Top Stories of the Day // November 5, 2016

Pokemon GO finally gets a new Pokemon tracker in select places outside San Francisco | Finally, at long last, someone hacked Amazon’s Alexa into one of those singing fish | Apple provides a soft(er) landing for MacBook Pro buyers with deep discounts on peripherals and dongles | The Here One smart earbuds are the coolest gadget I’ve tried in a while | Facebook Messenger is testing “Instant Games” like this one from King | Welcome to the hardtech era | Samsung will release a software update to stop unreturned Note 7s from charging above 60% |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Greg Kumparak Pokemon GO finally gets a new Pokemon tracker in select places outside San Francisco Remember when Pokemon GO got a new system for finding nearby Pokemon (to replace the one that’d broke almost immediately after launch) … but it worked... Read More… Greg Kumparak Finally, at long last, someone hacked Amazon’s Alexa into one of those singing fish Do you, like many others, wake up each morning, gaze upon your Amazon Echo, and think, “Damn it, Echo. Instead of a shiny cylinder, why can’t you be... Read More… Matthew Panzarino Apple provides a soft(er) landing for MacBook Pro buyers with deep discounts on peripherals and dongles Apple is addressing the sudden and wide inexplicable fear of dongles driven by the MacBook Pro’s USB-C only approach with a store-wide discount on... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Disrupt LND Giveaway Travel to TechCrunch Disrupt London (5-6 December) in style. Win 2 free attendee tickets, a two-nights stay at the COMO Metropolitan Hotel London, and $1,050 in airfare. Enter now for your chance to win! Learn More Lucas Matney The Here One smart earbuds are the coolest gadget I’ve tried in a while I spend most of my days chatting with virtual/augmented reality companies, so the world of Black Mirror always seems a bit more imminent than it perhaps is.... Read More… Josh Constine Facebook Messenger is testing “Instant Games” like this one from King Facebook Messenger is preparing to launch a new “Instant Games” platform that will let people  play lightweight games against friends. Candy Crush... Read More… Jon Evans Welcome to the hardtech era Good news, my friends! The day we have all ostentatiously longed for has arrived. I come to announce that the days of sugar water are over. The era of SoLoMo... Read More… Brian Heater Samsung will release a software update to stop unreturned Note 7s from charging above 60% This morning Samsung announced that it was issuing a voluntary recall to address some 700-plus reports of malfunctioning top-loading washing machines, including... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Manager of Product Development at Financial Fitness Group (San Diego, CA, United States) Staff Cyber Security Engineer at GE Power (Atlanta, GA, United States; ) Senior Application Development Analyst (JO#4336) (SF or SAC) at Judicial Council of California (San Francisco Bay Area) Director of Engineering, Cloud @ Sauce Labs at Sauce Labs (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Java Software Engineer - Product Development (m/f) at eGym GmbH (München, Deutschland) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service