Coast To Coast AM---Pokemon GO Revelations/ Open Lines

Pokémon go was created by aliens to allow them to be slowly discovered by humans in fun and enjoyable ways instead of terrifying. Aliens are all around you right now, disguising themselves as Pokémon on your device

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Jimmy Church.

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Here we go

and figured out a way to get our phones out of our pocket...

DEvious bastards.

Listened all morning

So, what was the verdict? I knew the players were basically unwitting Google Earth employees, but was there anything else?

In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and known as In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability.[4] The name, "In-Q-Tel" is an intentional reference to Q, the fictional inventor who supplies technology to James Bond.[5]

Keyhole, Inc., founded in 2001, was a pioneering software development company specializing in geospatial data visualization applications and was acquired by Google in 2004 for $35 million.[1] Initially launched as a spin-off of Intrinsic Graphics, first round funding came from a Sony venture capital fund and others, additional capital came from an NVIDIA bundling deal, from the CIA's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel,[2] with the majority of In-Q-Tel' funds coming from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency,[3] and from angel investor Brian McClendon[citation needed] (who later came on as a board member and VP). Keyhole's marquee application suite, Earth Viewer, emerged as the highly successful Google Earth application in 2005; other aspects of core technology survive in Google Maps, Google Mobile and the Keyhole Markup Language.