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Pokémon Go , the augmented reality mobile game from Nintendo and developer Niantic Labs, is out now for both iOS and Android in select countries. The app's  Play Store listing is available here  and the  App Store link here . The app first went live in Australia and New Zealand yesterday before becoming available in the US.  According to  The Wall Street Journal , The Pokémon Company is recommending Japan users "please wait for a while" for the app's official launch in those markets. It's unclear when the app will launch in the UK, Canada, or other markets. For those who haven't been following the title's development, the game uses your smartphone's camera and sensors, as well as location-based algorithms, to  place pokémon in the real world . That way, as you travel around to landmarks and notable locations in your city, you can catch the creatures and then train and battle them at gyms. The game was created by Niantic, the maker of a similar A...

"Software is eating the world," venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared. Someone has to write that software. Why not you? There are thousands of programming languages, but some are far more popular than others. When a company goes out to find new programming talent, they're looking for people familiar with the languages and systems they already use — even as newer languages like Apple Swift or Google Go start to make a splash. Here are the programming languages you should learn if you always want to have a job, as suggested by the popular  TIOBE Index , the Redmonk Programming Language Rankings, and the  annual Stack Overflow developer survey . Java: Originally invented in 1991 as a programming language for smart televisions, Oracle's Java is still the most popular language in the world — a position solidified by the fact that Java is crucial to Android app development and lots of business software. C: One of the oldest programmin...