Instagram test brings DMs to desktop, but only for some users

Though Instagram is available on desktop browsers, the service is limited on the web when compared to the service’s mobile apps. You’ll need to download the mobile app to access a number of features, including any direct messages you’ve been sent. That has changed this week, at least for a percentage of users who have been included in a new … Continue reading

PlayStation's new Back Button accessory is a wasted opportunity

Sony’s DualShock is a good controller. Its Emmy award-winning design has hardly changed over the last couple of decades. It had a run of minor refinements until the DualShock 4 added a touchpanel, some fancy lights and a grippier texture. But things…

What we're buying: Steinberg UR22C audio interface

This week, Contributing Writer Marc DeAngelis tells us about his new Steinberg audio interface.

Apple's rackmount Mac Pro is now available

If you (or more likely, your company) are pining for the new Mac Pro but don’t want anything so gauche as a tower under the desk, Apple has you covered. It started taking orders for the rackmount version of the Mac Pro, with new purchases shipping i…

I Used To Be An Anti-LGBTQ Evangelical. Here’s What Finally Changed My Heart And Mind.

“I’m shocked at how blatantly careless and hurtful I was.”

Anna Faris Is Indeed Engaged To Michael Barrett, Allison Janey Says

Faris was previously married to actors Chris Pratt and Ben Indra.

Supreme Court Declines To Hear Michelle Carter’s Appeal In Texting Suicide Case

Carter had defended that texts she sent encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself were protected by the First Amendment.

Anna Wiener On Uncanny Valley And the Intoxicating Promise of Tech

“In New York, I had never considered that there were people behind the internet,” Anna Wiener writes in her memoir Uncanny Valley. But after leaving her job in the book publishing industry to work in Silicon Valley’s tech bubble, Wiener becomes one of those people as a customer service representative for a data…

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‘Do Right And Fear No One’: Ryan Zinke Gifts $11K Campaign Fund To Wife’s Foundation

“I can’t think of a better place for it to go than a place I helped found where kids can go and sled,” Zinke said.

Stephen Miller Echoes White Nationalists In Leaked Anti-DACA Emails

A growing chorus is calling for the ouster of Trump’s senior adviser.