Goruck Badges are also being pushed! This is from Agent @Cashuw who took part at the San Francisco Event!

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We're excited to announce that our Ingress players raised over $60k+ for the National Parks Foundation through our #OpClearField events!

Source: https://goo.gl/TRnBGd

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​​Dear Agents, you are invited to participate in the #MissionDay event of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia that will take place on January 13th, 2018. Here is every detail or contact information:

Niantic signup <- IMPORTANT
Local Signup ENL - Local Signup RES

Kits form ENL - Kits form RES
Information for Visitors
Meeting point
Missions Map

Google+ Community
Event TG Channel
ENL POCs: @JPC2Online - @IngSabinozqui
RES POCs: @Brujinga - @SixKnight
They will answer any questions you might have.

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A new episode of #BTS is out (https://youtu.be/-9CF3D1ChT8) with Agent @VanJeffery!

Do you think to be the right person to be part of a BTS? Let it know to Krug in his G+ post, you can be the next one!

Link: https://plus.google.com/+AndrewKrug/posts/KtJ825HoMkK

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#Christmas #Postcards

There's a initiative from agent @keetjeh to send Christmas postcards to and from all sides of the world! Fill in the form, she'll contact you with an address to send your cool postcard (or envelope with postcard and swag) to.

Event: https://goo.gl/NwsH61
Form: https://goo.gl/forms/J3mAA88WYcX5uctL2 (mandatory)
Telegram (xf) group chat (optional): https://t.me/joinchat/ANZ3F0XWNpTZN0WAEB5IRg

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​​#FieldArt #XFaction

Agent @SmurfQuark from Indonesia reports a great cross-faction Field Art over Pontianak, capital of the West Kalimantan province!
The OP was named "Lancang Kuning" and it was inspired by a traditional boat from this wonderful city!
Great job, agents!

You can read the full SITREP at this link

@IUENG

It's a Nia Ops Monday #AMA!

It's Monday and I'm sitting with the NIA OPS team this morning. You know the drill, we'll try to answer as many questions as we can and I will update the original post with the questions and answers. Submit your questions now in the comments!

Write your question here: https://plus.google.com/+AndrewKrug/posts/W6npbARevfc

@IUENG

Niantic will host a special Ingress Event from May 24th to May 27th! More info will come as the date approaches, stay tuned...

Source: https://goo.gl/7pkBaF

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The Aegis Shield and the Quantum Capsule - by PAC

My sources at Visur and IQTech-East just shared some interesting news with me.

At Visur, the technology being used to power the highly desired 'AXA Shield' has been ported to a new XM object called the 'Aegis Shield'. Aegis Shields will replace AXAs in Portal Network Deployment at this time. AXA Portals will likely disconnect from the global Portal Network at some point in the near future. Currently I have no intel on any changes to the functionality of the Aegis Shield.

Over at IQTech-East, Akira's people have acquired the ground-breaking technology that laid the basis for the 'MUFG Capsule,' and will now be distributing it through the Portal Network as the 'Quantum Capsule.' The MUFG Portal Subnetwork is expected to go offline within the coming days.

Will keep you posted if I hear more.

Source: https://plus.google.com/+HRichardLoeb/posts/g1VZyJSbL6V

@IUENG

The Aegis Shield! It will replace the AXA Shield.

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The Quantum Capsule! It will replace the MUFG Capsule.

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Brent Hollett (Perringaiden): Does this mean that QCaps are dropping now?

Ingress: +Brent Hollett not yet. When the change occurs inventories will be updated and from that point on the items will be hackable from the Portal network.

Source: comments under https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/X26RAZdwLtb

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Agents,
Thank you for your support as we continue to address issues related to the recent data scraping incident. We want to provide you an update on the situation and our response to date.

We have taken initial action against a first set of systems and tools designed to negatively impact the player community through extracting, scraping, or indexing Ingress data in violation of our Terms of Service. In addition, we have terminated certain accounts that we found related to these activities. We will continue enforcing our TOS as we learn about other similar systems.

We take the safety of our players and fair play very seriously; cheating is not permitted and we want to continue working with the community to foster an atmosphere of fun and adventure.

Source: https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/YBtf9U7VYMn

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Agent +Josh McElravy (plus.google.com/+JPMcElravy) shows us that the Intel Map has already introduced the new item denominations!

Source: Comments under the announcement post

@IUENG

Agent @Felonofdope reports that the Scanner has the name of the MUFG Capsule! Drop one of yours to check it (be careful!)

@IUENG

Agent @absolute119966 informs us that, all MUFG and AXA Portals are disappearing from the Portal Network!

@IUENG

Beautiful crossfaction art made in Peruíbe (SP- Brasil) a few days ago by the agents @CoelhoPg and @AokiLine, to say to the world they are together, so cute! 💚+💙=❤️

Ph. @WiCkEdDaNi

@IUENG

#NL1331

Agents,
November Lima will be conducting research in the Asia/Pacific region in early 2018! The following are the currently known cities on its tour of the region. More cities may get added in the near future.

Australia
Jan 20 - Brisbane
Jan 23 - Sydney
Jan 25 - Canberra
Jan 27 - Melbourne

New Zealand
Feb 01 - Christchurch
Feb 03 - Wellington
Feb 05 - Auckland

Japan
Feb 09 - Yokohama
Feb 11 - Nagoya
Feb 13 - Kobe
Feb 15 - Kagawa
Feb 17 - Fukuoka

Source: https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/Z8w3fwLCBxg

@IUENG

Keys to AXA and MUFG branded portals will disappear from your inventory and capsules within a few hours of the portals being removed. This will not affect your AXA shields or your MUFG Capsules which will be converted to Aegis Shields and Quantum Capsules in the near future. Items within your MUFG Capsules will be otherwise unaffected, including keys to other existing portals.

@IUENG

Andrew Krug has answered to 89 questions on this week's #AMA. Here are the highlights:

Anomaly
- European swag packs have cleared the customs. Expect an email in the coming days with more info about refund and distribution
- Nothing has been finalized for Q1 Anomalies yet. Any decision will be announced.
- Andrew repeated that, on the next occasion, rechargers will get their Anomaly badge.

Ingress Prime
- Niantic acknowledges that "reset" was the wrong term to describe what will happen on Prime's launch. They are still exploring different options.
- Niantic is planning on having a beta program for Prime. 50 random players among the enlightened who attended Camp Navarro 2017 will be awarded with 50 slots in the beta

Other
- Character badges will be redesigned in 2018
- The blank email bug from Ingress Operations will be fixed soon
- The change from Google Maps to OSM is permanent. Niantic is still defining the update rate of the game map with OSM servers.

Read all the other questions and answers here: https://plus.google.com/+AndrewKrug/posts/W6npbARevfc

@IUENG

​​Investigators and Media Specialists from all over the globe have been collecting and safe-guarding every single Media obtained in the game: fragments of the puzzle that is still, five years on, broadening our perspectives and encouraging us to explore more of our world together.

You can find the collection at http://media.1331.nl/ (incomplete as of now, you can contribute by sending missing media to @Appastair!)

Source: Alastair Gilfillan's G+ post

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