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The Leaked Mega Evolutions I'm Most Excited to See in Pokemon Legends: Z-A

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-18 22:08:30

The simple joy of catching and battling pocket monsters has always been enough for Pokemon to sell like gangbusters, but each new iteration still has some type of novel gimmick to shake up the gameplay -- and the upcoming Pokemon Legends: Z-A includes one of the most popular ones ever introduced: mega evolutions. Mega evolutions made their debut in Pokemon X and Y over a decade ago, and they quickly proved to be one of the most appealing new features. These powerful Pokemon forms are temporary

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Bumble BFF’s revamped app is here, focusing on friend groups and community building

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-09-19 23:19:41

With friendship apps continuing to gain popularity, Bumble announced on Wednesday the relaunch of its Bumble For Friends (BFF) app. With younger generations seeking to expand their social circles, the revamped app aims to help users connect with new friends beyond the traditional one-on-one matching that BFF has been known for. The app is built on Geneva, the community-focused social platform Bumble acquired last year. This also means that the Geneva app will be shutting down. The move should

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Airbuds is the music social network Apple and Spotify wish they had built

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-21 15:36:38

A new social network has been quietly blowing up with Gen Z and younger, and it’s not from Meta. San Francisco-based Airbuds offers a mobile, social app that lets people express themselves through their music. Users can share what they’re streaming with friends through a smartphone widget that works with a range of streaming services. On Wednesday, Airbuds is announcing its raise of $5 million in funding from early-stage venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A’s first DLC will take you to the Mega Dimension

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-09-28 15:34:49

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. We still don’t know all that much about Pokémon Legends Z-A’s main storyline, but Nintendo is already hyping up a big expansion for the new game. During today’s hourlong Direct showcase of upcoming games, Nintendo revealed that Pokémon Legends Z-

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XFN – XHTML Friends Network (2003)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 09:32:25

Xhtml Friends Network XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a ' rel ' attribute to their <a href> tags, e.g.: <a href="http://jeff.example.org" rel="friend met">... To find out how to write and use XFN, or to write a program to generate or spide

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Thuma Dupes: Japanese Joinery Bed Frames That Stack Up (2025)

wired.com Julia Forbes 2025-10-03 23:36:00

I’m a longtime fan of DreamCloud mattresses, so it came as no surprise that the brand’s Japanese joinery bed frame is an excellent product. Just like the mattress, numerous thoughtful details in this frame made it immediately stand out, so much so that I will be keeping it around for long-term testing to try with a larger variety of beds. DreamCloud made the setup of this frame seamlessly idiot-proof (@me). Each piece is labeled, and when it comes time to actually put it all together, take a ga

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A feels like a strong step forward for the series

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 05:56:51

The Pokémon series has had staying power ever since its debut in the 1990s, but it has felt especially popular in recent years, thanks to Pokémon GO and the resurgence of the trading card game. Given that more Pokémon fans are experiencing new ways to play, it’s the right time for developer Game Freak to refresh the video game series. The upcoming Pokémon Legends: Z-A looks to do just that with a more action-oriented focus on a Pokémon trainer's journey. At a special Nintendo showcase during PA

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I kissed comment culture goodbye

news.ycombinator.com Sustainable Views 2025-10-08 18:11:39

It started out harmlessly, a comment on hacker news roughly 16 years ago. From there it expanded to reddit, substack, twitter. And it increased in frequency, from every few months to every week, peaking at several times a day. It became an addictive, productive habit—I would scan the headlines for a catchy title, quickly skim the piece, and then race to the comment section and type one out. Sometimes the comments were insightful or funny. At other times, curt or nitpicky. It was an exercise of

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The Day I Kissed Comment Culture Goodbye

news.ycombinator.com Sustainable Views 2025-10-08 23:11:39

It started out harmlessly, a comment on hacker news roughly 16 years ago. From there it expanded to reddit, substack, twitter. And it increased in frequency, from every few months to every week, peaking at several times a day. It became an addictive, productive habit—I would scan the headlines for a catchy title, quickly skim the piece, and then race to the comment section and type one out. Sometimes the comments were insightful or funny. At other times, curt or nitpicky. It was an exercise of

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Home Depot's Infamous Skelly Has a Voice This Halloween Thanks to a New App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 15:52:03

With Labor Day marking the unofficial end of summer, it's time to start thinking about setting up your Halloween decorations. And this year, Home Depot's infamous giant skeleton returns with an app that gives the new Ultra Skelly a voice and fresh moves to spook trick-or-treaters. Make no bones about it: Skelly's going high tech. The new animatronic version is shorter than the original, at 6.5 feet tall, but you can freak out your whole neighborhood with this skeleton's rotating upper torso, mo

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WhatsApp Status is getting a Close Friends feature

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-17 23:24:36

While most U.S. users have never used—or even heard of—WhatsApp Status Updates, Meta recently revealed that the tab is now used by 1.5 billion people per day worldwide. And soon, WhatsApp will take a page from Instagram by adding a Close Friends feature. If you’re unfamiliar with WhatsApp Status, it works much like Instagram Stories, where users can post photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. For the last few years, Instagram users have enjoyed a Close Friends feature, which lets the

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Pokémon looks scary again in the new Z-A trailer

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-11-03 21:35:31

One of the most brilliant things about Pokémon Legends: Arceus was the way it dropped you into the wilderness to fend for yourself as wild monsters tried to kill you. It was a surprising deviation from the franchise’s typically chill vibe that complimented the game’s story about how humans once lived in constant fear of pokémon. Arceus’ mild horror elements felt like something that might not carry over to Pokémon Legends: Z-A, but the new game’s latest trailer makes it seem like Nintendo wants t

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The Mandarin Strikes In Hasbro’s Newest Marvel Legends Reveal

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-12 06:00:48

The Mandarin is one of Iron Man’s oldest foes, with a history in the comics as long as it is fraught. But while the character has been adapted multiple times over the course of the MCU—first more controversially with Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery character in Iron Man 3, then as Tony Leung’s Xu Wenwu in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings—and earned himself a few action figures from Hasbro inspired by those appearances along the way, the toymaker has yet to bring a comics version of the v

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How to use (or turn off) your Instagram Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 14:00:35

Instagram Map, the new Instagram feature copying Snapchat's Snap Map, makes it simple to share your location with friends. So simple you might not understand who you're sharing it without digging into your settings. That's naturally led to confusion from some Instagram users as to how the feature works. If you already spend a lot of time on Instagram and are looking for a way to see where your friends have been, it's worth familiarizing yourself with how Instagram Map works. And if you're worri

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Pokemon Legends: Z-A's Real-Time Battles Forced Me to Think Fast (and I Liked It)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 09:59:29

I wandered the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center days before it would be flooded with tens of thousands of fans for the 2025 Pokemon World Championships, looking for a tucked-away room to get a taste of a game diehard Poke-nerds would give anything to see. For a brief 20 minutes, I got to play Pokemon Legends: Z-A. Let's be clear: My time with the upcoming game -- split into two 10-minute sessions -- was hardly enough to reveal every way Z-A will build on its predecessor. The groundbreakin

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Pokemon Legends: Z-A Hands-On: Trying Out Real-Time and Mega-Evolution Fights

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 20:00:11

I wandered the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center days before it would be flooded with tens of thousands of fans for the 2025 Pokemon World Championships, looking for a tucked-away room to get a taste of a game diehard Poke-nerds would give anything to see. For a brief 20 minutes, I got to play Pokemon Legends: Z-A. Let's be clear: My time with the upcoming game -- split into two 10-minute sessions -- was hardly enough to reveal every way Z-A will build on its predecessor. The groundbreakin

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For Legends: Z-A’s battle system, I rewired the Pokémon part of my brain

theverge.com Kallie Plagge 2025-11-14 20:00:00

Even if you’ve never played a Pokémon game before, you can probably figure out how the type chart works. Fire types are weak to water types, water is weak to grass, and grass is weak to fire. Type matchups are foundational to Pokémon battles, far before you get into the weeds of stats and strats. I’ve had the Pokémon type chart memorized for around 25 years. That still didn’t stop me from making a rookie error in Pokémon Legends: Z-A. I panicked and sent out my Weedle against an NPC’s Pidgeotto

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Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 11:47:43

What is the license of OWhisper? It is GPLv3 currently, but we want to make it MIT at some point. (It depends on some code from Hyprnote , which is GPL licensed.)

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Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-19 15:35:41

Instagram is working on a feature called “Picks” that aims to help users find common interests. The Meta-owned social network confirmed to TechCrunch that Picks is an internal prototype and isn’t being tested externally. The feature was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who often finds unreleased features while they’re still under development. According to screenshots shared by Paluzzi, people select their favorite movies, books, TV shows, games, and music, or their “Picks.

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Basic Social Skills Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 15:19:01

The basic guide covers the core concepts of social interaction. It contains three sections made up of seventeen in-depth lessons, and it's 100% free. If you find the basic guide helpful, please share it with your friends or your favorite social skills forum. Also, don't forget to check out the member's guide once you finish reading the basic guide. Good luck, and enjoy improving your social skills! Think of Foundations as the introduction to the guide. It explains how to get the most out of th

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What Even Is Instagram Now?

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-11-26 04:00:00

In her classic novel Frankenstein, author Mary Shelley imagines a monster that's reanimated with its piecemeal body sewn together, tendon by tendon. “The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials,” Shelley writes. That’s exactly what scrolling through Instagram feels like right now—an ungodly morass of features stitched together. It’s an AI search tool! It’s a shopping app! It’s getting on my last nerve. Instagram is having a full-blown identity crisis, and I’m exha

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Best Wireless Headphones (2025): Tested Over Many Hours

wired.com Parker Hall 2025-11-28 15:33:00

Other Wireless Headphones We’ve Tested Wireless headphones are the default these days, and there are roughly 1 gazillion of them (and counting). We do our best to test them all, but not everything we test can make the big list. Here are some other good options worth trying. Sony WH-1000XM5 for $300-348: Sony's XM5 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) remain a top headphone, even after being supplanted by the fancier XM6. For a fairly sizable price reduction, you'll get still-fabulous noise-canceling tech,

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Friendslop is coming for the Switch 2

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-11-28 18:38:00

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. During today’s Nintendo Indie World showcase, I had two epiphanies. The first was the realization that friendslop games are about to hit the Switch 2 like a falling piano in a Road Runner cartoon. The second was that I love that for me, because that means I can finally play them. My friends love “friendslop,” the initially

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Instagram lets you see your friends' locations now, and vice versa - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-30 14:44:00

Instagram / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Instagram is unveiling several new features. Its new Snapchat-style map lets you see where your friends are. There's also a new way to see content your friends are interacting with. Meta has unveiled a number of changes to Instagram, all aimed at helping you better connect with your friends and their favorite content. A new location-sharing map is on the way, along with new ways to find content. A Snapchat-style friend map Maybe t

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Instagram adds a new friends map feature that sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-30 20:29:40

Instagram just announced an update with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends, though the long-awaited reposting tool is nothing ot sneeze at, either. Once opted into, the map shares a user's last active location with chosen contacts. The location sharing feature is turned off until selected and there are numerous customization controls. For instance, Instagram users can choose to share location data with all friends, Close Fri

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Instagram's new location sharing feature sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 23:08:11

Instagram just announced an update with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends. Once opted into, the map shares a user's last active location with chosen contacts. The location sharing feature is turned off until selected and there are numerous customization controls. For instance, Instagram users can choose to share location data with all friends, Close Friends, selected accounts or nobody at all. This data can be restricted wh

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Instagram adds two familiar social media features to its app

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-03 02:49:56

Meta is updating Instagram today with some familiar social network features from other services. For example, the photo- and video-sharing service is basically getting its own version of the classic retweet. Separately, Instagram continues to take inspiration from Snapchat with its own social map feature. Instagram is two months shy of turning 15, and as a sign of maturity, we’re getting the first official repost button: With reposts, you can repost public reels and feed posts, making it easie

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I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Kui Mwai 2025-12-08 08:18:41

On a warm July evening, I dove into bed and grabbed my phone, giddy and anxious. As I scrolled through TikTok, attempting to calm my nerves, a Google Calendar notification flashed on the screen: “VIDEO CALL WITH SIMONE.” Before I could swipe the reminder away, Simone FaceTimed me. I attempted to rehearse my greeting as the call buffered: Should I keep it cool with a, “Hey, what’s good?” No, that sounds cold. What about a Keke Palmer-esque, “Girl!” No, that’s doing too much. “Good evening?” No,

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I Asked Four Former Friends Why We Stopped Speaking-Here's What I Learned (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Kui Mwai 2025-12-08 20:18:41

On a warm July evening, I dove into bed and grabbed my phone, giddy and anxious. As I scrolled through TikTok, attempting to calm my nerves, a Google Calendar notification flashed on the screen: “VIDEO CALL WITH SIMONE.” Before I could swipe the reminder away, Simone FaceTimed me. I attempted to rehearse my greeting as the call buffered: Should I keep it cool with a, “Hey, what’s good?” No, that sounds cold. What about a Keke Palmer-esque, “Girl!” No, that’s doing too much. “Good evening?” No,

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Pokemon Legends: Z-A Gives Us First Look at Mega Dragonite, Wild Mega Evolutions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 18:00:03

Pokemon Legends: Z-A is bringing back mega evolutions, the battle gimmick that first appeared in the X and Y games, but is also bringing us new twists, including brand-new mega evolutions. A recent Pokemon Presents video walked us through a few different features of the game, including the new and returning mechanics from the series' last romp through Lumiose City. Mega evolution, which allows you to temporarily evolve certain Pokemon if they're equipped with a corresponding stone, is coming ba

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