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Consumers bemoan the $10 price point, other consumers rage against them in turn; Nintendo’s attempt to upend the dominance of F2P is as contentious as we expected Share this article Companies in this article After years of encouraging Nintendo to get into mobile gaming – often by the rather unsubtle means of darkly predicting the…
Evernote just posted an update to its Privacy Policy that details how the company will make use of some new machine learning tools. In order for those tools to work, Evernote will need to allow a human review of your notes, and that’s not the only reason an employee would look at your notes. In…
Magby from Pokemon Pokémon Go’s latest update isn’t what players were expecting. For weeks, fans hoped for a whole batch of 2nd generation Pokémon—bright, adorable Chikoritas or Espeons, and over 90 more little monsters. Or, at least, a few new Pokémon that players could encounter in the wild. Nope. No. Nope. Yesterday, Pokémon Go released…
Former Uber security professionals told Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting that the ride-hailing company continued to allow broad access to users’ information after it assured the public it had strict policies prohibiting access. For anyone who’s snagged a ride with Uber, Ward Spangenberg has a warning: Your personal information is not safe. Internal…
Pokémon Go today rolled out at least seven new baby Pokémon, which spawn from eggs. All day, players have been dutifully hatching the new little guys from two, five and ten-kilometer eggs. It’s tiers below players’ hopes for an entire second generation, but hey, at this point, they take what they can get. Here’s how…
In a bid to curb on-duty sexual assault between servicemen and women, the naval warfare branch of the US armed forces is placing its bets on a smartphone app. The US Navy is investing $150,000 into a six-month pilot project to test an app called LiveSafe, which was initially created to prevent on-campus gun violence….
The Apple TV has a new app, called simply TV, that promises to help make sense of the 1600 video content providers that have apps on the platform. It looks useful and great, but it’s missing two key pieces toward becoming a truly useful streaming sifter: Netflix and Amazon. Amazon’s absence is no surprise, given…
(Kacper Pempel/Reuters) A powerful surveillance program that police used for tracking racially charged protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., relied on special feeds of user data provided by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, according to an ACLU blog post published Tuesday. The companies reportedly provided the data — often including the locations of users — to…
Begin: WordPress Article Content There are certain kinds of photos users of dating apps tend to loathe, and the suggestive mirror selfie tends to be at the top of that list, somewhere near photos of guys holding a fish and gym selfies. That’s why today, the dating app Bumble has taken action to ban selfies of users posing…
Image: Gizmodo / Google People use their phones for messaging more than almost anything else. That’s why companies like Apple, Facebook, and Snapchat are dumping truckloads into making it easier and more fun to send messages. In May at I/O, Google announced Allo, its latest foray into the brave new world of messaging. Now, the…