Super Bowl week is always like a "media coma." There's news out there, but it just has to be foun
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Pre-Super Bowl week is always like a “media coma.” There’s news out there, but it just has to be found. That’s why today’s Comunicano has some shockers….like what’s up with Apple Health, Apple TV, Apple sales and a big Apple OOPS that has them doing a group about face with Facetime….A new ride-share comes Via L.A…Spies, Spies and more spying….Why DeepFake’s aren’t just in the NFL backfield…Instagram goes down…Snapchat may make stories PERMANENT…those stories and more in today’s COMUNICANO!!
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Apple Finally Puts the Hammer Down on Scummy Apps
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Apple and Aetna are teaming up on a new app to help track and reward healthy behavior
Apple and Aetna are collaborating on a new app that takes wellness programs a step further than anything attempted before. It includes rewards, goals, challenges and more.
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Apple planning upgraded TV app with new service subscription feature for mid-April, report says
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Apple's iPhone sales tanked. Now all eyes are on what's ahead - CNET
Apple blamed China for its rare earnings warning earlier this month. On Tuesday, we’ll learn just how badly phone sales missed, and what’s ahead in Q2.
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Apple disables Group FaceTime following major security flaw - The Verge
Apple has temporarirly disabled its Group FaceTime feature to fix a major security flaw. FaceTime has allowed attackers to listen in on people before they pick up a FaceTime call on an iPhone or Mac
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Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling ... before they pick up - 9to5Mac
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Los Angeles is using ride-hailing startup Via to shuttle people to public transit
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The Case of the Bumbling Spy: A Watchdog Group Gets Him on Camera
Citizen Lab has reported on surveillance software used to target dissidents around the world. Now it is being targeted by mysterious, if bumbling, spies.
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Deepfake videos: Inside the Pentagon’s race against disinformation
Advances in artificial intelligence could soon make creating convincing fake audio and video – known as “deepfakes” – relatively easy. Making a person appear to say or do something they did not has the potential to take the war of disinformation to a whole new level.
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Bluetooth gains 'direction finding' for location accuracy to the centimeter
Bluetooth 5.1 arrives today, with one particularly interesting new feature that will help improve location services: direction finding.
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Ford is letting some designers build cars in virtual reality
Ford is looking into the possibility of designing cars in virtual reality. The automaker has started experimenting with Gravity Sketch,
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$9.5M space hotel includes tiny sleeping pods for two
Houston-based technology start up Orion Span is currently working on Aurora Station, a fully modular space station that will function as an exclusive hotel.
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Echodyne seeks thumbs-up for Super Bowl test of drone-detecting radar
Echodyne is seeking federal approval to have its drone-detecting radar system used in an experiment planned during the NFL’s Super Bowl in Atlanta on Sunday.
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Now there's a handheld filter to kill your massive vape clouds
If you made the switch from “analog” tobacco to e-cigarettes, congratulations, you’ve likely done your lungs a solid. The rest of the world? Not so much. Despit…
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Instagram is DOWN: Users around the world unable to access Facebook's picture sharing site
The Facebook-owned site was unavailable to users, showing error messages on both mobile and desktop, and forcing users to Twitter to vent their frustration.
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Snapchat may allow public Stories that don't disappear
Snapchat’s allure has largely revolved around the disappearing nature of its content, but that might not be the case for some material in the future. Reuters t…
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Samsung finally launched phones with notches, but didn’t copy Apple’s design
We were assaulted with phones with notches for most of 2018, as every smartphone maker that matters (aside from Samsung) copied Apple’s design. Some people mistakenly believe that phones like the first Essential handset an unpopular Sharp phone that brought notches to prominence.
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Female Founders Raised 2.2% of All Venture Capital Dollars in 2018
Female founders got 2.2% of all venture capital dollars in 2018, the exact same percentage the year before as progress stalls.
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