It's only halfway through 2018, but moviegoers have already been spoiled by some fantastic films.

From sci-fi wizard Alex Garland's "Annihilation," to newcomer Ari Aster's horror instant classic "Hereditary," the first half of 2018 was chock-full of polarizing, thought-provoking movies that will be talked about for years to come.

But not even those top the list of the best movies of the year so far, at least according to critics. We've looked back at the best-reviewed movies of the year that have come to theaters and ranked them based on Rotten Tomatoes critic scores (we broke ties with audience scores). They range from a long-awaited animated sequel to a superhero blockbuster to a surprise horror hit.

Below are 11 of the best movies of the year so far, according to critics:

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11. "Lean on Pete"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 92%

Description:"Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson (Charlie Plummer) arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray (Travis Fimmel), both of them eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks. While Ray descends into personal turmoil, Charley finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging Quarter Horse named Lean On Pete. The horse’s gruff owner Del Montgomery (Steve Buscemi) and his seasoned jockey Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny) help Charley fill the void of his father’s absence—until he discovers that Pete is bound for slaughter, prompting him to take extreme measures to spare his new friend’s life. Charley and Pete head out into the great unknown, embarking on an odyssey across the new American frontier in search of a loving aunt Charley hasn’t seen in years. They experience adventure and heartbreak in equal measure, but never lose their irrepressible hope and resiliency as they pursue their dream of finding a place they can call home."

10. "RBG"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 93%

Description: "At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But without a definitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior's rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans - until now. RBG is a revelatory documentary exploring Ginsburg 's exceptional life and career from Betsy West and Julie Cohen, and co-produced by Storyville Films and CNN Films."

9. "Incredibles 2"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 94%

Description: "In 'Incredibles 2,' Helen (voice of Holly Hunter) is called on to lead a campaign to bring Supers back, while Bob (voice of Craig T. Nelson) navigates the day-to-day heroics of “normal” life at home with Violet (voice of Sarah Vowell), Dash (voice of Huck Milner) and baby Jack-Jack—whose super powers are about to be discovered. Their mission is derailed, however, when a new villain emerges with a brilliant and dangerous plot that threatens everything. But the Parrs don’t shy away from a challenge, especially with Frozone (voice of Samuel L. Jackson) by their side. That’s what makes this family so Incredible."

Like it or not, the notch has taken over smartphone design. 

The Essential Phone had it first, but when Apple added one to the iPhone X, it inspired legions of smartphone makers to add a copycat notch to their own devices. 

If you're unfamiliar with a notch, it's the rectangular black space at the top of a smartphone screen that often houses the selfie camera and front-facing sensors. Smartphone manufacturers have started adopting the notch as a way to make the display edge-to-edge, rather than have a black bar along the entire top of the screen. 

But while most people like a bigger screen, not everyone is a fan of the notch. That's likely why several smartphone manufacturers have started to come up with designs that avoid a notch altogether. While some of these designs are still in the prototype stage, others will be available to buy as soon as this year. 

Here are five cool, creative ways smartphone makers are building devices that no one would mistake for an iPhone X:

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The Vivo Nex has a hidden pop-out selfie camera.

At first glance, the Vivo Nex appears to have a display that's entirely screen — in fact, the phone has a better screen-to-body ratio compared to the iPhone X (91.2% vs. 83%), as measured by GSM Arena.

But when you're ready to take a photo, a tiny camera will pop out of an enclosure at the top of the screen. 

There are a handful of other features that make the Vivo Nex one of the most futuristic phones on the market: Vivo created a "Screen SoundCasting" technology that transmits audio waves through the display itself, and added an invisible fingerprint sensor hidden underneath the display. 

So far, the Vivo Nex will only be available in China. 

The OnePlus 6 has a notch, but it also has the option to hide it.

The new OnePlus 6 comes with a nifty feature for those who can't stand notches: Inside the settings, you'll have the option to turn it "off." 

The notch itself will remain — after all, it's part of the phone's design. Instead, turning the notch off will change the wallpaper to black along the top of the screen and stops apps from spilling over into the areas on either side of the notch. The top of the screen will then look like a traditional Android notification bar.

This feature isn't unique to OnePlus — you can also shut off the notch on the LG G7 ThinQ.

The Doogee Mix 4 brings back the slider.

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When coming up with a way to avoid a notch, Chinese smartphone manufacturer Doogee went retro. 

The Doogee Mix 4 has a sliding back layer that houses the phone's camera. The camera will stay hidden most of the time, but when you're ready to take a photo, all you have to do is slide the back upwards. For anyone who used a Palm Pre or T-Mobile Sidekick back in the day, this design will feel familiar.

The Doogee Mix 4 isn't available yet, and all we've seen of it so far is a non-working prototype that UK tech YouTube Arun Maini got his hands on. But Maini speculated that the phone could arrive as soon as December and cost around $300.

• Romantic attraction is complicated.
• But scientists have generated many insights into what might make men attractive to women.
• For example, men who look older, sport a light beard, or do volunteer work are generally considered more appealing.

Romantic attraction is a complicated thing that scientists still don't completely understand.

But, through research and experimentation, they've come up with many ideas about what draws one person to another.

Below, Business Insider has rounded up some of the most compelling scientific insights about the traits and behaviors that make men more appealing to women.

The best part? None of the items on this list require you to get cosmetic surgery or do a major personality overhaul. We're talking small tweaks, like acting nicer and swapping your deodorant.

Read on for simple ways to step up your dating game.

This is an update of an article originally posted by Drake Baer.

SEE ALSO: 13 science-backed ways to appear more attractive

Look for the universal signals of flirtation

Rutgers University anthropologist and best-selling author Helen E. Fisher says that women around the world signal interest with a remarkably similar sequence of expressions.

As she shared at Psychology Today, it goes like this:

"First the woman smiles at her admirer and lifts her eyebrows in a swift, jerky motion as she opens her eyes wide to gaze at him. Then she drops her eyelids, tilts her head down and to the side, and looks away. Frequently she also covers her face with her hands, giggling nervously as she retreats behind her palms.

"This sequential flirting gesture is so distinctive that [German ethologist Irenaus] Eibl-Eibesfeldt was convinced it is innate, a human female courtship ploy that evolved eons ago to signal sexual interest."

Look for someone 'in your league'

Men — and women — are attracted to people who are as attractive as they are.

In one study, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley looked at the behavior of 60 heterosexual male and 60 heterosexual female users on an online dating site. While the majority of users were inclined to reach out to highly attractive people, they were most likely to get a response if that person was about as attractive as they were (as judged by independent raters).

"If you go for someone roughly [equal] to you in attractiveness, it avoids two things,"Nottingham Trent University psychologist Mark Sergeant, who was not involved with the study, told The Independent. "If they are much better-looking than you, you are worried about them going off and having affairs. If they are much less attractive, you are worried that you could do better."

Present yourself as high status

A 2010 study from the University of Wales Institute found that men pictured with a Silver Bentley Continental GT were perceived as way more attractive than those pictures with a Red Ford Fiesta ST.

And a 2014 study from Cardiff Metropolitan University found that men pictured in a luxury apartment were rated more attractive than those in a control group.

Interestingly, men don't seem to be more attracted to women when they're pictured in a high-status context.

If the director is the most important crew member on set, in most cases the cinematographer is the second-most important.

A skilled director of photography can turn a mediocre movie suddenly into a critical darling or a good movie into an Oscar contender. But unlike directors, who can have a breakout indie and suddenly get snatched up to do the next Hollywood blockbuster, cinematographers are in it for the long game.

Many have to work a decade or two on independent films, shorts, TV shows, and commercials before scoring a studio feature. And even at that point you still have to compete for work with the legends in the field like Emmanuel Lubezi, Robert Richardson, and Roger Deakins to land a job. 

Here are 11 cinematographers who are beginning to make their mark in Hollywood — including the visionaries behind "Moonlight" and "The Last Jedi."

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Mike Gioulakis (“It Follows,” “Split”)

Gioulakis has found success in the thriller genre with the indie darling “It Follows” and M. Night Shyamalan’s latest hit, “Split,” being the standouts. For both, Gioulakis’ use of natural light and shadows to amp up the spookiness is a very useful tool.

James Laxton (“Moonlight”)

Jumping around from low-budget indies to a few Kevin Smith movies (“Tusk” and “Yoga Hosers”), Laxton reteamed with Barry Jenkins (he shot Jenkins’ debut feature “Medicine for Melancholy”) to make “Moonlight” — and the rest his history. The beautiful exterior shots of Miami are one of the reasons the movie went on to win an Oscar.

Jody Lee Lipes (“Manchester by the Sea,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene”)

In the early 2000s, Lipes was the guy at NYU everyone wanted to shoot their short films, and since he’s been in high demand on the professional level. From shooting episodes of “Girls” to lensing “Trainwreck,” he’s worked on every budget level. His standouts, though, have been his beautiful shooting of tough stories like Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene” in 2011 and Kenneth Lonergan’s 2016 Oscar-winning movie, “Manchester by the Sea.”

NBA free agency this summer presents two very different storylines — the chase for LeBron James and the relative lack of big names and teams with cap space.

James and his next destination and whether he can team up with any star players will be the top story of the offseason. Once James lands, it may be a quiet summer, as it's relatively shallow free agent class and few teams have money to spend.

It's an unbalanced class — some elite superstars, some intriguing young players, and a healthy dose of role players who may have to take small deals so they can re-enter free agency again in one year.

Free agency begins July 1. Here are the top players available:

LeBron James, F

Previous team: Cleveland Cavaliers

Rumored landing spots: Cavaliers, Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers, Houston Rockets

One thing to know: James is once again expected to take a look at the NBA landscape and weigh where he wants to play next season. The problem this year is there aren't any perfect fits. Expect James to bring stars with him wherever he goes.

Kevin Durant, F

Previous team: Golden State Warriors

Rumored landing spots: Warriors

One thing to know: Durant is all but guaranteed to re-sign with the Warriors to continue their run of dominance. What to watch for will be how long he signs and for how much money.

Paul George, F

Previous team: Oklahoma City Thunder

Rumored landing spots: Thunder, Los Angeles Lakers

One thing to know: According to reports, there is increasing speculation that George may re-sign with the Thunder. However, George's home-town Lakers and the idea of a new super-team loom large.

• Protests against President Donald Trump's immigration policy took place in over 700 cities across the country on Saturday.
• Demonstrators called upon the Trump administration to reunite the immigrant families it separated, and to stop trying to detain asylum-seeking families. 
• The marches came one day after hundreds of women were arrested after they occupied a Senate building to protest immigrant family separations by the US government.

Thousands marched on Saturday in over 700 rallies planned across the United States against President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy. 

The flagship march, Families Belong Together, took place across the street from the White House in Washington, DC.

The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy led to the separation of thousands of families at the US-Mexico border, prompting critics such as the United Nations Human Rights chief to call it "government-sanctioned child abuse."

Though Trump signed an executive order last week halting the separations, the crisis is far from over. In recent days, lawyers and government officials have faced significant challenges in locating and reuniting the families of more than 2,000 children who were separated and sent to shelters and foster families across the country.

On top of its zero-tolerance policy, Trump administration is also overhauling the asylum process, restricting the amount of eligible asylum-seekers by disqualifying domestic or gang violence as qualifying factors in obtaining asylum.

Saturday's marches came one day after hundreds of women were arrested after they occupied a Senate building to protest family separations.

See how they unfolded across the country:

SEE ALSO: 'Children don't belong in jail': Critics are seizing on Trump's executive order to detain entire families together

DON'T MISS: Striking photos show demonstration where hundreds of women occupied a US Senate building to protest family separations

Protestors gathered in Washington DC's Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House for the flagship march Saturday morning.

Though Trump was in New Jersey for the day, the National Parks Service said organizers expected 50,000 people to attend Saturday's rally.

Source: WTOP

The event's website says one of the march's priorities is to demand for the Trump administration to reunite the thousands of immigrant children who have been separated from their parents since the "zero tolerance" policy was first implemented.

Source: CNN, Families Belong Together

• Morgan Stanley has upgraded utilities to "overweight" as it forecasts that bond yields have peaked for now.
• The sector, a bond proxy, is considered a safe haven during market turmoil and becomes more attractive when bond yields fall because it pays out steady dividends.
• It's rallied in recent weeks even as the broader market sold off amid trade tensions.

One sector remained green as the stock market sold off on Monday: utilities.

The so-called bond proxy, preferred during times of turmoil for its steady dividends, gained 1.7% as the broader market fell on trade tensions.

The equity strategists at Morgan Stanley expect further weakness in the stock market and have said a lengthy bear market may already be underway.

"We think it is still too early to go full-on defensive, but it is not too early to start moving in that direction," Michael Wilson, Morgan Stanley's chief equity strategist, said in a recent note.

He said the firm was upgrading utilities to "overweight""on the premise we are close enough to a top on 10-year Treasuries even if the final highs are not in."

"Morgan Stanley's Global Interest Rate strategy team thinks 10-year Treasury yields have topped for the cycle at its recent high of 3.12%," he said.

Because it's considered a bond proxy, the sector's dividends would look more attractive to investors if Treasury yields fall, as Morgan Stanley forecasts.

Wilson added that the earnings-revision breadth for utilities, which gauges the number of companies revising future profits higher compared with those downgrading, moved higher over the past month. "Performance should begin to follow if even rates have not yet peaked," Wilson said.

The list below highlights the utilities stocks that are rated "overweight" by the analyst Stephen Byrd. His price targets were published last Monday, and most of the stocks have rallied since then.

SEE ALSO: Goldman Sachs has updated its winning strategy for raking in huge returns when markets are going haywire

American Electric Power

Ticker:AEP

Market cap: $33.8 billion

Morgan Stanley's price target: $67

% to Morgan Stanley's price target: -0.5%

Source: Morgan Stanley

FirstEnergy

Ticker:FE

Market cap: $17.24 billion

Morgan Stanley's price target: $36

% to Morgan Stanley's price target: 2.2%

Source: Morgan Stanley

NextEra Energy

Ticker:NEE

Market cap: $79.01 billion

Morgan Stanley's price target: $169

% to Morgan Stanley's price target: 2.4%

Source: Morgan Stanley

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Summer is, unfortunately, not a robust time for new TV. Your favorite shows probably aren't coming back until fall, leaving you to default to the shows you've already watched way too many times (aka "The Office" and "Friends").

Maybe it's time to give some under-the-radar shows a chance. With its own lineup of original TV shows and movies, Amazon is proving to be a surprising powerhouse, scoring major award nominations and wins in the past couple years at the Academy Awards, Emmy's, and Golden Globes. 

If you're a Prime member, you're in luck because you'll already be able to access these great Prime-exclusive shows. Since Prime Video is included in all the perks of a Prime membership, you should take advantage of it this summer as you look for new content to watch. 

If you're not yet a Prime member, you can sign up for a free 30-day trial here to get your fill of Prime-exclusive TV programming and see how Amazon Studios stacks up to the traditional shows you watch. Who knows, you might even find a new favorite show this summer through Prime Video. 

To help you figure out where to start, we rounded up the best original Amazon shows — from drama and comedy to documentary — that you should start watching now. 

Plot synopses are provided by Amazon. 

"Catastrophe"

Watch it here

Plot synopsis: Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in this R-rated comedy about a one-week stand between a Boston ad exec and a London schoolteacher that leads to an accidental pregnancy. When Rob moves to the UK to help figure things out, cultures clash and hormones flare as these two realize they don't know the first thing about each other.

Cast: Sharon Horgan, Rob Delaney

Amazon rating: 4.5/5 from 34,000+ reviews 

IMDb rating: 8.2/10 from 10,000+ reviews 

"The Man In the High Castle"

Watch it here

Plot synopsis: Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, and executive-produced by Ridley Scott ("Blade Runner"), and Frank Spotnitz ("The X-Files"), "The Man in the High Castle" explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.

Cast: Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans, Luke Kleintank

Amazon rating: 4.5/5 from 110,000+ reviews 

IMDb rating: 8.1/10 from 55,000+ reviews 

"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

Watch it here

Plot synopsis: In 1958 New York, Midge Maisel's life is on track — husband, kids, and elegant Yom Kippur dinners in their Upper West Side apartment. But when her life takes a surprise turn, she has to quickly decide what else she's good at — and going from housewife to stand-up comic is a wild choice to everyone but her.

Cast: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen

Amazon rating: 4.9/5 from 16,000+ reviews 

IMDb rating: 8.7/10 from 19,000+ reviews 

Millions of people around the world have been forced from their home countries due to war, genocide, or persecution.

They come from conflict-ridden countries like Syria, Somalia, and Sudan, and they wait for years in refugee camps before they can secure a spot in safe countries.

The United States takes in just a tiny fraction of the world's refugees — but it maintains perhaps the strictest, most rigorous vetting process.

Here's a look at where the world's refugees come from and what they endure to make it to safety in the United States:

SEE ALSO: 'I don't know how much harder it can get': What it takes to go from refugee to American

The UNHCR estimates that some 65.6 million people around the world have been forced from their homes. Some of them are refugees within their own countries, some have managed to flee their home countries altogether, and some have no citizenship — and therefore nowhere to go.

As of 2016, the most recent year with data available, just 0.8% of the world's refugees were resettled in safe countries. For 0.4% of refugees, that safe country was the United States.

Source: UNHCR

When refugees flee their home country, they often have to temporarily seek safety in a "host country," where they typically live in refugee camps until they can permanently be resettled. For instance, many of Syria's 5.5 million refugees sought temporary safety in neighboring countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan.

Source: UNHCR

The United States is one of 37 countries that offer resettlement programs, though refugees don’t get to pick where they’re sent. Instead, the UNHCR assigns them to the US. Then, they undergo a rigorous, years-long screening process by US officials. Here's how that works:

President Donald Trump has dramatically restricted America's refugee intake since he took office, and though he has demanded that "extreme vetting" be implemented for refugees coming from majority-Muslim countries, those closest to the refugee-vetting process say the current system is already as extreme as it gets.

The refugees undergo years of screening filled with intensive interviews, detailed background checks from multiple government agencies, biometric data collection, medical tests, and constant scrutiny from the US officials who vet them.

Sources: UNHCR, Business Insider

ZUG, SWITZERLAND — Cryptocurrencies and related-crypto technology have become one of the hottest areas of investment and entrepreneurial activity over the last few years, with billions invested in the sector.

Crypto technology, sometimes called distributed ledger technology or blockchain, could potentially drive efficiencies in existing businesses and create new business opportunities by cutting out middlemen and decentralizing services. Many evangelists liken its game-changing potential to that of the internet.

Despite its decentralizing drive, development of the technology has tended to cluster around certain locations: Silicon Valley, New York, Malta, Gibraltar, Singapore, and Switzerland are all key hubs.

Switzerland is home to "Crypto Valley," a cluster of companies and foundations in the small town of Zug just outside of Zurich.

Business Insider travelled to Zug last week for the Crypto Valley Conference to find out how the hub developed, how significant it is, and why companies are choosing Switzerland. Here's what we found:

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Zug is a small town about an hour outside of Zurich with a population of around 30,000. The city traditionally centred around agriculture and heavy industry but more recently has become a hotspot for pharmaceutical and medical companies. Shire, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson all have offices here.

Many multinationals are attracted by Zug's low tax. The region — or "Canton" as it's known in Swiss parlance — charges just 14% corporation tax. It's one of the region's many business-friendly policies.

Zug is too small to have its own airport so to get there you have to fly into Zurich and get the train. The trains run right from the airport and depart pretty regularly.

The journey took about an hour but there are quicker trains if you time it right. The views are pretty stunning along the route: lush countryside, clear lakes, and picture-postcard houses lining the valleys.

The trains to Zug are double-decker. These tend to be relatively common in central Europe. Here's the train I was travelling on pulled into Zug station.

San Francisco-based startup StyleBee allows clients to book appointments with professional cosmeticians and stylists who come to you, not the other way around.

Since it launched four years ago, StyleBee has earned the moniker "Uber for beauty" for its on-demand styling services that can come to you at your office, home, or anywhere you choose.

A slew of these "beauty on-demand" apps have cropped up in the past few years, including New York-based Glamsquad — arguably the most popular — which is now also available in the Bay Area. The salon-less concept is one that's been around for a while, but the on-demand service via an app is relatively new.

A personal need for one such service arose during a workday recently when I learned that a post-work event I was attending was a tad dressier than I had prepared for. I had packed a change of clothes, but had covered up my bedhead with a hat that morning.

So I booked a conference room in the WeWork building where I work to have a StyleBee stylist come and fix the monstrosity that was my hair.

Here's how it went.

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Though there's a StyleBee app, I actually ended up using the website for the most part.

Frustratingly, the app crashed multiple times while I was trying to use it. Choose the wrong service and want to go back? Too bad, the app will buffer and you'll have to start all over. The same thing happened when I needed to correct my credit card number.

I was a little surprised that the app of a company founded in 2014 was basically nonfunctional. 

When I first logged on to book a 3:45 PM appointment, I fiddled around before securing my spot — and after a few minutes of idling, my 3:45 PM spot had been taken. I chose the 4 PM spot instead.

But it was actually a weird sense of relief that, despite the wishy-washy app performance, the service I'd enlisted to do my hair up was so in-demand, I had lost an appointment slot.

I proceeded to use the website to book my appointment and to upload a headshot and some reference photos of how I'd like my hair to be styled.

For context, I wanted something easy, off-the-face, and geometric, not unlike Daisy Ridley's character in the recent "Star Wars" installments. I wasn't joining an intergalactic resistance that night, but I was on a photo assignment. I needed my hair to behave.

• Many rich people fear their kids will be entitled and lack purpose.
• According to one wealth adviser, wealthy parents should prioritize three things when raising their kids: don't give them everything they want, allow them to work, and let them fail.
• The biggest mistake wealthy parents are making is not allowing for these three things, she says.

Rich kids might evoke the stereotype of spoiled trust-fund babies, but many high-net-worth parents are trying to raise the opposite of that.

Rachel Sherman, the author of "Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence,"wrote after interviewing 50 affluent New York families that most feared their children would be entitled.

They want their kids to be healthy and happy and to have purpose, Judy Spalthoff, the executive director and head of family and philanthropy advisory at UBS Wealth Management, told Business Insider. "It's about making the wealth helpful and an opportunity versus a burden and not discouraging them from following their own path," she said.

As the Washington Post writer Thomas Heath puts it, rich people want their kids to be advantaged but not at the cost of ambition.

The biggest concern of one client Spalthoff worked with who didn't graduate from college and built his business and wealth on his own was that his children would lack the significant drive he had. "It's an incredible fine line," she said.

While some kids of wealthy parents may be relying on inheritance in the form of cash or assets, Spalthoff says parents can use a three-pronged approach to raise productive and unspoiled children: don't give them everything they want, allow them to work, and let them fail.

Those three things, she said, "are vital to the success of being productive members of society."

While Spalthoff sees a lot of families consciously aware of how their wealth can affect their kids, the biggest mistakes they can make are not allowing for these three things, she says.

SEE ALSO: People assume trust-fund babies are spoiled 20-somethings born with silver spoons — but they're not always who you think

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1. Don't give your kids everything they want — even if it's available

The age-old lesson of "we don't always get what we want" also applies to wealthy children. "Wanting just because [the children] want something doesn't mean parents will always get it for them," Spalthoff said. 

Parents must be consciously aware that they have more to give their kids, she says. For example, she worked with one family that stopped traveling via private jet and opted for first-class.

Andrew Tisch, the son of Laurence Tisch of Loews Corp. and CBS, previously told Fortune magazine he coveted a Timex watch at age 7. "My parents said, 'Save for it,'" the then-head of the tobacco company Lorillard said. He passed the advice on to his children; he gave them each $1 a week in spending money. "My son wants me to buy him baseball cards," Tisch said. "I've told him to save up. He needs to learn that things aren't free."

Some rich parents even apply the same principle to inheritance. The billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and the British musician Sting have all planned to give very little of their massive fortunes to their children, insisting they can earn the things they want through their own means.

"They have to work," Sting told the Daily Mail. "All my kids know that and they rarely ask me for anything."

2. Teach them to work hard and value their accomplishments

Sting's views underscore Spalthoff's second point — to allow children "to work and feel their accomplishments of a day's work, whether it's selling something or learning the value of a dollar."

Ross Perot Jr. got a lesson in work from his father, H. Ross Perot, the founder of Electronic Data Systems, the summer he spent shoveling holes for petunia bushes on EDS property. "Ross was digging away, at $0.25 a hole," his father told Fortune. "It was hotter than you can imagine, and Ross hit bedrock. He stuck with it — kept right on going."

Sherman, the author who interviewed wealthy parents, reported that one mother with assets in the tens of millions required her 6-year-old to do his own laundry in exchange for activities and other privileges.

But as she found during her research, parents' commitment to their children's employment wavered if having a job interfered with other capabilities, especially in the face of competitive college admissions. None of the high-school-age kids of parents she talked to worked for pay.

And as Spalthoff explains, sometimes the value of work is something parents inadvertently take away from their children with vacations and extracurriculars.

3. Allow your kids to experience failure

"When it doesn't matter as much, let [children] fail," Spalthoff said.

This can be anything from a child losing their soccer cleats to forgetting their homework. Instead of rushing to the rescue, parents should allow them to feel it's their behavior. "It's the anti-helicopter parenting," Spalthoff said. "Allow them to take their own responsibility."

One family she worked with wouldn't let the housekeeper go into the children's rooms — it was their responsibility to clean up after themselves.

It's a lesson that doesn't end when they're young. The "Shark Tank" investor and self-made millionaire Kevin O'Leary talked to the Canadian women's magazine Chatelaine in 2013 about his plans to push his kids out of the house.

"They know when their education is over, I'm pushing them out of the nest," said O'Leary, who doesn't plan to give his kids any of his wealth. "You want to prepare your children for launching their own lives. I tell wealthy parents that if they don't kick their kids out of the house and put them under the stresses of the real world, they will fail to launch."

That's the kind of failure wealthy parents are trying to avoid.

Samsung recently announced the date of its Unpacked event, when the company is expected to reveal the Galaxy Note 9 and all of its features. 

As tantalizing as the Note series' large screens and S Pen features are, perhaps Samsung has something even better in store with the successor to the Galaxy S9. So far, it's being called the Galaxy S10.

Check out the latest rumors about Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S10 smartphone:

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There could be three different Galaxy S10 models.

Samsung may release three Galaxy S10 models instead of the usual two we've seen in previous Galaxy S releases, according to Korean news site ET News. 

If Google's translation feature translated the Korean post properly, the smallest model is said to come with a 5.8-inch display and a flat front surface. That's to say it won't have the curved edges that have become standard on Galaxy S phones since the Galaxy S8. As for screen size, it would be the same size as the regular Galaxy S9. 

The mid-sized model is also rumored to have a 5.8-inch display, but with curved edges.

The largest of the three Galaxy S10 models will supposedly come with a 6.2-inch display and curved edges. 

The largest Galaxy S10 model is said to come with a triple-lens camera system.

The largest of the three Galaxy S10 phones will apparently come with a triple-lens camera system, according to ET News. There's no clear indication as to what kinds of improvements the third lens will bring. 

As for the smaller 5.8-inch models, the non-curved model will have a single camera, and the curved smaller model will have a dual-lens camera. 

For the dual and triple-lens camera, I'd expect that at least one of their functions will be a 2X optical zoom that's currently found on the Galaxy S9. 

Expect even better camera performance, especially in low-light environments.

It's normal to expect better camera performance on an upcoming smartphone model, but Samsung itself described its new technology that could feature in the Galaxy S10 in a blog post. 

Samsung calls the technology "Isocell Plus," and it's meant to "capture more light, significantly increasing light sensitivity and color fidelity" for "even more accurate and clearer photos in challenging light environments."

Samsung says the technology gives a smartphone camera up to 15% better more sensitivity to light. That's to say the low-light performance of the Galaxy S10 — if it contains Samsung's Isocell Plus technology — will be even better than the Galaxy S9, which is already the best camera performer in low-light situations. 

The Galaxy S10's camera could also have a higher megapixel count, as the Isocell Plus technology allows for a 20-megapixel sensor "without any loss in performance."

• Sears stores have introduced handwritten pricing signs.
• At one Sears location in Virginia, the signs are giving customers the impression that the store is closing and holding a liquidation sale, an employee at the store told Business Insider.
• The signs are most likely part of an effort to slash printing costs, according to Neil Saunders, the managing director of GlobalData Retail, as the company works to cut expenses and improve profitability following years of steep sales declines.

Sears stores have introduced a new marketing strategy: handwritten pricing signs.

Business Insider found dozens of handwritten signs scattered throughout two stores in Virginia and one in New York. The signs in these stores were previously printed by machines.

At one Sears location in Virginia, the signs have been giving customers the impression that the store is closing and holding a liquidation sale, even though the store has no plans to close, according to an employee of the store. She said the signs frustrated employees because of the extra labeling time they required.

Sears did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the signs.

They are most likely part of an effort to slash printing costs, according to Neil Saunders, the managing director of the retail consulting firm GlobalData Retail, as the company works to cut expenses and improve profitability following years of steep sales declines.

"It is a bid to reduce costs — it's far cheaper to hand-write signs than get them printed," Saunders said in an email to Business Insider.

The signs could also allow Sears to clear out inventory at a faster pace.

"Management can make reductions on the fly rather than having to go through the process of getting tickets printed," Saunders said. He added, however, that they made the stores look "shabby."

Here's what we found during recent store visits:

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Handwritten signs had replaced most of the printed signs in the Virginia stores we visited.

Some signs were messy and hard to read.

Others were confusing, like this one that seemed to indicate that Sears shoppers would earn $3 for buying this stroller.

• Narcissistic behavior includes self-righteousness, a pattern of cheating in relationships, and taking advantage of other people.
• We put together a list of 21 typical behaviors of narcissists, based on research and expert opinion.
• This list isn't intended to be diagnostic, but it can give you a good idea of whether you or someone you know might be a narcissist.

You're more likely to find a narcissist in the C-suite than on the street, research suggests. 

That's because the traits that make narcissists so difficult to hang out with or date — including a constant need for validation, a willingness to control people, and a ruthlessness in getting their needs met — happen to make them super effective at rising up the ranks.  

To help you figure out if you, or perhaps your boss, are a narcissist, we combed through the psychology literature looking for patterns of narcissistic behavior. We also spoke with Joseph Burgo, Ph.D., a psychologist and the author of "The Narcissist You Know."

Here are 21 common signs of narcissism.

This is an update of an article originally written by Vivian Giang, with additional contributions by Drake Baer. 

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You are a bad sport.

Burgo says some narcissists are bullies — and one of their most troublesome traits is their tendency to be a sore loser and a sore winner.

For example, when they lose in a sports match, they might try to humiliate the referee. When they win, they might gloat excessively or act abusive to the losing party.

You constantly feel underappreciated.

The kind of people that Burgo calls "grandiose" narcissists always hold a grievance against the world.

They typically feel entitled to something better and think they're not getting the recognition they deserve from others.

If you're not grandiose, then you're introverted, hypersensitive, defensive, and anxious.

Psychologists talk about the "two faces of narcissism." On one end there's the hyper-aggressive, super-loud type. But there's a softer form of narcissism, too. It's called "covert narcissism," which is denoted by introversion, hypersensitivity, defensiveness, and anxiety.

"Both shades of narcissism shared a common core of conceit, arrogance, and the tendency to give in to one's own needs and disregard others," Scientific American reports.

Marvel's "Ant-Man and the Wasp" is full of Hollywood A-listers and newcomers. 

Michael Douglas has been acting since 1966 and Laurence Fishburne has been working since 1973. But 10-year-old Abby Ryder Fortson has only been working for five years and Hannah John-Kaman's first role came in 2011. Star Paul Rudd became famous thanks to "Clueless." 

Here's how the cast of "Ant-Man and the Wasp" got their starts.  

Watch the movie in theaters July 6. 

Paul Rudd's career started with a recurring role on the drama "Sisters," but he broke out in "Clueless."

He joined "Sisters" on season three in 1992 and had a few other small TV roles in the following years. But in 1995, Rudd won hearts as Josh in "Clueless," his film debut. 

Rudd joined the Marvel Universe as Scott Lang, the titular hero in 2015's "Ant-Man" and returned for the sequel.

He teamed up with other Marvel heroes for "Captain America: Civil War." And though he wasn't in "Infinity War," he's set to join the rest of the Avengers in the untitled fourth movie. 

Evangeline Lilly career started with a bunch of uncredited appearances in movies like "The Lizzie McGuire Movie" and on a few episodes of "Smallville," but she's best known for "Lost."

She was on four different episodes of "Smallville" playing various extra roles. She was a police officer in "The Lizzie McGuire Movie," a party guest in "White Chicks," and a student in "Freddy vs. Jason." 

She went on to star in "The Hurt Locker" and played Tauriel in "The Hobbit" movies. 

This may be the year Google finally releases its own smartwatch. 

According to gadget tipster Evan Blass, Google has been working on a lineup of new products, including new Pixel phones, second-generation Pixel Buds, and a new smartwatch that will also fall under the Pixel branding. 

This would be a major change for Google. In the past, Google has relied on third-party companies like LG and Fossil Group, and heritage watchmakers like Movado, to incorporate its smartwatch software — recently renamed Wear OS — into their watch designs. 

This has been a smart move up until now. Tech companies aren't often known for their fashion sense, and so many smartwatches end up looking cumbersome, outdated, or downright ugly. My view has always been that fashion-focused companies and tech companies should work together to build wearables. 

That said, if Google's Pixel phones and Home devices are any indication of its hardware vision, a Google Pixel Watch may not be such a bad thing. 

Here's everything we've heard so far about what to expect from a Google Pixel smartwatch. 

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There are reportedly three Pixel watches in the works, codenamed Ling, Triton, and Sardine.

In May, German tech site WinFuture.de reported that there are three Pixel watches in the works codenamed Ling, Triton, and Sardine. 

That doesn't necessarily mean Google is planning three entirely different watches, however. As CNET points out, it could mean there are three different sizes of the watch. Or, like the Apple Watch Series 3, Google may be creating cellular and non-cellular versions of the watch. 

The watches are reportedly powered by the new Qualcomm processor.

For the first time since 2016, Qualcomm is set to release a new chip for Wear OS watches. 

In an interview with Wareable last month, Qualcomm's senior director of wearables Pankaj Kedia said that Qualcomm will announce a new processor this fall. The new chipset will debut alongside a "lead smartwatch"— which could be a Pixel Watch — with other partners adding it by the holidays. 

In an interview with CNET, Kedia said the new chipset will improve the Google Assistant experience and make it more visually appealing. Dennis Troper, the product director for Wear OS, told CNET that the Assistant will become more personalized and "proactive about information you may want to see," and will have improved fitness functions.

The Pixel Watch will have better battery life than past Wear OS watches.

Qualcomm's Kedia told Wareable that the new chip will give Wear OS watches — and by extension, a Pixel Watch — a "significant" upgrade in battery life. 

• People love shopping at TJ Maxx for the "treasure-hunt" experience it offers. Its sister store, HomeGoods, offers a similar kind of experience. 
• TJX Companies' homeware business accounts for 30% of its sales overall. Its homeware offering in the United States is spread across three stores: HomeGoods, TJ Maxx, and most recently, Homesense.
• The retailer is doubling down on this category, opening more homeware stores across the US.
• We visited one of its HomeGoods stores outside Philadelphia and were extremely impressed by the shopping experience, especially the selection, price, and quality of the products on offer.

TJ Maxx's parent company is doubling down on its homeware business to boost growth. 

Off-price retail company TJX Companies runs two independent homeware stores: HomeGoods and Homesense.

HomeGoods has 690 stores in the United States, while Homesense is a brand-new concept with only four locations. Homesense is native to Canada and only hit US soil with a location in Framingham, Massachusetts, in 2017.

The company is now looking to grow both stores alongside each other. Homesense could eventually reach 400 locations in total, CEO Ernie Herrman told investors in a recent earnings call. 

HomeGoods, TJX's other homeware store, has been around much longer, since 1992. It stocks top home brands at prices that are generally 20-60% below department-store prices. 

During a recent visit to a TJ Maxx store in Pennsylvania, I stumbled across an attached HomeGoods store. This was my first experience shopping at HomeGoods, and while it should be noted that this store was pretty much brand-new — it opened in November — and therefore more likely to be a shining example of the chain, I left with a good impression. 

The only confusing part is knowing when to go to HomeGoods and when to go to Homesense — and how HomeGoods will differentiate itself without cannibalizing sales at its sister store.

Here's what it was like to shop at HomeGoods:

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This HomeGoods store was part of a larger TJ Maxx store on the outskirts of Philadelphia. The store was almost brand-new — it opened in November.

The home sector is a big part of TJX's business, accounting for around 30% of sales, according to the company's CFO, Scott Goldenberg. Its homeware offering in the US is spread across three stores: HomeGoods, TJ Maxx, and most recently, HomeSense, a Canadian homeware store that was rolled out in the US in 2017.

The biggest confusion here is knowing where to shop for what. While management claims that the overlap between these stores is minimal, the line between them seems to be blurred.

"Just as our customers enjoy shopping both TJ Maxx and Marshalls, we are confident that loyal customers and new shoppers alike will be excited about shopping both Homesense and HomeGoods," HomeGoods President John Ricciuti said in a statement to the press at a Homesense store opening in 2017.

• The Embraer Phenom 300E made its world debut last October at the National Business Aviation Association conference and exhibition in Las Vegas.
• The updated 300E builds on the success of the original Phenom 300 that entered service in 2010. 
• Since 2013, the Phenom 300 has been the most delivered private jet in the world. 
• The Phenom 300E has room for as many as 10 passengers and can fly more than 2,200 miles.
• The Embraer Phenom 300E costs $9.45 million while most customers end up paying around $10 million.

The Embraer Phenom 300 has been an unqualified success since its debut in 2010. Over the past half-decade, more customers have taken delivery of the Phenom 300 than any other private jet in the world. According to Embraer, it has delivered more than 400 of the planes to customers in roughly 40 countries around the world. 

Last October, Embraer unveiled an updated version of the plane called the Phenom 300E at the 2017 National Business Aviation Association conference and exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In case you're wondering, the "E" in 300E stands for enhanced. It's in reference to the extra dose of technology and luxury Embraer baked into its new plane.

The Phenom 300E enters the light business jet segment to some stiff competition from traditional stalwarts like Textron's Cessna Citation CJ3+ and Bombardier's Learjet 70. There are even new entrants like Switzerland's Pilatus PC-24. 

Even though Embraer is a renowned Brazilian planemaker, the company builds its dedicated private jets like the Phenom and Legacy 500 at its facility in Melbourne, Florida. It's larger, commercial airliner-derived private jets like the Legacy 650E and the Lineage 1000E will continue to be produced in Brazil. 

Last week, Business Insider got the chance to experience the Phenom 300E in person on a short a demo flight from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to White Plains in New York. 

Teterboro is also where we checked out the $20 million Embraer Legacy 500 last year. 

Here's a closer look at the new Embraer Phenom 300E:

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Here is the Embraer Phenom 300E waiting for me at Teterboro Airport.

The Phenom 300E is 51 feet, four inches long and 16 feet, nine inches tall.

It boasts a wingspan of 52 feet, two inches.

Anticipation is already building for fall TV premieres. 

Networks and cable channels are starting to announce premiere dates. "This Is Us,""Empire," and "The Good Place" are all set for September and "Riverdale" returns in October. 

And with the return of favorite shows come some new series as well, including a "Charmed" reboot on The CW and a "Sons of Anarchy" spin-off.

Here's when the best new and returning TV show premiere this fall.

We'll be updating this list as more release dates are announced. 

Wednesday, August 1 at 10 p.m. ET

"The Sinner" season two (USA) 

Friday, August 3 at 11:30 p.m. ET

"Animals" season three (HBO)

Monday, August 6 at 9 p.m. ET

"Better Call Saul" season four (AMC)