The first trading day after Nintendo told investors how much it really owns of Pokémon Go, the company’s share price plunged 17 percent in the Japanese market. Nintendo’s stock price still is up more than 60 percent compared to what it was before Pokémon Go’s July 5 launch. Still, Nintendo’s reminder of how much it…
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Hillary Clinton Just Released A Mobile Game And It’s So Stupid
Hillary 2016, which launched late yesterday, puts the player in the appropriately grim surroundings of their own “campaign HQ,” a second-floor office with eight chairs, one sofa, and no staff. By completing daily challenges a highly motivated member of the American electorate can earn “stars,” which really could have had a cooler name, like “HillCoins”…
This App Visualizes Waves Around You
iPhone App lets You See the Cell Towers, Wifi Signals and Satellites Around You Wireless devices like cellphones, tablets, and laptops send out signals that are all around us, but completely invisible to the naked eye. Electromagnetic radiation is everywhere that is transmitted from millions of towers and Wi-Fi routers, which create a pulsating and…
A hospital uses ‘Pokemon Go’ to get patients out of bed
A Michigan children’s hospital is using Pokemon Go as a tool to get sick patients out of their rooms and interacting with fellow patients and hospital staff. the past, young patients at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., shuffled down the hallways without speaking to each other, but now it’s not uncommon to…
Someone Used a Drone to Catch Pokémon
Pokemon GO is a game that relies on its players going on long walks, meaning that some will eventually find any way to get around that system. Tumblr user Perchbird is one of those people. He posted a photo set that showed his phone running the app while mounted on a drone. The caption just…
control your smartphone with your eyes
A team of international researchers, including an Indian-origin graduate student, is developing software that could let you control your smartphone through eye movements to play games, open apps and do other stuff. The team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Georgia and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Informatics has so far been…
Facebook unlocks tilt-viewing of your panoramas with “360 Photos”
No more frustrating zoom-in/zoom-out. Facebook finally made a modern way to view panoramas and VR photos with your phone. Its new feature “360 Photos” rolls out tomorrow on iOS, Android, web, and Gear VR, and it will democratize creation of 360 and VR content. You can see Mark Zuckerberg’s example here from the top of…