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Games that let you bounce virtual balls off the floor and wall. Apps that make you feel like you’re at the 1969 moon landing after pointing your phone at a poster.   These are a couple of the new things you’ll be able to do on your iPhone and iPad with Apple’s augmented reality update, …

Still playing Pokemon Go? Did you quit months ago? Either way, developer Niantic is about to give you another reason to pick up the mobile game. As long as you’ve got a recent iPhone, that is. GIF by Sean Hollister/CNET “Soon” — and we take “soon” to mean possibly as soon as later today, Wednesday — Pokemon Go will see …

“There’s a hidden world that lies just beneath the surface, filled with magical creatures that only some people can see.”  Did I just describe the wizarding world of Harry Potter — or Pokemon Go, the incredibly popular augmented-reality game?  Pokemon Go, in case you’re somehow unaware, is about catching tiny cute monsters that have mysteriously appeared in the real world. …

It’s not just Facebook, Twitter and Google. Even Pokemon Go, the mega-popular smartphone game that became a phenomenon last year, was the target of Russian agents trying to meddle with the 2016 US election, according to a report Thursday by CNN. The effort was allegedly centered on a campaign called “Don’t Shoot Us,” an apparent reference “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” …

You can finally realize your dreams of becoming a Pikachu, thanks to a new Pokemon filter released Monday on Snapchat. Here’s what Pokemon had to say about the limited-time-only filter in a related blog post: Pikachu’s ears, nose, and bright-red cheeks will appear over your smiling face when you use this Lens. Then, you can open your mouth to call on …

Do you think the creators of Pokemon Go should have to fill out a 10-page event-permit application each time you want to play the augmented reality game in a public park? Neither does a Wisconsin district judge, who just pressed pause on a local ordinance that singled out AR games for particularly tough treatment. Some three months after Candy Lab, …

Doing the math, I must have tapped my phone screen close to a hundred thousand times playing Magikarp Jump, the new Pokemon-themed mobile game. I regret every single one of those taps. Some background: A Magikarp is a Pokemon. It looks like a gaping, stunted koi fish. It’s famously useless, save for the fact it turns into a huge water …

I still remember my walks to work last July, scanning my neighborhood’s streets for Caterpies and Pidgies. Looking around, phone in hand like a pocket tricorder. Last July, of course, everyone else joined in, too: at Starbucks, in Central Park, at zoos. It was a fad. It’s also a foreshadowing of what’s probably going to happen in mobile, and augmented …

Pokemon Go may not be the worldwide sensation it once was, but it’s still a hugely popular mobile game. One year after its launch, we look back at what Pokemon Go influenced and some of our favorite memories from the game. We also discuss the development of robots to help the elderly and diagnose diseases, and plug CNET’s new iHate package, which …

One year ago today, Pokemon Go took the world by storm. By many measures, it was the fastest growing app of all time.  One year later, is Pokemon Go dead? Was Pokemon Go a fad?  Not even close: According to developer Niantic, 65 million people play the game each month. To put that in perspective: Uber has only 40 million …