Dhelmise makes its debut in Pokmon Go as part of February 2025s Beloved Buddies event.Despite resembling an anchor and living underwater, this haunted Alolan Pokmon is in fact a ghost- and grass-type and according to its Pokdex entry, a predator of the mighty whale Pokmon Wailord. Oh buoy!As with most new Pokmon added to Pokmon Go in the past year, Dhelmise cannot be found in the wild but thankfully, theres a clear and direct route on how to get one on its debut.How to get Dhelmise in Pokmon GoMaking its first appearance in 2025s Beloved Buddies event, Dhelmise can only be found in raids on its debut.In terms of raid difficulty, Dhelmise is in the three-star category so for solo players, unless you have strong counters (and ideally a Mega Evolved or Shadow Pokmon in the mix), youll want to bring a friend or two to help you take it down.Dhelmise weakness and counters in Pokmon GoAs a ghost- and grass-type, Dhelmise is weak to fire-, ice-, flying-, ghost-, and dark-type moves. Thats quite a range, giving us plenty of options but if you wanted specific Pokmon in mind, we recommend:For fire-type options, consider (Mega) Charizard or Blaziken, or Ho-OhFor ice-type options, consider (Mega) Abomasnow, Mamoswine, or Mewtwo with Ice BeamFor flying-type options, consider (Mega) Rayquaza with Dragon Ascent, or (Mega) PidgeotFor ghost-type options, consider Dawn Wings Necrozma, (Mega) Gengar, or Mewtwo with Shadow BallFor dark-type options, consider (Mega) Tyranitar, or (Mega) HoundoomAs noted, Mega versions of the relevant Pokmon listed above are recommended, but know you cannot bring more than one Mega Pokmon into battle. Similarly, if you have a Shadow version of any of the above, that can help give you the edge.Can Dhelmise be shiny in Pokmon Go?On its debut, Dhemise cannot be shiny in Pokmon Go. The rollout for shinies in Pokmon Go varies sometimes a Pokmon can be shiny on its debut, sometimes they can take years so know you might be waiting a while.Until then, you can see what shiny Dhelmise looks like thanks to this video by Majin Munchlax on YouTube from Pokmon Sword and Shield:Next, see if you should choose the Candela or Arlo path!

Youll need to choose betweenCandela or Arloas part ofPokmon Gos Beloved Buddies free Timed Research. The choice you should pick is based on what kind of content you do, what type of Pokmon you need, and your general playstyle.Below we explain the choices between the two branched choices inPokmon Gos Beloved Buddies Timed Research.Which path should you pick? Candela or Arlo?After the first step of the free research, therell be a branched choice: Should you pick Candela or Arlo?If you want a PvP-relevant Pokmon and Poffins, you should pick Candela. Candela offers a meta-relevant Great League PvP pick: Dunsparce. However, this isnt super hard to come across (the spawns are boosted for Dunsparce during this event, too), so this shouldnt be too much of a determining factor when it comes to picking Candela.If you want a more PvE-oriented Pokmon and a Rocket Radar, you should pick Arlo. Youll get a Cubone, which evolves into Marowak, a decent Great League PvP contender, and a Scizor, which can Mega Evolve into a pretty good bug-type attacker. Arlo also offers a Rocket Radar, so if youre hunting down Giovanni and the Team Go Rocket leaders, this is pretty useful.Notably unlike past branched research, the steps are actually different based on which person you choose. Candela requires adding a new friend and trading Pokmon to another player, so if youre an introvert or a solo player, these may be walls that will prevent you from finishing the research. In this case, you should pick Arlos path.Candela and Arlo Timed Research steps and outcomesBelow, we list the steps and rewards for the Beloved Buddies Timed Research. Remember that you must complete the research before the event ends on Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. in your local time.Beloved Buddies step 1 of 3Catch 15 Pokmon (5 Ultra Balls)Spin 5 PokStops or gyms (Remoraid encounter)Explore 2 km (Mantine encounter)Rewards: 1,000 Stardust, 1,000 XPAfter completing this step, youll get the choice to pick between Candela and Arlo. Doing so will impact what tasks you get as well as the rewards.Beloved Buddies step 2 of 3 (Candela)Earn 10 hearts with your buddy (500 Stardust)Earn a candy exploring with your buddy (Luvdisc encounter)Make a new friend (2 Poffins)Rewards: Dunsparce encounter, 2,000 XPBeloved Buddies step 2 of 3 (Arlo)Catch 15 Pokmon (500 Stardust)Transfer 5 Pokmon (Cubone encounter)Defeat 3 Team Go Rocket grunts (1 Rocket Radar)Rewards: Shadow Diglett encounter, 2,000 XPBeloved Buddies step 3 of 3 (Candela)Play with your buddy 5 times (10 Ultra Balls)Send 3 gifts to friends (500 Stardust)Trade a Pokmon (Shellder encounter)Rewards: Rapidash encounter, 3,000 XP, 2,000 StardustBeloved Buddies step 3 of 3 (Arlo)Catch 25 Pokmon (10 Ultra Balls)Transfer 15 Pokmon (500 Stardust)Defeat Team Go Rocket Arlo (Slowpoke encounter)Rewards: Scizor encounter, 3,000 XP, 2,000 StardustAfter completing all three steps (no matter which path you picked), youll also get an additional 2,500 XP and 2,500 Stardust.

We may earn a commission from links on this page.It's a potentially concerning sign of the times, but my morning is dictated by my apps. On an average day, I start off by putting in a mobile Dunkin' order, checking my sales on Poshmark and my rentals on Pickle, and playing the New York Times games before shifting over to the more serious work apps.As of last week, I added a new app to the morning mix: Finch, which is sort of like a to-do list mixed with a Tamagotchi. My ultimate goal with this whole morning app rotation is to resist the siren call of social media and, with it, an unproductive start to the day. This app, I reasoned, would help me be even more productive by giving me structured goals and rewards for my real-world responsibilities.Finch is a little bird who thrives on your successFinch is an app that gamifies your productivity. As you complete daily tasks and mark them done in the app, you nourish a little bird, who grows and thrives based on how much you give them. It's a very cute concept. The more you accomplish and interact with your bird, the more "adventures" they go on, skills they develop, and growth they achieve. Setting up my Finch. Credit: Lindsey Ellefson The app comes pre-loaded with tasks andI won't liethey were a little more basic than what I needed. They include things like "get out of bed" and "drink water." I can imagine being in a funk bad enough that these little reminders (and the in-game rewards that come with completing them) would be helpful, so I found that sweet, but not beneficial for me. I kept a few of them in the to-do list for some easy wins, but was able to add in the other things I want to accomplish daily, like "work out." You can tie the completion of certain tasks to in-game challenges, earning specific prizes for, say, washing your face seven days in a row. You can also set tasks to occur weekly, monthly, or at whatever interval makes sense for you. Finch offers motivation to be productive, without the shameThe interface is really simple to use and understand, which I appreciate. All I have to do is open the app and tap a checkmark next to a task to indicate I've done it. From there, I earn rewards, like in-game currency, new traits for my bird, and I can buy her little outfits or whatever. It's rudimentary, yes, but it's very relaxing and pleasant. I like this more than other productivity apps because it doesn't shame you in any way. It's encouraging, not stressful, and the game element is novel and cute enough to keep it interesting. (Not to brag, but my bird has very nearly grown from a baby into a toddler, all because I drank some water and washed my face.) There's also no major time commitment. If all I wanted to do was check off items on my list, that would be fine. There are rewards for doing other thingslike following guided breathing or stretching exercises, listening to soundscapes, writing down daily reflections, and chronicling your overall emotional statebut no penalties for not doing them, so the game element here is only positive, not competitive or stressful. It's very clear that this is, above all, a self-care app, but it's entirely possible to input more concrete to-dos into your list. I spent my first week using it lightly, mostly relying on those early-stage goals the app came up with, but now that I've gotten the hang of it (and my bird needs some cute new outfits) I'm going to add more of my work and home-based tasks. This is going to be especially helpful as a cleaning checklist, since I've liked but not loved any of the other ones I've tried. The app is available on iOS and the Google Play store. It's free and you can totally just use the free version, but for $39.99 per year, you can access more exercises and shop items, plus customize the little icons that appear next to your to-dos. You get a seven-day free trial to see if you're into all that, but it's not especially necessary. The free version does everything you need.

In my work reporting on health, I often refer to the websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and more. Healthcare workers, scientists, and others rely on these, too. But information has been disappearing from those websites.Theres no simple hack to work around this. Some vital information is missing. Some has been restored, with subtle and not-so-subtle changeslike suggesting you search for adoption when you actually searched for abortion, or replacing the phrase pregnant people with pregnant women, as if the word people did not already include women.And we dont know how future additions to the website may be hobbled. The CDCs weekly research publication, which had operated more-or-less independently when it came to publishing research, has been under unprecedented control by the Trump administration, CBS News reports. That publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, didnt put out its Jan. 23 or Jan. 30 issues.In the midst of a bird flu epidemic that is driving up egg prices and threatening to spread well beyond farms, the administration reportedly stopped the publication of three studies on bird flu, including one on wastewater, one on exposure in cattle veterinarians, and onewhose data was accidentally published and then yankedon the ability of bird flu to be transmitted between people and farm cats.Theres no replacing the MMWRs independence, and some of the information pulled from the CDCs website has not yet been returned, including guidelines for Mpox vaccination, and other pages on sexually transmitted infections including HIV and on LGBTQ+ health concerns and disparities, as reported by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy.A federal judge has ordered the CDC to restore data on its website, but the Trump administration has ignored plenty of court orders relating to its illegal activity in recent weeksso forgive my skepticism. Until then, here are a few places to find missing health and medical information that the CDC would normally have been able to provide.Physician associations like ACOG and AMAThe American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has made sure to publish its endorsed guidance documents that were authored with the CDC. Endorsed means that these are guidelines that ACOG fully supports. As the name of the organization suggests, these documents are ones that relate to obstetrics and gynecology.The American Medical Association has a Youtube series dedicated to weekly reports of health and medical newshardly a replacement for the MMWR, but worth keeping an eye on if you want to stay up-to-date on current health issues in the U.S.The good old Wayback MachineIf youve found a dead link for something that used to be on the CDC website, check the Wayback Machine at archive.org. It may not have everything, but I was able to find some missing content there. For example, a PDF entitled A Guide to Talking About HIV that used to live here is available in a Wayback Machine snapshot from December 2024.Data mirror projectsA project called the End-of-term Web Archive has downloaded government websites at the end of each presidential term since 2008. Other organizations have been attempting to save information from the CDC and other government websites, as Nature reports. The University of Minnesota has a collection of end-of-term data repositories here.The Internet Archive has some CDC datasets here, including data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, which is no longer on the CDC website. (Its data explorer was here, but clicking that link currently just loads a message saying The Application is currently offline.)Other countries health agenciesThe U.S. CDC may be the most prominent (or it was, anyway, I guess) but other countries have their equivalents. The Public Health Agency of Canada, for example, has information on topics like sexual health that may be unavailable on the CDC website.

Chinese EV maker BYD is pretty much the king of EVs in the country, even challenging Tesla in the country. Yesterday, in a company livestream, founder Wang Chuanfu claimed that the company will make all of its models self-driving, including the cheapest ones like the $9,600 Seagull hatchback, the Financial Times reported.Wang said that BYD is starting an era where autonomous driving is for everyone and that self-driving cars will no longer be an unattainable luxury, but an essential tool. BYD intends to power its cars with the Gods Eye driving system it developed in-house. According to The Straits Times, Gods Eye relies on cameras and radar sensors to perform tasks like valet parking, automatic braking and adaptive cruise control.Additionally, BYD is joining other local EV makers like Geely, Great Wall Motor and Leapmotor to integrate DeepSeeks AI into their autonomous driving systems. However, theres no news about when this will happen. Of course, whether BYD will deliver its promises of accessible autonomous driving remains to be seen as well. Meanwhile, Tesla is struggling to get its software off the ground in China, so whether BYD beats it to the punch is yet another thing to look out for.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/chinese-ev-maker-byd-promises-to-make-all-of-its-models-self-driving-capable-164641323.html?src=rss

You might have spent the last few years turning your domicile into a smart home with a fancy speaker setup, robot vacuum and voice-controlled lights. Another way to make your home more connected is with a video doorbell, and as it happens, a model from Ring is on sale. The latest version of the Ring Video Doorbell has dropped down to $60, which is $40 off. The discount also matches the record-low price. As the name suggests, this is a battery-powered model, so you won't have to worry about wiring it up. The doorbell has a USB-C port, and all you have to do to top up the battery is detach it and plug it in for a while. The second-gen model offers 66 percent more vertical coverage than the previous one, allowing for a head-to-toe view of whoever is on your doorstep. You can keep an eye on what's going on from your phone, tablet or another compatible device using the live view feature. You can also chat with the person at your door remotely thanks to the two-way talk function. The Video Doorbell has motion-detection capabilities, and you'll receive real-time alerts on your phone whenever it spots movement. For more detailed alerts about whether that motion is because of a person or package delivery, you'll need to sign up for a Ring Home plan, which starts at $5 per month. The subscription also grants access to features such as 180 days of video event history being saved. The premium tier, which costs $20 per month, includes round-the-clock recording on every compatible doorbell and/or camera at your home. Follow @EngadgetDeals on Twitter and subscribe to the Engadget Deals newsletter for the latest tech deals and buying advice.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-latest-ring-video-doorbell-is-back-on-sale-for-a-record-low-price-161258034.html?src=rss

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Small dwelling units are booming as solutions for affordable housing, camping, and glamping. But of most interest, at present, is the opportunity this category provides as a source of transitional housing during times of climate crisis and regional disasters such as the L.A. fires.California already had increasingly positive regulation toward accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and tiny homes prior to the January 2025 Los Angeles fires. In the wake of the current disaster, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass issued an emergency executive order: Return and Rebuild. This new mandate eliminates the significant regulatory hurdles of rebuilding to organize efforts with a theme of urgency, common sense, and compassion.We applaud this effort, which includes allowing the use of park models, RVs, and other structures as needed to allow owners of the 12,000-plus homes affected to recover and rebuild as quickly as possible. This is an area where the industry for sustainable and high-quality park models will shine.Beyond California, recovery efforts from other disasters are shining a floodlight on the need and benefit of affordable and weather-resistant small homes for many thousands of additional people throughout the U.S. and beyond.I recently interviewed Dan Fitzpatrick, the president of the Tiny Home Industry Association about these needs. Dan has 49 years experience in both public and private roles. Hes had a front-row view of the need and the power of public/private partnerships to accomplish projects such as the Rio Mesa master-planned community of 15,000 on the north side of Fresno, California, as well as Tesoro Vieja, a 400-acre planned lake community in the states Central Valley.What L.A. can learn from recent hurricane disasters in the southeastDan and I have observed the damage across Florida and North Carolina from three catastrophic hurricanes in 2024: Debby, Helene, and Milton. FEMA responded to those disasters with approval for more than $2.1 billion in aid, including $931.7 million for housing repairs and personal property replacement, along with more than $1.18 billion to support local and state governments in recovery efforts including debris removal and emergency protective measures.These situations caused the demand for tiny homes as transitional housing to skyrocket. The units are proving to be especially beneficial in allowing homeowners continual proximity to manage and monitor the rebuilds and can serve as permanent and property-enhancing studios and accessory dwellings after the rebuilds are complete.California is following suitIn addition to the emergency order by Mayor Bass, the January 2025 executive order by California Governor Gavin Newsom is expediting the rapid rebuilding efforts now required in L.A. This new order suspends key permitting and review requirements under the California Environmental Quality Act and the California Coastal Act, to facilitate faster property restoration.As a response to natural disasters, we can anticipate the demand for tiny homes to surge well beyond the already aggressive predictions for growth. The prefabricated home sector is on track to grow by more than $30 billion over the coming few years, Dan told me. Tiny homes hold the potential to be the ideal answer to increase our countrys resilience to natural disasters. However, he also notes that while the importance of this category is increasingly obvious, there are critical nuances involved.Speed is our friend but also our enemy.While Mayor Basss and Governor Newsoms order are vital steps toward removing the bureaucratic hurdles to expedite rebuilding, we must strike the right balance between rapid reconstruction and adherence to environmental safeguards.The quality and nature of tiny homes is critical to avoid the prospect of having quickly erected small home communities turn into poorly constructed and badly located shanty townsa worry large enough to lead some regions to enact regulation against them.NPR has also noted vast ranges in quality among tiny home shelters, ranging from cabins with a cot to miniature houses with kitchens and bathrooms.In my own companys case, our Los Angeles, California facility, in operation since 2022, has more than tripled its capacity in 2024 to 24/7 operation to meet the rising demand. We are 3D printing homes from recycled polymers and fiberglass to create units that are energy efficient and sustainable as well weather resilient.Clearly the need and the demand for high quality, sustainable and weather resistant tiny homes has never been higher. It is an industry that will impact all areas of the U.S. and the regions beyond in 2025 and in the years and seasons to come.Gene Eidelman is the cofounder of Azure Printed Homes.