Now hot TikTok creators clean up with crime scenes...You can buy into a TikTok Mansion...Google Pay w
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November 22 · Issue #879 · View online |
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Now hot TikTok creators clean up with crime scenes…You can buy into a TikTok Mansion…Google Pay wants to be your all transaction app…T-Mobile wants to help put an end to suicide…US mobile operators may no longer be able to lock your phones…End to end encryption may come to Android’s RCS….HBO to leave Amazon Channels on Prime Video and Fire TV…The modern day version of Penthouse Forum streams to you…It’s not a game show. So stop sharing your passwords…The rise of the Virtual HQ….GoDaddy got socially engineered into a hack…Look at who is chasing TESLA.…App makes it easy to find McDonalds ice cream machines that are broken…Amazon is now mapping the sidewalks of Seattle…those stories and more are all here today, in THE SUNDAY EDITION of THE COMUNICANO!!!
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WONDER WOMAN 1984 Final Trailer (2020)
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Bloody crime scene cleanups are going viral on TikTok
TikTok users are satisfying their true crime cravings with footage of real life murder scenes. Creators argue the videos are for educational purposes – but is this really what’s attracting people to their content?
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TikTok Mansions Are Publicly Traded Now
Time to learn about reverse takeovers, kids!
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Google Pay’s massive relaunch makes it an all-encompassing money app
Google Pay is getting a huge upgrade and is now taking on Apple Pay, Venmo, Mint, and shopping deal apps directly. It will offer banking services next year. It’s much more than a payment app now, but will users trust Google enough to provide data?
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T-Mobile adds 988 suicide prevention hotline to its network
The carrier is the first major wireless provider to add the three-digit number to its service.
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The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones
Carrier lock-in was recently prohibited in the UK. If it finally happens here next year too, consumer advocates say the move would give users more flexibility and choice.
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Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
For now, the security measure will be available only to people using the beta version of the app.
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In a concession to WarnerMedia, Amazon will remove HBO from Amazon Channels next year
Amazon has agreed to pull HBO from Amazon Channels in the Amazon Fire TV interface when that agreement lapses next year.
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What is Dipsea, and should you try this revolutionary audio porn app?
Audio porn app Dipsea provides everything from sensual to sexy erotica stories for straight and queer women alike.
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You need to stop sharing your passwords with your partner
Tech designers often assume that one account means one user – but in reality many couples admit to sharing credentials, resulting in a security mess
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More States Offer Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Apps, But Adoption Is Uneven
Covid-19 contact-tracing apps from Apple and Google are coming to more states, along with evidence that they can help slow infections as long as enough people use them.
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Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market
In retrospect, 2019 feels like the working world’s last dance with spontaneity. The pre-pandemic past is rife with conferences, running into co-workers and post-work happy hours. Now, as companies such as Microsoft and Twitter declare remote work as the future, the very existence of physical offices is unclear for the long-term.
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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services
Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
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As low-code and no-code approaches rise, developers brace for new challenges
‘People rapidly create things, rapidly deploy things and rapidly regret things. Each subsequent generation of technology makes it easier to build bad solutions fast.’
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These 11 EV Startups Are Chasing Tesla. They Can’t All Win.
A field of electric-vehicle challengers is in hot pursuit of Elon Musk, fueled by funding from Wall Street. It will take skill, guts and good fortune to avoid a crash.
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McDonald's customers just got great news. It began as an engineer's bit of fun
Sometimes, it just takes the ingenuity of a casually bystanding engineer to completely change a passionate customer’s mood. And teach a huge company a lesson.
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Outsource the Turkey, Help a Restaurant
The whole “Thanksgiving-to-go” concept used to be the territory of just a handful of restaurant chains — the Bob Evans and Cracker Barrels of the world, for example.
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Spotted: Amazon robot maps sidewalks north of Seattle, laden with cameras and sensors
While I was out on an ordinary drive through Everett Saturday morning I spotted something interesting: An unmarked six-wheeled robot being driven down the sidewalk on Broadway…
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