Google Trends has launched a new interface that lets you gauge the likelihood of showing up to the costume party dressed just like someone else. It’s called Frightgeist, and it uses Google Trends’ search data to anticipate how many people are dressing up in specific costumes this Halloween season in the United States. You can even see which costumes are most popular by region. Spoilers: if you’re planning on going as Harley Quinn, don’t expect to be the only motley seductress on the dance floor or get any bonus points for creativity.

Autoplaying videos are one of the most divisive features on the web today, as websites blare out content regardless of your wishes. Now, it seems like the Google Play Store will be offering this functionality. Google noted on its Play Console Help portal (h/t: XDA-Developers) that it will be enabling autoplaying videos on the Google Play Store from September 2019. The firm reasons that autoplaying videos will “help more users discover your content at a glance.

Some smartphone makers implement a feature in their devices called “double tap to wake”, which allows users to wake the phone’s display by simply tapping on the screen two quick times. This feature is put in place for good reason on smartphones like the HTC One M8 or the LG G4 that have oddly-placed power buttons. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for it to be on the new Nexus 6P, as it not only has a rear-mounted fingerprint reader and easily-accessible power button, it also comes with Google’s handy Ambient Display mode.

HTC CEO Cher Wang says she has something big for us to look forward to at CES 2016. At today’s Vive Unbound developers forum in China, Cher Wang said that her team and Valve have made “a very, very big technological breakthrough” with their Vive virtual reality system. While we aren’t entirely sure what this big upgrade is about, Wang did say that it’ll be shown off for the very first time at CES 2016 in early January.

In our very first ‘episode’ of Diving into M we took a look at the revised app drawer found in Android M’s launcher. Now that we’ve had a bit more time, let’s talk about two other minor but potentially useful changes found in the latest version of Google’s launcher. Want to dive even deeper? Check out our full “Diving into M” series by clicking here. The most useful of the two changes has to do with the way you remove apps.

Ryan-Thomas Shaw / Android Authority Budget camera phones have typically been a big step down from their flagship counterparts. However, that has started to change in recent years and we now have cheaper devices with impressive camera capabilities that can keep up with or sometimes even outmatch the very best camera phones you can buy. The Google Pixel 4a, OnePlus Nord, and iPhone SE represent the best crop of budget camera phones from 2020.

Pokemon Go may be a completely mobile and online game, but this doesn’t mean brick and mortar stores can’t get their piece of the pie. We know T-Mobile and Sprint are trying to lure more users to their stores, and sponsored locations are soon to come. Now GameStop is also trying to reap the benefits of a title that has over 20 million users by the Pokeballs. ...their sales have grown by 100% thanks to the Pokemon Go craze.

Surprising virtually everyone, the PlayStation Blog has revealed that a mobile version of Lemmings is now available. The game is the latest entry in the Lemmings series, which started in 1991 and initially launched on the Amiga. Even though this version of Lemmings is brand new (being developed by Sad Puppy Limited), the basic concept remains the same as its predecessors. The game is a puzzle-platformer that tasks you with guiding at least a certain percentage of anthropomorphized lemmings through stages filled with obstacles.

The LG G6 brought Dolby Vision HDR to the mix upon its release. Today is the official launch day for the LG G6, and many wireless carriers in the US are offering special promotional deals designed to make you want to buy the new 5.7-inch phone with its 18:9 display. One of them is T-Mobile, and today it launched an offer that will give buyers of both the G6 and the earlier LG V20 phone a free tablet, sort of.

T-Mobile is celebrating T-Mobile Tuesdays’ one-year anniversary: the Un-carrier is giving out free ice-cream and discounted movie tickets to a year’s worth of gas. T-Mobile is giving away a free subscription to MLB.TV Premium News It’s been almost a year since T-Mobile launched what they call “T-Mobile Tuesdays”: a part of T-Mobile’s 11th Un-carrier move, it essentially revolutionized how we define loyalty programs. Instead of asking customers to spend more to prove their loyalty, T-Mobile gave out free stuff every Tuesday in order to thank them for their loyalty.