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Mega Millions Jackpot Swells to $508 million

Mega Millions Jackpot Swells to $508 million

The winning jackpot numbers chosen in the Mega Millions jackpot were 29, 64, 46, 53, 73 and 10 as the mega ball, but Tuesday's drawing produced no winners, and the jackpot grew to $508 million with a cash option of $357 million. The next drawing will take place on Friday at 11 p.m.

The multi-state lottery prize ballooned to $454 million prior to Tuesday's drawing.

That staggering jackpot ranked as the seventh largest in U.S. history, according to officials. Tuesday's odds of getting a winning ticket with all six matching numbers was one in 259 million -- compared to the odds of a person being struck by lightning in their lifetime at roughly 1 in 12,000, according to the national weather service.

Apple Just Improved the Most Important Social Network in Your Life

After falling behind Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, Apple’s putting the work into Messages; It goes deeper than just the emoji and sticker fun.

This is the most exciting thing Apple announced at its annual developer’s conference on Monday:

Not the animated Donald Duck sticker, specifically. Although can you think of a better way to tell someone that you are standing on one foot and laughing so hard your stomach hurts?

Apple announced it was laser-focused on Messages—or what I call the most important social network in my life. It’s where I have most private digital conversations with my family and friends and where I share far more photos and videos.

When iOS 10 comes this fall to iPhones and iPads, you’ll be able to enhance your private messages with Donald and other stickers, make emojis bigger, even use apps like DoorDash to order lunch with friends, without ever leaving the chat.

Now, many of you may be inclined to respond to my enthusiasm with a guffawing duck sticker of your own. “Are you actually saying the best thing the most powerful tech company did was give us a bag of tricks to make our messages more like a 5-year-old’s birthday party? Innovation really is dead!”

Except messaging apps have emerged as the darling of the technology world because they’re becoming the glue that connects us to the most important people and services in our lives. Sound a lot like an operating system? That’s the idea.

Right now, when you’re in Facebook Messenger, you can call an Uber or pay a friend back for a Slurpee. In China, my friends use WeChat to pay all their bills—even traffic tickets. Google’s forthcoming Allo app will allow you to make dinner reservations for friends. In Slack, the exploding business-focused messaging service, you can easily add items to a shared to-do list and share articles without ever leaving.

Although we won’t really know if Apple built a better messaging system until we start using it with our loved ones this fall, the updates could keep us from straying to one of those competing options. With a lot of key functionality and openness—and a few well-placed stickers—Apple’s messaging network can carry it into the future.

Enhanced communications

Sending a text-only message is going to look like sending a telegram when iOS 10 hits. Messages is about to get more visual tricks than a Cirque du Soleil show.

There’s Invisible Ink that enshrouds a photo or message until you swipe for the grand reveal. The Celebrate feature automatically triggers an animation that takes over the screen when you type “Happy Birthday!” or some other festive message. You can change the size of your message bubble. You can sketch on photos and videos with your finger. You can even…

                                                                                                           

And I haven’t even gotten to the new emoji features yet. As you type, your keyboard will suggest emojis. You can also easily swap out words for emojis with a tap. The emojis themselves can now appear much larger—did you know the sun emoji has a cute little smirk? And then there are the emojis on steroids: stickers.

Reading Between the Lines

Do colorful cartoons really enhance our deeper understanding of each other? Do we really need a laser show when someone says “So excited!”? True, every single one of these features is a gimmick. On the other hand, we connect with the most important people in our lives more often with these tiny bubbles of text than with our own voices. My ongoing family group chats will benefit when we get more ways to express ourselves.

My biggest concern is that family and friends on Android devices or Windows PCs will be missing out on the fun. iMessage, the platform underpinning the Messages app, remains one of the strongest lures in Apple’s trap. Apple was rumored to be bringing Messages to Android, but that hasn’t been announced.

iMessage Apps

Like with Siri, Apple is opening up Messages to work with third-party apps.

Apple is already promising a few, with more to come. Using OpenTable, you’ll be able to book a restaurant reservation within Messages. Fandango will let you buy movie tickets. With Square Cash, you’ll be able to pay back a friend.

Even my beloved stickers are third-party products. Sticker packs from Disney, Keith Haring and more will be available for download from the iMessage section of the App Store.

Reading Between the Lines

In order for any of this to work, Apple will need the buy-in of software developers. Given Apple’s record and new commitment to developers, the outlook is promising. But let’s not forget that Google and Facebook are targeting the same essential services for its messaging platforms. One plus: Unlike Facebook Messenger and Google’s Allo, all conversations are encrypted end to end by default. Even third-party iMessage apps inside the chat won’t be able to see what you’re saying.

The iMessage integration will also need to work smoothly enough that it isn’t faster in every instance to just open up the original third-party app. Given that many of the current third-party keyboards are slow and buggy, this isn’t something I’m quick to rule out—at least until I start testing iMessage-compatible apps this fall.

Iphones

Predictive Assistance

Unlike Facebook and Google, which are building their personal, predictive assistants right into their messaging apps, Siri won’t dwell in Messages. However, it will be integrated into the Apple QuickType keyboard that you can use in Messages—and everywhere else—in iOS 10.

Apple showed off a few ways that this keyboard may save you some time. If you get a message from Mom saying, “Where are you?” Siri suggests sharing your location. If you mention a specific movie or restaurant, it may prompt you with more information about them, like Google’s GBoard keyboard for iOS currently does.

Reading Between the Lines

Siri’s challenge, both in Messages and in iOS 10 overall, is to prove that it’s worthy of a second chance and ready to rival its competitors over at Google, Amazon and Facebook. Stepping up to this larger role, it needs to offer accurate, intelligent suggestions based on our habits—then quickly execute the tasks. It’s great to have emoji tricks and animated stickers, but intelligent assistance is the real battleground in this messaging war.

How Instagram Thrived To 500 Million Users While Others Struggle To Grow

Instagram now has half a billion users. How did the photo-sharing app outpace Twitter and keep us so addicted?

I hope this isn’t too personal, but I need to fess up about something: I have an addiction. It’s nothing life-threatening or even all that serious, but I realized recently just how long it’s been going on. For nearly six years, my brain has routinely been flooded with hits of dopamine from a daily habit that I just can’t seem to kick. My drug of choice? This is kind of embarrassing. But it’s Instagram.

Now, lest I be accused of making light of the devastation caused by real-life, physical addiction to drugs or alcohol, hear me out: Social apps might not be deadly, but they certainly are addictive. They’re designed that way. And the scientific evidence that social media activates the brain’s pleasure circuitrymuch like real drugs do just keeps piling up like a mound of cocaine at a rich frat kid’s birthday party. Here in the age of ubiquitous smartphones, we each have our mindless vices of choice. For me, Instagram just happens to be the most rewarding one.

As it turns out, I’m not alone. Today, Instagram announced that it now has 500 million monthly active users. Of all those people sharing and scrolling through each other’s photos, a full 300 million of them use the app every day. That’s only 10 million less than the number of people who use Twitter every month. On average, Instagram users upload more than 95 million photos and videos every day. And we’re loving it: Collectively, we tap the "like" button on Instagram 4.2 billion times per day. We’re hooked.

While some social networks struggle to keep their user growth climbing after the initial buzz has worn off (see: Twitter and Foursquare), Instagram has had no trouble at all. In fact, the app’s user base has actually doubled in the last two years.

So what is it about Instagram that keeps reeling in tens of millions of people and ensuring that so many of us keep scrolling and tapping? Some of the reasons are obvious: Instagram’s expansion from iOS to other mobile platforms like Android and Windows Phone certainly helped push these numbers up. Heck, even the continued growth in smartphone ownership in general probably has a natural trickle-down effect (especially as Instagram retains enviably high rankings in the app stores, allowing its popularity to feed off of itself).

Without a doubt—despite plenty of naysaying at the time—Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram in 2012 has been a huge boon for growth: Not only does it enjoy a tighter integration with the world’s largest social network (boosting Instagram’s exposure among Facebook’s 1 billion daily active users), but being owned by Facebook means a huge expansion in resources. At the time of its acquisition, Instagram only had 13 employees. Today, a much larger team of engineers, designers, and product specialists are able to help the app keep scaling. In 2014, engineers quietly migrated all of Instagram’s content from Amazon’s cloud hosting to Facebook’s own data centers, allowing the growing photo app to piggyback on technical infrastructure designed to support billions of users, countless features and, most importantly, rapid continuous scale.

Even something as simple as user experience research—something in which Facebook is very well versed—can have a significant impact on the usability and performance of an app like Instagram, thereby preventing a knee-jerk exodus of frustrated users to other, more responsive apps.

Seemingly small details can make a big difference. In a recent meeting with members of Instagram’s Android development team in New York City, I was told that the service’s Android app takes up about as much space on one’s phone as it did when the app first debuted, despite a litany of new features being added. That may sound mundane, but it’s important: An app with a smaller footprint can fit on more phones, including less sophisticated ones or devices with smaller storage space. Things like this can make a bit difference, especially in regions of the world where not everyone is carrying around an iPhone 6s with 64 gigabytes of storage. Notably, 80% of Instagram’s user base resides outside the United States.

Despite being gobbled up by a publicly traded tech giant, Instagram’s mission and focus didn’t change much. Certainly, the product wasn’t butchered as many feared would happen at the time of the acquisition. And while some changes have proven controversial—many weren’t thrilled when Instagram added advertisements or axed Foursquare’s place database for its location tags—a great deal of Instagram’s success is owed to the fact that Facebook simply did not screw it up. That may sound like a no-brainer, but it happens: Foursquare’s 2014 decision to split its location-based social app into two apps sparked a steep decline in usage from which the company is still recovering.

That isn’t to say that Instagram hasn’t changed. In addition to an evolving list of photo filters (and, to a keen eye, an obvious change in how they affect images), Instagram has added support for video, smarter photo discovery features, and more full-fledged photo-editing capabilities, to name a few things. They’ve also launched stand-alone apps like Hyperlapse for time lapse videos, Boomerang for short, looped animations, and Layout for piecing together collages of photos. Breaking these features into their own apps may seem like an odd product choice—it clearly trickles down from Facebook’s DNA—but it also keeps the core Instagram app lightweight and snappy to use.

Of course, a social app isn’t a social app without its community. Instagram has become home to many of those: First, photographers. Then foodies, fashionistas, celebrities of various stripes, and—perhaps just as importantly—an army of millennials hell-bent on oversharing their every mirror selfie. Bizarrely enough, some of these teenage selfie-snappers have become minor celebrities in their own right. Indeed, Instagram’s growth is surprising in light of an evolving social media landscape: Why, for instance, hasn’t Snapchat replaced Instagram among younger users, or at least eaten into Instagram’s usage numbers? Why did Flickr never pose a threat? With Facebook (photo-sharing capabilities and all) being the social network of choice for over 1 billion people, why do so many bother with a separate app for photos?

Whatever the reasons for Instagram’s counterintuitive success, it appears to be here to stay. But who knows? Maybe it will look very different a year from now. In the meantime, I’ll be over here, snapping my cat, picking just the right filterand waiting for the likes to roll in. Who knows why? I just can’t get enough of it.

The 66 Best Songs of 2016 So Far

If the album is still supposed to be dying, nobody told 2016 – it’s hard to remember a year that was so dominated by the full-length, with seemingly one major LP roll-out handing the baton to the next over a months-long relay of Event Records. Exciting times, but don’t let the individual song get lost in the shuffle: highlights from those marquee-stealing releases, crossover radio smashes no one saw coming, one-offs responding to a cultural moment, and many more jams borrowing some piece of the cultural conversation for four minutes at a time. Ultralight beams and low-flying panic attacks, these are the 66 Best Songs of 2016 So Far.

66. David Bowie, “I Can’t Give Everything Away“

The Starman’s final transmission. To close out his curtain-call album, David Bowie offers this weightless, wistful goodbye, nodding to works past and pleading with admirers, “I can’t give everything away.” That’s fine — you gave us more than we ever deserved. — KYLE MCGOVERN

65. Kali Uchis feat. Vince Staples and Steve Lacy, “Only Girl“

Kali Uchis is a New Hollywood glamour-girl crooner who knows her worth: “Talk is cheap and see, I got expensive tastes.” Vince Staples plays her philandering-but-semi-regretful boyfriend, whiplashing between apologies and excuses so fast you feel like he might break into “Hotline Bling” at any point. Thankfully, hook man Steve Lacy’s light-as-air vocal goes a long way to smooth things over. — ANNA GACA

64. Roly Porter, “In Flight“

A captured S.O.S. to Ground Control from the Tri Angle ambient-noise pilot, as his spacecraft spirals out of control and sets adrift into the gorgeously terrifying unknown: SEND HELP AND ALSO ADDITIONAL SYNTH ARPEGGIATORS AND DRUM PADS. — ANDREW UNTERBERGER

63. Maxwell, “Lake By the Ocean“

At a recent listening party, Maxwell proudly announced that his long-awaited upcoming LP, blackSUMMERS’night, was recorded in analog. But like Maxwell at his best, “Lake By the Ocean” feels too free-flowing to be held down by austere intentions. Even if the song favors plush production over creative risk-taking, it’s hard to find fault with Maxwell’s dulcet falsetto soothing over an arrangement that exists in perpetual bloom. Besides, the singer suffixed his Jack White-ian announcement by saying he doesn’t mind today’s turn-up music. Can’t be offensive if you’re trying to be Eros. — BRIAN JOSEPHS

62. The Knocks feat. Carly Rae Jepsen, “Love Me Like That“

Though it opens with one of the most literal lyric-to-sound-effect tricks in the book (“I hear thunder in the distance,” Jepsen moans as thunder crackles in the distance), “Love Me Like That” is one hell of a pop-funk boombox bumper. The staccato guitar, Jepsen’s breathily layered vocals, a dramatic key-pounding bridge: It’s like someone shook a soda bottle up and poked a hole in the cap, unleashing the fizzy concoction. — BRENNAN CARLEY

61. JPEGMAFIA, “Drake Era“

One Baltimore rapper’s valiant attempt to put a stop to the hip-hop Derek Jeter’s seemingly endless winning streak, with 2040s Bomb Squad production and Twitter-unfriendly lyrics like “I give a f**k about peace, I spit hate crimes.” Good luck to the heavy underdog, but chances are Drizzy’s still smarting at least a little over that faux-“Marvins Room”-crooned, Forrest Gump-quoting outro. — A.U

60. Miserable, “Violet“

“You’re the most spiteful person I could never be / So when I hear your name around town / Kills me,” moans a gut-punched Kristina Esfandiari, as encroaching guitars and drums swell to envelop her in a monsoon of bile. Plenty of shoegaze artists have managed to equal metal’s sonic destructiveness, but reaching its emotional devastation is the kind of achievement only artists bold enough to dub themselves “Miserable” should be capable of. — A.U.

59. Lucy Dacus, “Strange Torpedo“

In which Lucy Dacus is forced to stand by while a loved one spirals out of control — a frustrating scenario made even more so with the knowledge that there’s little she can do to save them from their “bad habits.” That doesn’t set the Richmond singer-songwriter’s mind at ease — precisely the opposite. If this person’s a speeding bullet, Dacus is the shell casing, left to survey the damage. — RACHEL BRODSKY

58. Modern Baseball, “Apple Cider, I Don’t Mind“

“Is this past or present?” strains Modern Baseball co-frontman Brendan Lukens. We can’t seem to make it all out, either: Hailing from the band’s first non-self-produced album, Holy Ghost, “Apple Cider, I Don’t Mind” incorporates the open-wound narrative style of their earlier records while showcasing their subtle evolution from “Whatever forever”-minded] Drexel recordings to New York Times-recognized indie rock. With rollicking percussion guiding the track, and Lukens’ raw and urgent howling erasing any need for a chorus, it’s evident that the still-mid-20s Philly quartet are already starting to age gracefully. —NATALIE CAAMANO

57. Inter Arma, “The Paradise Gallows“

Doom-metal death-marching that inexplicably swipes the guitar solo from GN’R’s “There Was a Time” note for note, this is the sound of Charlie Puth being sacrificed to a volcano. — DAN WEISS

56. Ariana Grande, “Into You“

You might know Ariana Grande and Max Martin, but please welcome to the stage producers and songwriters Savan Kotecha, Alexander Kronlund, and Ilya Salmanzadeh, who crank the heat to the triple digits on the singer’s menacing disco scorcher “Into You.” It’s the only Dangerous Woman cut as intriguing as Grande’s latex bunny ears, and it’s smoldering enough to melt them down into a pile of rubber. — B.C.

55. The Goon Sax, “Sometimes Accidentally“

Stop the press releases: James Harrison’s cracked voice, halting lyrics, and static guitar patterns are spookily close to what Robert Forster from the Go-Betweens would sound like if he grew up alongside emo. (All the spookier considering that the bassist/co-frontman to his left is actually Forster’s son Louis.) “I don’t care about much / But one of the things I care about is you,” Harrison speak-sings into his moleskine, pitching a relationship as well as his acne-scarred heart can muster. — D.W.

54. Empress Of, “Woman Is a Word“

“I’m only a woman if woman is a word,” wails Lorely Rodriguez, as she proceeds to either disassociate her femininity from its strictest Webster’s meaning, or guarantee that you’ll never define it by anything else. Regardless of the point Rodriguez is making, if she doesn’t hammer it home herself, you can be damn sure her cowbell will. — A.U

53. Lizzo, “Good As Hell“

Soundtrack singles rarely sound as blessed as “Good As Hell,” a bouncing bauble Lizzo had been working on with pop producer Ricky Reed when the pair got the call from the brains behind Barbershop: The Next Cut. Praise the heavens we didn’t have to wait until the Minnesota rapper’s next album cycle to hear this prayerful, half-sung (better than your faves, too) slice of surefire satisfaction. — B.C.

52. Shitkid, “Oh Please Be a Cocky Cool Kid“

Two minutes of leather-jacketed nocturnal bliss that packs more vampiric romance than an entire CW series in one devilishly cooed “Hey you, I saw you from across the room.” By the time it ends as suddenly as it began, you feel like you’ve woken up from a wild and hazy night, totally empty except for a strange lust in your veins and inexplicable throbbing in your neck. — A.U.

51. Prince Rama, “Bahia“

Sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson’s bonkers tropi-pop goes down smoother than a flight of technicolor Jell-O shots. The beat for this slinky, springy opener from eighth (!) album Xtreme Now takes off like a flying saucer and doesn’t come down for three gloriously goofy minutes. — A.G.

50. Teen Suicide, “It’s Just a Pop Song“

As in another “Pop Song” from 27 years earlier, Sam Ray of Teen Suicide half-heartedly tries to shrug off the more confusing anxieties of his existence with a little pop shimmy, his subconscious uncoupling getting more and more exquisitely frayed as it folds in on itself (“What do you want for dinner? We broke up in November”). Michael Stipe and his topless cronies may have been more successful in unburdening themselves, but he didn’t have multiple Netflix accounts to worry about. — A.U.

49. BRONCHO, “Fantasy Boys“

BRONCHO lead singer Ryan Lindsey sounds like he was born inside of a big, dreamy, scuzzy nostalgia wave. He blesses this retro cruising anthem with a weird, wonderful vocal hook (“fa-fanna-sea buy-oys”) that might be mistaken for a hiccup if it weren’t made purely of innuendo and saltwater taffy. — A.G.

48. Marissa Nadler, “Janie in Love”

In Marissa Nadler’s realm, a change in relationship status is akin to a sudden shift in weather patterns, so consider the smoldering “Janie in Love” an Emergency Alert. Brace for hurricanes, earthquakes, monsoons; take shelter in the shadows and marvel at the chaos. — K.M.

47. Young Thug, “With Them“

“With Them” upstaged half the songs on The Life of Pablo when it played at Yeezy’s Season 3 fashion show, yet it barely did much damage on the charts, staying on the Hot 100 for a whole week.  But when the public wises up and the behind-the-curve thinkpieces finally recognize Young Thug as Lil Wayne’s heir, “With Them” will be an essential mention for how Thug throws syllables against internal rhymes with the violence of water splashing against a Slip-N-Slide. When Lyor Cohen advised his signee not to leave his songs “like little orphans out there,” it was a reflection of our own limits, not Thugger’s. — B.J.

46. The Body, “Two Snakes“

Musket drums, napalm guitars, Tremor synths, and a vocal that sounds like it’s being attacked by all three, combining for one of the most visceral expressions of terror you’ll find outside of a Golden State Warriors away game. Or, the sound that Indiana Jones’ intestines make at the thought of being buried alive with the titular serpents. — A.U.

45. Tacocat, “The Internet“

Though it’s not going to be celebrated in comments sections anytime soon, Emily Nokes’ one-woman crusade against the “hate from the basement” from those who have “no consequence to fear” will remain timely as long as female Democratic state chairs are still fending off actual, physical chairs. Her backup singers and blunted riffs lift up a soaring hook that asks, sanely, “What place do you have?” Well? — D.W.

44. Charli XCX, “Vroom Vroom“

“Vroom Vroom” is a song of firsts: First Charli XCX collaboration with pop molecular physicist SOPHIE, first production to veer from EBM contortions to cheerleading stomp, first driving jam to actually make you feel like you’re trackside at the Grand Prix. Unlike Charli, you might not have been waiting all your life for such a good time, but now that it’s here, you certainly hope it won’t be the last. — A.U.

43. Jessy Lanza, “It Means I Love You“

A single beat takes on a life of its own on Hamilton electro-pop maven Jessy Lanza’s “It Means I Love You.” Over the course of almost five minutes, the metronomic pulse mutates, piles on layers, and morphs into an agile beast as Lanza pulls you in, determined to look you in the eyes and have it mean absolutely everything. — MELODY LAU

42. Deftones, “Prayers / Triangles“

If you’re going to compare Deftones’ first new material since 2012’s aggressively atmospheric Koi No Yokan to  nu-metal, look to nice-guy Puka-shell wearers like Morning View-era Incubus rather than perennial growl-brooders Korn. Getting heavy on the hooks without sacrificing any noise, Chino Moreno & Co. stay true to their trademark approach by experimenting with the quiet-loud balance, building “Prayers / Triangles” out with hulking guitar, throat-cracking screams, and thundering percussion — but, at the same time, butter-smooth harmonies. It’s no small feat when anything metal-related gets tagged as “blissful.” — R.B.

41. FKA twigs, “Good to Love“

FKA’s experimental tendencies are a distant second to her most valuable asset: No other artist expresses the complexities of desire better than her. “Good to Love” tosses within the same bed as Twigs’ most forward-thinking fare, but as a traditional, sparse ballad, it’s arguably FKA twigs’ most accessible song. The instrumental break sounds like Aphrodite’s wail, but know it’s an expression of yearning despite heartbreak: “It’s not your fault that I’m loved to my limit / I’ve had plenty, so I know you’re mine.” — B.J.