Pokémon Go may be the biggest unintentional health fad ever. Since launching last week, the augmented reality app has exploded in popularity. Free to download on your iPhone or Android, it uses location data from mobile phones to help users chase fictional Pokémon characters around their environs, which are displayed back on their phones. In one week, the app has already become so popular that it’s rivaling Twitter in terms of the volume of daily active users, Vox’s German Lopez writes in his indispensable Pokémon Go explainer. But there’s another interesting outcome of the game’s rise that its makers likely...
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