Getty Images/Ringer illustration The ever-busy Judd Apatow finished up Crashing for HBO last spring, and the latest film he produced, Kumail Nanjiani’s The Big Sick , will get a wide release in July. Like so much of Hollywood, Apatow has worked more and more for streaming services or subscription…

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski arrive for the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington in 2015. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal.…

One of the biggest upgrades in iOS 10 goes to Messages. The native app now comes with stacks of extra features including stickers, instant reactions, and even its own app store. Most of the new functions work best inside conversations. Here’s how to make the most of the app on your iPhone or iPad.…

Image: fakephonetext.com As a person who has only ever used an Android phone, I never had a clue about my “green bubble” status until someone I was dating brought it up in the middle of a conversation. It’s the strangest text message I think I’ve ever received. It was from a girl I really liked, who…

Motherboard staff is exploring the cultural, political, and social influence of the iPhone for the 10th anniversary of its release. Dating these days kind of sucks. There's ghosting, negging, juggling five different apps. It's a hard life. But this isn't about those things, exactly. It's about the…

Jay-Z’s new album, “4:44,” is the introspective and often lyrically dazzling work of a veteran who seems freshly energized. Photograph by Doug Mills / New York Times / Redux In 2011, it was only Kanye West who could draw Jay-Z out of hismiddle-aged slumber to rap with any kind of urgency, as he did…

Their stories came out slowly, even hesitantly, at first. Then in a rush. One female entrepreneur recounted how she had been propositioned by a Silicon Valley venture capitalist while seeking a job with him, which she did not land after rebuffing him. Another showed the increasingly suggestive…

Young Finnish professionals are attracted to major European capitals. They move to Stockholm, Berlin and Amsterdam, as well as farther away. The sun shines in Dubai; the world’s top organisations and institutes are in New York and Washington. The occupations of these migrants are manifold: bankers,…

Anita Sarkeesian Steve Mack / Getty Images A phone camera is trained on Anita Sarkeesian as she prepares to speak on a panel. In footage later posted online, the camera wobbles slightly. Its setting is on high zoom. It follows her every move. After so many public appearances, Sarkeesian has grown…

An employee of Amazon PrimeNow preparing bags to fill with orders at a distribution hub in New York. Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press President Trump may not have meant to, but on Wednesday he seemed to endorse a longer reach for the tax collector. In an angry tweet directed at Jeff Bezos , the…

She is naked beneath the sheet, lying face down. I feel a little bit powerful, because she cannot see me. With no eyes on me, I am invisible. As my hands move down on her back, I look over at the family photographs on the bedroom bureau. They are black and white, almost sepia, and in ornate silver…

You could describe “ Baby Driver ” as a car-chase movie set to rock and roll. Or, conversely, you could think of it as a playlist that happens to have a crime film attached. That’s because vehicular mayhem and music compete for top billing in Edgar Wright ’s action-comedy-romance, with the whole…

There’s a paradox in technology. For something new to become widespread, familiar, and mass-market, it must create enough novelty and curiosity to draw people’s attention. But novelty alone is not enough to reach saturation. To permeate life, a technology must elicit more than novelty and curiosity…

In 2005, the late writer David Foster Wallace delivered a now-famous commencement address . It starts with the story of the fish in water, who spend their lives not even knowing what water is. They are naively unaware of the ocean that permits their existence, and the currents that carry them. The…

This article originally appeared on VICE Australia I know what you're thinking. If you're from London, or England and you're reading an article by an Australian about how London is the worst city on Earth, you're probably thinking 'LEAVE THEN.' If the roles were reversed, I'd probably think that as…

Like many Americans, I’m having politics fatigue. Or, to be more specific, arguing-about-politics fatigue. I haven’t run out of salient points or evidence for my political perspective, but there is a particular stumbling block I keep running into when trying to reach across the proverbial aisle and…

via Get On Down Hip-hop may be at the forefront of pop culture, and be embedded into the DNA of contemporary American life, but looking backward hasn’t always been its strength. Other genres — rock and jazz especially — tend to fetishize their history, something reflected in the intensity with which…

Brian Rea At the San Francisco Office of Vital Records, I paid $10 for a copy of the death certificate of a woman I had never met. It was September 2005. A few weeks before, I had broken up with my boyfriend of more than a year. My roommates and I had been hosting a party; we were moving out of our…

Last night, I caught a very special screening of Edgar Wright's Baby Driver at the Alamo Drafthouse. Of course every new Edgar Wright film is a reason to celebrate, but this particular screening was extra festive: wildly-talented DJ (and, as it turns out, total sweetheart) Kid Koala was on-hand to…

Eye-Fi makes clever wifi hotspots in the shape of SD cards; your camera sees them as SD cards but you can mount them on your network and automatically feed the images captured by your camera to a nearby laptop. But to make all this work with some models, you need an account on "Eye-Fi Center," a…

At Wednesday’s Los Angeles premiere of Spider-Man: Homecoming , comedian Hannibal Buress hired an impostor to walk the red carpet in his place. Read: Watch Your Favorite Movie Characters Play 'Super Hero Soccer' Buress, who plays Coach Wilson in the superhero flick, paid a stand-in $500 to hit the…

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13 Reasons Why Hardware Startups Fail (and How to Make Sure Yours Doesn’t) This article was originally published on Predictable Designs (a company that helps entrepreneurs and makers develop new electronic hardware products). Download their free cheat sheet 15 Steps to Develop Your New Electronic…

John Zimmer, the co-founder and president of Lyft, wants you to know that he is not — I repeat, not — happy about the chaos that is enveloping Uber, his fiercest rival in the ride-sharing market. There will be no corks popped at Lyft’s San Francisco headquarters over the sudden, stunning downfall of…

A screenshot of what appeared to be the ransomware affecting systems worldwide on Tuesday. The Ukrainian government posted the shot to its official Facebook page. A quickly spreading ransomware attack is hitting countries across the world including France, Russia, Spain, Ukraine and the United…

Design challenges are nothing new- plenty of companies use them in order to assess potential employees’ problem solving skills. But a Google interview challenge in particular seems to have captivated the global design community: Designers from around the world have taken stabs at the question; there…

GIF via WWE/ Youtube When you watch WWE programming for a long time, certain patterns emerge, ranging from production quirks to how matches are laid out to certain tropes that consistently recur in the storytelling. One of these is the way WWE lets show its utter contempt for its audience. Hell, it…

by Jean-Louis Gassée Courtesy: hindustantimes.com Blaming the Uber calamity on the recently deposed CEO Travis Kalanick is convenient, but let’s not forget the less visible but just as problematic role that the Board of Directors played as they let Uber unravel. Given the Board’s complicity, can the…

This article has been updated. The framed copy of Time magazine was hung up in at least five of President Trump’s clubs, from South Florida to Scotland. Filling the entire cover was a photo of Donald Trump. “Donald Trump: The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!” the big headline said. Above the Time…

James Berri traveled three hours to Sacramento earlier this month for his first Pride parade, one of hundreds of annual LGBTQ celebrations across America. Berri also talked about the experience on Facebook, reading and reacting to other people’s posts with thumbs-up likes and Facebook’s new rainbow…

To kick off the Women Online panel at VidCon last Thursday, the moderator posed the question: Why do we still have to talk about the harassment of women? I replied, “Because I think one of my biggest harassers is sitting in the front row.” He showed up with several others; together, his group took…

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, V.I. — The United States Virgin Islands is best known for its powdery beaches and turquoise bays, a constant draw for the tourists who frequent this tiny American territory. Yet away from the beaches the mood is ominous, as government officials scramble to stave off the same kind…

Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images As surprising as Trump’s young presidency has been, it’s also the natural outgrowth of 30 years of Republican pandering to the lowest common denominator in American politics. Almost two years ago, I wrote an article for Politico endorsing Donald Trump for president. It…

If there’s anything that typifies the boom times before the Great Recession, it is the McMansion. These sprawling houses proliferated around the country in the 2000s, as banks shelled out easy credit to fuel a housing bacchanalia they thought would never die. McMansions became the ultimate symbol of…

What it survived Enlarge / FireWire had its advantages and was usually faster than contemporary USB ports, but it was never able to gain widespread adoption. Manu on Flickr Since rising to power, a few different kinds of ports have attempted to challenge USB’s dominance. They usually achieve success…

Image credit: Natty Dread Shadow Of The Colossus was broken, unpolished, and incomplete, and the upcoming remake shouldn’t try to fix that. Technically, Team Ico did complete Shadow Of The Colossus . It shipped in 2005. You could put the disc in a PS2 and experience what would become one of the most…

Waking up on a Sunday morning, I received a text about what happened after I left the previous night’s party. “Everyone got high and we played truth or dare. Ted and Ivan docked.” “Are you serious?” I replied. “I thought that only happened in porn.” Defined by Urban Dictionary as “the act of placing…