A new Global Challenge has been released by Niantic!

While waiting for the MYRIAD Anomaly, from July 11th at 10 am PT to July 22nd at 10 am PT
You are required to complete at least 13,000,000 Unique Portal Hacks!

If the objective is met, the hack cooldown window timeout will be decreased from 5 minutes to 4 minutes from July 29th at 5pm UTC to August 7th at 5pm and the Portal attack-back strength when hacking or attacking an opposing faction Portal will also be decreased. Moreover, Players will be able to deploy two L8 and L7 and four L6 and L5 resonator from August 1st at 5pm UTC to August 5th at 5pm UTC.

If unsuccessful, the hack cooldown will increase to 6 minutes and Portal attack-back strength when hacking or attacking an opposing faction Portal will also be increased. 

More details: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/2152/myriad-hack-challenge-july-11-22/

P.S. Niantic took some inspiration from our channel back in last global challenge and decided to provide a useful graph to keep track of our progress!

Edit: Also, an individual scanner achievement medal can also be earned if players successfully perform 100, 350, or 750 total unique hacks during the event.

@IUENG

From Goruck News:

"Grab your bags and weights, Agents, we're playtesting a brand new rucking event on Saturday during the Myriad XM Anomaly in July!

We're challenging you to ruck 10km within the Myriad anomaly playbox in Madison and Busan.
For more details and to sign up for this free event: https://forms.gle/krf4gMTt8G3sDX8D7"

@IUENG

Niantic is looking for embedded reporters for the upcoming Myriad Anomalies. If you are willing to cover this important role during the Events, register at this link

Source: https://twitter.com/ingress/status/1147234963198226434

@IUENG

IFS around the world already started, and players are receiving this media from the registration hack:

https://storage.googleapis.com/truthseeker/nemesis/01_ulti_myriad.mp4

It confirms that the Myriad anomaly series starts with the event of July 11! They are coming to destroy our portal network, are you ready to fight?

Thanks to @markymarkmark for the link!

@IUENG

Make sure to send us your IFS Group Pictures! By the end of tomorrow they will be added to our archive on carlobolla.xyz/pics for future memory!

@IUENG

Up to now, 57 cities have sent their group picture to show on our website!

Turin, Italy - Albury, Australia
Alcochete, Portugal - Ankara, Turkey
Antalya, Turkey - Aveiro, Portugal
Belfast, United Kingdom - Bergen, Norway
Cádiz, Spain - Castellón de la Plana, Spain
Catania, Italy - Chía, Colombia
Deggendorf, Germany - Doncaster, United Kingdom
Dresden, Germany - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ettlingen, Germany - Frederiksberg, Denmark
Fort Worth, TX, USA - Guadalajara, Mexico
Halle, Belgium - Hanmer Springs, New Zealand
Indianapolis, IN, USA - Kaštela, Croatia
Kristiansand, Norway - Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Manila, Philippines
Montevideo, Uruguay - Moscow, Russia
Moss, Norway - Müllheim, Germany
Munich, Germany - Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Nampa, ID, USA - Oxford, United Kingdom
Pittsburgh, PA, USA - Porto San Giorgio, Italy
Poznań, Poland - Quito, Ecuador
Rotenburg an der Fulda, Germany - Buenos Aires, Argentina
San Pedro Sula, Honduras - Santa Fe, Argentina
Schiedam, Netherlands - Singapore, Singapore
Sofia, Bulgaria - Panyu, China
Talca, Chile - Thessaloniki, Greece
Tianjin, China - Trakai, Lithuania
Turku, Finland - Wellington, New Zealand
Perth, Australia - Portland, OR, USA
Athens, Greece

If the group picture for your city is not displayed, or you want yours to be included, let us know and we'll upload it to the site as soon as possible!
Thank you for having shared with us such joyful moments, wide smiles and great companies! We are looking forward to hearing from the Ingress First Saturdays of August 3rd!

@IUENG

From now until July 15, you can use the code GETSOME2019 at check-out to receive 50% off in Stealth Ops in Madison and Busan!

July 14 is also the last day to get 25% off all GORUCK gear sent to Busan, Korea for pickup on July 26.

Source: Goruck Team

@IUENG

And the winner is: @abiss72!
Congratulations, we'll contact you shortly!

Prize: a Ezekiel Calvin 2019 Character Code
Stay tuned for the next giveaway!

@IUENG

Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA waits you!

Source: https://nianticlabs.com/it/events/

More details: https://www.cityoffortwayne.org/open-streets.html

@IUENG

The Myriad Unique Hack Challenge starts now! We remind you that the final objective is to hack 13 Million Cumulative Unique Portals and 100, 350 or 750 singularly to earn a Special Badge!

Follow the score live at this link!

@IUENG

A stat line related to the challenge was added to track your personal progress, but it's not updating in real time (at the moment)

EDIT: It does now: not instantly but it counts correctly!

@IUENG

Somebody already reached the first tier, so we can look how the medal is designed!

Congrats @herculeas007!

@IUENG

And here we have all the three tiers of the Myriad Hack Challenge! Do you like it?

@IUENG

During the night, Agents reported that medias hacked in Busan showed the logo and Medal design for the future Myriad Anomalies! To us this looks beautiful, what do you think?

Ph: @dedo1911

@IUENG

The temporary playboxes for the next Myriad Anomalies are live on the Intel Map!
Here is the view of Lyon, France!

Thanks @xligax!

@IUENG

Flint Dille invites you at his concert in San Diego! If the venue is not filled, he will let enter for free up to 100 Ingress Players that show their profile on the scanner and are higher than level 4!

Source: Flint Dille

Flint Dille is an American screenwriter, game designer and novelist, and also the creative lead in the Niantic Labs group

@IUENG

July 14th - Fort Wayne Open Streets

Come out and enjoy over 100 free activities and games. There will be 1.6 miles of streets to explore, closed to cars and open for people to bike, walk and play! Ingress, Pokémon and HP:WU players are invited to get moving and explore the community while playing alone the open streets. There will be posters & stickers for attendees as well as boosted gameplay!

Source: https://nianticlabs.com/it/events/

More details: https://www.cityoffortwayne.org/open-streets.html

@IUENG

Group picture at the Mission Day in Longmont, Colorado!

Ph. @magicjen

@IUENG

Group picture of the MD+ NL-1331 in Liège, the picture was taken by Ethan himself!

Thank you @H4DES for the report

@IUENG

Now you can sign up for the Myriad Events connected to the anomaly!

Brasília, Brazil
Mission Day: https://events.ingress.com/MissionDay/Brasilia19
OCF: https://www.goruck.com/event-15536/

Madison, WI, USA
Mission Day: https://events.ingress.com/MissionDay/madison2019
OCF: https://www.goruck.com/event-15535/
Stealth OPS: https://www.goruck.com/event-15533/

Montreal, Canada
Mission Day: https://events.ingress.com/MissionDay/montreal19

Bandung, Indonesia
Mission Day: https://events.ingress.com/MissionDay/Bandung

Busan, Korea
Mission Day: https://events.ingress.com/missionday/myriadbusan
OCF: https://www.goruck.com/event-15534/
Stealth OPS: https://www.goruck.com/event-15532/

Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Helsinki, Finland
Mission Day:
https://events.ingress.com/MissionDay/helsinki2019

Lyon, France
Mission Day:
https://events.ingress.com/MissionDay/lyon2019

Kaunas, Lithuania
Mission Day: https://events.ingress.com/MissionDay/kaunas2019
NL1331X: https://events.ingress.com/NL1331/Kaunas2019

Thanks to @Lucoire and @Gentianella for the report

@IUENG

At 5am UTC the hacks for the #Myriad Unique Hack Challenge were 12945500 and the target is 13000000, so the 99,58%!

Looking at the Nia graph, statistically speaking as now the event target is reached, that means:

The hack cooldown window timeout will be decreased from 5 minutes to 4 minutes from July 29th at 5pm UTC to August 7th at 5pm and the Portal attack-back strength when hacking or attacking an opposing faction Portal will also be decreased. Moreover, Players will be able to deploy two L8 and L7 and four L6 and L5 resonator from August 1st at 5pm UTC to August 5th at 5pm UTC

We have to wait 5 pm UTC to confirm the results

@IUENG