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Driving home after seeing Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, I called my dad. 
I asked about his day. He asked about mine. Then, as I drove through the night with a prickly awareness of my vacant backseat and my high beams lighting the road, we spoke of the stories.
In many ways, the nightmarish chronicles of Alvin Schwartz's three-part book series feel inscrutably entangled with my dad, who would read them aloud to my sister and me. Tales of vengeful scarecrows, corpses refusing to rest, a

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is having indexing issues today, meaning that some new content across the internet is not showing up in search results. A look at the Top Stories in Google News, for example, shows that while some of the stories are from the last couple hours, many are from yesterday. Search Engine Land first reported on the issues.
The company confirmed at 4:28AM ET that it was seeing reports of indexing issues, and later added that it was seeing “issues in

Image: Bungie Bungie has revealed the date Destiny 2 players will be able to start moving accounts freely between platforms to be August 21st. That’s when the game studio says it’s expecting to launch cross-save support for the open-world shooter, a long-awaited feature only just announced back in early June. Bungie says it’s launching cross-save ahead of its planned October expansion Shadowkeep to “give you the time you need to link your accounts and get your friends li

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Federal Communications Commission officials said today that 5G is safe and the rules regulating radio emissions for safety don’t need to be changed in order to accommodate it.
FCC chairman Ajit Pai is proposing small changes to the way the commission determines whether radio wave emissions are safe, but those changes are only designed to make the rules more consistent across technology types, the commission said. They aren’t being made any str

If you've decided to cancel your Equinox membership, or ditch SoulCycle classes following the news that Stephen Ross is planning to hold a fundraising event in support of President Donald Trump, then we'd like to suggest an alternative. 
Work. Out. At. Home.
Both Equinox and SoulCycle issued statements disavowing the event in attempts to distance themselves from Ross, who is chairman and founder of parent company Related Companies. It hasn't exactly stopped the backlash, though.
After it wa

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Apple is planning to supply special iPhones to security researchers next year to help them find security flaws in iOS. The devices will be made available to researchers that report bugs through the company’s invitation-only bug bounty program for iOS. Apple first launched this bug bounty program three years ago at the Black Hat conference, and it’s now extending its use at the same conference today to cover macOS, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and more.
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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is finally rewarding security researchers for finding security flaws in macOS. At the Black Hat conference today, Apple announced that it is greatly expanding its existing bug bounty program to include macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and iCloud. It will include rewards of up to $1 million for a zero-click, full chain kernel code execution attack.
While Apple originally started paying iOS bounties three years ago, researchers have only been paid for ones f

We're more than a year away from the 2020 presidential election, and some U.S. social media users already want to hit the snooze button on politics.
A new survey from the Pew Research Center found that 46 percent of U.S. social media users feel "worn out" by politics on social media. That's a 9 percent increase from 2016. 
Pew asked 4,200 U.S. adults in June how they felt about about political discussions on social media. Thirty-eight percent said they "don't feel strongly" about seeing pol

Mukbang, the South Korean phenomenon in which vloggers stream themselves eating large quantities of food, has now made its way to the W Hotel in Washington, DC. The DC location of the hotel chain is introducing its Sip & Slurp menu, an extravagant $285 room service package that comes with a lavalier lapel mic and a cell phone stand so guests can film their very own mukbangs.The Sip & Slurp menu is available until the end of 2019, and it’s limited to the W Washington DC for now, tho

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Security researchers have found 35 backend election systems in 10 states that have connected to the internet at some point in the past year, putting them at risk of being hacked or tampered with, as first reported by Motherboard. The researchers also found that the election systems are behind firewalls that could be misconfigured or otherwise insecure.The systems are made by Election Systems & Software, the top voting machine company in the United Sta

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Facebook has lost a federal appeal in a lawsuit over facial recognition data, setting the company up to face a massive damages payment over its privacy practices.
3–0 appeals court decision
In 2015, Facebook was sued under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, which requires companies to make a public policy before collecting and storing biometric data, including faces scans, and to lay out how the data will be stored. Facebook has used the techn

Conversations around white nationalism and its impact on the country have emerged once again. And a powerful new cover from Time magazine adds to this dialogue while shedding light on how overwhelming and ubiquitous the problem is. 
In the wake of two deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the headline of Time magazine's latest cover story reads, ‘We Are Being Eaten From Within.’ Why America Is Losing the Battle Against White Nationalist Terrorism.' TIME'

TL;DR: The Whistle 3 GPS pet tracker and activity monitor is on sale for just $63.95 on Amazon. It's normally $99.99, so you'll save $36.Anyone who's ever proclaimed that their pooch is their entire world probably wasn't being hyperbolic: Forty-nine percent of U.S. pet owners consider their dog a top-three concern in life, worrying mostly about Fido's health and safety and what would happen if he ever ran away.
That's according to a brand new survey conducted by Whistle, a pet care brand that ma

TL;DR: Save 50% on a well-reviewed Eureka EasyClean handheld vacuum, a savings of $29.99.Messes happen. We get it, that's just life. Snack crumbs and pet hair in the couch cushions, potato chips and dust on the car floorboards, or maybe another roll of toilet paper your cat shredded across the carpet just for kicks — it happens. But sometimes a typical vacuum may not be the most convenient tool for smaller clean-up jobs.Be a Master of Disaster and tidy up those unexpected messes with an ea

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Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Major Republican committees and President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign are pulling all advertising money from Twitter as of Thursday morning after the platform locked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) campaign account for violating the platform’s rules.Trump’s campaign, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) are promising to not spend any money o

TL;DR: Get a compact Hamilton Beach microwave for only $39.99 at Walmart. That's 27% off the regular price and a steal for soon-to-be college students. New college students have a lengthy checklist of dorm room necessities. But after laptops, the most important electronics are the ones that feed you. 
You could try to fill your room with the latest Instant Pots, rice cookers, and other fun stuff, but space is always a premium. That's why a microwave is so essential. And this deal on a

TL;DR: The must-have Ninja air fryer is $84.99 at Amazon when you use the coupon at checkout. It's typically $129.99, so you'll save $45.No matter how much you try to convince yourself, we all know that restaurant leftovers are never as good the next day. Microwaves may be a magical machine, but even they can’t revive soggy fries. Truly the only way to make leftover foods edible again is with an air fryer.
The Ninja air fryer achieves that crispy perfection with 75% less fat than other tra

The Verge Google has a new back to school deal for students, offering new members a free three-month trial of YouTube Music Premium or YouTube Premium (which includes YouTube Music Premium, so I’m not sure why you’d ever take the first option).The deal essentially works by having students sign up for the discounted plan of their choice ($4.99 per month for YouTube Music Premium, or $6.99 per month for YouTube Premium), but instead of getting one month free, for a limited time, they

ABC Confederate, HBO’s controversial series that was to imagine a time after the Civil War where the South won, is no longer in development at HBO, according to Vulture.Sources with knowledge of the project told Vulture that showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff don’t have any series left at HBO following their move to Netflix. Weiss and Benioff, who are best known for creating Game of Thrones, announced Confederate as their next project at HBO in 2017. The announcement was met w

Postmates Food and grocery delivery company Postmates has been given the first permit in San Francisco to test sidewalk delivery robots, according to TechCrunch, paving the way for the company to test the Serve autonomous delivery robot it announced in December.
The permit will let Postmates, which is available in 3,500 cities, expand into a new method of transportation for deliveries. Postmates claims that the electricity-powered robot, which has Velodyne LIDAR sensors and an Nvidia Xavier pro

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More than four months after India destroyed one of its own satellites in space, dozens of pieces of debris from the cataclysmic event still circulate in orbit — posing a small, but potential threat to other functioning spacecraft that might pass close by. It’s possible that some of this debris could stay in orbit for a full year before falling back down to Earth, according to space trackers.On March 27th, India fired a ground-based missile at

Kristen Bell stopped by Hot Ones to test her heat tolerance, reminisce on her husband's wing-eating experience, and chat about her career.
In between bites of fiery wings, Bell discussed everything from moral philosophy and The Good Place to new episodes of Veronica Mars on Hulu and the highly anticipated Disney movie, Frozen 2.
Impressively, Bell barely breaks a sweat during the challenges and though she swears a bit and sips some water, she conquers even the hottest of wings like a champ.
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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s been a year since Samsung announced its Galaxy Home smart speaker with Bixby on board, and the device was a total no-show at yesterday’s Unpacked event. But Samsung has confirmed that the project isn’t canceled. “We’re continuing to refine and enhance the Galaxy Home prior to launch, and look forward to sharing more with Galaxy fans soon,” a spokesperson told The Verge by email.
The company had initially aimed to ship the