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01 Aug 21:57

Honest Pokémon Go Trailer

by Dan Jones
01 Aug 20:06

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Nobody wants it all.

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01 Aug 20:06

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01 Aug 15:35

August 1st, 2016 - /r/DonaldandHobbes: Answering the question, "What if the GOP nominee had the mind of a six-year-old?"

by /u/SROTDroid
Dan Jones

These are pretty ingenious.

/r/DonaldandHobbes

4,293 losers and haters being very unclassy for 7 months!

This election cycle has been nothing if not
entertaining. At least I think so. On a daily basis it provides me with something to laugh about, and it'll only just get stranger, and therefore more funny. It's no secret that it's also had a tremendous impact on reddit. Not just in the form of legions of Bernie and Trump supporters taking over the frontpage, but in the creation of new communities dedicated not only to a particular candidate, but to the absurdity of it all.

/r/DonaldandHobbes is one such community, having evolved naturally from the political climate that we've all worked together to create. It's perhaps my favorite Election 2016 subreddit to date.

Calvin and Hobbes was a beloved daily comic strip that was published for a decade and still has popularity today. It follows the life and adventures of six-year-old boy Calvin and his anthropomorphized stuffed tiger, Hobbes.

Donald and Hobbes features the billionaire reality TV star, real estate mogul, and current Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump doing essentially Trump things. Trump being Trump is not interesting, though. (Well, maybe for a while, but the joke is wearing thin.) It's the medium that's brilliant. Users take Donald Trump's head and paste it over Calvin, which leads to hilarity and occasionally extremely astute social commentary. Sometimes the original text from the comic strip remains intact, sometimes it's altered slightly, other times rewritten completely.

Here are some examples:

Now, not everything is just Donald and Hobbes. Some strips feature guest stars as well.

I spoke with moderator /u/-TracerBullet, and I had only one question.

How did the sub get started?

I actually had made a strip with Donald and his dad, which is now the first post on the subreddit, that I called Trump's origin story. I think I posted it to /r/politics back in November and it got downvoted to hell.

Literally a week later, /u/eucalyptusfire posted a comic with great faces that /r/funny found OK. It was then reposted to /r/calvinandhobbes and they loved it. In the comments, users said no more, so I commented with the one I had made. They requested a subreddit and /u/NeonDisease beat me to the punch.

The exchange can be found here.

The Donald and Hobbes phenomenon has been picked up by online media outlets, and it probably won't be long before the meme gets more national attention. So get in on the ground floor. /r/DonaldandHobbes is one that's worth checking out. The sub is great.

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01 Aug 14:26

Forget Tornadoes. Rain Bombs Are Coming For Your Town

Evidence shows that the sky is coming down on our heads—the watery part of it, anyway, in larger and larger cascades. It’s largely our own fault.

The past two months have seen some doozies just in the U.S. The Empire State Building was struck by lightning twice on Monday during a storm that brought an inch of rain down in what felt like a single sheet.

Boom https://t.co/ABCCYwakg3

Twitter: Henrik Moltke on Twitter

Last month, at least 23 people died in West Virginia flooding. At its peak on June 23, more than 8 inches to 10 inches fell within half a day—a once-every-1,000 years rain storm. Maelstroms in May and early June dropped five times as much rain as normal near Houston, seriously challenging the definition of normal. More than a dozen people died. It was the city's fifth major flood in just over a year. (Rainfall is trending higher nationally, though paving over much of Texas probably doesn't help.)

The most dramatic recent image came from Bruce Haffner, a Phoenix TV helicopter pilot, who snapped what looks very much like a 20-megaton warhead going off. This is informally known as a “rain bomb": 

Bruce Haffner @chopperguyhd
@chopperguyhd Here's a closer look at today's microburst over Phoenix https://t.co/jkXuRvXL3k
Twitter: Bruce Haffner on Twitter

The phenomenon is known in meteorology circles as the more sober “wet microburst.” They are supposed to happen rarely; conditions must be just right. A thunderstorm runs into a dry patch of air that sucks some moisture away. The air underneath the storm cloud cools, making it more dense than the air around it. The cooler air begins to drop into even warmer air and then accelerates. When the faucet really flips on, air can blast out of the sky at more than 115 miles per hour. It deflects off the ground and pushes winds outward, at or near tornado strength. The Phoenix event above was actually a “macroburst,” with a radar footprint wider than about 2.5 miles, said Amber Sullins, chief meteorologist at ABC-15 News.

Scientists understand the mechanics of small-scale weather events such as rain bombs, tornadoes, and severe thunderstorms. The past few years have seen modest improvements in projections of how these storms might behave in a changing atmosphere, region-by-region.

“The research showing rain events for us being less frequent but more intense, due to climate change, seems to be our new reality,” Sullins said.

What’s known with much greater confidence by climatologists is that storms should continue to intensify. There's little question that by stockpiling water vapor, the atmosphere is building a worldwide arsenal of “rain bombs”—or, if you like, wet microbursts, macrobursts, or just your typical, Noah-scale deluges. And unlike, say, the study of climate change and its relationship to war, why the sky keeps falling is clearer:

  • Human activity has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the air by more than 40 percent above pre-industrial levels.

Bloomberg Carbon Clock: Measuring Carbon Dioxide that Causes Global Warming

  • The CO2 and other climate pollutants trap more heat in the atmosphere. 
  • A hotter atmosphere holds more water—about 4 percent more for every degree-Fahrenheit rise in average temperature.
  • More water vapor and energy in the system mean more intense storms. And lots, and lots, and lots of water. 

The U.S. is experiencing more frequent rain storms that should typically occur only once in five years. The green bars show the percentage increase in 5-year storms. This graphic ends in 2012; the year 2015 brought an 80 percent increase above the norm.

The U.S. is experiencing more frequent rain storms that should typically occur only once in five years. The green bars show the percentage increase in 5-year storms. This graphic ends in 2012; the year 2015 brought an 80 percent increase above the norm.

SOURCE: U.S. National Climate Assessment

From 2001 to 2012 (the right-most green bar shown above), once-every-five-year storms occurred 40 percent more often than normal for the U.S., or about every three years. In 2015, these five-year storms happened 80 percent more frequently than expected, according to Ken Kunkel, a scientist with NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. 

It's not just that the amount of rain is increasing; the amount of extreme rain is increasing. All over the Earth's land masses. The year 2010 had 88 percent more broken records than might have occurred in a stable climate, according to a study last year by German researchers. From 1981 to 2010, 12 percent more record-breaking rainstorms occurred worldwide than would have happened without human influence. “This implies that over the last 30 years, roughly one in ten record-breaking events would not have occurred without climate change,” they wrote. 

Scientists can’t say where the next rain bomb may land. They still don't know where lightning will strike next. But it’s clear from wide-ranging research that human activity has weaponized the atmosphere.

A Brief History of Global Warming

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01 Aug 14:26

Pokemon GO Trainer Cosplay

Dan Jones

This is the way to go out hunting Pokémon when you're a huge Pokémon Go fan.

Pokemon GO Trainer Cosplay

 

Ginny Di looks absolutely perfect cosplaying as her Pok?trainer from Pok?mon GO! Here's what she had to say...

"I shot and edited them myself. I also wrote up a tutorial for how to make your own trainer cosplay. I even covered the theme song on Ukulele! The costume took me around 30 hours to create.

And, since it gets asked in every set of comments ? I'm Team Mystic. :)"


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July 29 2016
01 Aug 14:25

Google Image Labeler Is Back

by Alex Chitu

Google Image Labeler used to be a game that helped Google categorize images and improve image search. It was launched in 2006 and discontinued in 2013. Now Image Labeler is back, but it's no longer a game.

If you go to get.google.com/crowdsource/imagelabeler/category, you'll see this message: "Ready to help Google Image Labeler? Look at a few public images to see if Google is organizing them right."


Then you can pick a category like birds, cats, dancing, concerts, food, cars, mountains, sky. If you use this URL: get.google.com/crowdsource/imagelabeler?label_str=Dogs, you can add your own category (replace "Dogs" in the address bar with something different like Rainbows, Stairs or Moon).


Google shows Creative Commons images from Flickr categorized by Google's algorithms. You only need to answer to questions like "Does this image contain dancing?".


31 Jul 03:52

Vote for good men

by Dan Jones

We engage in the election the same as in any other principle; you are to vote for good men, and if you do not do this it is a sin; to vote for wicked men, it would be sin. Choose the good and refuse the evil. Men of false principles have preyed upon us like wolves upon helpless lambs. Damn the rod of tyranny; curse it. Let every man use his liberties according to the constitution. Don’t fear man or devil; electioneer with all people, male and female, and exhort them to do the thing that is right. We want a President of the U.S., not a party President, but a President of the whole people; for a party President disfranchises the opposite party. Have a President who will maintain every man in his rights.

Hyrum Smith (History of the Church, Vol.6, Ch.15, p.323)

30 Jul 12:35

Sir David Attenborough narrates Pokémon Go

by Dan Jones
29 Jul 17:15

Waitress upset over ‘Best Butt’ award

by Dan Jones

A woman says she’s offended after receiving an award from her employer for having the “Best Butt” on staff.

She says on Monday night, during an event where staff was given awards, she received the accolade in full view of about fifty coworkers. The woman says that when the award was given to her by management, she was then told to turn around in front of everyone so people could take pictures of her behind.

The woman says she went to corporate HR and was told by upper-level management the award was not their idea. She says that so far, no one has offered her an apology.

This is a big yikes!

29 Jul 14:40

Mysterious New Whale Species Discovered In Alaska

This whale washed up dead on Alaska's St. George Island in June 2014. Scientists say it is a newly discovered species of beaked whale.


Photograph by Karin Holser

Like many good mysteries, this one started with a corpse, but the body in question was 24 feet (7.3 meters) long.

The remains floated ashore in June of 2014, in the Pribilof Islands community of St. George, a tiny oasis of rock and grass in the middle of Alaska's Bering Sea. A young biology teacher spotted the carcass half-buried in sand on a desolate windswept beach. He alerted a former fur seal researcher who presumed, at first, that she knew what they'd found: a Baird's beaked whale, a large, gray, deep-diving creature that occasionally washes in dead with the tide.

But a closer examination later showed that the flesh was too dark, the dorsal fin too big and floppy. The animal was too short to be an adult, but its teeth were worn and yellowed with age.

It's just so exciting to think that in 2016 we're still discovering things in our world—even mammals that are more than 20 feet long.

Phil Morin | NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center

It turns out, according to new research published Tuesday, that this was not a Baird's beaked whale at all, but an entirely new species—a smaller, odd-shaped black cetacean that Japanese fishermen have long called karasu, or raven.

"We don't know how many there are, where they're typically found, anything," says Phillip Morin, a molecular geneticist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center. "But we're going to start looking."

It’s rare to uncover a new species of whale. Advances in DNA research have helped scientists identify five new cetaceans in the past 15 years but two were dolphins and most were simple category splits between fairly similar species. This animal, in the genus Berardius, looks far different than its nearest relative and inhabits an area of the North Pacific where marine mammal research has been conducted for decades.

"It's a really big deal," says study co-author Paul Wade of NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory. "If you think about it, on land, discovery of new species of large mammals is exceptionally rare. It just doesn't happen very often. It's quite remarkable."

Skeletons, Beaks, and Bone Powder

Morin and his team examined the St. George carcass, took bone powder from old museum specimens, and reviewed DNA tests of whales from the Sea of Okhotsk. They studied skulls and beaks and analyzed records from whaling fleets in Japan. They even tracked down a skeleton hanging from the ceiling in a high school gymnasium in the Aleutian Islands.

The scientists conclude in their study published in Marine Mammal Science that this type of whale, which has not yet been named, is nearly as far removed genetically from the Northern Hemisphere's Baird's beaked whales as it is from its closest known relative, Arnoux's beaked whales, which swim in the Antarctic Ocean. The differences, in fact, are so dramatic that the animal has to be something else, they say.

"It's just so exciting to think that in 2016 we're still discovering things in our world—even mammals that are more than 20 feet long," Morin says.

This skull of a newly discovered species of whale shows its blowhole vestibule and its nasal and frontal bones.
Photograph by L. Michelle Ridgway

He is not alone in his enthusiasm. Robert Pitman serves on a taxonomy committee for the Society for Marine Mammalogy, which publishes an annual list of all recognized marine mammal species. He is not among the 16 co-authors on Morin's paper. But at a time when the diversity of marine mammals is shrinking—the Yangtze River dolphin is now functionally extinct and Mexico’s vaquita porpoise is dangerously close—Pitman calls the discovery "heartening."

"It boggles my mind to think that a large, very different-looking whale has gone unnoticed by the scientific community for so long," Pitman says. "It sends a clear message about how little we know about what is in the ocean around us."

The discovery also raises new questions about how well humans are understanding the threats posed by marine activities, from energy exploration to sonar use, given that so few people even knew such a creature existed.

An Unrecognizable, Baffling Creature

Of the 88 recognized living cetacean species, including orcas and humpbacks, bottlenose dolphins and Dall's porpoises, 22 are beaked whales. The largest of those, Baird's beaked whales, also called giant bottlenose whales, can reach 35 to 40 feet (10.7 to 12 meters) and weigh more than 24,000 pounds (10,900 kilograms). They travel in large groups, may dive 3,000 feet (914 meters), and can be underwater for an hour. While beaked whales are still hunted in Japan, little about them is known. In part that’s because they spend so much time feeding and exploring vast, deep canyons far from shore.

When the teacher on St. George, a 35-square-mile (91-square-kilometer) island inhabited by 100 people, frequented by hundreds of thousands of seals, and visited by 2.5 million birds, pointed out the dead whale in Zapadni Bay to former seal researcher Karin Holser, she thought it was a Baird's beaked whale. But later, as tides and currents revealed more of the animal, Holser realized she didn't recognize it at all. She consulted a colleague's cetacean identification book and sent pictures to other experts in Alaska.

This skull provided scientists evidence that the whale was smaller and had different bone structure than other beaked whales.
Photograph by L. Michelle Ridgway

"This dorsal fin was larger, further aft, and had more curvature than that of a Baird's beaked whale," says independent ecologist Michelle Ridgway, who arrived on the island days later. "The jaw structure and the shape of the melon were not quite right, either.” And this whale, while clearly an adult, was just two-thirds the size of full-grown Baird’s beaked whales.

Holser and other island residents measured the whale. Ridgway collected tissue, arranging to ship the slightly fetid samples through intermediaries to Morin's lab in Southern California.

So Mysterious It's 'Almost Folklore'

Just nine months earlier, he'd spied new research by Japanese scientists attempting to describe differences between Baird's beaked whales and a rare black form that whalers had whispered about since the 1940s. Groups of these smaller whales were sometime spotted in Japan’s Numero Strait, but only between April and June. There was no record of scientists ever seeing one alive.

"They're almost folklore," Morin says.

The Japanese scientists had speculated in fall of 2013 that this may be an unknown species of beaked whale. But they were forced to draw conclusions from DNA taken from just three of the creatures that had stranded off Hokkaido. They concluded more evidence was needed.

Even before receiving the samples from St. George, Morin had been trying to hunt down more specimens.

He went through NOAA's tissue collection, pulling all 50 or so that had previously been identified as a Baird's beaked whale. Using DNA testing he found that two were actually a closer genetic match to the small black whales tested by Japanese scientists in 2013. One of those was from a whale that washed ashore in 2004 and now hangs in a school gym in Dutch Harbor. Scientists there had long assumed it was a younger Baird's beaked whale.

Morin also took the suggestion of one of the Japanese scientists, who had identified a skeleton from 1948 with an unusual shaped head at the Smithsonian Institution. And he tracked down another skeleton from the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History with body measurements that suggested they were the small black form. Morin took bone powder from both, and tested their DNA. They, too, were a match for karasu.

Along with the whale from St. George, Morin now had found five new specimens that were similar to the three found in Japan.

To describe a new species, however, "you build up lines of evidence, but that's very hard with an animal we've never seen alive," Morin says. But body measurements between Baird's beaked whales and the smaller black creature proved vastly different, as did their DNA.

Baird's beaked whales range throughout the North Pacific from Russia and Japan to Mexico. Genetic variation among Baird’s beaked whales was tiny. But for the five new black specimens Morin tested, all initially from the Bering Sea or the Aleutians, the sequences differed from the Baird's beaked whales significantly.

"The genetic variation within the forms was little, while the divergence between them was much larger," Morin says. "That's our strongest argument."

The whale still needs to be formally described and named, and Morin's findings would have to be accepted by outside experts who track cetacean taxonomy. But Pitman and others say the case is strong that it’s a new species.

"We're doing increasing damage to our environment, and we can't even begin to conserve the biodiversity we know is out there," Morin says. "Yet there's so much more about our world we don't even understand."

29 Jul 13:53

David Attenborough narrates Pokemon Go

by Jason Kottke

Will I ever get tired of this trope? Apple should make David Attenborough the Siri voice...I would immediately start using it more.

Tags: David Attenborough   remix   video   video games
28 Jul 21:32

Saving the World From Evil

by Dan Jones

I just discovered this station on Songza Google Play Music. I was looking for some good background music for while I work, and noticed a collection of stations called “Coding Your Face Off”. It consists of three stations full of action film soundtracks. Turns out it really does work as great background music while you’re trying to “code your face off”.

28 Jul 11:26

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So many evil doctors in Gotham



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28 Jul 11:26

Geek Toys : Pokémon Snorlax Bean Bag Chair

Dan Jones

If it weren't $150, I might think about getting this for my daughter

Snore more with Snorlax. There's nowhere better to relax after a long day of work, school, or just being out and about than on your Pokémon Snorlax Bean Bag Chair. At almost 4 feet tall and over 2 feet across, this (s)lumbering Pokémon is perfect for your dorm room. $149.99
28 Jul 11:25

LapDome Device Sun Shade & Carrying Case

by Erin Carstens

A shield of shade and a shield of privacy alike, the LapDome covers your laptop, tablet, or phone for uninterrupted outdoor and public use. And through July 31, 2016, you can get one from Amazon for 21% off using the promo code XZSGMUH2 at checkout.

The LapDome is a portable device cover designed to hold cell phones, tablets, and laptops up to 17", and block their screens from the glare of the sun, reflections, and wandering eyes so that you--and only you--will have full screen visibility at all times. The pop-up case itself folds into a 12" x 12" x 1" disc , or expands into a flat briefcase for transporting devices inside.

The LapDome has a back opening for cables and a lockable front zipper door.

27 Jul 18:25

The Chork - Chopsticks & Fork in One

by Erin Carstens

What you see before you are cheaters. At least cheaters in the Chork-o-Sphere. The Chork is a double-ended fork (flip!) and chopsticks combo. Use it tines-down and you're eating like a Westerner. Split the utensil in two, flip it over, and you're eating like an Easterner. Put it back together and keep the fat tips toward your plate of of spicy tuna roll and you're eating like a CHEATER!

But you can also use the Chork to train your way out of Asian culinary fraudulence, practicing first with the two sides affixed, and then splitting them when you feel your fine motor skills are ready. I also like the idea of having an emergency fork on hand to stab or scoop up that last boiled peanut in my Kung Pao chicken. Slippery little bastard.

The Chork is made of hi-impact Polystyrene. It comes in Red or Black, and packs of 6, 12, or 24.

27 Jul 14:16

Use LyricScanner To See If Song Lyrics Are Clean

by Larry Richman
Dan Jones

It's not perfect. I tried one song ("Work" by Rihanna) which it said was completely clean, despite the presence of the n word.

Is that song clean? Sometimes, it’s hard to understand the lyrics of a song. Use LyricScanner to find out.

DJ’ing a stake dance? Or just trying to help your kids choose good music? Use LyricScanner to find out if songs are appropriate. It rates songs in 4 different areas of potentially offensive content.

Read more in the article “Use LyricScanner to Find Out if a Song is Appropriate” at MormonLifeHacker. The article includes an instructional video to help you learn how to use LyricScanner.

Use LyricScanner to Find Out if a Song is Appropriate

26 Jul 21:53

Google Maps gets visual changes across all platforms

by Dima Aryeh

Google Maps may not be fundamentally changing, but the newly announced changes make a big improvement. Google has announced that the visual style of its maps will change, and it’s definitely for the better.

The changes include roads no longer having outlines, text being bigger with different text colors for different types of areas, and an overall cleaner look. With these changes, it’s easier to see names of neighborhoods and points of interest thanks to the new text styles.

Google Maps update 2

Areas of interest are also getting an update. They’re now highlighted white, while the rest of the map is a lighter color than before. This makes it easier to find interesting things going on and where people are going most. Zooming in shows individual buildings highlighted as points of interest.

Google Maps update 3

The color scheme has also changed, and though it’s actually pretty natural and self-explanatory, Google made a chart to explain it.

The changes definitely seem to make for a better Google Maps experience, and though they’re not that big, the visual appeal of the maps is quite a bit better. What do you guys think of the changes? Leave a comment!

26 Jul 19:57

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26 Jul 19:57

Wi-Fi-only mode in Google Maps is now in testing

by Evan Selleck

Google Maps can consume quite a bit of data, so for anyone out there that’s keeping an eye on their monthly allotment, Google’s working on a new feature within the app to help out.

It’s a Wi-Fi-only mode, and it works exactly like it sounds. Once enabled, there will be a “WI-FI ONLY” notice that appears at the top of the screen. Users will then be able to only update their map when they’re connected to Wi-Fi. What’s more, saved maps for offline viewing will work, too. It’s worth noting that Google does warn that even with the new mode activated, it’s possible that Google Maps will still use a “small amount” of data.

As it stands right now, Wi-Fi-only mode is only available for a select few as Google tests it out, but the company did say a wider rollout is possible in the future.

26 Jul 19:57

Google Store hosting back to college sale

by Dima Aryeh

It’s almost time for the young ones to head back to school, and with that comes back to school shopping. The Google Store is having a sale aimed at the folks heading back to school, offering discounts on a few good products.

You can save $30 on the Acer Chromebook R11 and the Acer Chromebook 14, both good devices for school work thanks to their long battery life and light weight. You can also get $50 off the Huawei Watch, Huawei Watch Jewel, and Huawei Watch Elegant. The Chomecast and Chromecast Audio are $5 off. Lastly, the Nexus 6P is $100 off.

The discounts aren’t huge, but they’re good enough to save some cash on back to school shopping. Let us know if you decide to pick any of these products up!

26 Jul 19:57

A Better Turing Test

by languagehat

Dave Wilton posts at Wordorigins.org:

In 1950, computer pioneer Alan Turing formulated his famous test for determining whether or not a computer was true artificial intelligence (AI). It involved discourse between humans and a computer, and if the humans could not tell whether they were speaking to a another person or to a machine, then the machine was “intelligent.” A neat idea, but when put in to practice it’s been found to be too easy to fake.

Over the years various improvements to the Turing test have been suggested, and one recent AI challenge used a rather nifty linguistic approach, outlined by this article in the Neurologica blog [by Steven Novella]. At its core, the test, known as the Winograd schema, asks the AI to determine the referent of an pronoun in a sentence. The pronoun would be ambiguous except for one word that provides the necessary context. For example:

The trophy would not fit in the brown suitcase because it was too big.

What does it refer to, the trophy or the suitcase?

In the sentence, big can be replaced with small, which alters the context and the identity of the referent. Humans have no difficulty getting the correct answer (it refers to the trophy when the adjective is big and the suitcase when the adjective is small), but in the challenge the AI performed dismally, with only the best scores equal to chance guessing.

While I suspect that there are probably as many issues with the Winograd schema as there are with the original Turing test, it’s a neat use of language to test reasoning ability.

Neat indeed!

26 Jul 11:32

Google Phone App Now Identifies Spam on Nexus and Android One Devices

by John Gruber

Google:

Spam callers be gone! Today, we’re beginning to update your Google Phone app with spam protection on Nexus and Android One devices to warn you about potential spam callers and give you the ability to block and report these numbers. If you already have Caller ID turned on, spam protection will be available on your phone once your app updates to the latest version.

I’ve been getting two or three spam calls a week lately. Would love this on iOS.

Update: Looks like I’m in luck: I completely forgot that this feature is already in iOS 10. I’m running the iOS 10 betas on iPad, but not on iPhone yet.

24 Jul 15:29

There’s Already a Pokémon GO Dating Service

by Jon Negroni

pokemon go dating service

Like people, dating apps come in all shapes, sizes, and preferences. So that’s probably why it only took a couple of weeks for someone to turn what’s already a fun dating activity — catching Pokémon at the park — into Pokédates, an online dating service with the tagline:

Gotta catch ’em all, together! 

The service was created by Project Fixup, a dating service that focuses less on online profile swiping and more on actual activities and meet ups between singles that they arrange. For that reason, using the popularity of Pokémon GO as an activity catalyst must have been a no-brainer, as the website actually goes far enough to say that the new app is “the best idea of the 21st Century.”

To find the Misty or Ash to your Ash or Misty, trainers have to answer a few short questions, send their availability schedule to Pokédates, then wait to be set up with a “match” they will meet to start hunting Pokémon with. And even if you’re not so sure about the service, Project Fixup offers your first “date” to be free.

What I find the most fascinating about all of this is the sheer creativity people are having in reaction to a phenomenon. A lot of it has to do with how far technology, communication, and culture have come since the last time something as big as Pokémon GO has captured everyone’s attention.

We now have devices that let us instantly connect with people all over the world, hail a car, stay the night at a local hotspot, and share all of the moments of our lives behind poppy filters. Of course people are turning mobile games into ways to find their soul mates, and maybe lure some new customers to restaurants next to Pokéstops.

Pokémon GO isn’t really lightning in a bottle. It’s the kind of idea that makes you wonder why it took so long to happen.

*Note: This is not a sponsored post or endorsement of the service, which I’ve never used myself. And I was not asked to write any of this. I simply wanted to share what I think is a unique idea.


Filed under: Editorials, General
24 Jul 15:29

“Aha” moment – Level : Noob

by CommitStrip

Strip-Do-you-remember-(650-final)(english)

24 Jul 15:29

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24 Jul 15:29

Pokemon GO Warnings

Pokemon GO Warnings

 

Artist Magdalena Proszowska made these additional Pok?mon GO warnings like the loading screen of the game. After visiting a few popular PokeStops in Germany she noticed some trainers might need more warnings besides being aware of their surroundings, so she was inspired to make these...

Pokemon Go Warnings

Pokemon Go Warnings

Pokemon Go Warnings

Pokemon Go Warnings

Pokemon Go Warnings

Artist: Magdalena Proszowska

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July 23 2016
24 Jul 15:29

While discussing politics...

by MRTIM

24 Jul 15:29

Man in his mid 30s explains his POKEMON GO strategy...

by MRTIM