Niantic looks to the Potterverse for its next potential AR blockbuster, Instagram’s ToS don’t travel so well in Germany, Google gives VR and AR app developers a new tool, holograms may help our memories outlive us, and more!

• Niantic casts its post-Pokemon Go eye toward the Harry Potter universe for its next augmented reality game. (Blake Hester, Rolling Stone)
• An AI chatbot evolves from helping people fight parking tickets to a means by which you can more easily sue people and companies. (Erin Winick, MIT Technology Review)
• Will holograms be the logical next step in capturing (and clinging to) the past? (Lauren Goode, The Verge)
• Instagram has to adjust its terms of service to comply with the law in Germany. (David Meyer, Fortune)
• Twitter puts the breaks on verifications after blowback from verifying the organizer of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)
• Google introduces “Poly,” aiming to make it easier for developers to build AR and VR apps. (Karissa Bell, Mashable)
• Nvidia continues its transformation from graphic card maker to artificial intelligence processing. (Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat)
• DARPA, the agency that invented the internet, launches a program meant to rethink how we compute and network. (Mark Wallace, Fast Company)
• Cybersecurity firm Appthority says a coding error in hundreds of apps have put the data of millions of mobile users in play for hackers. (Stephen Nellis, Reuters)
• YouTube announces crackdown on videos that target children. (Ben Popper, The Verge)