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Close Pokemon Go: The dream features we want to see in the next update Drag Pokemon Go got really big, really fast.Want proof? Just ask ComScore. The researcher reported this week that Pokemon Go reached 55 million mobile users in the US this July, during the first full month the mobile game was available. Thanks to that huge...

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Enlarge ImageFly off into the final frontier with this rocker.Etsy/GandG RockersHush little baby, don't say a word. Papa's goa buy you, a toy for a nerd. And we mean "nerd" in the very positive way.The mode sci-fi fan parent needs this Star Trek Enterprise-shaped rocker, custom-made by Etsy seller G and G Rockers in San Diego. The rocker sells for $195 Earth dollars, with an extra $25 if you'd like it painted or stained. Shipping is extra, at least until the day they finally figure out how to just beam it up to you.The rocker would look great next to a set of Star Trek Barbie dolls made to celebrate the original series' 50th aiversary. It's everything a kid (or adult) needs to play boldly. (...

Niantic Labs In the last month, Pokemon Go developer Niantic has been stepping up its baing game, cutting off users who use third-party services to help them become Pokemasters. Bans were given to players using add-on maps that show Pokemon locations, emulators that allow you to play the game on a laptop or PC and bots that play the game for you, tricking the app into believing you are walking around when you are not and automatically catching Pokemon for you.Now, according to a post by Niantic CEO John Hanke, some of those bans are being reversed -- but only for those players using add-on maps."Some players ...

After the summer craze of Pokemon Go, Target is painting Pokeballs onto the ballards of some of its stores. Target A number of companies tried capitalizing on the popularity of Pokemon Go in the wake of its July launch; T-Mobile offered free data, stores bought lures to attract customers and so on. Even with the craze dying down to some extent and the time for this thing having already passed, Target's trying to get in on the action by, uh, painting those balls located out in front of its stores.As aounced in a bizarre news release on its website, Target aounced that select stores have painted the design of Po...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.She can do two things at once. Allegedly. Getty Images I have visitors arriving from Norway next week and I'm worried that they're just going to ignore me. They might be educated sorts, but I fear they could be in the grip of Pokemon Go, which seems to have infiltrated Norway's highest echelons. As my evidence, might I present Trine Skei Grande? No, she's not Ariana's mom. She is, however, the leader of the Norwegian Liberal Party and she's just been caught playing Pokemon Go during a parliamentary hearing on Wednesda...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImagePokemon Go was released in Japan on July 22. Tomohiro Ohsumi, Getty Images Perhaps it was always going to happen somewhere, sometime.In Tokushima, Japan a truck driver was allegedly playing Pokemon Go at the wheel on Tuesday evening. Reuters reports that his truck plowed into two women who were crossing the road, killing one and injuring the other.The driver reportedly admitted to the police that he'd been playing the game.He is a 39-year-old farmer, according to CNN. It said that the women, in her 70s, d...

People play at the Pokemon Go augmented reality game in Lillo, Belgium, a village that harbors rare Pokemon and as been flooded with Pokemon GO hunters since the mobile game launched. Nicolas Maeterlinck/AFP/Getty Images Pokemon Go play has peaked and is already in decline, according to investment adviser Axiom Capital Management.The number of daily active users, downloads, engagement and time spent on the app each day are off their highs from just a month a go and are showing a downward path, according to data, collected by Sensor Tower, SurveyMonkey and Apptopia, which was supplied to Bloomberg by Axiom. ...

A crowd gathers at Parc Paragon in Bangkok to catch Pokemon. Vichan Poti/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images Pokemon Go players in Bangkok are being blamed for an increase in road accidents -- and Thai authorities want to put a stop to it, the Bangkok Post reports.A group of 50 police officers, described as "catchers of Pokemon catchers" by Bangkok police chief Sanit Mahathavo, will be equipped with mobile phone cameras. They will patrol 10 areas with busy traffic, which will be no-go zones for Pokemon hunters.If caught ruing while using a phone or hindering traffic while driving carelessly, players will f...

[embedded content] Even if you might be suffering from Pokemon Go overload, this video of a musician playing the Pokemon theme song on flaming bagpipes while dressed as the Pokemon creature Charmander is very impressive. Considering the Charmander has a tail that can produce fire, it makes sense that the bagpipes used to play the Pokemon theme also ignite with flames.The talented musician who made this tribute possible is Brian Kidd -- best known as The Unipiper -- from Portland, Oregon. This isn't the first time The Unipiper has paid homage to something geeky. Earlier in the year, he dressed up as Superman and taunted Batman by playing his bagpi...

Don't like something some stranger is saying about you on Twitter? The social network has a solution.Twitter launched a new feature on Thursday that allows users to limit the notifications they see to only those sent by users they follow. It doesn't prevent strangers from mentioning you; it just insulates users from being exposed to those tweets. The new feature appear to be part of Twitter's attempt to address the chronic abuse and harassment that occurs daily on the social network. However, the move is little more than a band-aid since the offending tweets will still be present on the network; you are just choosing not to see them.Harassing and abusive tweets, while not a new occurrence on...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA threat to society? Niantic Labs We are gathered here today to discuss whether Pokemon Go is the work of the devil.The game that has captivated so many minds has disturbed some.Take Antonio Stagliano. The bishop of Noto in Sicily apparently isn't a fan. As Agence France-Presse reports, he's described the game as "diabolical." It seems he fears that the vast minds at Niantic Labs who created this summer phenomenon might be in the serpent's clutches.The bishop has very definite ideas about what the game ha...

Niantic, the company behind Pokemon Go, appears to be bringing down the hammer on cheaters. Specifically, it's cracking down on users who have created bots to trick the game, as well as those who use the bots, by serving them a "lifetime ban" and pursuing legal action, according to The Guardian.Since the game has erupted in popularity, bots that help trick the location-tracking system have begun to crop up. Though this is considered cheating under the Pokemon Go terms of service, the bots and services, as well as those who have used them, have yet to be penalized.Now it looks like Pokemon Go addicts who have taken advantage of the loopholes might have to pay the ultimate price.Niantic didn't...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageNot exactly sticking to one particular lane. York Regional Police/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Is it over yet? I had rather assumed that the Pokemon Go phenomenon was rather abating. When politicians start making jokes about it, you know that the shark is begiing to duck. Police in Canada, however, say there are still some crazed enthusiasts.The York Regional Police posted a video to YouTube of a Mercedes driving somewhat erratically down a street last Monday. The footage is from a police h...

[embedded content] There are many fan-made Pokemon projects out there, but none were slaved over for nearly a decade.Pokemon Uranium, which took developrs JV and Involuntary Twitch nine years to make -- was released this week.The game is set in a new region, Tandor, and its developers designed and animated over 150 new, unofficial Pokemon. These include a new type not found in the actual Pokemon games, the Nuclear type.It appears to be developed on Gameboy Advance architecture, resembling the graphics in 2004's Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green games. The release is timely, with Pokemon Go putting the franchise back on the map over the last month o...

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Pokemon Go was released in Japan on July 22. Tomohiro Ohsumi, Getty Images Sometimes we need to be saved from ourselves. For those Pokemon Go addicts who couldn't seem to stop themselves from playing absolutely everywhere -- no matter how somber or sacred the place -- there are now some boundaries. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum are now Pokemon-free, after the game's developer, Niantic Labs, honored the institutions' requests to remove all traces of the game at those places. The Associated Press reported the news earlier Monday. A spokesman for the Holocaust ...

Enlarge ImageWilliam Shatner entertains the crowd at the Star Trek convention. Amanda Kooser/CNET A 6,000-seat theater in Las Vegas was filled to capacity on Saturday with Star Trek fans, many of them costumed as their favorite aliens or Starfleet officers. They gathered to listen to William Shatner, Capt. Kirk himself, in a Q&A session with Adam Malin, co-founder of Creation Entertainment, the producer of the 50th aiversary convention in Vegas. Shatner shared familiar stories of pranks he played on original-series co-stars Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley, but things got both strange and profound when f...

Enlarge ImageThat's one fewer comet in the universe. ESA/NASA/SOHO/Joy Ng So-called sungrazer comets are the daredevils of the cosmos attempting, like Icarus or Queen Margaery Tyrell, to fly high and tight by the sun without getting bued. This week, ESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) caught a sungrazer that flew a little too close.The above animated GIF comes from SOHO's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph, which takes images of the solar corona by blocking direct light from the sun. Where the actual disc of the sun would be in the video is represented by a white circle. Between August...