Warren Buffett recently endorsed Airbnb in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, saying it's an excellent option for people traveling to Omaha for his annual conference. 

"Airbnb's services may be especially helpful to shareholders who expect to spend only a single night in Omaha and are aware that last year a few hotels required guests to pay for a minimum of three nights," he wrote. "Those people on a tight budget should check the Airbnb website."

Now, thanks to Airbnb, one lucky Berkshire Hathaway shareholder will get the chance to spend three nights in Buffett's childhood home during the Shareholders Meeting weekend in May. 

The winner will be chosen based on the quality of their answers to four questions relating to travel, Airbnb, and Omaha. Shareholders can enter to win on the Airbnb listing. 

The Buffett family moved into this home in Omaha's Country Club neighborhood in 1936. Warren's first business was a paper route in this neighborhood.

As you enter, you'll find yourself in a comfortable living room. The home is no longer owned by the Buffett family, so the furnishing has changed since they lived here.

Furniture is arranged around a fireplace.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is making its presence felt in Russia's backyard as it conducts manoeuvre in the Black Sea.

Russia has stepped up its military exercises since the onset of the Ukraine crisis, with a greater number of naval drills and NATO reports of incursions by Russian fighter jets and bombers.

It comes as the country's economy continues to suffer under international sanctions imposed by the West over allegations that Russia has been providing troops and military equipment to pro-Moscow rebels in the east of Ukraine.

Ships from Russia's Northern Fleet have cropped up in the English Channel twice over the past few months, while RAF jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian bomber off the coast of Cornwall last month as the country has flexed its military muscle.

In this light, the "scheduled deployment" of six NATO ships into the Black Sea was bound to ruffle a few feathers.

The Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNGM2) is currently on operations in the Black Sea conducting training exercises including simulated anti-air and anti-submarine warfare exercises.

The NATO group is on a port visit to the Romanian port of Constanta. It just happens to be on the doorstep of Crimea, the region annexed by Russia in March last year.

The USS Vicksburg is the flagship of SNGM2. The Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser boasts the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System, Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a Mk 45 lightweight gun.

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we're taking a look at ten actors from Irish descent. And some may surprise you.

Whether hailing from Ireland or Hollywood, these actors have starred in huge franchises and won multiple Academy Awards.

But no surprise, considering they were born with the luck of the Irish.

10. Evanna Lynch

Birth place: Termonfeckin, County Louth, Ireland

Age: 23

Most well known films: Played Luna Lovegood in the "Harry Potter" series.

Irish ancestry: Born into a family of six in Ireland, Lynch often acted in school plays and attended a summer school for gifted teens in Dublin. After reading the "Harry Potter" books and becoming a fan, Lynch sent letters to author J.K. Rowling, who corresponded with Lynch during her two-year battle with anorexia at age 11 and 12.

In 2006, after auditioning for the role of Luna Lovegood at an open casting call in London among 15,000 other girls, Lynch was cast in the "Harry Potter" series at age 14. The actress made her on-screen debut in 2007's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

9. The late Peter O'Toole

Birth place: Connemara, County Galway, Ireland

Age: O'Toole died in 2013 at the age of 81.

Most well known films:"Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "The Lion in WInter" (1968), "My Favorite Year" (1982) O'Toole has been nominated for eight Oscars. In 2008, starred as Pope Paul III on "The Tudors."

Irish ancestry: After being born in Ireland, O'Toole was raised in England, where lived until his death.

From the book "Fame and Obscurity":

Though Peter O'Toole remains an uprooted Irishman by choice, he leaves London and returns to Ireland every now and then to do some drinking, to play the horses at the Punchestown racetrack outside Dublin, and to spend some solitary hours thinking. 

8. Stuart Townsend

Birth place: Howth, County Dublin, Ireland

Age: 42

Most well known films: "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman" (2003), "About Adam" (2000). Townsend made three movies with his former girlfriend of nine years, Charlize Theron: "Trapped" (2002), "Head in the clouds" (2004) and "Eon Flux" (2005).

Irish ancestry: Townsend was raised Irish Catholic by his professional golfer father and model mother. The actor began his career while attending the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin and later made his professional stage debut in 1994's "True Lines" which was a part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Before fame, Townsend formed a theatre group with his friends in Dublin where they re-enacted a popular childrens' show.

There’s never been a better time to work in tech.

Computer programmers are raking in all-time high salaries, while tech employees are asking for more money than ever before.

So what does it take to get hired by a tech company?

Among other things, you’ll have to be ready to answer some weird interview questions.

Jobs site Glassdoor just put out its annual ranking of Oddball Interview Questions. Here are the 10 weirdest questions asked by tech companies.

10. Twitter: "Why is the earth round?"

Position: Software engineer

Median salary: $128,157

Employee rating: 4.2/5.0

9. Riot Games: "You have a 1 mile long x 1 mile wide private island that you wish to turn into a resort. A plane requires a 2-mile long runway to take off. What do you do?”

Position: QA Analyst

Median salary: $19.63/hour

Employee rating: 4.5/5.0

8. Zappos: “How many gas stations are there in America?”

Position: Senior Financial Analyst

Median salary: $72,451 (business analyst)

Employee rating: 3.8/5.0

Back in 1904, a 25-year-old Albert Einstein would spend his afternoons pushing a stroller. 

You could find him "wheeling a baby carriage on the streets of Bern, Switzerland, halting now and then, unmindful of the traffic around him, to scribble down some mathematical symbols in a notebook that shared the carriage with his infant son, also named Albert,"The New York Times wrote in its obituary of the great scientist.

"Out of those symbols came the most explosive ideas in the age-old strivings of man to fathom the mystery of his universe," The Times added.

In his lifetime, Einstein would change the world, describing the workings of reality better than anyone since Isaac Newton and revealing the capabilities of the atom bomb. 

In time, Einstein's name has become a byword for genius.

Here's the genius, in his own words.

On authority

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

["The Curious History of Relativity"]

On scope

"Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension."

[Smithsonian, February 1979]

On politics

"I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever."

["The Yale Book of Quotations"]

Enterprise cloud startups continue to be a major area of investment for the venture capital world, as so-called "unicorn" startups valued at $1 billion or more continue to raise money at record rates — usually before they've ever posted a profit. 

Just how big are their piles of money? Really, really big, with companies like Cloudera and Dropbox breaking the $1 billion mark in investment funding alone, according to a report compiled by Forbes, using data provided by VC-tracking startup Mattermark. 

From Cloudera to Zuora, here are the 13 cloud startups sitting on the most investor cash.

#13: Zuora, $242.5 million

Zuora has a platform that helps companies manage their recurring subscription billing model — like the monthly charge for customers of Box's cloud storage. 

#12: Domo, $248.7 million

Domo provides business intelligence (BI) tools that help CEOs and executives make sense of the huge amounts of data their companies pull in with specialized dashboards and reports. BI is a hot space, with competitor Birst recently pulling in its own $65 million funding round ahead of a planned IPO. 

#11: NewVoiceMedia, $261.3 million

NewVoiceMedia makes browser-based software to help quickly connect sales teams with customers by use of a specialized phone dialer that integrates with Salesforce.

There's no feeling quite like having a shiny new car in the driveway. Everything from the glistening paint job to the new-car smell is enough to help the owner find automotive Nirvana. But once the bliss goes away, what are the cars actually like to live with?

To find out, J.D. Power sought the responses of 34,000 original owners of 2012 model cars, asking them what it had been like to own their three-year-old cars over the past 12 months. The results of these questions have been assembled for the 2015 J.D. Power Vehicle Dependability Study.

"At the three-year point, many owners are thinking about replacing their vehicles, and we find that how they feel about their current vehicle's quality and dependability impacts their intent to consider purchasing the same brand again," J.D. Power vice president Renee Stephens said.

Now in its 26th year, the latest VDS found that the top two problems reported by consumers in the study were the lack of Bluetooth connectivity and the misinterpretation of commands by the car's voice-recognition system. Not all cars are created equal. But amazingly, two mammoth companies — General Motors, with its assorted divisions, and Toyota/Scion/Lexus — dominated to win 14 of the 19 VDS categories. 

Small Car: Scion xD

Compact Car: Toyota Corolla

Compact Premium Car: Lexus ES

Sweet Briar College — an all-women's college in rural Virginia — stunned the academic world this month when it abruptly announced it would close at the end of the semester.

Over its 114 year history, Sweet Briar has had a storied history, with many traditions developing on its beautiful campus. Twenty one of the school's 30 academic buildings — as well as the stunning Italian Villa style Sweet Briar House — are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

We've highlighted some of what made Sweet Briar so special to its students.

Founded in 1901, Sweet Briar College is located in Sweet Briar, Virginia — about 11 miles northeast of Lynchburg.

Sweet Briar was founded based on the will of Indiana Fletcher Williams, who left her entire 8,000 acre estate to establish a place of learning for women.

Williams said the donation was in memory of her daughter Daisy, who died at 16 and couldn't attend college.

Apple is known for its attention to detail — the company prides itself on it.

That's evident when you look at a product like the MacBook Air or the iPhone, but it's bound to be an even deal with the Apple Watch.

That's because the Apple Watch, unlike Apple's other products, is made to be visible and worn rather than tucked away inside your pocket.

So it's not surprising to learn that Apple went to great lengths to make sure its Apple Watch feels more like a timepiece than a gadget.

Here are some surprising facts about how the Apple Watch was made and its materials that show Apple's attention to detail. 

The Link bracelet for the Apple Watch took nine hours to make.

Source:Apple

For the Watch Edition models, Apple made a new type of gold alloy that it says is twice as hard as standard alloys.

Source:Apple

The Apple Watch's Modern Buckle is made of the same material NASA used to make the landing airbags for the Mars Rover spacecraft.

Source:Apple

Wednesday's protests of the new European Central Bank headquarters by "Blockupy" demonstrators has turned ugly.

In Frankfurt, where the new building is set to open Wednesday morning, police cars are on fire, riot police are clashing with demonstrators, and the city's skyline is filled with smoke. 

The activists say the ECB "is one of the central institutions enforcing the implementation of the catastrophic policy of impoverishment."

The group is planning a series of rallies and marches later Wednesday. 

The ECB's sparkling new headquarters in Frankfurt has been completed, but not everyone is happy.

During construction, the walls around the project became a popular site for graffiti, much of it political.

The "Blockupy" anti-austerity group organised a protest outside of the ECB's new headquarters to mark the opening.

"If you were asked to unload a 747 full of jellybeans, what would you do?"

(The real question is: If you were asked this question in an interview, what would you do?!)

If you apply for a job at Bose, the popular audio equipment company based in Framingham, Massachusetts, you might actually have to answer this odd query. 

The online jobs and career community Glassdoor just unveiled its sixth annual list of the toughest and most bizarre questions faced by job seekers. To find them, the company combed through tens of thousands of interview questions shared by US-based job candidates on the Glassdoor website over the past year.

"If you were asked to unload a 747 full of jellybeans, what would you do?"—Bose IT Support Manager job candidate

"Why is the Earth round?"—Twitter Software Engineer job candidate

"Who would win in a fight between Spiderman and Batman?"—Stanford University Medical Simulationist job candidate

It's hard to get noticed at South by Southwest, a technology, music and film conference that attracts tens of thousands of people every March in Austin, Texas.

But a few companies did such crazy things, they stood out.

Here are some of the wackiest and coolest promotions we saw last weekend in Austin.

We spotted a whole crew of people from the referral company Roi Koi walking around with giant, light-up globes on their heads.

HootSuite packed people into a giant owl bike-mobile to ride around Austin while drinking beer.

A book-finding app called Squirl had these big guys stationed around the main drag.

LeBron James has reduced the price of his Miami estate to $15 million, Curbed reports.

It was priced at $17 million when it went on the market in October.

It is listed by Opulence International Realty, which calls the house"the most opulent estate in Miami."

It has an infinity pool that overlooks Biscayne Bay, a maze of terraces, a movie room, and a massive master suite. The photos make it look incredible.

The outdoor space is the best part.

The concrete dock has room for two 60-foot yachts.

The infinity pool overlooks Biscayne Bay.

Since the first auto insurance policy was written in 1897, for drivers, paying for car insurance has become an unavoidable expense. But not all cars are created equal — some are considerably more expensive to insure than others. To find out which cars will hit your wallet the hardest, Insure.com crunched the numbers for more than 1,500 models in all 50 states from six major insurers. 

"Insurance rates are all about claims – how many and how big," Insure.com consumer analyst Penny Gusner said. "Cars that are cheapest to insure typically are easy to repair or have fewer claims or both."

Here's how Insure.com created its ranking:

Averages are based on full coverage for a single 40-year-old male who commutes 12 miles to work each day, with policy limits of 100/300/50 ($100,000 for injury liability for one person, $300,000 for all injuries and $50,000 for property damage in an accident) and a $500 deductible on collision and comprehensive coverage. This hypothetical driver has a clean record and good credit. The rate includes uninsured motorist coverage. 

Another factor that affects insurance prices is location. For instance, according to Insure.com, the owner of a 190 mph Nissan GT-R could pay as little $2,012 per year in Hawaii — but as much as $6,630 in Montana. And although, the fun Jeep Wrangler Sport 4WD came out as the cheapest car to insure with an average annual premium of just $1,134, other car owners weren't so lucky. 

Here are the 10 most expensive cars to insure in the U.S.

10. Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG 4Matic Sedan: $2,972 average annual premium

9. Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG 4Matic Wagon: $3,042

8. BMW M6 Convertible: $3,115

Who are the most eligible singles in San Francisco?

Hinge, the dating app that introduces you to friends of friends, says it knows.

Hinge shows you the profiles of single people in your city. If you like someone's profile, swipe right; if you're not interested, swipe left to pass.

Unlike location-based dating apps like Tinder, Hinge shows you only friends of friends and third-degree connections.

Hinge was founded in 2011 but made a comeback and rebranded as a mobile app in February 2013. Its number of active users has grown by five times over the past year. 

Hinge says it is setting up 35,500 dates per week and getting 1,500 people into relationships per week. The service has expanded to 36 cities. It is most popular in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C. 

"Hinge cuts through the randomness of Tinder,” one daily user told The New York Times in March. "I can take some comfort that she knows some of the same people I do." In December, Hinge raised $12 million from venture capitalists, bringing its total amount raised to more than $20 million.

Hinge picked the top 30 men and women in San Francisco on its app using two factors: high "swipe right rates" on their profiles (profile details like appearance, workplace, and education get taken into account) and influence, or how socially connected they are.

30. Mina Alaghband

Work: Customer Strategy and Ops at a SaaS company

Education: Yale, Stanford Business School

Hometown: London

Influence: 327 friends on Hinge

Worst pre-Hinge date: "Through the first course he bragged tirelessly about himself. By the middle of the entrees he was sobbing about how it was all an elaborate web of lies … and then ordered a dessert!"

29. Kevin Prior

Work: Product Marketing Manager at Facebook

Education: Harvard University

Hometown: Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

Influence: 436 friends on Hinge

Worst pre-Hinge date: "I was once asked to go to a Jewish singles mixer with a first date, and in my failing to respond, he quickly labeled me an anti-Semite."

28. Christopher Sater

Work: Support Manager at Google

Education: Stanford University, B.A. and M.S.

Hometown: Mountain View, California

Influence: 244 friends on Hinge

Worst pre-Hinge date: "I set up a series of blind dates from another dating site and stayed in San Francisco over Memorial Day weekend while my friends went to Vegas. Big commitment. The girls I met on Thursday and Friday were all right, but not my type. After the second date and multiple updates from my friends, I was so susceptible to FOMO that I booked a flight to Vegas at 1 a.m. and ditched the final two dates. I felt bad canceling on them last minute, but I ended up having one of the most fun weekends of my life."

Malcolm Gladwell is probably the most famous nonfiction author alive. When a new book of his comes out, it takes over airport bookstores. 

Each of his five books have become bestsellers, thanks to his incomparable ability to marry storytelling to social science theory. 

This is an update of an article originally written by Aimee Groth and Elizabeth Bogner.

Social movements are sparked by small sets of influential people.

In Gladwell's debut bestseller "The Tipping Point,"he talks about the Law of the Few, which states that a select few sets of people push ideas, diseases, and fads through social networks.

There are three kinds:

• Connectors: who know everybody

• Mavens: who become experts

• Salespeople: who push ideas on others 

When these people get excited about something, it takes off.

Context shapes behavior.

Gladwell says that "epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur."

The most controversial idea cited is the Broken Windows Theory, which posits that crime is an outgrowth of disorder. So if you clean the graffiti off of subways, the trash off the streets, and repair any windows that get broken, it will create an environment where people are less likely to commit crimes.

It's still being debated. 

We make split-second judgment calls all the time.

In "Blink," Gladwell zooms in on "thin slicing," a psychological process in which we're constantly reading people's personalities within seconds of seeing them. 

Examples of thin slicing include: 

• We predict how likely someone is to get a promotion from the clothes they wear.

• We infer whether someone is gay or straight from glancing at their face.

• We think that a woman is promiscuous if she has a visible tattoo.

Variety's Mark David reports that Tom Cruise has listed his mansion on Mulholland Drive for just under $13 million with the real estate Multiple Listing Service.

The European-style villa in Beverly Hills has two parcels with a total of 2.5 acres of land, according to the listing. The home is gated with three bedrooms and a fully detached guest house with an additional four bedrooms and bathrooms.

According to Variety, the home was rumored to have been bought as a retreat for high-level Scientologists — it was purchased by two corporate entities back in 2005 — and Tom Cruise’s sister was recently living on the property.

The movie star seems to be undergoing a real estate overhaul. In November of last year he listed his Colorado estate for $59 million and back in 2013 he listed his New York townhouse for $28 million as well as an East Village condo for $3 million. Variety reports he currently lives in a Beverly Hills mansion he bought for $30.5 million in 2007.

The home is on sale for $12.995 million, according to real estate listing website Redfin.

Welcome to Tom Cruise's Beverly Hills mansion that he's currently selling for $13 million. The home is right off of the famous Mulholland Drive.

According to Variety, the estate is rumored to have been a not-so-secret Scientology retreat.

The property has both a main residence as well as a separate guest house.

Office buildings are places for getting work done. 

But as the winners of the Architizer A+ awards show, office buildings can also be quirky, artistic, and truly beautiful. As idiosyncratic as the cities they stand in, these buildings inspire awe.

Whether through a bamboo-filled atrium at the entrance, wind turbines that help a skyscraper generate its own energy, or a mirrored facade that reflects a Nordic bay, these buildings expand our sense of what "office building" even means. 

These are our favorite office exteriors from the second annual A+ Awards. 

The headquarters of Arctia Shipping floats besides the ships of Helsinki, Finland.

The Federal Center South Building 1202 in Seattle is a super-sustainable home for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The 72 Screens building in Jaipur, India, is built to handle the city's extreme heat.

The modern gentleman is too busy to shop, but he still wants to look his best.

Luckily, the e-commerce boom has reached men's clothing with a wide number of services catered to how men like to shop — not very often.

From subscription services like Trunk Club to a traditional internet retailer that simplifies the online shopping experience, these services can help you step up your style game without spending a lot of time.

Indochino brings custom suit making to everyone.

No tailor required — you just pick out your fabrics, measure yourself according to the site's easy-t0-follow instructions, and it will mail you a relatively high-quality suit without any of the fuss usually required.

Indochino's prices are reasonable for the quality offered.

An alternative to Indochino, Black Label also offers custom suit making.

Simply select your fabric, customize your garment with the pattern, pockets, and design you want, then take your measurements, and Black Label will mail you your suit.

Blank Lapel will make any custom wear you want, from shirts to suits, to your personal fit profile.

This obviously includes telling Blank Lapel your measurements, but it also asks things like: "What bothers you about the fit of typical off-the-rack shirts, and how would you like us to make your personal fit?"

Work takes up a large amount of time for many Americans. On top of that, people also have to deal with their daily commutes. It all adds up. 

The Office of the New York City Comptroller released a study this month highlighting the cities in which people spend the most time working and commuting. The office used Census and American Community Survey microdata and noted that American full-time workers commuted an average of 4 hours, 11 minutes each week, 30 minutes longer than in 1990. 

Here are the cities in which people spend the most time working and commuting.

15 (tie). San Jose, California: 47.01 hours

15 (tie). San Antonio, Texas: 47.01 hours

13. Philadelphia: 47.02 hours