With help from Google, a new app is blending the world of a custom fashion and personal data. 

Called Coded Couture, the app was built by Ivyrevel — an online fashion house backed by H&M — in partnership with Google. Coded Couture's first product is the Data Dress, a personalized dress that's created by tracking the user's lifestyle for a week. 

One of Ivyrevel's founders, Kenza Zouiten, created the first data dress by letting the app log a week of her activities. Here's how it worked. 

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To get started, you'll have to tell the Coded Couture app what type of dress you're looking for: business, party, or gala.

A business dress will have a more conservative cut and fewer embellishments, a party dress will likely be short and flashier, and a gala dress will be long and appropriate for a black-tie event. 

Once you pick the occasion, you'll be asked to select a style. Choosing a "sexy & confident" party dress created a style with long sleeves, a plunging neckline, and a thick belt to cinch the waist.

The app will start tracking your activities in order to create the dress. When Zouiten went for a run, the app tracked how far she went and the neighborhood she ran in, interpreting that into a pattern on the dress.

Since Ancient times, gold has served a very unique function in society.

Gold is extremely rare, impossible to create out of “thin air”, easily identifiable, malleable, and it does not tarnish. By nature of these properties, gold has been highly valued throughout history for every tiny ounce of weight. That’s why it’s been used by people for centuries as a monetary metal, a symbol of wealth, and a store of value.

Visualizing Gold’s Value and Rarity

With all that value coming from such a small package, sometimes it is hard to put gold’s immense worth into context.

The following 11 images help to capture this about gold, putting things into better perspective.

1. The U.S. median income, as a gold cube, easily fits in the palm of your hand.

2. A gold cube worth $1 million, has sides that are 2/3 the length of a typical banknote.

3. All gold used for electrical connections in the Columbia Space Shuttle would be worth $1.6 million today.

It's hard to believe that Rio de Janeiro hosted the Summer Olympics just six months ago.

Today, the Olympic Village has turned into a ghost town, and many of the venues have fallen into disrepair.

At the Maracana Stadium, the power has been turned off because there is nobody to pay the energy bill. Water in one practice pool is orange. Turf has turned brown and, along with countless stadium seats, inexplicably removed from the field.

And that doesn't even begin to describe the situation in Rio's favelas, which were supposed to be cleaned up ahead of the start of the Olympics. Instead, as Gizmodo noted, sewage and feces flow through the streets "in small rivers."

Of course, none of this should come as much of a surprise. Time and again we have seen Olympic hosts promise that the billions of dollars spent on the two-week spectacle would have a lasting effect on the local economy and its citizens only to watch silently as the venues are abandoned and begin to decay.

Here's what Rio's Olympic venues look like six months later.

The Olympic golf course took three years to make and drew much ire because it was built in a national wildlife reserve. Now it's run-down and empty.

The Olympic Village, too, is a ghost town.

One practice pool has turned orange, and the structure next to it is quite literally falling apart.

Concept cars are only getting crazier.

Automakers use concept cars as a way to showcase their vision for future production models. Sometimes, the cars are tame, though innovative, offering a realistic example of features to come. But more often than not, car makers pack concept cars with features you'll probably never see — at least not within the next decade.

Either way, concept cars offer a fun way to look at automakers' more creative side. Scroll down for the ones we've seen so far:

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1. Fiat Chrysler unveiled a concept car geared for high-tech millennials at CES this year. The car isn't all that eye-catching purely from an aesthetic perspective. It's large, boxy, and heavy looking...

...But the car is really meant to showcase the tech millennials are looking for inside a car, FCA said. It's electric with 250 miles of range and gets just over 50% of its charge back in under 20 minutes with a DC Fast Charger.

It also comes with lidar and sensors to handle Level 3 autonomous driving, meaning it can handle urban environments, but still requires human oversight.

Let's cut right to the chase.

I was never a fan of the first-generation Acura NSX. In fact, I could rightly be called a critic of the car, introduced in 1990 and produced until 2005. I thought it was boring. A guy who lived down the street from me in Los Angeles owned one and parked it on front of his house. I never once paused to look at it.

Yes, I know the car was a designed by the legendary Pininfarnia. Didn't matter. I didn't care.

But the NSX had its fans, and plenty of them. So after a hiatus, Honda (Acrua's parent company) completely rethought the NSX and rolled out a second-generation of the car. I saw it for the first time at the 2015 New York auto show. My reaction was "Meh." 

Later, I saw different versions of the new NSX. More meh. Images of the interior began circulating. Meh.

Then Acura kindly let us borrow the NSX for a few days.

Oh. My. God. 

It was almost head-warping how quickly my mind was changed after just a few minutes with the actual NSX, live and in the flesh, sitting behind the wheel, driving the thing. 

It was hypnotically beautiful. It was fast and responsive. It was breathtakingly gorgeous. 

The new NSX flat-out ravished me. I can't remember having such a profoundly rapturous reaction to a car. I could barely speak. Everything I had thought about the car before was wrong, so wrong.

Let's take a closer look at why I was an idiot to ever doubt the new Acura NSX:

Photos by Hollis Johnson.

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The NSX landed in New York City during a spell of lousy weather. It didn't matter. Our photographer, the intrepid Hollis Johnson, couldn't stop drooling over the $160,000 car, which wears wet stupendously well.

Hollis was fascinated with how rain beaded elegantly on the luminous, deep-red surface of the NSX.

I thought it looked like something out of "Blade Runner." Really, better than something out of "Blade Runner."

One of the best Netflix original series is one of the least-known: It's called "Chef's Table," and it's incredible. 

"Chef's Table" comes from David Gelb, the director behind the gorgeous and inspiring 2012 sushi documentary, "Jiro Dreams of Sushi." Gelb — and a crew of other directors — bring a passionate reverence to chefs and their creations that's rarely found in food shows. 

Look no further than this crazy beautiful snippet of the opening of the first season, set to the "Winter" concerto of Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons," for an idea of what to expect:

As season three debuts on February 17, we've prepared a tasting menu full of reasons why "Chef's Table" should be on your binge list this weekend.

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As of February 17, there are three full seasons of "Chef's Table" on Netflix, plus a spin-off season dedicated to French chefs. Episodes run about 50 minutes apiece — with 22 episodes, that's a ton of great show to watch.

The first of 22 nearly hour-long episodes stars an enigmatic and charming Italian chef named Massimo Bottura. He owns and operates the world's top-rated restaurant, Osteria Francescana.

Like the director's previous work, "Chef's Table" is rife with slow-moving close-ups of food that make you want to jump into the screen. Try to restrain yourself.

When my gadget-loving boyfriend wore Google Glass in public for the first time, the thing I remember most is the stares. People squinted across trains and sidewalks at the utterly uncool head-mounted display built in the shape of eyeglasses.

So when Snap, the startup behind the disappearing messages app, unveiled Spectacles that can record what you see, we were both thrilled. Spectacles look cool compared to Google Glass — we aren't embarrassed to wear them on weekend adventures and future vacations.

We recently took Spectacles out for a test run in San Francisco. Here's what I thought.

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We set out for Lands End in San Francisco, a rocky, windswept walking path opposite the Golden Gate Bridge. It was sunny, and I wondered if people would notice my sunglasses.

At first glance, Spectacles look like normal sunglasses. But the yellow circles near the lens are a giveaway. They light up when you hit the record button on top of the frames.

With one tap, Spectacles will record what you see for 10 seconds.

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Tesla is headed into fourth quarter and full-year 2016 earnings next week with arguably the biggest head of financial steam in the company's history. 

A surprise profit in the third quarter last year, coupled with Donald Trump's win in the election and the assumption that an America-first manufacturing policy favors Tesla, has sent shares on an epic rally. The stock has risen as much as 50% of the past three months, surging toward $300 and ending last week above $270.

Tesla has watched its stock soar in the past, only to reliably plummet — or, if not that, the revert to trading levels that don't register a $40-billion-plus market cap, right up their with the Ford Motor Company, but something close to $30 billion, which in the assessment of many market pros is, frankly, bonkers for a carmaker that sold only about 80,000 vehicles in 2016.

The roller-coaster ride that is Tesla investing has certainly been intense, but over the past two years some interesting new patterns have developed. It's also worth taking into account that Tesla financial reporting and market value have gotten far more complex with the 2016 acquisition of SolarCity for just over $2 billion, a price that also bought Tesla billions in debt. 

I thought it might worth it to take a look back at Tesla's history — a story in stock charts:

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We'll start with the all-time chart, showing Tesla's share-price history since its 2010 IPO, when the company was trading below $20.

As you can see from the chart, Tesla was basically flat for several years after the 2010 IPO. In 2008, the carmaker had endured a near-death experience, and in the lead-up to the IPO and afterwards, it was selling only one car, the original Roadster. 

The game plan at this point was for CEO Elon Musk and his team to keep the lights on long enough the roll out Tesla's first built-from-scratch car, the Model S sedan.

That happened in 2012, and for 2013, Motor Trend named the Model S it Car of the Year. At this point, the stock took off.

And as you can see, if you bought Tesla right after the IPO and held on, you'd be looking at an 1,000%-plus return today.

The Model S launch was a defining event for Tesla. This would mark the beginning of Tesla's Wall Street story, the tale of a rapid-growth tech company. But ironically, it would also mark the moment at which Tesla started to become a car company.

Over the past three years, however, Tesla's stock story has been one of extreme volatility: spikes and swoons.

Because Tesla took off so fast as a stock and quickly achieved an impressive market cap for a company that, in 2013, was selling almost no cars (even if the ones it was selling cost more $100,000 apiece), a stable price wasn't in the picture. 

Investor confidence would soar, then collapse, with sentiment turning on ever news event, product announcement or delay, quarterly earnings report, and market-moving Muskian tweet.

Rapid run-ups were followed by jerky declines. Jagged recoveries presaged vertiginous descents. At one point, Musk himself said that the company was overvalued. Unlike the rest of the industry, with its slow, predictable stock behavior for publicly traded carmakers, and with its long business cycles, Tesla was behaving more like a Silicon Valley tech company.

Analysts fixated on the pace of deliveries as the best indicator of how Tesla was performing and whether there was sufficient demand for Tesla electric cars, in a market that otherwise didn't seem to want them, to justify the monumental valuation. Eventually, Tesla began reporting quarterly sales, mainly to give Wall Street something to go on.

Meditation has gone main stream. The now $1 billion dollar industry has grown increasingly popular with Wall Street bankers, and it's also moved into the tech world, with a plethora of apps that guide you through practices, such as Headspace.  

Khajak Keledjian, the former owner of Intermix — a women's luxery clothing store that he sold to Gap for $130 million in 2013 — has been benefiting from meditation since 2007, after a friend of his who is a hedge fund manager, introduced him to the practice. Now, Keledjian wants to help spread the word.

His recently opened, New York City based meditation studio, Inscape, is as its name implies, an escape from the hustle and bustle of the city. Located in the Flatiron district, Inscape is a place for those who want to explore meditation by taking guided, group classes. 

Although I've been aware of meditation since I was a child, I have never fully engaged in a practice. This was my first full attempt to go into a meditative state. Below, my experience at Inscape. 

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Inscape's lobby is set up a lot like a yoga studio — products such as books and candles are available to purchase, and lockers and restrooms are in the back.

Teachers quietly greet guests at the front — everything feels serene and calm from the moment you walk in. My class's facilitator, Tiffany Rotach, kindly checked me in and gave me a quick tour.

I'd recommend changing into something comfortable — to get the most out of my 33 minute session, I wore yoga pants and a loose sweatshirt.

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 An Inscape antendee stands outside the meditation Dome, near the lockers. 

It should come as little surprise to anyone that, for the third time in a row, historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the best US President.

But what about our newest former president?

As part of C-SPAN's third Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, almost 100 historians and biographers rated the 43 former presidents on ten qualities of presidential leadership: Public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with congress, vision, pursued equal justice for all, and performance within the context of his times.

Scores in each category were then averaged, and the ten categories were given equal weighting in determining the presidents' total scores.

Notable top presidents include George Washington at No.2, Thomas Jefferson at No. 7, and Barack Obama at No. 12. 

While some historians weren't entirely surprised Obama didn't rank higher on the list — "That Obama came in at No. 12 his first time out is quite impressive," Douglas Brinkley of Rice University says — others were surprised by his lower-than-expected leadership rankings, including No. 7 in moral authority and No. 8 in economic management.

"But, of course, historians prefer to view the past from a distance, and only time will reveal his legacy," Edna Greene Medford of Howard University said.

Keep scrolling to see more of the top 20 presidents, according to historians:

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20. George H. W. Bush

Best leadership quality and rank: International relations (No. 8)

19. John Adams

Best leadership quality and rank: Moral authority (No. 11)

18. Andrew Jackson

Best leadership quality and rank: Public persuasion (No. 7)

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During a product demonstration I recently attended, I was told one of the most common reasons TVs are returned is because of blown-out speakers. 

This makes sense; we want TVs to get thinner, while continuing to produce loud, clear sound. Unfortunately that doesn't work well with the laws of physics, so a lot of people crank up these less powerful speakers and blow them out. 

Stereo systems have been around for decades, but until recently they've been pretty inconvenient. Their bulk and abundance of wires ultimately made them more of an enthusiast's purchase rather than a standard one. 

Sound bars are leveling the playing field. Even a surround sound setup is possible to achieve without having to turn your living room, basement, or bedroom into a Best Buy.

The recommendations below are for people who have different goals and budgets, and come from either personal experience, or that have been reviewed positively. This guide will continue to be updated as newer options become available, and while all the products on this list are solid, I've surfaced any recurring complaints that owners of them seem to have.

Check out the rest of our Black Friday coverage from the Insider Picks team. We're covering the best tech deals around the web, deals over at Amazon, and deals at Target, Walmart, and Macy's.

This article was originally posted on 06/20/16

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The budget solution: VIZIO SB2920-C6

Sure this is last year's model, but if you don't care about having Google Cast support, this entry level sound bar from Vizio should suit you just fine. It's a 2.0 sound bar, so if you're looking for a true surround-sound solution, this won't be for you. That said, it's also the smallest (physically) sound bar on this list, so if you're looking to up your home theater game without taking up too much space, this would be ideal.

Like I mentioned earlier, this sound bar doesn't have Google Cast built-in, but it can be used wirelessly as a Bluetooth speaker. If your TV is located in a central part of your house or apartment, you can certainly use this sound bar as a wireless stereo system. In terms of connectivity this one is pretty sparse; you can connect it to your TV or receiver through an optical audio cable, and any other device through two auxiliary ports. The big recurring complaint with it is that it doesn't turn on and off automatically when turning your TV on or off.

Yes, it's bare bones, but that's why it's our budget pick. For under $100 you get a good-looking sound bar that can deliver better sound than your TV, without taking up too much room. If you're looking for a little more oomph without breaking the bank. it does come in a slightly larger size, both are listed below.

VIZIO 29-Inch 2.0 Channel Sound Bar, $78, available at Amazon.
VIZIO 38-Inch 2.0 Channel Sound Bar, $97.88, available at Amazon.

The budget pick with ample bass: VIZIO SB3821-C6

A step-up from my base recommendation, a 2.1 sound bar system would be ideal for those who still want to save space, but want some more bass. It has the same inputs, looks the same, and won't take up too much more space. The "wireless" subwoofer does need to be connected to power, so do keep that in mind. The only recurring fault people have with this soundbar is that the bass can get a little too bassy, even when turned down. Producing a lot of bass is the subwoofer's job, but if you live above neighbors and have thin walls, it's definitely something to consider. 

VIZIO 38-Inch 2.1 Channel Sound Bar with Wireless Subwoofer, $139.99, available at Amazon

The surround-sound soundbar: VIZIO SB3851-C0

If you've got the space and desire to get a surround-sound sound bar system, once again Vizio has you covered. The sound bar itself looks identical to its 2.0 and 2.1 siblings, but it's fleshed out with a subwoofer and two satellite speakers.

Like the other Vizio sound bars on this list, this one can also be used as a Bluetooth speaker — in this case a pretty powerful one. If you're worried about a mess of wires across your floor when setting up the rear speakers, Vizio made a very clever design choice; the rear speakers can be plugged directly into the wireless subwoofer. This gives you a lot more freedom when considering how you want to set up your room, and is way more convenient than having to plug everything into the sound bar directly. The connections on this sound bar are identical to those on the other Vizio sound bar I recommended: an optical audio output, two sets of auxiliary inputs (one of which can be used for the rear speakers), and analog out. 

If you're looking to get a 5.1 surround sound system in a smaller form factor, this set from Vizio is a safe bet. Again, the only recurring complaint I could find is that it's bass heavy whether the subwoofer cranked up or turned down low. I'm going to be reviewing Vizio's 2016 surround-sound sound bar system soon, and this post will be updated accordingly. 

VIZIO  38-Inch 5.1 Channel Sound Bar with Wireless Subwoofer and Satellite Speakers, $219.95, available at Amazon

Last year, I spent a few weeks in France.

It was far from the first time that I'd been there, but it was the first I'd ever driven in the land of the Gaul.

Intellectually, I knew it would both the same and different from driving in the US. For starters, in France, you drive on the right side of the road.

And I also knew that parking in Paris would be challenging, but that along the autoroutes outside the city, there would be convenient places to stop for snacks, coffee, or even a nice dinner.

I knew that the mix of vehicles on the roads would be different. As in: no big SUVs or pickups.

But wow, was I ever ill-prepared for one major difference.

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Hatchbacks!

Hatchbacks to the left of me ...

... and hatchbacks to the right!

We're over halfway through the NBA season, which means the draft is not far away.

The 2017 NBA Draft is considered a deep one by experts, with several point guards leading the way.

To find the top prospects of this year's draft, we looked to five experts' mock drafts and weighed players' average draft rank to order them.

Our experts: Chad Ford of ESPN, Gary Parish of CBS, Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress, Andrew Sharp of Sports Illustrated, and NBADraft.net.

1. Markelle Fultz (PG, Washington)

Average rank: 1

Top 30s*: 5

Highest rank: 5

One thing to know: The 18-year-old, 6-foot-4 Fultz is NBA-made, with a natural scoring knack, the ability to hit threes, and play either guard position.

* Experts with this player in the first round. 

2. Lonzo Ball (PG, UCLA)

Average rank: 2.2

Top 30s: 5

Highest rank: 2

One thing to know: Ball's Stephen-Curry-esque shooting and playmaking ability has helped make UCLA one of the most dynamic offenses in college.

3. Josh Jackson (G, Kansas)

Average rank: 3.4

Top 30s: 5

Highest rank: 3

One thing to know: Jackson, like many college players, occasionally struggles with his jump shot, but his athleticism and two-way versatility should make him one of the top picks in June.

Airport transfer website Hoppa released its annual report ranking the price of a holiday in 84 destinations around the world.

Hoppa analysed the average cost of a one night stay per person to produce the ranking. The total per person includes the split cost of a hotel room, a meal for two with a shared bottle of wine, a shared 3-kilometre taxi journey, as well as a coffee, a cocktail, and a beer each.

Hoppa's report also looked at other features like the cost of a sightseeing bus and key attractions, although they are not included in this ranking.

From the Las Vegas strip to the beaches on Honolulu, here are the 21 most expensive holiday destinations on the planet in 2017. They are ranked by the average all-in price per person per night, alongside a breakdown of how you'll spend your money in each place.

21. Edinburgh, Scotland — £108.39 ($135.16) per night

Hotel for two: £112.26 ($139.47)

Meal for two: £50 ($62.12)

Bottle of wine: £8 ($9.94)

Taxi: £9 ($11.18)

Cup of coffee: £2.71 ($3.37)

Cocktail:£8 ($9.94)

Pint of beer: £3.55 ($4.41)

20. Hong Kong, Hong Kong — £110.14 ($137.35) per night

Hotel for two: £118.04 ($146.65)

Meal for two: £36.70 ($45.60)

Bottle of wine: £19 ($23.61)

Taxi: £4.80 ($5.96)

Cup of coffee: £4.33 ($5.38)

Cocktail:£11 ($13.67)

Pint of beer: £3.14 ($3.90)

19. Helsinki, Finland — £114.89 ($143.27) per night

Hotel for two: £103.37 ($128.43)

Meal for two: £59.67 ($74.13)

Bottle of wine: £11 ($13.67)

Taxi: £10.80 ($13.42)

Cup of coffee: £3.29 ($4.09)

Cocktail:£9 ($11.18)

Pint of beer: £4.78 ($5.94)

Snap's hotly-anticipated IPO is going to make a lot of money for its founders, investors and early employees. 

The company is seeking to price its share sale at between $14 to $16 a share, although that could always go up (or down) before its anticipated IPO on March 2.

According to its S-1 filings, Snap's co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy own the most shares. 

Benchmark could also see some nice returns, as one of the company's top shareholders. 

Here's the list of Snap's major shareholders at its IPO and what the value of their stake would be at $16 a share.

Note: This doesn't include shares that haven't vested by the time it goes public (including a $145 million stock bonus for Imran Khan), but does include Spiegel's bonus that he'll receive immediately upon IPO. 

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Evan Spiegel, Snap cofounder and CEO: $4.2 billion

Projected value at $16 a share: $4.2 billion (which includes the extra 3% of stock he'll get when it goes public.)

Class A shares: 113,164,485
Class B shares: 5,862,410
Class C shares: 107,943,924 + 37,232,102 granted as a bonus for going public

Evan Spiegel launched Snapchat with Bobby Murphy in September 2011. Described as a product visionary to rival Steve Jobs, Spiegel holds the title of CEO at the company and has set up its share structure so he and Murphy will retain control in the future too.

Bobby Murphy, Snap cofounder and CTO

Projected value at $16 a share: $3.63 billion

Class A shares: 113,164,485
Class B shares: 5,862,410
Class C shares: 107,943,924

Murphy and Spiegel were frat brothers at Stanford when they cofounded the app and have grown it to a company much larger than just disappearing messages. While Spiegel is described as a product genius, it is Murphy who is leading a lot of Snap's cutting edge work in its Snap Labs division.

Benchmark

Projected value at $16 a share: $2.11 billion

Class A shares: 65,799,720
Class B shares: 65,799,720

Benchmark is the largest venture shareholder in Snapchat, thanks to the round it lead in 2013. "We believe that Snapchat can become one of the most important mobile companies in the world," Benchmark's Mitch Lasky wrote in a blog post at the time of the deal.

At least one of President Trump's possible picks to head the Food and Drug Administration has a radical idea for when drugs should come to market.

Jim O'Neill, managing director at Mithril Capital, has said that he is in favor of approving drugs that are proven to be safe, even before they're shown to be actually effective.

Regardless of who Trump picks in the end, his interest in cutting regulation at the FDA is clear.

"We're going to be cutting regulations at a level that nobody's ever seen before," Trump said in a meeting with pharma executives on January 31. He estimated up to 80% of regulations will be slashed.

The FDA is responsible for regulating food and drugs. It's also responsible for regulating medical devices, blood donations, veterinary products, cosmetics, and tobacco. Trump's comments have left the drug industry concerned about what that deregulation could mean for the drug approval process.

As it exists right now, the FDA approval process can be a long and expensive. Here's a look at how it works currently.

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Before a drug makes it to the FDA, the company has to show how it works in animals. Scientists run tests on different animals, and in the end bring that data to the FDA in the form of an Investigational New Drug application. If the FDA signs off, the company starts testing the drug in humans.

The FDA isn't gathering that data or running the trials. That's the responsibility of the drugmaker. The agency is just there to review it.

That's when phase one begins. During this trial, drugmakers administer the drug to a group of healthy humans who don't have the disease. They're just determining if the drug is safe. Researchers can see if the drug is toxic at higher levels and figure out if there are any major side effects that would become a problem in later trials.

These trials tend to be small, with roughly 20 to 80 participants, according to the FDA.

Like phase one, the second trial tests whether a drug is safe, but this time the drug is given to people who have the disease, rather than healthy people.

This trial is "randomized." That means half of the participants receive the drug and the other half gets a sugar pill called a placebo. And while this test is mostly about safety, having the control group helps the researchers begin to pick up clues about whether the drug is working as designed.

The groups are larger, with participants numbering in the hundreds, according to the FDA.

It is at this stage that the drug-approval process could end if the Trump administration picks a commissioner in favor of approving drugs only after they've been proven safe and not necessarily effective.

Based on the current clinical-trial process, there's just a 30% chance of a drug moving from phase two to phase three, according to data from biotech trade organization BIO.

On the 11th floor of a San Francisco skyscraper is "The Garden." 

The fake grocery store in the middle of Instacart's office is not just weird office decor — although it wouldn't be out of place in some Silicon Valley offices. 

Instead, The Garden is an active testing ground for the grocery delivery startup, and one that it constructed in less than 48 hours. 

Now employees use the space to test everything from barcode-scanning algorithms in low light, to running Supermarket Sweep style speed contests. 

Instacart let Business Insider visit The Garden inside its San Francisco headquarters.

Here's what it's like to have a fake grocery store in the middle of your office:

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Not every startup has fake lobsters lying around its office, but Instacart isn't like any other company. Since its founding in 2012, it has been building a grocery delivery empire and has raised nearly $275 million to make the experience as easy and fast as possible — for both the in-store shoppers and customers alike.

Part of making it as fast for the customers as possible meant making it fast for Instacart's engineers, product managers, and designers to test things too. Its headquarters, however, is in the middle of downtown San Francisco, and not at all convenient for frequent runs to the grocery store to test new app updates. That's what inspired Max Mullen and Arnaud Ferreri to come up with the idea for "The Garden."

The company was having a 48-hour hackathon, a Silicon Valley tradition where teams can brainstorm new ideas, when Mullen's team realized they wanted to build a physical grocery store. They turned one of the office's hangout and lounge spaces (like the one shown below on a different floor) into the mini testing ground.

Astronauts have a problem: a bathroom problem.

Bulky spacesuits force them to either hold their urine and feces, possibly for up to 12 hours, or use a diaper. Aside from fasting, there really is no other option.

But the future of going potty in space suddenly looks pretty practical thanks to the ingenuity of Dr. Thatcher Cardon, a 49-year-old family doctor, flight surgeon, and US Air Force colonel who lives in Del Rio, Texas.

Space agencies are looking to send people to the moon, asteroids, and even Mars, so adventurous humans will need to use the restroom in space — which is why HeroX and NASA teamed up to launch the Space Poop Challenge.

On Wednesday, the contest's organizers announced that Cardon had won the $15,000 top prize for his prototype invention.

"You need to plan for emergencies. If a small meteor puts a hole in the Orion spacecraft, for example, astronauts might have to spend six days in their suits until they can get back to Earth or they can fix the hole," Cardon tells Business Insider. "There was no option inside of a spacesuit for feces, except for a diaper, until now."

Cardon shared photos and video with Business Insider of his incredible solution — called the MACES Perineal Access and Toileting System, or M-PATS — to this decades-old problem.

Here's how his invention works and why it just might revolutionize space travel.

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Going to the bathroom in space is no fun, even if you have access to a toilet.

The Space Shuttle had a toilet, for example, but it required intense training with a below-the-seat video camera to master and avoid making a mess.

Early astronauts did so in bags in the middle of their space capsules.

There are more than 200 Pokémon in Pokémon Go. The game now contains the entire first run of Pokémon, which originally debuted in the mid-'90s, along with around 100 creatures from its second-generation edition.

You cannot, however, catch them all. At least not yet.

Several "legendary" Pokémon — like Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres — are definitely not in the game yet. Other ultra-rare Pokémon, like Mew and Mewtwo, still haven't appeared either. A few creatures, such as Mr. Mime, are land-locked to certain continents.

Whether you're new to Pokémon Go or just want to familiarize yourself with what you can catch, we've put together the master list. We included their official descriptions and photos from the online Pokédex. And if you want additional info about each Pokémon, the Pokédex has that as well. (Note: Each Pokémon's number matches its official number in the Pokédex, not its order in the following list.)

Without further ado, here's every Pokémon you can currently find in Pokémon Go:

1. Bulbasaur

"Bulbasaur can be seen napping in bright sunlight. There is a seed on its back. By soaking up the sun's rays, the seed grows progressively larger."

2. Ivysaur

"There is a bud on this Pokémon's back. To support its weight, Ivysaur's legs and trunk grow thick and strong. If it starts spending more time lying in the sunlight, it's a sign that the bud will bloom into a large flower soon."

3. Venusaur

"There is a large flower on Venusaur's back. The flower is said to take on vivid colors if it gets plenty of nutrition and sunlight. The flower's aroma soothes the emotions of people."

We have driven, reported on, road-tripped, and talked about our fair share of electric and hybrid vehicles at Business Insider. These are exciting times for a technology that was born more than 100 years ago, but only started to gain steam 20 years ago with the Toyota Prius.

Electric-vehicle sales in the US jumped by 37% in 2016, according to Forbes. There are now more than 30 battery-powered and plug-in hybrid vehicles on the market in the US right now.

That growth has spurred a whole new class of EVs from investor-funded startups. Though many of these companies poach engineering and design talent from big-name automakers, the new companies themselves have never mass-produced a car before. It might be a stretch to call it an automotive renaissance, but it looks that way.

Still, one thing remains the same — it is incredibly difficult to start a car company. Tesla CEO Elon Musk probably knows this better than anyone. Tesla is the first American automaker to go public since Ford Motor Company in 1956 and it took Tesla and its stakeholders nearly two decades and many hundreds of millions of dollars to get there.

And as we have learned recently from the embattled electric-car startup, Faraday Future, the business of designing and building cars can easily lose traction if just enough things go wrong.

Nevertheless, a handful of electric-car startups in California are undeterred, and they are vying to bring the next mass-produced luxury electric vehicle to market.

Lucid Motors is one of those companies. Founded in 2007 under its former name, Atieva, the Menlo Park-based company began developing its first electric vehicle in 2014.

The car, called Lucid Air, debuted last year as a 1,000-horsepower electric luxury sedan that Lucid said would rival Tesla's highly successful Model S.

Lucid has 300 employees and is backed by Venrock — the same venture capital firm that led Apple's Series A round in 1978. Lucid also counts China's Beijing Automotive Industry Holding and Japan's Mitsui as investors. Interestingly, Jia Yueting, Faraday Future's only publicly known backer, is also an investor in Lucid.

A company spokesman told Business Insider Lucid has raised several hundred million dollars to date. The spokesman declined to give specific dollar figures. Lucid has a Series D round in the works.

The Lucid Air will be the first vehicle out of the company's stable when it goes into production in early 2019, the company said. Lucid invited Business Insider to check out a nearly finished representation of the car at its headquarters in Menlo Park. Here's how it went.

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The Lucid Air is almost surreal when seen outside in natural light. It's not a complete stretch to say it looks like a road-bound spacecraft.

Everything from the windshield forward evokes a nearly seamless appearance. It has a quietly commanding presence.

Quiet because it's electric, of course. The Air will have either a 100 kWh battery capable of about 315 miles of range. An optional 130 kWh battery would be available as an option, which could offer 400 miles of range on a full charge.