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Meta Reimagines Facebook's Poke Feature to Gamify Gen Z Flirting

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 18:06:00

When was the last time you were poked on Facebook? The feature, which has endured since the early days of the social-media platform, is still clinging to life and in fact being pushed again by Meta as a way to maintain connections with friends. Originally intended as a way to reach out to other users without actually sending a message or any meaningful content, it has been the focus of soft relaunches in 2017 and 2024. Meta has now started promoting poking all over again, according to TechCrun

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Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-09 11:32:52

Technically, the poke never really left Facebook. The classic feature from Facebook’s early days lets users get a friend’s attention with a virtual nudge of sorts. While the poke fell out of use ages ago, the company has more recently seen an uptick in its use among younger users, which has now prompted it to make the poke a more central part of the Facebook experience. Now users are able to poke their friends from a new, dedicated button directly on their Facebook profile, which will alert th

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Pokemon TCG Pocket's Next Set Showcases Johto's Rarest Legendaries

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 18:11:48

The Legendary Beasts from the second generation of Pokemon games are roaring into the digital card game Pokemon TCG Pocket when its next mini-expansion, Secluded Springs, is released on Aug. 28. The smaller subset of digital cards supplements the recent Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion, which focused on the rare Pokemon Ho-Oh and Lugia. (Older fans may remember them from the box art of Pokemon Gold and Silver, released all the way back in 1999.) While the official list of digital cards in the se

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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 2025-11-11 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 2025-11-12 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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Pokemon Legends: Z-A Gives Us First Look at Mega Dragonite, Wild Mega Evolutions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 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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One of the Rarest Pokemon in History Is Coming to Pokemon TCG Pocket

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 22:53:12

No honest person can resist the attraction of Pokemon Gold. That's why Pokemon TCG Pocket's Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion set is going all in on generation two when it arrives on July 29. This set will be one of the game's larger offerings, featuring more than 200 cards. I'm sure that has the most ravenous collectors breathing a sigh of relief, since the past two expansions -- Eevee Grove and Extradimensional Crisis -- have both had smaller complimentary card lists to build on Celestial Guard

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UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 10:17:24

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New Pokemon Theme Park, Mobile Game and TV Show Revealed

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 04:47:00

It's that time again, trainers: Grab your Pokedex and get ready to catch some new pocket monsters, because we've just been treated to a healthy heaping of the latest developments in the world of Pokemon. Today's Pokemon Presents stream was the first one since Pokemon Day in February. That stream ended up being pretty massive, featuring game announcements and content updates that we heard whispers about from GameFreak's infamous 2024 data breach. Read more: The Top 25 Best Pokemon Games of All

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Pokemon Legends: Z-A Gets Release Date, New Mega and Rogue Mega Evolutions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 05:19:49

Mega evolutions are back in Pokemon Legends: Z-A, but the new game is also introducing some twists on the battle gimmick that first appeared in the X and Y games. We got a sampling of new info about the upcoming game in a Pokemon Presents video, which walked us through a few different features of the game. Mega evolution, which allows you to temporarily evolve certain Pokémon if they're equipped with a corresponding stone, is coming back in Legends: Z-A. But we're also getting new twists on thi

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This New Free Mobile Pokemon Puzzle Game Lets You Weave Digital Plushes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 05:31:21

The Pokemon Company unveiled a host of Pokemon content at its Pokemon Presents event on Tuesday. We saw a new trailer for Pokemon Legends: Z-A, a release date for the second season of the Netflix series Pokemon Concierge and a free, new mobile game you can play now, called Pokemon Friends. The latest Pokemon mobile game is a puzzle game where you untangle threads of yarn in order to weave Pokemon plushes for your in-game collection. You can play it now on iOS and Android devices for free, or yo

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Every Free Pokemon Code and In-Game Item From Pokemon Presents July 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 09:09:00

July's Pokemon Presents didn't feature any major mainline game announcements, but you're eating good if you play one of the Pokemon live service games. Sizable updates are coming to the whole suite of Pokemon mobile games, including Pokemon Go, Pokemon Masters Ex, Pokemon Cafe Remix and Pokemon Sleep (though Pokemon TCG Pocket was left out to dry this time around). New playable characters are coming to Pokemon Unite, and we got additional news about Pokemon Champions and Pokemon Legends: Z-A. E

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What to Expect at Pokemon Presents July 2025: DJ Pikachu and Z-A Legends

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 18:17:08

It's that time again, trainers: Grab your Pokedex and get ready to catch some new pocket monsters, because we're about to hear everything about the latest developments in the world of Pokemon. The Pokemon Presents July 2025 stream is the first one since Pokemon Day in February. That stream ended up being pretty massive, featuring game announcements and content updates that we heard whispers about from GameFreak's infamous 2024 data breach. Read more: The Top 25 Best Pokemon Games of All Time,

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Mkosi – Build Bespoke OS Images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 05:14:20

mkosi — Build Bespoke OS Images A fancy wrapper around dnf --installroot , apt , pacman and zypper that generates customized disk images with a number of bells and whistles. Documentation Contributing Tutorials Project

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How to Watch Pokemon Presents 2025 for Legends: Z-A, TCG Pocket and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 23:20:00

It's that time again, trainers: Grab your Pokedex and get ready to catch some new pocket monsters, because we're about to hear everything about the latest developments in the world of Pokemon. The Pokemon Presents July 2025 stream is the first one since Pokemon Day in February. That stream ended up being pretty massive, featuring game announcements and content updates that we heard whispers about from GameFreak's infamous 2024 data breach. While we don't know what to expect this time around, i

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Chasing Lost Languages

news.ycombinator.com Laura Spinney 2026-01-27 06:03:17

If humans have been talking for 200,000 years—for most of our species’ existence, that is—then an estimated half a million languages might have been spoken in all. To put that number in perspective, around 7,000 languages are spoken today. And because writing was only invented about 5,000 years ago, the vast majority of those half a million languages are lost to us, having been spoken in a preliterate world and died before they could be recorded. That’s half a million distinct systems of knowled

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Pokemon TCG Pocket's Eevee Grove Expansion Has Convinced My Partner to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-14 23:28:19

I've been locked in on Pokemon TCG Pocket since day 1, and despite some reservations about how quickly new set expansions have been released, I log in at least twice a day to open my free packs. My girlfriend, on the other hand, stopped playing the game shortly after it came out. I was hoping that I could keep her engaged as my trading card buddy -- we met through playing Pokemon Go on the same college campus, and I pulled out my physical card collection during one of our first dates (I know, v

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Pokemon Go: Is the Gold Bottle Cap Worth Buying a $20 Battle Pass?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 23:57:13

I've been playing Pokemon Go since its release in 2016, and I've never caught a perfect shiny legendary. They're absurdly rare, because you need to roll the right stats and the alternate pigmentation on the same Pokemon. I suspect I'll be seeing a lot more shiny legendary Pokemon with max stats (or shundos, as the community calls them) soon, though, since developer Niantic has released the first Gold Bottle Cap into Pokemon Go. This powerful item lets you have total control over your Pokemon's

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Netflix's content briefly showed up in the Apple TV app

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 02:16:59

Breaking: Someone made an oopsie. On Thursday, word spread online that some of Netflix's content began appearing in the Apple TV app. The lack of an official announcement (and extremely buggy nature) of the integration was enough to cast doubt on the news. But that didn't stop users from rejoicing and sharing "FINALLY!" GIFs on social media. Unfortunately, your triumphant festivities weren't warranted, as the company has said it was unintentional. A Netflix spokesperson told The Verge on Friday

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Latest Tech News

Meta Reimagines Facebook's Poke Feature to Gamify Gen Z Flirting

Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again

Pokemon TCG Pocket's Next Set Showcases Johto's Rarest Legendaries

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

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

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

One of the Rarest Pokemon in History Is Coming to Pokemon TCG Pocket

UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

New Pokemon Theme Park, Mobile Game and TV Show Revealed

Pokemon Legends: Z-A Gets Release Date, New Mega and Rogue Mega Evolutions

This New Free Mobile Pokemon Puzzle Game Lets You Weave Digital Plushes

Every Free Pokemon Code and In-Game Item From Pokemon Presents July 2025

What to Expect at Pokemon Presents July 2025: DJ Pikachu and Z-A Legends

Mkosi – Build Bespoke OS Images

How to Watch Pokemon Presents 2025 for Legends: Z-A, TCG Pocket and More

Chasing Lost Languages

Pokemon TCG Pocket's Eevee Grove Expansion Has Convinced My Partner to Play

Pokemon Go: Is the Gold Bottle Cap Worth Buying a $20 Battle Pass?

Netflix's content briefly showed up in the Apple TV app

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