Sources: Helmet comms on unsecure frequencies

Coach-to-player in-game communications during Power 4 college football games this season have been occurring on unencrypted frequencies, sources told ESPN.

‘It just feels a bit much’: Boo baskets are the latest Halloween TikTok trend to spark backlash among parents

The trend began with a treat-filled basket left anonymously on a neighbor’s doorstep. It has already become something much, much bigger.

You’ve picked the perfect pumpkin, nailed your costume, and decked out your porch, but have you put together your “boo basket” yet?

Apple’s latest iPad Air is on sale in all four colors for its lowest price to date

We wouldn’t recommend the latest Air for most people at full price, but the current discount makes it more appealing. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge

The new iPad Mini has arrived, bringing with it a faster A17 Pro chip, 8GB of RAM, support for the Apple Pencil Pro, and a taste of Apple Intelligence. However, unless you’re dead set on the tablet’s 8.3-inch form factor, the latest iPad Air is a better buy — especially since the 11-inch configuration is on sale at Amazon and...

Google’s AI-powered weather app is rolling out to older Pixels

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Google’s Pixel 9 launched with a cool new standalone weather app that can summarize outdoor conditions using AI. As reported by 9to5Google, the company is rolling it out to older Pixels running Android 15 with all the latest updates installed, including one of ours here at The Verge.

The standalone Google Weather app will pull saved locations from the built-in weather service already present on Pixels to let you track weather in multiple locations, arrange weather...

Nintendo made a music streaming app for Switch Online subscribers

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While we all wait for the reveal of Nintendo’s next console, the company has once again announced something very different. This time, it’s a mobile app called Nintendo Music, which lets users listen to classic gaming tunes from Nintendo games spanning the last few decades, including Splatoon, Animal Crossing, and The Legend of Zelda. It’s only available to Switch Online subscribers, and it’s launching today on both iOS and Android.

The app features curated...

20 Target Products That'll Trick People Into Thinking You're Super Fancy

Fancy is a state of mind.

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Have You Had To Cut Off Any Friends Or Family Members Due To Differences In Political Opinion?

It's a tragic way to lose people, but sometimes it has to be done.

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30 Products Reviewers Say They Would Give More Than 5 Stars To If They Could

Introducing your new favorite team of overachievers.

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Awww, Shaun White Proposed To Nina Nobrev In The Sweetest, Most Surprising Way

"I went into shock. I just froze and stared at him."

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47 Advent Calendars To Treat Yourself To This Season

There's never been a better time for a little daily treat.

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U.S. Women’s Open champion Yuka Saso headlines LPGA’s TOTO Japan Classic

Yuka Saso during the final round of the 2024 Maybank Championship. | Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images

Yuka Saso returns to her father’s home country this week, hoping to capture her third career LPGA title.

The LPGA continues its Asian Swing this week with the TOTO Japan Classic, the last event before the tour returns to the United States.

Yuka Saso, the 23-year-old who conquered Lancaster Country Club and won this year’s U.S. Women’s Open for a second time, headlines the...

Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.

Russia wants Google to pay a $20 decillion fine for blocking YouTube channels

Russia wants Google to pay an unfathomable amount of money in fines: $20 decillion, reportedly.
For the non-mathematicians out there, that is 2 followed by 34 zeroes.

The fine has been accruing and doubling weekly since 2020 after Kremlin-backed news services Tsargrad and RIA FAN won court cases over the blocking of their YouTube channels, wrote The Moscow Times, citing a report from the Russian news service RBC. The fine has also grown as 15 other channels have won cases against Google,...

Macs with 8GB of RAM are finally dead: Apple makes 16GB the new standard

In recent years, whenever Apple launched base configurations of Mac devices with 8GB of RAM, the Cupertino-based tech giant faced backlash from consumers arguing that 8GB of memory is simply insufficient for today’s demands.

For example, when Apple outfitted last year's MacBook Pro models with the M3 chip, critics expressed disappointment that the entry-level configuration only offered 8GB of RAM.

"Apple has lost its mind," one Reddit user said.

When Apple dropped the M3 MacBook Air earlier...

Tegan and Sara respond to Jojo Siwa's claim of having invented 'Gay Pop'.

Tegan and Sara have been queer icons in the music industry for over 2 decades. So when Jojo Siwa claimed to be inventing 'Gay Pop' they responded.

Disney Plus has grown big enough to need a top 10 list

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As Disney Plus has grown, finding things to watch has become increasingly challenging. So the streaming service is rolling out a top 10 list featured on the home screen in hopes of improving discoverability.

It’s not the most novel addition; really, it looks just like similar lists you’d find in competitive services like Netflix and Apple TV Plus. But it’s become a necessary feature as the lineup on Disney Plus has expanded quite a bit over the...

Microsoft’s gaming revenue keeps going up, even though hardware sales are down

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Microsoft’s Q1 2025 earnings are in, and the results show that Microsoft’s software gaming revenues are way up even as Xbox hardware revenue is declining.

The company says that its Xbox content and services revenue grew 61 percent year over year from the previous quarter — a figure driven by “53 points of net impact from the Activision acquisition,” according to the company’s press release. But hardware revenues again declined, down 29 percent this...

Why you’re seeing those gross political ads during the World Series

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The World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees is in full swing, and millions of people in the US and abroad are tuning in nightly watch the showdown. Some fans are also being forced to watch graphic and hateful political ads — and though some ads are preceded by a broadcaster’s warning, there’s not much anyone can do about it.

An anti-abortion ad that ran last night during the World Series shows graphic imagery of...

Google doesn’t sell headsets anymore — but its app store is getting ready for them

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Are we about to see what’s up Google’s sleeve after its mysterious AR / VR deals with companies like Qualcomm and Samsung? Or might it finally bring its Google Play Store to Meta’s Quest like Meta once asked? Either way, Google seems to be prepping its Play Store for headsets, according to details discovered in app store code by Android Authority.

Screenshots published by the outlet show a small graphic representing a headset in the Play...

If You Ever Had A Disaster Date, Tell Me Where It Took Place

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