77: Hexathlon Turn Out, iSpoofer Neutralized, Women of Ingress and the Latest Ingress Update 2.41.4

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Today on the show:

Hexathlon
iSpoofer is finding it hard to spoof location for Ingress and Pokemon – that is a good thing!
- Top of the page it states “It’s not safe to use iSpoofer for PC to spoof POGO, Ingress, and Wizards Unite.” (Good job Niantic!)
Women of Ingress celebrating Women History Month
- #WomenofIngress on social media
Ingress 2.41.4 Release Notes
- Feature: Added Portal Scanning
- UI: Updated – Boosts category icon in inventory carousel to support new Boosts (note: these are things like Beacons and Frackers)
- Bugfix: store sync error on startup, portals appearing faded or dim, off-center mission waypoint descriptions
- Known issues: selecting or deselecting the settings menu checkboxes may initially appear not to have saved, but it is saved when you exit and restart ingress.
- Release was paused due to missing translations
- Unannounced Items:
  - Agent misterioso70 reported that glyph hacking is missing some sound files.
  - Agent Hydraulinski reported that if ambient sound is above 0% it shuts down effects sounds.
  - Agent Rostwold reported that the bug marked as fixed, “insufficient XM error when XM is available” is still happening
Portal Scanning: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/9558/portal-scanning#latest
- Scout Medal – Bronze: 50, Silver: 250, Gold: 1000, Platinum: 3000, Onyx: 6000
- Is an opt-in feature that allows level 16 & recursed agents in the US to upload portal scans with the following information: recorded images & lighting conditions, time and location of the portal scan, how the mobile device moved during the portal scan and mobile device and camera specs.
- Multiple portal scans can be taken at each portal.
- If your account is eligible and your device is supported, you will see a scan portal button after tapping on a portal and tapping edit (the more options icon): https://niantic.helpshift.com/a/ingress/?s=portal-network&f=portal-scanning&p=web
- Niantic plans to host non-competitive cross-faction walk events to meet with agents, answer questions, and demonstrate how to upload high-quality Portal Scans (details coming soon)
Tesselation news
- Grats resistance on finding yuri posted on twitter: https://twitter.com/ingress/status/1235136336664854529
- Proclamation of Discovery was updated – PAC request that you add hashtags #IngressTessellation & #IngressActualGameplayFootage. to your posts :https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8635/the-tessellation-proclamation-of-discovery
- Old things you might not be aware of. Tessellation badges on the ingress community forums.