Pokémon Go maker Niantic is selling its games division to Scopely for $3.5B | TechCrunch
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Mobile gaming giant Scopely on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire Pokémon Go maker Niantic's gaming division for $3.5 billion.
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Not even that. It could just replace GPS if mapped well enough. And there has been a lot of talk of stuff like that(GPS replacements). Part of my worry with TikTok which. I am naive and this is probably unfounded. But I worried if we got into a war China would flip a switch to expose just that using live data. Even if it’s anonomized. You know where hurts the most…

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Gps wont be replaced. Gps works litterally anywhere on the planet’s surface without any other data connection. Your phones acceleratormeters are decent. But will quickly become disoriented without recalibration from gps.

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If you mean doing stuff like using ground stations to triangulate location, phones have been doing that already. Why would Pokemon Go have anything to do with it?

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GPS seems like one of the rare technologies that is working just fine as it is and hasn’t been fucked with yet, can we just keep it at that for once in our lives?

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You’re absolutely right, but unfortunately Hitler is in the white house and trying to ruin GPS for the entire planet.

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