Kody Brown Still Has Women Asking to Join His Family
Should Kody still be interested in having his love multiplied, there’s no shortage of options.
As he revealed to Robyn on the Nov. 2 episode, “I got another one of those emails from some woman talking about plural marriage.”
The unnamed person was “kind of chastising me for deciding to quit plural marriage,” he explained to his sole remaining bride. And then she offered up her services. “She’s calling me out,” Kody explained to Robyn, “and then asking sort of like to get to know us for the purpose of joining the family.”
Truthfully, it wasn’t an immediate no from Robyn, who admitted in a confessional, “For a split second, I think, ‘Oh, wouldn’t this be great? This is what I’ve always wanted for my life.’ And, ‘Hmm, would they fit.'”
Ultimately, though, it was a no.
“I find it very inappropriate that they would send it to Kody,” she explained of her issue with the outreach. “It’s not usually proper to go hitting on a guy. You have to go through the sister wives.”
Price: $18.90 - $13.30 (as of Dec 08, 2025 10:34:18 UTC – Details)
From the brand
Best Deals
Holiday Gift Ideas
NEW LAUNCHED
Stocking Stuffers
Item model number : F23T009 Manufacturer : APR ASIN : B085VWWJJT Best Sellers Rank: #2,188 in Beauty & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Beauty & Personal Care) #60 in Facial Serums Customer Reviews: 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,856) var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when(‘A’, ‘ready’).execute(function(A) { if (dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction !== true) { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative( ‘acrLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault”: true }, function (event) { if (window.ue) { ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } } ); } }); P.when(‘A’, ‘cf’).execute(function(A) { A.declarative(‘acrStarsLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault” : true }, function(event){ if(window.ue) { ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } }); }); Medicube Triple Collagen Serum is a powerful serum that helps to boost skin elasticity and nourish dull skin with the envious glass glow. The Triple Collagen Complex with Hydrolyzed collagen, atelo collagen, and soluble collagen penetrate faster and deeper into the skin barrier, providing even the deepest skin layer with the essential nutrients for plump and healthy-looking skin. This lightweight serum is suitable for all skin types and provides long-lasting skin suppleness and glow. It is particularly beneficial for matured skin and those who want to achieve a healthy glow. The key ingredients in this serum are Enantia Chlorantha Bark Extract and Olive Leaf Extract. Enantia Chlorantha Bark Extract is a patented ingredient for pore care, while Olive Leaf Extract is a patented ingredient for blemish and freckle care. Apply a small amount of the serum onto the face and neck, avoiding the eye area. Gently massage in circular motions until fully absorbed. Use daily in the morning and at night for best results. Everyone has skin concerns. But not everyone finds the right solution. By working with dermatologists, we research the most effective formula and develop using the best ingredients.
Customers say
Customers find this serum effective, describing it as a game changer in their skincare routine that nourishes dull skin and improves texture. The product provides excellent hydration for dry skin and helps brighten dull areas, while absorbing quickly without leaving stickiness. Customers appreciate its gentle formula that doesn’t irritate sensitive skin and its pleasant scent, considering it well worth the price.
Rich Cimini is a staff writer who covers the New York Jets and the NFL at ESPN. Rich has covered the Jets for over 30 years, joining ESPN in 2010. Rich also hosts the Flight Deck podcast. He previously was a beat writer for the New York Daily News and is a graduate of Syracuse University.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Jets head into the final four games of the season in an all too familiar position: no hope for the playoffs, mired in quarterback uncertainty.
Their playoff drought, almost old enough to drive, turned 15 years old Sunday, as the Jets were officially eliminated with their 34-10 loss to the Miami Dolphins at MetLife Stadium. It sealed what had become inevitable two months ago during their 0-7 start.
Once again, the Jets own sole possession of the longest active postseason slump in North America’s men’s sports leagues — the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS. They’ve been sharing it for several months each year with the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres, currently at 14 years.
Quarterback Tyrod Taylor, making his third start for the demoted (and injured) Justin Fields, lasted only two series (six plays) because of a groin injury, forcing rookie third-stringer Brady Cook into his first NFL game. It was 21-0 at the time, and the former undrafted free agent threw two interceptions in a difficult debut.
Who starts next Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars is anybody’s guess. Fields, who reported knee soreness last week in practice and was ruled out on Friday, could be an option, although Glenn clearly prefers Taylor.
“We’ve got to get him healthy,” Glenn said. “The quarterback situation, we’ll look at that going into next week. But, yeah, it’s always tough when your starter goes down.”
It has been that kind of year for the Jets.
At 3-10, they reached double-digit losses for the sixth straight year, tying them for the third-longest such streak in the Super Bowl era. The longest skids belong to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 12 (1983-1994) and the Las Vegas Raiders at seven (2003-2009).
“It’s a yearly thing,” running back Breece Hall said of the postseason skid. “It definitely starts to weigh on you. You see your peers and you see other guys that you know you’re just as good as or better than, and they get to have a lot of fun.”
Hall, who will be the Jets’ most important free agent, added: “With AG, I see the vision and I see how guys are trying to turn it around. We just have to be better as a team and execute what the coaches are coaching us to do.”
Center Joe Tippmann said, “It sucks. [We’ve missed the playoffs] ever since I’ve been here, so it’s something that we are constantly trying to fight and overcome. It sucks being in that situation again this year.”
Glenn became the sixth Jets coach to join the drought. It started with Rex Ryan (2011-2014), who passed it to Todd Bowles (2015-2018), who handed it to Adam Gase (2019-2020), who gave it to Robert Saleh (2021-2024), who was fired after five games last season. In came interim coach Jeff Ulbrich.
Glenn was hired in January, vowing to change the fortunes of the franchise, but he got off to the worst start of any coach in Jets history. Since then, the Jets traded star defensive players Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams and benched Fields, Glenn’s handpicked quarterback.
“Get better, that’s it. That’s how I process it,” Glenn said of the postseason slump. “That’s the only thing that we can do is improve and get better. Because before you can start to consistently win … you have to improve. You have to improve in all areas. That’s including us as coaches.”
Glenn blamed himself for the latest loss, claiming he didn’t have the team ready to play. He said, “This one is on me.” The Jets opened the game by allowing two long touchdown drives. Miami scored another touchdown after intercepting a Taylor throw. It was 21-0 at the end of the first quarter.
The Jets generated only 207 total yards, much of it in garbage time. Cook (14-for-30, 163 yards), who didn’t have any first-team reps in practice, was sacked six times. What irked Glenn the most was that the defense allowed 239 rushing yards.
“That’s B.S.,” he said. “You can’t give up 240 yards rushing. It’s that simple.”
Glenn’s biggest challenge in the future will be to solidify the quarterback position. Sixteen different quarterbacks have started at least one game during the 15-year drought. Cook could be No. 17.
Kicker Nick Folk, the last link to the Jets’ last playoff team in 2010, acknowledged the fans’ frustration, but he preached patience with Glenn and general manager Darren Mougey.
“You can build a house on a bad foundation, but it’s not going to stand very long,” Folk said. “So, I think AG is trying to do the right thing and build a good foundation so that he can build something that’s long lasting.”
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
On this episode of The Vergecast, the second in our two-part series on how developers are using and building AI into their products, Azout explains how she’s bringing AI to Sublime without changing what makes it human. She talks through the platform’s discovery options, the importance of good data, how humans and AI make connections together, and much more. She also walks us through Sublime’s latest tool, Podcast Magic, which is pretty much AI models all the way down.
Azout also explains how she’s using AI in her own life, both as a productivity tool and as a creative partner. She has some reservations about the way AI might develop, and what it might mean as we rely on it for ever more of our lives, but she’s confident there’s a balance that can work.
If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started:
Before Mendler’s run as spunky teen Teddy Duncan on Good Luck Charlie ended in 2014 after four seasons, she was simultaneously pursuing pop stardom, releasing her debut album Hello My Name Is… in 2012. While she continued to make music and act, she started studying anthropology at USC, though she dropped out in 2016.
“I didn’t really understand how it worked,” she said on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2015, explaining how she ended up with her major. “I put down, like, five different things that I would potentially want to be in as a major, and I got my acceptance letter, and it’s like, ‘You’re in anthropology!’”
But she went on to get her master’s degree in humanity and technology from MIT and graduate from Harvard Law School in 2024.
Mendler is now co-founder and CEO of El Segundo, Calif.-based Northwood Space, which aims to mass-produce the antennae that communicate with space satellites.
Price: $19.59 (as of Dec 07, 2025 11:34:02 UTC – Details)
From the brand
At Further Food, we believe food is the best medicine. Inspired by Eastern remedies and backed by modern science, we use the most potent ingredients from nature to make real-food nutritional products that you can trust.
We promise you that our products are only made with the good stuff and none of the junk. The result: one-of-a-kind natural nourishment you can’t get anywhere else.
Shop Premium Collagen
Shop Plant-Based Protein
Shop Superfood Blends
Shop Herbal Supplements
Product Dimensions : 7.1 x 5 x 5 inches; 1.5 ounces Item model number : PARENT_COL-B-Unf-P Date First Available : April 12, 2021 Manufacturer : Further Food ASIN : B0CR1YQR9Q Best Sellers Rank: #16,792 in Health & Household (See Top 100 in Health & Household) #127 in Collagen Supplements Customer Reviews: 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (131) var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when(‘A’, ‘ready’).execute(function(A) { if (dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction !== true) { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative( ‘acrLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault”: true }, function (event) { if (window.ue) { ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } } ); } }); P.when(‘A’, ‘cf’).execute(function(A) { A.declarative(‘acrStarsLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault” : true }, function(event){ if(window.ue) { ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } }); }); Premium 100% Grass-Fed Collagen – Sourced from pasture-raised bovine, our unflavored collagen peptides powder delivers clean, high-quality protein you can trust. Strong Skin, Joints, Hair & Nails – Hydrolyzed Type 1 & 3 collagen supports youthful-looking skin, resilient nails, and shiny, healthy hair from the inside out. It promotes flexibility and joint strength, helping you stay active and moving with ease. Supports Gut Health – Naturally high in glycine, our collagen peptides help promote healthy digestion and support a strong gut lining for overall wellness. Unflavored & Easy to Use – Mixes smoothly into coffee, smoothies, soups, or any recipe. Our collagen is a simple addition to your daily routine. Clean & Effective Nutrition – 20g collagen per serving, free from sugar, additives, fillers, hormones, antibiotics, and GMOs.
Customers say
Customers find the collagen powder effective for skin health, with one noting improved nails and hair strength. The product receives positive feedback for its quality and protein content, with one customer mentioning 20 grams per serving, and another noting it blends well in smoothies. The taste and dissolving properties receive mixed reviews, with some saying it’s nearly flavorless and dissolves in everything, while others find it tastes awful and doesn’t dissolve well. Customers consider the product expensive and note that the 20g packs are too large.
The final UFC pay-per-view of 2025 delivered two new champions who will enter the new year with golden hardware around their waists. Petr Yan and Joshua Van unseated Merab Dvalishvili and Alexandre Pantoja, respectively, and threw their divisions into a tizzy.
At men’s bantamweight, it’s hard to see Yan hold up a title belt and not wonder how things could have been different if the moment that he lost it by disqualification in 2021 had never happened. And at flyweight, a new hard-to-watch moment that resulted in an injury and a changing of the guard may end up affecting that weight class for quite some time.
Brett Okamoto and Jeff Wagenheim give their takeaways on how those moments have altered the timeline of the UFC.
What if Yan didn’t throw that knee?
play
1:59
Petr Yan completes stunning win over Merab Dvalishvili
Petr Yan somehow pulls off the stunning upset in the main event of UFC 323 to defeat Merab Dvalishvili.
That illegal knee, man. I hate to go back and get stuck on it, but what a career-changing moment. Remember, Yan was genuinely considered one of the absolute best pound-for-pound fighters in the world at that time. He was 15-0. Undefeated. Perfect. He was cruising through Sterling in 2021 when he was disqualified for one of the most egregiously, unforgivable illegal knees in the sport’s history. And that single moment stuck with him for two years.
He went on to win an interim belt against Cory Sandhagen in his next bout then lost to Sterling via split decision in 2022 — in a fight I scored for Yan at the time. If we’re honest, it had to be a little hard for Yan to get up for that bout. He dominated Sterling in their first meeting. It was a “trap” kind of title fight, if there is such a thing. After that, a split decision loss to Sean O’Malley appeared to rob him of some of his competitive soul. By the time he fought Merab Dvalishvili in 2023, he was on a 1-3 run and, as he later admitted, injured. And he got run over.
None of this is to make excuses or create a false narrative, but in my opinion, Yan fell victim to a perfect storm of awful circumstances — the first of which, to be fair, he did to himself with the illegal knee. But if he never threw that knee and he’s never lost that momentum he was carrying in 2021, who is to say he wouldn’t have put together an all-time historic run? His fight against O’Malley would have been five rounds instead of three. He never would have had to face Sterling in a rematch that was probably hard to get up for. And he would have fought Dvalishvili the first time in a far different scenario.
Say I’m making things up. Fine. I stand by it. A single illegal knee changed the course of history in the bantamweight division, more than we have ever known. Because the fighter I watched on Saturday is a legit pound-for-pound talent. — Okamoto
The top of the men’s flyweight division changed in an instant
Tatsuro Taira was on a rocket ship headed to the top of the MMA world as he won the first 16 fights of his career, including six UFC victories. But then he lost a split decision to Brandon Royval in October 2024 and seemed to disappear from men’s flyweight contendership. Taira certainly made his presence felt in a big way on Saturday by knocking out Brandon Moreno, a former champion. That surely will boost the 25-year-old from Japan toward the top of the rankings.
It’s hard to say how long Taira will have to wait for a title shot, however, because in the very next fight at UFC 323, Alexandre Pantoja suffered a brutal injury seconds into his flyweight title defense and lost the championship to Joshua Van. A Pantoja loss by any other means likely would have resulted in an immediate rematch, since he entered the night with more title defenses than any current UFC champion. With the shoulder injury, however, Pantoja could be out for a while. And some of the other top-10 flyweights who had lost to Pantoja might suddenly be back in the running to challenge Van.
Taira has maybe the strongest case. Saturday’s victory was his sixth finish in the UFC. Perhaps even more impressive: It was the first time Moreno has been finished in 20 UFC fights. Pantoja didn’t do it in two fights with Moreno. Former champion Deiveson Figueiredo couldn’t in four tries. Taira’s opportunity to climb to the top spot seems imminent. — Wagenheim
WASHINGTON — FIFA announced the start times for the tournament’s 104 matches on Saturday, a day after the draw for the expanded 48-nation tournament, with the final set to kick off at 3 p.m. ET on July 19.
The kickoff time for the final at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, allows for prime-time viewing in continental Europe, where it will be 9 p.m., and Britain, where it will be 8 p.m.
The average 3 p.m. temperature over the past 30 years in East Rutherford on July 19 is 83 degrees, according to AccuWeather.
Nine of the 10 World Cup finals from 1978 through 2014 started in the 2-3:30 p.m. ET range. The exception was in 2002 in Japan, which began at 7 a.m. ET. The 2018 final started at 11 a.m. ET and the 2022 championship of a tournament shifted to winter in Qatar at 10 a.m. ET.
The 1994 final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, kicked off at 3:30 p.m. ET.
FIFA announced the schedule and sites after factoring in travel and broadcast.
“Let’s just say it’s been a long night — or a short night,” chief tournament officer Manolo Zubiria said. “As I explained earlier to some of the coaches, we’ve tried to basically strike the right balance looking at the preparation, the recovery that the teams have to do in this very large footprint, the biggest World Cup ever, 16 cities, three countries, different climatic conditions, time zones.”
Zubira said goals included “trying to minimize travel for the teams and the fans to try to see their teams play, and obviously trying to see how to best expose this competition to the world, trying to find the right times for the kickoff times in specific cities, taking into consideration some restrictions.”
The World Cup opener at Mexico City on June 11 between El Tri and South Africa will start at 3 p.m. ET.
Semifinals will start at 3 p.m. ET on July 14 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and 3 p.m. the following day at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, both of which have retractable roofs.
Quarterfinals will begin at 4 p.m. on July 9 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and noon (3 p.m. ET) the following day at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The last two quarterfinals are on July 11, starting at 5 p.m. at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, and 8 p.m. (9 p.m. ET) at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. Of the quarterfinal venues, SoFi has a roof but air from the outside can flow in, and the other three are open air.
FIFA announced on Feb. 4 last year that the final was scheduled for New Jersey, and that June 12 revealed site-specific matchups for games in the new round of 32, round of 16, quarterfinals and semifinals.
Seventy-eight games will be in the U.S., including all from the quarterfinals on, and 13 apiece in Canada and Mexico.
During an event at the Capital Hilton, FIFA also announced sites of the 54 group stage games not finalized with Friday’s draw, which fixed venues for only Groups A, B and D, which include co-hosts Mexico, Canada and the United States.
South Korea is the only team other than Canada and Mexico with no games in the U.S., playing its opener in Guadalajara against the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland or North Macedonia, then facing El Tri at the same venue and finishing the round against South Africa in Monterrey.
The U.S. men’s national team’s first-round games will be a 9 p.m. ET start against Paraguay at Inglewood on June 12, a 3 p.m. ET kickoff vs. Australia at Seattle seven days later, and a 7 p.m. start on June 25 at SoFi against Turkiye, Romania, Slovakia or Kosovo.
Japan‘s Group F game against Tunisia at Monterrey, Mexico, on June 20 will be the 1,000th World Cup match.
Germany‘s June 14 Group E opener against Curaçao will kick off at noon local (1 p.m. ET) at NRG Stadium. Curaçao has the smallest population of a country to reach the World Cup at about 150,000.
“It will be played in Houston, which is a closed venue, indoor, so nobody can complain about heat or weather or wind or whatever,” FIFA president Gianni Infantino said.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
It’s been a few years since the official introduction of the Bluetooth technology Auracast, which allows devices like earbuds, headphones, speakers, and hearing aids to connect to a single source without the need for pairing. Like a radio picks up your local radio stations, all you have to do is connect to the right broadcast. These could be flight announcements from your gate at the airport, the microphone a teacher is using during a presentation, or the TV you’re watching while on the treadmill at the gym.
By letting you link directly into one of these broadcasts, Auracast can increase auditory accessibility for those who are hard of hearing, or just more easily pick the relevant information out of a noisy environment. Auracast is available today, but many tech companies don’t yet support it, and others barely talk about it — even when it’s in their products.
Every year since 2023, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) has shown off Auracast’s capabilities in invite-only meetings at CES. But then news dwindles, journalists move on, and life in the audio world continues for another 11 months before the cycle continues. There has been an uptick in announcements recently, with Sony adding what it calls Audio Sharing support, which uses Auracast, to its XM5 and XM6 headphones, as well as support on recent phones from Google, Samsung, and OnePlus. But you’d be forgiven for missing them.
JBL is one of the few companies that consistently touts the Auracast capabilities of its compatible products — so much so that some are under the impression that Auracast is a JBL-exclusive tech (one of my colleagues, in fact, thought this). It’s included in JBL’s Bluetooth speakers like the Charge 6, Clip 5, and PartyBox Stage 320, as well as headphones like the Tour One M3, which even include a separate Auracast audio transmitter to share with compatible nearby headphones.
But as an early adopter, JBL ran into some issues. “Integrating Auracast into our products presented several technological challenges, particularly because we committed to supporting it across multiple platforms during its early development phase,” says Sharon Peng, the SVP of global engineering at JBL. “While Bluetooth SIG offered a foundational framework, they did not cover all the nuances required for robust implementation. Early adopters like JBL had to navigate a degree of ambiguity, but Bluetooth SIG has since introduced more structured compliance and testing protocols.”
That might explain issues reported by Reddit users, specifically with JBL PartyBox speakers, which can only receive Auracast broadcasts from JBL devices. Peng said JBL is aware of the issue and is working to correct it with OTA firmware updates. “In short,” Peng said, “JBL’s Auracast architecture is designed for compatibility, and we’re committed to expanding support across our product lineup to ensure users can enjoy seamless connectivity—whether they’re using JBL gear or third-party devices.”
Henry Wong, the director of market development at Bluetooth SIG, echoed Peng’s commitment to interoperability. Wong was also aware of the issues with the JBL party speaker mode. “We’ve been in communication with JBL, and they are actively working to align their products with the full Auracast requirements to ensure broader compatibility and clarity for consumers.”
Not every company that supports Auracast is as vocal about it as JBL. Samsung has supported Auracast in its high-end 8K TVs since 2023, and LG added support on its 2025-model-year OLED and quantum dot LED TVs. Neither company mentions Auracast support on the product pages. I only found out that LG includes it when I dug into the C5’s menus while reviewing the TV in the spring.
In fact, when I wrote about the feature in June, the only online mention of Auracast support in LG’s TVs was a press release from Starkey, a hearing aid manufacturer. LG did not have its own press release, and directed me to the one from Starkey when I asked about the feature. But limiting announcements to primarily the hearing aid community, while important, means that the public at large isn’t even aware of this important capability they’ve already placed in or over their ears. Using Auracast with your TV allows each person to set the volume for their individual needs, or boost frequencies for clearer dialogue. But beyond the hearing accessibility, Auracast easily lets multiple people watch something late at night with headphones without waking the family or disturbing neighbors.
LG informed me that while Auracast is not a headline feature in its current marketing efforts, it’s listed in specifications on the LG website (although as of publish, I am still unable to find mention of Auracast on LG TV product pages). And while the company expressed its support of the technology, it also noted that Auracast’s relevance to TV buyers is still emerging.
LG already promotes Auracast on its xboom line of speakers and earbuds, but the implication is that the unknown relevance to TV buyers is stifling a wider marketing push. But why the reticence? When talking broadly about the industry, Peng might have the answer. “There was also a degree of industry hesitancy, which is typical with emerging technologies. Manufacturers often weigh the risks of investing in features that may not yet be widely adopted or standardized.”
Auracast, though, is already in earbuds and headphones, and not just expensive ones from JBL or Sony. EarFun earbuds — which are all under $100 — include it, and according to marketing manager Helen Shaw, the company’s design team spent months troubleshooting compatibility issues to get it working. And since EarFun uses Qualcomm chips in its earbuds, Qualcomm assisted in resolving some of those issues. But the experimentation and determination from a smaller company like EarFun shows that Auracast integration doesn’t require a large company with big resources to invest in its future.
Where there does need to be some investment is the infrastructure — in the form of transmitters and employee training — in the places where Auracast can be most useful. But that adoption hasn’t been fast. Venues, including the Sydney Opera House, have begun adding Auracast support for performances, as have some universities and churches, but it’s going to take broader knowledge and wider availability in headphones, earbuds, and hearing aids before we see it regularly and it starts to benefit those with accessibility needs in their daily lives.
This is why the lack of more extensive marketing is frustrating, especially when it comes to its potential use in the home. The technology is already in many people’s ears, and maybe also in their TVs. There are even transmitters available for under $100 to add Auracast connectivity to a source you already own. If more people knew about Auracast, more people would be interested in it, and venues might start implementing it.
But do companies even care to educate consumers? Auracast, as mentioned, is a brand-agnostic technology. But there’s a strong trend for companies to create walled gardens. TCL has begun to do this a bit with the release of the Z100 Dolby Flex Connect speaker, which requires a 2025 TCL QM series TV to set up. This is not a restriction of the Dolby Flex Connect technology. And of course Apple is incredibly successful using this strategy — as I type on my MacBook while wearing my AirPods with my iPhone set in front of me and my iPad on the coffee table. Imagine how quickly Auracast would be adopted if Apple were to include it in the most easily recognized headphones and earbuds in the world. So far, though, there’s been no news out of Cupertino mentioning Auracast or any future Apple implementation. (I’ve reached out to Apple for a statement but have not yet received a response.)
Still, there’s a lot of hope and commitment to Auracast among all the companies I talked to. Each one made sure to accentuate the importance and potential they feel Auracast has. According to Bluetooth SIG’s Wong, “Auracast broadcast audio is gaining strong momentum across the industry. We’re seeing increasing adoption from device manufacturers, growing deployments in public venues around the globe, and enthusiastic support from advocacy groups and influencers.”
When (if?) Auracast becomes widely available and supported, the accessibility benefits will be huge. Families watching TV together will all be able to customize their dialogue intelligibility to enjoy content equally. It’ll be easier to hear travel updates at your gate or next stop announcements on the train. Students won’t have to strain to hear the lecturer, and we’ll be able to share our music or podcasts more easily. But we all need to know about Auracast before we can care about it, and the majority of that responsibility falls on the manufacturers that support it.
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
The infamous scene in which Harry uses the broken toilet in Mary’s bathroom and frantically tries to get rid of what was the result of a jealous Lloyd dosing him with Turbo Lax was originally going to be even more gross. “We did trim it a little,” Bobby acknowledged at Loyola Marymount. But not because the studio made them.
“That was our decision, yeah,” Peter concurred. “But yeah, we were pushing it, but they didn’t get it and I remember at the premiere, Bob Shay, who was the head of the studio, gave a toast or a speech up front and he said, ‘By the way, this isn’t why I got into the movie business.'”
Speaking of pushing it, Daniels was really giving the scene his all.
“That was a couple hours of porcelain gymnastics,” the Emmy winner told USA Today in May. “And that close-up when they pop in tight on my red face. I had been doing it so long, I had almost passed out.”
