The Rest of the Day: Pokémon Go Is Finally Available for Apple Watch
Back at Apple’s September event , Niantic announced that Pokémon Go will be arriving on the Apple Watch. The day has finally arrived and you can now use your watch to aid your Pokemon adventures. About this and much more in today’s news.
- Pokémon Go is now available on Apple Watch. Your watch can notify you of nearby Pokémon and stops, and you can hatch eggs and receive candy. But you can’t actually catch a Pokemon with a watch; it is just a kind of phone app decoration. Like the Apple Watch itself. [Kotaku]
- BitTorrent Live is now available for iOS. The video streaming app offers 16 channels like TWiT.tv as well as video highlights from NASA and others. (One would imagine this is a demo of their P2P video technology if nothing else, but it’s not even clear if the app uses such technology.) [The Verge]
- Soylent’s seaweed meal supplier, TerraVia, severed ties with the company after Soylent accused their product of causing gastrointestinal upset in some customers. This is mostly PR bragging, given that Soylent has already ruled out seaweed flour as an ingredient. Whether or not algae products are to blame, Soylent is responsible for insufficiently rigorous testing of experimental products. [Gizmodo]
- Remember when it was discovered that cheap smartphones were sending data to China ? It turned out that Barnes & Noble’s junior Nooks had the same software installed. But the software maker says no user data was transferred, and Barnes & Noble has already released a software update. [9to5Google]