Concert industry looking at Covid status checking...Robots are on the rise at retail...Lyft wants to
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| November 12 · Issue #871 · View online |
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Concert industry looking at Covid status checking…Robots are on the rise at retail…Lyft wants to deliver your dinner….Changes at the top at the FCC may be ahead…Microsoft says ditch the phone…Alexa wants to help seniors age in place…Covid and Seniors: double trouble…Alexa starts to anticipate your next question…Alphabet (Google) looks at faster wireless broadband….Drivers are not happy in California….Twitch mishandles the music…YouTube had an all on outage…Where are the robocallers calling….Trump wants to start his own digital network….Those stories and more are all here today in THE COMUNICANO!!!
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How Ticketmaster Plans to Check Your Vaccine Status for Concerts
Ticketmaster has been working on a framework for post-pandemic fan safety that uses smart phones to verify fans’ vaccination status or COVID-19 test results.
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Could Biden Become The Food Tech President? Here’s 6 Ideas to Help Make That Happen
We all know about the Green New Deal, but what about a Grand New Meal powered by government-catalyzed food innovation?
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It’s Been Big Week for Grocery Delivery Robots
One food tech area that was particularly busy this week (and it’s only Wed.), was grocery delivery. More specifically, grocery delivery via robots. Now, I’m using the word “robot” a little loosely here, but mostly that’s because it packs a little more punch than saying “It’s been a big week for grocery delivery across a variety of different autonomous and remote controlled vehicle formats.”
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Could Restaurants Hitch a Lower Cost Delivery Ride with Lyft?
If you ever want to get my colleague, Jenn Marston fired up, just bring up the topic of third-party delivery commissions. Sure, Uber Eats, DoorDash and GrubHub may make delivery easier for a restaurant, but they do so at a high price, charging as much as a 30-percent-per-transaction commission on orders. For an industry like the restaurant biz, which is built on razor-thin margins, that’s just not tenable.
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Bye-Bye, Ajit Pai: FCC Boss Will Soon Lose Top Spot
You can expect most of his more controversial decisions, like the repeal of net neutrality, to be reversed.
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Microsoft urges users to stop using phone-based multi-factor authentication
Microsoft recommends using app-based authenticators and security keys instead.
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Amazon Alexa Care Hub update will make it easier to help aging family members
Amazon is moving into the $30 billion ‘aging in place’ market.
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COVID-19 accelerates tech solutions for lonely seniors, addressing ‘double pandemic’ of isolation
Even before COVID-19 forced us to stay at home and isolate ourselves, too many older adults were suffering with loneliness. Pre-pandemic, some 43%
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The next economic shock will be hyper-aged societies
As we deal with the immediate crisis brought on by Covid-19, we are already hurtling towards economic systems defined by old age
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Amazon's new Alexa feature uses AI to infer what users really want
A new Alexa feature powered by a family of AI models enables Amazon’s voice assistant to infer latent goals from user requests.
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Apple updates TestFlight beta testing app with support for automatic updates
Apple has updated its TestFlight beta testing application for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV to version 3.0. The update brings support for automatic updates, as well as stability improvements and bug fixes.
The addition of automatic updates in TestFlight is a notable improvement. This means that when you’re beta testing an application, the app will automatically update whenever a new version is released by the developer.
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Alphabet delivers wireless Internet over light beams from 20km away
Wireless network in Kenya to use light beams, like fiber but without the cables.
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Fight Over Gig Workers Persists Despite Win for Uber and Lyft
A successful ballot measure in California makes drivers and other workers contractors, but the companies face continued pushback.
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Lyft’s ride-hailing business is starting to claw its way out of a deep hole
Lyft reported a net loss of $495 million and a year-over-year revenue decline of 48 percent in the third quarter of 2020. The company’s ride-hailing business has been hammered by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Twitch apologizes to streamers for its mishandling of music copyright
Twitch’s blog post explains why streamers received that email last month notifying them that Twitch had deleted some of their clips and VODs. It also gave creators an update on what tools they can expect to see from the company in the future.
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Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021
Google Photos has been a great and completely free service for anybody uploading “high”-quality 16MB photos. But in 2021, photo uploads will begin to count against your data cap.
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YouTube went down around the world, but it’s now fixed
YouTube had a major outage on Wednesday and was having issues loading videos for roughly an hour. The issue appeared to affect other services that use the YouTube infrastructure too. DownDetector showed a truly tremendous number of user reports of problems with YouTube
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Report: Top 10 Area Codes for Robocalls
If you’ve been inundated with robocalls of late, you’re not alone. A new report shows the cities and area codes most affected by robocalls in October 2020.
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I’ve Seen the 5G Future. So Far, I’m Not Impressed
In South Korea, the rollout has been plagued by bad reception and a lack of consumer apps. But it’s still early.
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Trump eyes starting his own digital media empire to take on Fox News
Some Trump advisers think Fox News made a mistake with an early call of a Biden win in Arizona.
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