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Tuesday 5 November 2019
Here are all of the Gen 8 Pokémon leaks
Whether your upset or happy about the look of the new Pokémon, here they are.
It's less than a month away from the release of Pokémon Sword and Shield, but that hasn't stopped several gamers from leaking specific creatures from the Galar region Pokédex. We've collected the images and names of each of these Pokémon leaks in one place so you can see them all from one convenient location.
Just keep in mind that since these are leaks, it's possible that some of these are fakes. We'll keep an eye out and will update this section as more pocket monsters are revealed.
There are some serious spoilers ahead! Turn back now if you don't want to see anything.
All Gen 8 Pokémon Sword and Shield leaks
Grookey evolutions
Grookey's final evolution, Rillaboom, looks like he'd be the leader of the drum section for college football.
Grookey (Grass) --> ??? (Grass) --> Rillaboom (Grass)
Sobble evolutions
This slinky water Pokémon ends up looking like some kind of spy.
Sobble (Water) --> Sizzle (Water) --> Intellion (Water)
Scorebunny evolutions
Scorebunny's final evolution looks like he would be the mascot for a sports team.
Scorebunny (Fire) --> Rabboot (Fire) --> Cinderace (Fire)
Wooloo evolutions
We know that Wooloo turns into Dubwool, but we aren't sure what this final evolution's typing is.
Wooloo (Normal) --> Dubwool (???)
Chewtle evolutions
Some think Drednaw's pre-evolution is weird-looking while others find him adorable. We'll be curious to see if he's also Water type.
Chewtle (???) --> Drednaw (Water)
Rookidee evolutions
Wondering how the flying taxi got his start? Here's every evolution leading up to Corviknight.
Rookidee (Flying) --> Corvisquire (Flying) --> Corviknight (Steel/Flying)
Galarian Ponyta evolutions
Galarian Ponyta (Psychic) --> Galarian Rapidash (???)
Yamper evolutions
The queen is sure to be seen with a buzzing number of these electric canines.
Yamper (Electric) --> Boltund (Electric)
Impidimp evolutions
This mischeivious fellow jumped straight out of a fairytale. We'll be curious to see if his later two evolutions are still Dark/Fairy type or if they're something else.
Impidimp (Dark/Fairy) --> Morgrem (???) --> Grimmsnarl (???)
Milcry evolutions
You should never cry over spilled milk, but the cuteness of these sweet evolutions might just move you to tears.
Milcry (Fairy) --> Alcremie (Fairy)
Rolycoly evolutions
These charcoal Pokémon are a great way to allude to England's Industrial Revolution. Fittingly, they're all Rock/Fire types.
Rolycoly (Rock) --> Carkoal (Rock/Fire) --> Coalossal (Rock/Fire)
Sinistea evolutions
I'm honestly in love with these spook-tea Pokémon evolutions. We know for sure that the second evolution is Ghost type, but we still need clarification on the first evolution.
Sinistea (???) --> Polteageist (Ghost)
Arrokuda evolutions
We aren't sure what these types these creatures are, but we wouldn't be surprised to learn they're Water and something else.
Arrokuda (???) --> Baraskewda (???)
Unnamed Fox evolution
This gorgeous creature popped up online, but so far we don't know the names of the evolutions or their types. We'll update when we learn more.
??? (???) --> ??? (???)
Purrzerker
We don't know much about these Pokémon other than they appear to be Galarian Meowth forms and/or their Galarian evolutions. We'll dig and see if we can learn more about them.
Purrzerker (???)
Cufant evolution
These awesome looking elephany Pokémon have some interesting color variation. Unfortunately, we don't currently know what type either of them are.
Cufant (???) --> Copperajah (???)
Toxel evolution
I absolutely love this grumpy-looking purple dude and his Spyro-colored evolution. We'll have to wait and see if the evolved form is also Poison/Electric.
Toxel (Poison/Electric) --> ??? (???)
Hattena evolution
It's hard to say what type these three will be. If I was to guess, I'd say either Normal or Fairy.
Hattena (???) --> Hattrem (???) --> Hatterne (???)
Silcobra evolution
My guess is that these snakes are Ground-type Pokémon. Either way, I think they both have fun designs.
Silcobra (???) --> Sandacondra (???)
Sizzlepede evolution
No Pokémon game would be complete without a new batch of bugs. It looks like these are Fire types, but that hasn't been confirmed.
Sizzlepede (???) --> Centiskortch (???) --> ??? (???)
Clobbopus evolution
These sweet new Pokémon are Water and Fighting types. Look how the worried little guy becomes a confident boxer.
Clobbopus (Water/Fighting) --> Grapploct (Water/Fighting)
Snom evolution
Snom nom nom. Ooh, these Pokémon are so cute! They're both Ice/Bug types.
Snom (Ice/Bug) --> Frosmoth (Ice/Bug)
Blipbug evolution
This evolutionary trio are all Bug/Psychic types. It looks like it starts off like a caterpillar and eventually turns into a ladybug Pokémon.
Blipbug (Bug/Psychic) --> Dottler (Bug/Psychic) --> Orbeetle (Bug/Psychic)
Skwovet evolution
D'aww! Look at those chubby cheeks! These Normal-type Pokémon definitely belong in the U.K.-inspired Galar region.
Skwovet (Normal) --> Greedunt (Normal)
Cursola (Galarian Corsola) evolution
This haunting Galarian version is a statement on the current state of the ocean; sad and somber.
Cursola (Ghost) -->Pinchurchin (???)
Galarian Mr. Mime
It looks like Mr. Mime has made some unfortunate life choices to get where he is now. We currently aren't sure what type this variant is.
Mr. Mime (???)
Mr. Rime
This guy looks like he'd either be Mr. Mime's best friend or his bitter rival. We're not sure what his type is just yet, but we'll update when we learn more.
Mr. Rime (???)
Indeedee
I can imagine this Pokémon turning to me after I've said something stupid and condescendingly saying, "indeed." It's absolutely adorable. We currently don't know this Pokémon's type.
Indeedee (???)
Unnamed pengin evolution
We currently don't know that names of these adorable penguin Pokémon. Our guess is that they are Ice types, but we don't know for sure.
??? (???) --> ??? (???)
Stonejourner
Stonejourner is likely a Ground or Rock-type Pokémon seeing as how he resembles Stonehenge. We'll update when we learn more about it.
Stonejourner (???)
Applin evolution
These adorable creatures appear to be apple Pokémon. Currently, it's unclear if there's a third evolution or not and we're not sure on their typing either.
Applin (???) --> Flapple (???) --> ??? (???)
Dreepy evolution
This trio of Pokémon each have a head shaped somewhat like a paper airplane. We currently don't know their typing, but I'd guess it might be Flying type.
Dreepy (???) --> Darkloak (???) --> Dragapult (???)
Falinks
We don't know much about this caterpillar bug. It's likely that it has an evolution, but we don't know for sure.
Falinks (???)
Darumaka evolution
Not sure if the name is trying to sound like the Three Musketeers' d'Artagnan or a variation of Orangutan. It does have a ape-like appearance, though. It looks like it's going to be an Ice type, but we don't know for sure.
Darumaka (???) --> Darmanitan (???)
Fossil Pokémon
In Sword and Shield, you can choose a top fossil and a bottom fossil. Depending on which ones you choose, you'll get one of these four Pokémon.
- Dracozolt (???)
- Dracovish (???)
- Arctozolt (???)
- Arctovish (???)
Eternatus
This appears to be the legendary Pokémon for the Galar region. We currently don't know his type, but my guess is Psychic or Ghost.
Eternatus (???)
So many new Pokémon!
There you have it. Every Pokémon that's been leaked so far. What do you think? Have we missed any? Do you love any of them? Do any of them seriously disappoint you? Tell us about it in the comments.
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Can Fitbit survive Google?
Google is buying Fitbit, which previously bought Pebble, and if my Twitter feed is any indication, not everyone is happy about it. Small, beloved hardware companies that are struggling to survive on their own being gobbled up by the big tech titans is almost becoming a cliche. But it's also affecting a lot of customers. Namely, us. So, let's break it down.
First, shout out to the biz pubs for keeping their headlines on this real:
- Google buys Fitbit for 2.1 Billion to Boost Hardware
- Google to Buy Fitbit, Amping Up Wearables Race
Boosting! Amping up! And the Apple headlines from last week?
- Apple Revamping Smart Home Efforts After Falling Behind Amazon, Google
- Apple Bets on New $249 AirPods Pro Amid Weak iPhone Sales
Falling! Weak!
C'mon friends, you're not even trying to hide it!
Anyway, in a blog post, Google's Rick Osterloh, Senior Vice President, Devices & Services said:
Over the years, Google has made progress with partners in this space with Wear OS and Google Fit, but we see an opportunity to invest even more in Wear OS as well as introduce Made by Google wearable devices into the market. Fitbit has been a true pioneer in the industry and has created engaging products, experiences and a vibrant community of users. By working closely with Fitbit's team of experts, and bringing together the best AI, software and hardware, we can help spur innovation in wearables and build products to benefit even more people around the world.
In a second blog post Sameer Samat, Vice President, Product Management, Android, Google Play & Wear OS;
We're looking forward to collaborating with Fitbit to bring the best of our smartwatch platforms and health applications together, and enabling our partners to build the next generation of wearables.
In other words, Google was never able to translate the success of Android for phones into Android for other product categories. Not tablets. Not watches. Neither Android Wear nor Wear OS ever helped create any truly compelling or competitive products to really catch on with consumers.
That's in stark contrast to the Apple Watch, which has been increasingly successful building off the iPhone and iOS platform.
Samsung, one of the biggest and most successful Android phone vendors, though, eschewed Android for their own Tizen platform instead.
Likewise Fitbit, which also built its own OS and gained a devoted following… just not one big enough to actually sustain it as an independent company, unfortunately.
We can see that by the bargain basement price Google ended up paying — 2.1 billion, less than 2x earnings, where 3x is usually the baseline.
James Park, co-founder and CEO of Fitbit, in a more traditional press release:
Google is an ideal partner to advance our mission. With Google's resources and global platform, Fitbit will be able to accelerate innovation in the wearables category, scale faster, and make health even more accessible to everyone. I could not be more excited for what lies ahead.
Hardware, apologies for the cliche, is just hard. I think sometimes we get excited and hyperbolic when new products are announced, and companies try to Jedi-mind-trick us about how far they've come in such short a time.
But Google has struggled with hardware. As much as the market likes to criticize Apple for being bad at services, Apple services keep expanding, as do their profits from services.
Google, on the other hand, bought and had to fire sale off Motorola, keeping only the patents and the aforementioned Osterloh. Google Glass shattered in the market. The Pixel Phones have never sold well and been plagued by different hardware issues over the years. The terrifying Boston Dynamics zombi-bots came and went. They bought HTC's design team and while I really like the looks of the Pixel 4, it's unclear how well that team is assimilating into Google. The Pixel Slate was so panned so badly they canceled the entire category. The original Pixel Buds didn't take root and the new ones aren't slated until next year. And they never managed to release the long-rumored Pixel watch.
Even software is tough, much less ecosystem. Bugs are one thing but establishing platforms — well, there's never a guarantee. Just look at Microsoft with mobile.
And, yeah, Google with tablets and watches. Particularly watches where, they've bought technology from Fossil and now the entirety of Fitbit.
Sameer Samet said:
When we introduced Wear OS by Google (then called Android Wear) five years ago, wearable tech was pretty nascent.
Five years ago, Apple announced the original Apple Watch and it went on sale the next spring.
Much like Google's initial reaction to the iPad was Honeycomb, which really helped nobody and nothing, the announcement of Android Wear just didn't have much there, there.
With Android for phones, Google was smart but also fortunate. There were a bunch of skilled phone makers on the market who knew how to make the hardware. Samsung, Motorola, HTC, and others. Google undercut Microsoft and took over the software part of the modular play.
With tablets, there was Tablet PC, but it was nowhere nearly as competitive or innovative a space until the iPad. With smartwatches, there was Microsoft's spot, Pebble, and precious little else, until Apple Watch.
At the silicon level, it was and remains even worse. Apple is on the S5 system-in-package already, and is evens stuffing H1 systems-in-package into our ears now with AirPods Pro, and Qualcomm has only managed to serve up some twice rehashed old phone chips with a co-processor. They have more on the way, but it's hard to see them being able to even afford to invest in wearable silicon when they have profit and loss on each chip — unlike Apple which worries only about the whole device — without a successful market. Chicken, meet egg.
So, will Google + Fitbit be able to do any better than Google was alone? Maybe. I'd dearly love for there to be real competition for the Apple Watch on the market.
Apple is good at competing with themselves. See the previous music player market and the current tablet and watch markets, which were and are essentially iPod, iPad, and Apple Watch markets. But they're always best when they're competing against strong competitors, and that's always best for us, the customers.
But, with Google, it's never just about the product. It's about the data.
And that's where the biggest challenge in all this lies. People who love Fitbit LOVE Fitbit. The company. Their products. And their community. And they may not share or transfer that love over to Google. They may even be suspicious about their data and Google's intentions towards it.
Osterloh, to his credit, seems to understand this, saying:
this is a big responsibility and we work hard to protect your information, put you in control and give you transparency about your data. Similar to our other products, with wearables, we will be transparent about the data we collect and why. We will never sell personal information to anyone. Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads. And we will give Fitbit users the choice to review, move, or delete their data.
Now, when Google talks about privacy, what they've been talking about to date is privacy from third parties and data retention with Google — giving you the ability to delete it once they've extracted all value from it. Which is totally not the same thing.
So, we'll have to wait and see how all of this is implemented.
Of course, Google doesn't sell anyone's personal information, it's way too valuable for that. And they don't have to run ads against all types of data either. A lot of it can be used to build the all-important algorithms that power everything internally.
So far, though, there are just too many questions and not enough answers. The end result some consumers will probably want to see, finally, is a Pixel Watch. Something that can help point the way forward for all of Google's Wear OS partners and kick-start a better, brighter computational watch world for everyone.
And for Google, it's to have a fleet of Watches out there, Pixel and otherwise, just collecting all the data they need to keep building that Star Trek computer they've always wanted to take from fiction and make fact.
And we, all of us, are going to have to very carefully navigate between their interests and hour, love for Fitbit and what Fitbit becomes.
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His Dark Materials review: Gritty, uncompromising and your next TV obsession - CNET
The BBC and HBO adaptation of Philip Pullman's book series will warm your cockles while chilling you to the bone.
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Data Standards Body establishes Energy Advisory Committee ahead of Consumer Data Right mandate
Fourteen initial members have been appointed to the committee for 12 months.
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The best Apple HomeKit-compatible devices
Although they've been slow to trickle out, the list of HomeKit smart home products continues to grow. Check out the best Apple HomeKit-compatible devices currently available in 2019.
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US comedian Jim Meskimen's deepfake video
Jim Meskimen has used his impressionist skills to create a deepfake video.
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Uber’s losses top $1 billion, trumping better than expected revenues
Better than expected revenues couldn’t divert investor attention from the fact that Uber still managed to lose more than $1 billion in the most recent quarter as the company’s stock fell in after-hours trading.
There are bright spots in the latest earnings report, not least that the company managed to stanch the bleeding that had cost the company over $5 billion in the previous quarter.
Revenue grew to $3.8 billion, up from $2.9 billion in the year-ago period, representing a 30% boost. But even as Uber’s core business shows signs of stabilizing and its core markets continue to show growth, its other business units appear to be hemorrhaging cash at increasingly high rates.
“Our results this quarter decisively demonstrate the growing profitability of our Rides segment,” said Dara Khosrowshahi, the company’s chief executive, in a statement. “Rides Adjusted EBITDA is up 52% year-over-year and now more than covers our corporate overhead. Revenue growth and take rates in our Eats business also accelerated nicely. We’re pleased to see the impact that continued category leadership, greater financial discipline, and an industry-wide shift towards healthier growth are already having on our financial performance.”
Losses in earnings at the company’s Uber Eats business grew 67% to $316 million from $189 million in the year-ago period. And performance in the company’s freight division looks even worse. Losses in freight ballooned by 161%, growing to $81 million from $31 million in the same quarter of 2018.
Also contributing to the company’s losses for the quarter were stock-based compensation expenses, which added another $401 million to the tallies against the company.
Given that the lock-up period is about to end for institutional investors, that could spell even more trouble for the company — as institutional investors who bought into the company before its public offering may look to sell.
That said, Uber has taken a number of steps to correct its course and put the company on a path to profitability, which Khosrowshahi says should happen in the next two years.
In October, the company announced the last of three rounds of sweeping layoffs at the company that saw 1,185 staffers lose their jobs. Khosrowshahi called the layoffs a chance to ensure that the company was “structured for success for the next few years.” In an email to staff, he wrote, “This has resulted in difficult but necessary changes to ensure we have the right people in the right roles in the right locations, and that we’re always holding ourselves accountable to top performance.”
With the layoffs behind it, Uber can now focus on some of the big operational challenges it had set for itself through the reorganization that the company has announced. That includes adding new features and technologies to its Uber Eats delivery program (despite what recent losses at GrubHub may imply about the food delivery business) and pressing forward with another darling of the tech set these days — the company’s financial services platform.
The launch of this new platform, coupled with a slew of announcements from the company in September, show that Uber may have dialed back on its ambitions, but not by much. As Khosrowshahi said at the event, “We want to be the operating system for your everyday life…. A one-click gateway to everything that Uber can offer you.”
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Best Nintendo Switch accessories for 2019 - CNET
From controllers to charging to protection, here are our recommendations to keep you playing at your best.
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Best holiday gifts for under $50 - CNET
When it comes to holiday gifts, there are plenty of options for not a lot of dough.
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The best wireless security cameras for 2019
Home security cameras can give you piece of mind, but if they have wires, you are limited in where you can put them. We've rounded up the best battery-operated home security cameras to give you flexibility along with your security.
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The best headphones for runners
Running is a great source of exercise but isn't always the most thrilling, especially when you're fiddling to keep your headphones in place. Check out our picks for the best headphones for running, so you never have to miss a beat again.
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Ford Bronco R off-road racer shares DNA with upcoming production model
Shortly after announcing that the new Bronco would debut in spring 2020, Ford rolled out an off-roader racer based on the reborn SUV. The Ford Bronco R will race in the legendary Baja 1000 in Mexico.
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Lenovo’s best laptops get massive discounts for the Black Friday Sneak Peek Sale
Lenovo's huge selection of notebooks gets massive discounts until November 4. Act fast and grab these Lenovo laptop deals to save on some of the best laptops today.
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What’s new on Disney+ in November 2019
Disney+ is the only service where you can stream Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, and animated Disney classics all in one place. Here's what's coming to Disney's streaming service in its inaugural month.
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Airbnb bans ‘party houses’ following Orinda shooting
On Saturday, Airbnb CEO and cofounder Brian Chesky tweeted that the company would be banning “party houses” after five people died in a shooting during a 100-plus person Halloween party at an Airbnb rental in Orinda, California.
Chesky outlines the steps Airbnb is taking in the same Twitter thread, including creating a rapid response team for “party houses”, presumably to help homeowners prevent dangerous parties. Chesky did not explain what a “party house” is in the thread. Airbnb spokesperson Ben Breit defined “party houses” as rentals which repeatedly disturb neighbors, according to The Washington Post, but said that any specific standards have yet to be determined.
Airbnb claims it already uses an automated risk detection system that...
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