Pokemon GO is now available to users in Germany, the official Pokémon GO Twitter account announced today. A report earlier in the week indicated Pokémon GO would launch in the UK and other parts of Europe in a matter of days: it appears Germany is the first lucky country to be able to officially play the hit mobile game. Find the game in the App Store. The official Pokémon GO Twitter account told anxious fans to follow the official channels for future announcements regarding country expansion....

On Tuesday, Intel 471 published a report into PrivateLoader that examines cyberattacks making use of the loader since May 2021. The pay-per-install (PPI) malware service has been in the cybercrime field for a while, but it is unknown who is behind the malware’s development. Loaders are used to deploy additional payloads on a target machine. PrivateLoader is a variant that is offered to criminal customers on an installation basis, in which payment is made based on how many victims they manage to secure....

According to a GDC 2020 survey, developers are more interested in bringing their games to PC and the upcoming PlayStation 5 than any other platform. Per usual, PC development is preferred by a wide margin, but studios’ apparent inclination toward producing games for the PS5 over the Xbox Series X could have wider implications when the next console war kicks off this holiday season. Looking at things from this end of the current generation, the gap between Xbox One and PS4 sales is vaster than analysts could have reasonably predicted in 2013....

As has become standard, Apple executives Craig Federighi and Phil Schiller sat down with John Gruber on his podcast “The Talk Show” this evening following Apple’s WWDC keynote. During the interview, Schiller and Federighi dove deeper into some of the news from yesterday’s jam packed keynote, which Schiller quipped was 3 and a half hours long at first draft… Federighi opened by explaining the logic behind this year’s macOS High Sierra release....

Philips’ will offer three different types of lights in the outdoor Hue lineup, and they will be available in both the Philips Hue white and Philips Hue white and color ambiance ranges. Philips Hue Lily Philips Hue Calla Luminaries To get you started, Philips will sell its outdoor spot Lily base unit pack for $279. The Calla bollard will retail for $129.99 as a base unit pack. The Philips Hue white range luminaries start at $29....

Poco F2 Pro (codenamed lmi) was recently unveiled in Europe and later launched in Indonesia. If you have bought this device and still not received a new update on your device, then this guide is for you. Here, we will share all the latest Indonesia Stable ROM for Poco F2 Pro. If you have not received any new update to the device recently, then follow up our guide on how you can check for the software update manually....

A few weeks ago, my family and I were coming home from vacation, so I was looking for a new podcast to enjoy during the six-hour drive home. Thankfully, I had an early release of California City to pass the time. I had early access to episodes one through six, so I binged the majority of the series on a single trip, and it’s one of the most interesting shows I’ve listened to all year....

Smartwatch maker Pebble has announced a software event scheduled for 10 AM Pacific on November 6th. Pebble already has an SDK for developers, but they’ll be announcing some upcoming additions to the watch’s software capabilities. The event will stream live on the Pebble website for anyone to watch. Two members of Pebble’s developer support team will also hold an AMA on Reddit directly after the event to discuss the upcoming changes with developers and answer any questions they may have....

A trailer for SNL star Pete Davidson’s Alive From New York teases his upcoming Netflix stand-up special. Davidson is a comedian and actor who is best known for his tenure on Saturday Night Live. He first joined the series as a cast member during the show’s 40th season. At 20 years old, Davidson was the first SNL cast member to be born in the ’90s. The now 26-year-old comedian is still a cast member on the show....

When Marvel announced phase three of the Cinematic Universe, there was a ton of excitement for the stories that were chosen. Among these included the introduction of Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Inhumans, and Captain Marvel, as well as new installments in pre-existing series like Captain America: Civil War, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Thor: Ragnarok. Ending the timeline for phase three are two new Avengers movies, the first of which is Avengers: Infinity War....

Former WWE super star Phil “CM Punk” Brooks makes his feature film debut in Girl on the Third Floor, a provocative new horror movie from acclaimed producer Travis Stevens, in his first film as director. This unsettling slow-burn psychological shrieker sees Brooks star as a man working to renovate his new house while awaiting the arrival of his pregnant wife. They’ve been through some issues in the past, and the new house is supposed to mark the start of a new chapter in their marriage....

One of the benefits of technology is that we have the world’s library of information at our fingertips. There are ideas and information we all probably assume we have correct, but what if we don’t? That is why I love the podcast “You’re Wrong About.” Past episodes included facts about the O.J. Simpson trial, the DC Sniper, why no one went to jail for the 2008 financial crisis, The Beatles, and more....

A pair of new Philips Hue products have leaked today, providing a glimpse at what the smart home company has in store for early 2021. As reported by Hueblog, Philips Hue will release a new Wave Linear outdoor lighting accessory in spring of 2021, as well as redesigned Smart Dimmer. The report explains that the Philips Hue Wave Linear will join the existing outdoor lighting category as a way to light up large areas evenly....

You’re likely to see a greater number of personalized shopping recommendations in the Pinterest app as the company boosts its ecommerce efforts … VentureBeat reports that the ability to convert shopping catalogs into shoppable pins has now been rolled out to all businesses. It was previously limited to a small number of brands. It will also be harder to avoid seeing them – and to distinguish them from regular content....

There is some interesting news for fans of Pokémon Sword and Shield. It has been confirmed at IGN and a numéber of other gaming sites that the DLC content (the Isle of Armor and the Crown Tundra) due to be released soon will scale with the present levels of the Pokémon in your party. This means Pokémon Sword and Shield will now come with Level Scaling. In this way, the DLC will be much more accessible to newcomers....

The gimmicks implemented into Pokémon Sword and Shield’s battle system this time around are known as Gigantamaxing and Dynamaxing, and the former makes the latter pointless. Dynamaxing was the first mechanic revealed for the games, and it essentially turns any Pokémon into a massive version of its original self. The mechanic received a mixed reception when it was shown because it doesn’t play with the main appeal of the games, which is form-changing through mechanics like evolution or even the temporary Mega Evolutions....

Rather than archive or delete their work, they realized they had something pretty useful and got work finding new buyers. They started selling licenses to it, and their timing couldn’t have been better. Affiliate marketing isn’t an invention of the tech world—companies have been incentivizing their customers to refer friends and family for as long as commerce has been a thing—but it did find new life on the internet when blogging took off....

The Pixelmator Pro team continues to crank out updates for the popular image editing app. Today, Pixelmator Pro 1.6 is available in the Mac App Store. The update brings a redesigned color picker and a set of smaller enhancements designed to boost productivity. Pixelmator used to rely solely on the system color picker. Now, there’s a dedicated Color Picker tool that takes over the sidebar. This exposes Pixelmator’s collections of inbuilt swatches which you can modify or replace entirely with your own custom colors....

Pixelmator has pushed a point update to the Mac App Store. Despite its minor bump in version number, the update brings a lot of helpful changes. The timing is ‘intriguing’, as it coincides with Adobe’s announcement of a new version of Photoshop Elements from this morning. Pixelmator quotes a 2x performance improvement when saving documents, as a result of a move to a new file format. For instance, when saving to iCloud, Pixelmator can now push small deltas of what has changed between saves, rather than saving the entire image every time....

The developer behind Pokémon GO, Niantic Labs, is looking to open its platform to third-party developers. Specifically, it’s looking to open up its underlying AR platform to let developers create a similar experience within its own apps. Niantic CEO John Hanke calls it the Real World Platform. This is the same platform behind the aforementioned Pokémon GO, but also Ingress and the upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite game, which is being developed alongside Warner Bros....