Niantic shelved plans for Pokémon Go app for Apple Watch (Updated)
Update: Niantic says that Pokémon Go is still coming for the Apple Watch, though it’s unclear when or in what form the game will arrive. The company also fails to confirm its previous end of the year promise. Pokémon Go for Apple Watch is coming soon. Stay tuned. — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) December 17, 2016 Back in September, Apple and Niantic announced that the popular game Pokémon Go was coming to the Apple Watch before the end of this year. Since then, however, no news has come conce..>> view originalWashington Post Launches Fact-Check Tool For Just One Twitter Account: Donald Trump's
In an unprecedented move for a U.S. news outlet, the Washington Post (WP) has released a fact-checking tool for a single Twitter account: Donald Trump's. The U.S. President-elect mainly communicates with the public through his Twitter posts, but his tweets are not always accurate, WP points out. With this in mind, WP designed a Chrome plugin called "RealDonaldContext" to fact-check Trump's tweets in case they're not accurate, "by mistake or by design." "The Washington Post's Fix team has decide..>> view originalClimate Scientists Fear Trump May Fatally Undermine Their Work
Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election shocked climate scientists and policymakers after a campaign in which Trump had suggested—falsely—that climate change was a hoax and vowed to largely undo federal and international measures aimed at addressing global warming. Nonetheless, climate advocates took solace in the days following the election, noting that the market forces largely responsible for the shift away from coal and the incontrovertible science supporting climate regulati..>> view original'Super Mario Run' Review Roundup: Is It Any Good?
Super Mario Run is out and so far Nintendo is having a lot of success with the game in just a short amount of time it was released on iOS devices. We can only imagine how much money the company will make when the title is made available on Android devices in 2017. The big question right now, is whether or not Super Mario Run is a game worth playing and ultimately, worth purchasing in the end. It's not your typical Super Mario game due to the simple controls, but it does feel like the tradi..>> view originalTech Heavyweights Won't Help Build Donald Trump's Muslim Registry
When President-elect Donald Trump met leaders from the tech industry Wednesday in a room at Trump Towers in Manhattan, New York City, he referred to a rise in the stock market and said: “So right now everybody in this room has to like me — at least a little bit.” Whether or not they actually like him or not, but big tech companies are certainly not behind his proposed plan to build a registry to track Muslims in the United States.Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was conspicuously not invited to the meeti..>> view originalWatch: Mysterious ghost shark captured on camera for the first time
The pointy-nosed blue chimaera, or ghost shark, was filmed alive for the first time ever off the coasts of Hawaii and California. The deep-sea fish was previously known only from specimens caught in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. (Jorge Ribas/The Washington Post) Like its Greek mythological namesake, the chimaera — or “ghost shark” — is a mysterious, rarely seen creature with a patchwork of bizarre features. Dwelling in the depths of the ocean, its eyes are pale and seemingly dead. Wher..>> view originalTesla Will Charge Users for Hogging the Supercharger
In an announcement Friday, Tesla said it will impose a fee of forty cents per minute on drivers who leave their cars in a Supercharger space for more than five minutes after they’ve finished charging. Since many Superchargers are located at what are essentially parking spaces, it’s not too surprising some users treat them as such. The goal of the fee is to get those squatters to move along, making the chargers more available for all Tesla drivers. Tesla says they “hope to never make any money” ..>> view originalHow the hot startup that stole Apple's thunder wound up in Silicon Valley's graveyard
Eric Migicovsky Craig Barritt/Getty Images for AOL Inc. For a moment, it looked like the story would have a happy ending. As struggling smartwatch maker Pebble discussed selling itself to Fitbit, a larger competitor in the wearable technology market, the chatter among the Pebble team was that they would continue working on their product under the wing of a new, more stable corporate parent. Fitbit’s co-founder James Park even visited Pebble’s offices and, following a..>> view originalThe world's largest diamonds reveal secrets of the inner Earth
Some people see a giant diamond and think: I want that. Geologist Evan Smith sees a giant diamond and thinks: I’d like to study that.“Some of the diamonds I’ve looked at are probably worth multiple millions of dollars, but I’m not wowed by the price tag as much as by the fact that they come from so deep in the Earth,” he said. Smith is a research fellow at the Gemological Institute of America in New York City, where he has been studying a rare type of diamond known for being exceptionally larg..>> view originalMicrosoft Cortana is about to become your all-purpose productivity bot
Microsoft Cortana is playing catch-up with Siri and the Google Assistant, but that’s about to change that. The company Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded in 1975 has made no secret of the fact that they intend to become an AI powerhouse. Many of the recent changes in Microsoft Office have been related to productivity automation. You can click a button to create a slideshow in PowerPoint, use the Editor feature in Word to improve your writing, and find out whether you spend too much time processi..>> view original
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
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