Each Buddy Pokemon in Pokemon Go has a different distance it must be walked before it will find a candy. Unfortunately, you have to swap them in and out as your buddy to see how far you need to walk them. If you’re already in the process of walking a buddy, then swapping will make …

Adding flare to your Google Hangouts conversations is right at your fingertips. Google has hidden some super-adorable Easter eggs you can unlock to reveal some lol-worthy emojis and animations. 1. Typing /shruggie sends this little guy to your friend ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. 2. Sending /facepalm sends (－‸ლ). 3. Every time you type /bikeshed the background color of your chat window changes colors. …

Pokemon Go players now get experience points and stardust just for playing, and the more you play, the more you rack up. Now when you go hunting for pocket monsters you will get your normal awarded points for playing certain aspects of the game, plus you get additional rewards. You’ll get even more rewards when you play for an entire …

Many Pokemon in Pokemon Go are region specific. This means that if you want to catch them all, you need to start traveling to faraway places, right? Wrong, don’t book that plane ticket just yet. Incubating and hatching eggs is your ticket to getting those Pokemon that just won’t spawn in your hometown. Hatching is also important for evolution, as …

If you’ve got an Android and use the default keyboard, you can get rid of autocorrect words that you would never say or misspelled words that your keyboard has learned over time. All you need to do is take out the trash. First, check to make sure you have the 5.0 update or better. Go to Message+ and open it. …

Sometimes you want your Pokemon Go Plus to notify you when a Pokemon pops up or when there’s a PokeStop nearby. Sometimes you want it silent, just recording the distance you walk. Now you have control over all of that. Pokemon Go Plus finally lets you customize the finer details. Go into Settings and tap on the Pokemon Go Plus …

Thanks to the 0.41.2 for Android and 1.11.2 for iOS update, you can now assemble your best Pokemon to train in your team gym. Before, you could only take on your gym with just one Pokemon. Unless the chosen Pokemon was a monster like no other or the gym was protected by low-CP Pokemon, there was no way you were …

If you tap on the icon your Pokemon Go character in the lower left-hand side of the screen, the game will open the information page for your avatar. If you scroll further down, you’ll notice circles labeled with various titles. These are achievement badges. The purpose of achievement badges Achievement badges are awarded to you when you reach certain milestones …

At Google’s huge October 4 event, it unveiled the new version of Chromecast. Called Google Chromecast Ultra, this digital media player has 4K video support and a similar design to the second-generation version. Overall Chromecast watch time has increased 160 percent since last year, when Google unveiled the 2nd-gen Chromecast and Chromecast Audio, and the company has sold more than …

Facebook is making your messages more secure with today’s introduction of end-to-end encryption within Messenger. The rollout started with a major encryption update of Facebook-ownedWhatsApp in April 2016, but Facebook didn’t begin trials until July. Now it is available to all 1 billion users. End-to-end encryption means that your conversations are encrypted from one device to another so the conversation …