Samsung's newest flagship phone, the Galaxy S5, arrives April 11.
You can read the full review of the device here, or check out some photos of the best features in the gallery below.
Samsung's new flagship phone, the Galaxy S5, launches April 11.
The next version of its popular smartphone is equipped with a slew of cool features like a 16 megapixel camera.
But as with any phone, it' really all about the apps.
We've rounded up the 14 best Android apps you need to get started with your new Samsung smartphone.
The SwiftKey keyboard app makes it easier for you to send messages to your friends and family. The program is a smart keyboard equipped with an incredible autocorrect feature. The app learns your writing style and can react to spelling mistakes. Also, SwiftKey can sync with multiple devices, so you'll be able to send messages between tablets and phones. You'll never have to worry about an autocorrect fail again with this app.
Price: $3.99
Audible has a vast selection of audio books for you to listen to from anywhere you are. Purchase new titles from the app's mobile store. Books range from classic novels to the most current books. You can use the multitasking feature embedded in the app to do other tasks on your device while listening to something. Plus, you can switch from the audio feature to a standard reading function.
Price: Free (books costs extra)
You won't find a better news app than Circa News. Important stories are delivered to your phone in bite-sized chunks making stories much easier to read while you're on the move. You can choose to follow stories that interest you so you can get consistent updates on any new developments. Most stories can be long and boring, so Circa 's goal is to deliver something you can read quickly and understand.
Price: Free
One of Samsung's newest smartwatches, the Gear Fit, launches April 11 along with the company's new flagship phone, the Galaxy S5.
You can read the full review of the Gear Fit here and check out its most important features in the gallery below.
At an age when most players are declining, Serena Williams is still the most dominant force in women's tennis.
You can't be that good for that long without an insane competitive streak, and she has one.
She has destroyed racquets, fought with young players, and played through gross injuries on her way to the top.
This feature is a part of our Most Dominant Athletes series.
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Even with the emergence of the digital revolution and the mobile migration that followed, advertising in print is still much more expensive than advertising online.
That's because the larger pages give advertising creatives a bigger canvas to work with than a banner ad, and the reader is more receptive to a message when he or she is giving it undivided attention.
As a result, the medium gives advertisers the opportunity to do some of their most exciting and interesting work, for audiences who are more receptive to subtlety than those usually found online.
We compiled 20 print ads that are anything but skippable. They're creative, funny, and have clear messages.
To check out more great print ads, look at Hubpages, Sprystudios, and Creative Bloq, where some of these ad ideas were found.
The Dominique Ansel Bakery is out of purgatory and has been officially reopened this morning to New York City cronut lovers.
Last Friday, the Department of Health (DOH) shut down the much-beloved bakery after a video of a mouse running across the restaurant’s floor surfaced online. The DOH inspectors claimed the bakery had a “severe mouse infestation” and closed it down, though ultimately the DOH did not find any mice but instead “several hundred mouse droppings," according to a statement given to Gothamist.
While shuttered, the restaurant staff upgraded the establishment by re-cementing and refurbishing the bakery's floors to better prevent against mice and to comply with DOH guidelines. After a re-opening inspection on Monday, the restaurant is now back in business and at the time of this post retains its 'A' grade health inspection rating.
In a response on Facebook, Dominique Ansel and his team write that they believe the shuttering of the bakery and subsequent media response were both “cruel and sensationalized attacks that are not framed in the proper context” and that “systems should not be abused to single-out any one business over another.”
To celebrate this morning’s reopening, the team offered a special edition cronut inspired by the movie “Rocky” that is chocolate with a golden star, along with a quote from the movie:
Obviously, those early and long cronut lines were back in full-force as well:
The cronut line back in full force this morning in SoHo. All unperturbed by earlier mouse infestation controversy. pic.twitter.com/3grhGYbho6
— Yoni Bashan (@yoni_bashan) April 8, 2014Here’s their full Facebook response:
Dear friends,
What you see in the photo is us — the less than 20 members of the Dominique Ansel Bakery team in our Soho bakery. This is all of us. In the past year, we have woken up daily knowing that our success has made us vulnerable to more malicious attacks than any small, one-shop business should ever have to suffer. But we refuse to believe that we live in a world where success turns people into targets of spite and contempt. We choose instead to believe that it has led us to so many of you, our adoring fans and customers whom have sent your support. Thank you for the hundreds of emails, calls, and personal letters we received.
Our dream is that we can encourage creativity and inspire those around the world to do the same. And this morning we wake to pursue this one simple dream harder than ever before. With your help, we know we will get there and develop a constructive and genuine way to improve every day.
We are deeply sorry for any disappointment that we may have caused you. Taking this opportunity, we have completely fortified our facilities with a full reconstruction and re-cementing, taking every issue seriously in an effort to provide an even more pristine environment for our guests. As you know, we cook in completely opened kitchens, so everything we do is in full view.
Looking forward, our hope is that honest, hard-working businesses should not have to face cruel and sensationalized attacks that are not framed in the proper context. And systems should not be abused to single-out any one business over another. We urge our customers to seek deeper details and answers before jumping to conclusions. And regardless of the hits, we will take every chance and criticism as a lesson learned and work harder to rise to the expectations you have of us and that we have of ourselves.
On Tuesday morning, we open our doors at 8am as usual. We are excited to welcome you back and looking forward to greeting you all personally, as we do every day. In the words of Rocky Balboa — whose theme song has been playing on our radio all weekend long while we worked to deliver everything that was required of us and more — "getting hit and keep moving forward…that's how winning is done!"
With our very best,
The Dominique Ansel Bakery Team
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TripAdvisor just announced the winners of its 2014 Travelers’ Choice awards for Destinations.
Millions of TripAdvisor users voted on their favorite destinations around the world — and Asia was the big winner this year.
Six of the top 25 spots on TripAdvisor's list of the World's Top Travel Destinations are in Asia, including new hotspots like Hanoi, Vietnam (#8); Siem Reap, Cambodia (#9); and Shanghai, China (#12). Of course perennial favorites like Rome and London made the list too, but the number one spot may surprise you.
Award winners were based on millions of TripAdvisor reviews of hotels, attractions and restaurants for different cities over a 12-month period.
There is a gender gap in tech.
So which investors are doing their part to help change the ratio and fund more female founders?
Business Insider researched active portfolios for 16 early- to mid-stage venture capital funds in New York. We then found the number of startups in the portfolios that had at least one female founder and calculated what percent of the total portfolio included female-founded companies. We then got in touch with every firm to confirm the numbers. Angel investors, incubators and accelerators were not included.
Here are the results.
Firm partner: Mike Brown Jr.
Total active startups in portfolio: 8*
Total investments in active, female-founded startups: 0
Female founder in portfolio: N/A
Percent of female-founded startups in active portfolio: 0%
*Bowery Capital is a brand-new fund that's less than one year old.
Firm partners: Roger Ehrenberg (founder) and Brad Gillespie
Total active startups in portfolio: 34
Total investments in active, female-founded startups: 1
Female founder in portfolio: Sonpreet Bhatia of MyCityWay
Percent of female-founded startups in active portfolio: 2.9%
Firm partners: Alex Crisses, Deven Parekh, Jeff Horing, Jeff Lieberman, Larry Handen, Michael Triplett, Nikitas Koutoupes, Richard Wells, Ryan Hinkle, Hilary Gosher, Euan Menzies, Peter Sobiloff
Total active startups in portfolio: 91
Total investments in active, female-founded startups: 8
Female founder in portfolio: Christina Koshzow (Branding Brand), Claudia Helming (DaWanda), Saki Dodelson and Susan Gertler (Achieve3000), Milda Mitkute (Vinted), Julie Mahloch (Hayneedle), Danae Ringelmann (Indiegogo), Priya Ayer (Anaqua) and Karen Minnick (Evestment)
Percent of female-founded startups in active portfolio: 8.8%
Istanbul, Turkey, was just ranked the most popular travel destination in the world by TripAdvisor.
Millions of TripAdvisor users voted on their favorite destinations around the world, and Istanbul took the top spot. This is surprising because the Middle Eastern city jumped 11 spots from the previous year, surpassing perennial favorites like London and Rome.
So why are travelers flocking to Istanbul? Perhaps it's because the vibrant city embodies both ancient and modern. It's chock-full of historic mosques and monuments, but it also has tons of hip boutiques, cool restaurants, and design-savvy boutique hotels that hipsters, foodies, artists and fashionistas love. The city feels decidedly chic — and travelers from all over the world are taking note.
Hollywood's bigwigs may seem completely put-together 24/7, but what we don't see on a day-to-day basis is the amount of work it takes to keep them on their game — and the folks who do it.
Personal assistants are responsible for keeping Hollywood's biggest names on time, on schedule, and on their A-games around the clock.
They book meetings, run errands, arrange for childcare, and anything else required to keep their bosses in check.
Zaro started as an assistant for her famous talent-manager boss, Scooter Braun, who represents some of the biggest names in music like Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen. As an assistant, she was instrumental in keeping Braun efficient and making the day easier for him, her brother Alexander Zaro tells BI.
The Syracuse grad works hard to promote Braun's clients, but goes out of her way to also promote her sister, who is a musician herself. Zaro is particularly close with musician Asher Roth, who appears in many of her Instagram pictures.
After showing Braun loyalty for nearly two years, Zaro has since been promoted to A&R Music Supervision at Scooter Braun Projects.
Diedrich is a 10-year veteran of CBS Entertainment, and wrangles the chaos for chairwoman Nina Tassler.
Over the years, she rose up from office coordinator to assistant to the president, signing on as assistant to the chairman when Tassler was promoted in February. Her boss's tenure at CBS has included developing the hit "CSI" and "NCIS" franchises and green-lighting "How I Met Your Mother" and "The Big Bang Theory."
In her new position, Diedrich will have her hands in programming across primetime, daytime, and late night, as well as program development in all genres.
Women pass in and out of his life, but Hollywood's favorite bachelor can count on one woman: a "cheerful, red-haired woman in early middle age" who goes by the name Angel.
Clooney first met her when she assisted him and fellow "ER" cast member Noah Wyle in the '90s (Clooney won her over in the end).
Angel lives in a detached house on his Los Angeles property so she can assist at a moment's notice. She also frequently pops up in magazine profiles on Clooney.
After a high-flying career that saw movie stuntman Pascal Whelan work on some of Hollywood’s biggest movies, including "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Live and Let Die," Whelan called it quits and headed off to virtually abandoned Omey Island off the coast of Ireland.
Whelan routinely hitchhikes off the island to a nearby pub on the mainland, and by chance, photographer Kevin Griffin picked him up one day. Griffin was intrigued by Whelan’s story, and it wasn’t long before Griffin decided he had to be the one to tell it.
Whelan and Griffin have since collaborated on "Omey Island: Last Man Standing," a new photo book. Griffin shared a number of the photos with us here, and you can check out the rest on his website.
Whalen grew up on Omey Island in the 1940s, when there were other families living there. The inhabitants lived self-sufficiently in cottages with thatched roofs, tending to small farms of vegetables and animals. When he became an adult, he moved to Australia, where he became a stuntman. He eventually started a "stunt show" and spent seven years touring Australia.
After he grew tired of touring in Australia, Whelan moved back to Ireland, bought a mobile home, put it on the island, and started a stuntman school on the mainland.
While Whelan was running the stuntman school, a friend of his was fatally injured during one of the shows. After that, Whelan abandoned his career and moved completely to the island.
Whelan told Business Insider he moved to the island because he spent his "happiest childhood moments" there. He calls it a spiritual "healing place." Everyone else on the island has long since moved away to more modern living situations, but Whelan loves the peaceful solitude. 
Because the island is located only a mile off the shore, people can drive or walk to the island when the tide is low.
Time the tide wrong and you could lose a car. He calls himself a "master tide-timer," but even he once lost two cars in one week.
During the summer months, many people come for a day of relaxing or taking in the more gruesome sights on the island, like this beached whale.
During the winter, it can be dark on the island for 15 hours out of the day, because it is so stormy there. People rarely visit then.
When Whelan was younger and healthier, he would spend the mornings on the island fishing for lobster or picking shellfish for dinner that night. These days, Whelan is far less active. 
Whelan used to maintain a robust vegetable garden. Now, he has a smaller one where he grows onions and carrots because they are "low maintenance."
Around noon, Whelan drives or hitchhikes to a local pub on the mainland called Sweeney's. After a few pints of beer, Whelan heads back to the island.
Despite his living situation, Whelan told the Independent he is "not a hermit, far from it." Omey Island is simply the only place that he wants to live.
SEE ALSO: How We Got From Rainy New York To Richard Branson's Private Island
Boeing is getting ready to put the extended version of its Dreamliner jet into service, and it created a special paint job for the occasion.
The 787-9 will fit more passengers and offer more range than the 787-8 that's already in service. The first -9 to enter commercial service is going to Air New Zealand, and it looks stunning in an all-black livery.
Boeing is still testing the -9, and the New Zealand plane is expected to start commercial flights later this year on the Auckland-Perth route. It is the first of 10 787-9s the airline has ordered.
The original 787-8 Dreamliner seats 201-250 passengers and offers a range of 7,650 to 8,200 nautical miles. The 787-9 is 20 feet longer, has room for 40 more passengers, and can fly an extra 300 miles without refueling.
The first one looks awesome.
The fern on the rear of the fuselage is an official symbol of New Zealand.
The tail features the koru, Air New Zealand's logo.
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Using data collected by Team Marketing during surveys of Major League Baseball teams we created the Adult Cost Index (ACI) which is how much it might cost one fan to attend a game.
Similar to Team Marketing's Fan Cost Index (FCI), which looks at the cost of attending a game for a family of four, the ACI is the cost for a single fan to purchase an average-priced ticket, one beer, one soft drink, one hot dog, and half the cost of parking at the stadium.
On the next few pages we'll take a closer look at how much it costs fans to go see all 30 MLB teams.
Average ticket: $17.98
Small Beer: $4.00
Soda: $1.5
Hot Dog: $2.75
Half the cost of parking: $5.00
Fan Cost Index*: $126.89
* Fan Cost Index (FCI) uses the same data but is calculated for a family of four and requires the purchase of additional items such as programs and caps.
Average ticket: $16.37
Small Beer: $5.00
Soda: $4.00
Hot Dog: $4.00
Half the cost of parking: $4.00
Fan Cost Index*: $153.45
* Fan Cost Index (FCI) uses the same data but is calculated for a family of four and requires the purchase of additional items such as programs and caps.
Average ticket: $21.01
Small Beer: $5.00
Soda: $5.00
Hot Dog: $5.00
Half the cost of parking: $0.00
Fan Cost Index*: $170.02
* Fan Cost Index (FCI) uses the same data but is calculated for a family of four and requires the purchase of additional items such as programs and caps.
No question about it: cloud computing is changing the world. It's the invisible part of your smartphone and tablet, the part that holds your apps and files, and lets you work from anywhere.
IBM estimates that 85% of new software today is being built for the cloud and that one-quarter of the world's apps will be available on the cloud by 2016.
By 2017, enterprises are expected to be spending $235 billion on the cloud, predicts market research firm IHS.
All thanks to many people at tech companies, big and small.
Jyoti Bansal, founder and CEO, AppDynamics
IPO-bound AppDynamics is well-known in an area called “application intelligence.” It helps people figure out how their apps are performing in the cloud or troubleshoot app problems.
Bansal's company is growing like crazy, sources tell us: 140% year over year. That's impressive because he's already doing a sizeable business. At the start of 2013, AppDynamics had about 500 customers. He's raised about $86.5 million from venture investors, too, according to CrunchBase.
Ross Mason, founder and VP of product strategy, MuleSoft
Mason came up with a solution to a really hard problem for cloud computing. His company, MuleSoft connects different clouds together so that they can share information.
It's been a venture investment darling and not just from VCs like NEA and Lightspeed but from big-name tech companies. In March, Mason raised another a $50 million, bringing the total to $131 million.
There's so much interest in his company that SAP, Salesforce.com and Cisco have invested, too.
Simone Brunozzi, vCloud Hybrid Service vice president and chief technologist, Hybrid Cloud, VMware
VMware gained a feather in its cloud cap when it hired Simone Brunozzi away from Amazon a couple of weeks ago.
Brunozzi's new title is a mouthful: He's VMware vCloud hybrid service vice president and chief technologist, Hybrid Cloud.
That means he's helping VMware lure enterprises to the cloud.
Brunozzi was known as one of the faces of Amazon's cloud, doing a lot public speaking on Amazon's behalf since 2008. He helped teach the enterprise world what cloud computing was all about.
There were apparently no hard feelings in his move. His old boss, Amazon's Werner Vogels, tweeted a congrats note to him.
In the five years since it first opened to guests, the Rosewood Sand Hill has become the premiere social destination for Silicon Valley's elite.
Conveniently located just across the street from a cluster of venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road — Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and the Blackstone Group among them — the hotel has seen its fair share of high-profile guests.
Power lunches are popular here, but the hotel has really become known for its Thursday night crowd. On these "cougar nights," a crowd of older women reportedly frequent the hotel bar to be matched with wealthy VCs and entrepreneurs.
Whether you're looking for a moneyed mate or not, the hotel itself is beautiful, with sprawling grounds that look out over the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Sotheby's is not going quietly.
So far in its battle to ward off activist hedge fund manager Dan Loeb — who says that the company should sell assets and change its business strategy to unlock value — the auction house has made public statements, appealed to investors in letters, and instituted a poison pill.
On Tuesday it took the fight a step forward and released a lengthy investor presentation arguing that Loeb and two others supported by his hedge fund, Third Point, should not join the company's board as they lack substantial experience in any businesses related to Sotheby's.
The presentation also goes over Sothebys' successes as a company and its potential for growth. What's really brutal though, is its characterization of Dan Loeb as a slash and burn kind of investor. The kind that joins boards for 1 or 2 years at the most, has his way, and then leaves a company without a care.
It is especially critical of his “self-interested transaction with Yahoo!”.
Business Insider has rearranged the presentation to start with Sothebys' argument against Loeb and its shareholder plan — that's the juicy stuff anyway.
Photographer Charles Traub has been documenting the world through his all-seeing lens for the better part of fifty years, but no place has made more of an impression on him than Italy.
Though he has visited countless times since, Traub's trips to Italy during the 1980s — the period when he first visited — remains a critical points of his career. During that time, Traub traveled to various parts of Italy each year, staying for 2 or 3 weeks at a time, to photograph what he called La Dolce Via, or the Sweet Way, a reference to the exuberant street life that has long been a hallmark of Italian culture.
The street culture and leisurely pace that Traub documented is now mostly gone, he says, as Italy struggles to keep up with the competitive global economy. Traub calls his work from this period “a time capsule” to an Italy that no longer exists.
Though Traub has shared a number of his photos with us here, the entire collection forms the basis of his new book, aptly titled, Dolce Via: Italy In the 1980's.
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In a statement announcing that he would miss the Masters because of a serious back surgery, Tiger Woods vowed to return to golf this summer.
That's insane. PGA golfer Graham DeLaet had the same surgery, and it took him a year to recover.
It's a testament to Tiger's work ethic and competitiveness that he even thinks there's a chance he could play in a few months.
Whether it's completely changing his swing or working out with the Navy SEALs, history has shown that Tiger is going to do everything humanly possible to become a better player.
This feature is a part of our Most Dominant Athletes series.
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Batman is turning 75 this year.
To celebrate, Warner Bros. is holding a year-long celebration for the Caped Crusader, complete with new animated films, a potential Fox show, and a rerelease of Tim Burton's 1989 "Batman."
The Bat's also getting a new video game.
In honor of the Dark Knight's milestone, we're looking back at a favorite of ours. A while back, the folks over at Screenrant produced a handy infographic that covers most of Batman's looks over the years. We found a few from the past that weren't included. Rainbow Batman, anyone?
From Zebra Batman to the killing machine of Azrael, see the many styles of the famous cape and cowl.
CNBC anchor Mandy Drury showed us what a typical day is like for her.
The Australian native rides a scooter (in heels!) when she takes her kids to school in New York City. Then she heads to Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to prepare for her 2 p.m. show "Street Signs."
After that, it's time to pick up the kids from school and head home to prepare dinner.
