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Within two weeks of its release last month, Pokemon Go, the augmented reality gaming sensation, surpassed, by one estimate, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix in its day-to-day popularity on Android phones. Over on Apple devices, the game was downloaded more times in its first week than any app that came before it.

South Park writers Trey Parker and Matt Stone haven't ever really shied away from social commentary (president Donald Trump notwithstanding) and that doesn't look like it's changing with the upcoming South Park: The Fractured but Whole. When creating your character in the make-believe superhero game, Eurogamer discovered that the darker the skin tone you choose, the more the difficulty level ramps up. "Don't worry, this doesn't affect combat, just every other aspect of your life," perpetual jerk Eric Cartman says in voiceover.

"If you need to reverse-engineer a USB protocol on a computer running Linux, your work is easy because you control everything on the target system - you can just look at the raw USB data. If you'd like to reverse-engineer a USB device that plugs into a game console, on the other hand, your work is a lot harder. Until now."

To celebrate its fifth birthday, Philips is extending the compatibility of its smart lights to sync with media

It sounds innocent enough. But users are growing suspicious of the app's whimsical, canned questions, many of which read like a marketing survey.

"Company gives $1 a day in gift cards to employees using a pregnancy-tracking app that allows HR to monitor aggregated data"

Demonstration of mouse tracking on websites using JS