We asked you to voteon the hottest new power steaks in New York City. Now the results are in, and these 11 steaks made the top of the list.
Power steaks, we should note, are powerful not only because they're huge, delicious cuts of meat but also because they're served in restaurants where powerful people gather.
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Multimillionaire Dan Bilzerian, the 34-year-old poker star who is known as the "King of Instagram," lives a crazy, lavish life.
Bilzerian's house parties, held at his luxury Los Angeles mansion, are no exception.
Maani Safa, vice president of creative and innovation at the mobile marketing and technology agency Somo, was lucky enough to get an invite to one of these legendary parties and was kind enough to share his photos with us.
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First class can be plenty luxurious, but it's nothing like Singapore Airline's iconic Suites Class.
Travel blogger Derek Low recently cashed in his frequent flyer miles to purchase an $18,125.30 round-trip ticket in Suites Class, and thankfully he took lots of gorgeous photos of his journey.
From your own personal cabin and full-size bed to private rooms and classy meals, you've never seen a classier way to fly in style.
Note: All photos used with permission.
Everyone may be talking about smartwatches this month, but they're pretty useless unless you have a good phone too.
Here's our ranking of the best phones you can buy right now.
We update this list approximately once a month. Our rankings are based on a variety of factors including design, software and hardware features, content selection, carrier availability, and price. We only consider phones that are available in the U.S. at the time of publication. We list approximate prices for what phones cost without a contract. Prices vary from carrier to carrier and retailer to retailer. You can see April's smartphone rankings here.
BlackBerry has gone back to the basics.
Its latest phone, the Classic, looks a lot like the BlackBerry Bold from a few years ago. It has a physical keyboard, trackpad, and larger screen. If you want a phone with a keyboard, the Classic is the best phone to buy.
Price: $449 unlocked from BlackBerry
The Nokia Lumia 830 is one of the newest phones from Microsoft. It runs the Windows Phone 8 operating system and has a sharp 5-inch screen.
Price: About $420 on AT&T
The HTC One M8 For Windows is the best phone you can buy running the Windows Phone operating system. It has a gorgeous metal body and the new version of Windows Phone, 8.1, which includes the excellent digital assistant Cortana.
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Price: Around $600
Elizabeth Olsen is so much more than "the third Olsen sister."
Two years younger than her child-star twin sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley, Elizabeth — also known as Lizzie — shied away from the spotlight as a kid. But during the Sundance Film Festival in 2011, the indie darling burst onto the scene and clinched the hearts of critics.
Next month, Olsen joins the superstar cast of "Avengers: Age of Ultron," as the mysterious, reality-bending sorceress Scarlet Witch.
Source: The Guardian
The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is a financial pilgrimage.
Investors from around the world come to Omaha, Nebraska, to hear Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett and his vice chairman, Charlie Munger, take questions from journalists, analysts, and shareholders for seven hours.
And the lines for getting in to see the two speak starts hours before the sun begins to rise in Omaha.
We went to the Berkshire annual meeting this year and got the full shareholder experience.
From the grand arrival of CEOs, to the stampede for seats, to the ice cream breakfast, to the brief moment when you can almost reach out and grab him, it is quite a day.
Scott Keyes is an expert when it comes to getting the best possible price for airline tickets.
The reporter for Think Progress and author of the e-books “How To Fly For Free” and “How To Find Cheap Flights" is so good at it that he has planned a world trip that will take him more than 20,000 miles to 13 countries, all for free.
When Business Insider spoke with Keyes, he said one of his favorite hacks for getting cheap flights was taking advantage of "throwaway tickets," something that many fliers have never even heard of before.
“This one can be a huge money saver,” Keyes told us about his favorite throwaway ticket website Skiplagged. “You just have to know how to use it.”
For those who don’t know, throwaway tickets — also known as "hidden city" or "point beyond" tickets — are flights you purchase to an unpopular destination.
Say you were trying to buy a ticket from New York to Chicago. Because of demand, these tickets will be much more expensive than flying from New York to Milwaukee, for instance.
A throwaway ticket would be if you found a flight to Milwaukee with a layover in Chicago. Then instead of getting on the plane to go to Milwaukee, you would throw away that leg of the ticket and exit the Chicago airport.
"The only thing that people need to know about Skiplagged is just making sure they understand how to approach it," Keyes said. "Never buy a round-trip, because once you skip a leg of your trip the rest of your itinerary cancels. You also can't check any bags since they'll arrive at the throwaway city and not your actual destination."
With that in mind, Skiplagged can find you some much cheaper airfare, especially if the city you're visiting is a major thoroughfare such as New York, Chicago, or London.
This hack can save people hundreds of dollars, but is highly frowned upon by the airline industry. The website is currently being sued by both United and Orbitz, and now links out to third-party websites where you can purchase the airfare.
"Skiplagged's sole purpose has always been to help you become savvy travelers,"Skiplagged founder and computer whiz Aktarer Zaman explained on the GoFundMe website he created to raise money to battle the lawsuit. "Unfortunately, we have been doing too good of a job so United Airlines and a big travel partner teamed up with a lawsuit to get in the way. Everything Skiplagged has done and continues to do is legal, but the only way to effectively prove this is with lawyers."
Airlines, for their part, compare the practice to switching prices on goods sold in a store. Here's a sample letter American Airlines will send to its fliers explaining why the ticket pricing is structured differently for certain cities:
"Because we compete with other airlines with different route structures, we sometimes find it necessary to give a traveler who is traveling beyond a connecting point a better price than travelers who are just traveling to the connecting point. For example, a passenger who is traveling to Austin, Texas from Los Angeles can go on one airline via Phoenix for a price that is lower than the cost of traveling on American between Los Angeles and Dallas. If we want to offer the same price to Austin as the other airline, but the only way we can get travelers there is via Dallas, we find ourselves charging the Austin passengers less than the Dallas passengers."
It's also worth noting that passengers who are caught by major airlines for abusing throwaway ticketing may receive a written warning from the airline, be denied boarding, have their ticket confiscated, or be fined for the difference between the price they paid and the lowest applicable fare.
If you're caught, don't lie about what you're doing — this could result in a fraud charge— but be honest and remember that though the airlines hate it (a lot), these tickets are not illegal.
Ultimately, throwaway ticketing can be a useful approach to finding a decent fare if you’re trying to save some money and are flying to a major thoroughfare such as Chicago, New York, London, Paris, or other major destinations with international airports.
For more of Scott Keyes’s travel tips and advice, check out his e-books “How To Fly For Free” and “How To Find Cheap Flights.”
SEE ALSO: This guy has gamed the airline industry so he never has to pay for a flight again
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The trust between employers and employees is broken, and it's causing companies to lose their most valuable people at dangerous rates, LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman says.
In the book "The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age," Hoffman and entrepreneurs Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh explain how employers can attract and retain the best employees through the formation of alliances.
The authors created a presentation outlining the book's main principles, which can help you create a productive culture in which everyone wins.
Bloomberg TV's star anchor Stephanie Ruhle and her husband, Andy Hubbard, are selling their beautiful Tribeca condo for $5.2 million.
Ruhle is the cohost of "Market Makers" and Hubbard is currently a portfolio manager at UBS O'Connor (multi-strategy hedge fund) where he runs their structured credit strategies.
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Water may seem like the least harmful substance, but drinking too much of it can kill.
So can too much of other things that most of us take for granted — from caffeine to the stuff you use to clean your bathroom.
To calculate how much of each of these items would be dangerous enough to kill, we've used a standard measure of toxicity known as LD50, the individual dose it would take to kill half the animals it was tested on.
This amount can vary pretty significantly depending on someone's health, gender, and medical history. The potentially deadly dosages in the slides that follow were calculated for the average 196-pound American male.
Coffee's great for making you feel more alert and boosting your attention span, and, at low doses, it's perfectly safe.
But at high concentrations, caffeine can cause insomnia, dizziness, vomiting, headaches, and heart problems, and too much in one sitting can be deadly.
The risk of overdoing it is highest for pure powdered caffeine. A single tablespoon of this stuff — the equivalent of about 120 cups of coffee — can kill. During the summer of 2014, two young men died in separate incidents after each drank mixtures of pure powdered caffeine and water.
Water regulates the shape of the cells inside our bodies — too much of it, and they puff up like balloons. Too little, and they shrink.
An excess of water in and around our cells is called water intoxication, or hyponatremia. Drinking too much water, something athletes can do accidentally while training, can cause it. A 2005 study of 2002 Boston Marathon runners, for example, found that about one-sixth of the runners they studied had a mild form of the condition, with symptoms ranging from nausea to vomiting.
But an extreme case of water intoxication takes its worst toll on the brain, where our tightly packed neurons have little room to accommodate the extra water. A variety of neurological problems can result, from headaches to confusion, seizures, and, in rare untreated cases, death.
A well-known case of water intoxication happened in 2007, when 28-year-old Californian Jennifer Strange downed six liters of water in less than three hours as part of a radio-station contest. She died a few hours later.
Just as you can overdo it with water, you can also overdo it with its antidote: salt.
The delicate balance of water and salt (or sodium) in and around our cells is what keeps them happy. When there's too little sodium (too much water), the cells swell up. When there's too much sodium (too little water), on the other hand, they shrink.
This condition is known as hypernatremia. Its milder symptoms include fatigue and weakness, but if the condition worsens it can lead to seizures, a coma and, in rare cases, death.
Over the past several days, the streets of Baltimore have erupted into chaos. Riots were sparked by anger over the recent death of Freddie Gray, who suffered a fatal spine injury while in police custody, but the seeds of that anger were sown long ago.
As Baltimore City Councilman Nick Mosby told Fox News on Tuesday, the protests are about the "social economics of poor, urban America."
Mosby described those protesting in the community as "showing decades old of anger, frustration for a system that's failed them."
AP photographer Patrick Semansky captured the poverty-stricken state of the Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods in a photo essay in 2013. It seems especially relevant today.
Source: Health Care For The Homeless
Welcome to Williamsburg.
The Brooklyn neighborhood has long been known as the epicenter of world cool and shows no signs of slowing down. Property values have been skyrocketing and new stores, both local and global, are opening every day.
This past weekend, we sent local photographer Maggie Shannon to capture some of the highlights.
As one of the biggest world foodie destinations, New York City certainly has no shortage of great restaurants to choose from.
To find NYC's top spots, we looked at our recent list of the best restaurants in America, which combined five noteworthy lists compiled by food critics, experts, and diners.
We singled out the restaurants based in New York City and listed them here. You can read our complete methodology here.
Chef: Shingoon Hong
Blue Hill
Chef: Marcus Glocker
Bâtard
Chef: Enrique Olvera
Cosme
There's just a week to go until the UK's general election, and the outcome has rarely been less clear so close to polling day.
The only thing that seems likely at this point is that no single party will get enough seats to govern. Until recently, Britain's electoral system had usually returned clear majority governments, but those days seem to be over.
With questions about the economy at the centre of each party's campaign, what are the major things you need to know about how the UK is performing?
Ad tech stocks may have taken a dive in the first quarter, but the industry is still big business. Spending on digital ads in the US alone is expected to reach $52.8 billion this year, according to Strategy Analytics.
And as money keeps flowing through the pipes, ad tech execs are being rewarded handsomely.
Methodology: Our ranking looked at SEC filings, taking account of total annual 2014 compensation, including salary, stock awards, option awards, and other incentives. That's an obvious flaw because a lot of people on this list hold a lot of their net worth in stock they have accumulated over previous years and through other assets and investments.
This list is by no means extensive: We chose to look at public companies only, so many big names like AppNexus, InMobi, and RadiumOne are not in there. We also only looked at pure-play ad tech companies: Otherwise ad tech execs at Google, Oracle, and Facebook would surely make the list too.
Compensation: $1,175,875
Notes: Joyce is the only woman on our list.
Compensation: $1,205,014
Notes: Tremor Video, the video ad tech company, IPOd in June 2013.
Compensation: $1,229,817
Notes: Kelly joined Millennial Media — which specializes in mobile advertising — in October last year. He was previously CEO of Sociomantic, the retargeting and programmatic company acquired by UK-based Tesco subsidiary Dunnhumby.
Former Amazon executive Christian Jagodzinski is selling his 10,000-square-foot Miami mansion for a whopping $39 million, the Real Deal reports.
Jagodzinski sold Telebook, a German online book retailer, to Amazon in 1998.
He spent a year growing Amazon's presence in Germany before founding Desdemona Capital, a real estate and private equity investment firm, and Villazzo, a luxury vacation rental company.
The home is enormous, with six bedrooms, a volleyball court, and its own private dock.
If you were handed three photos of a cheetah, an ostrich, and a porcupine, you could tell the difference. But what if you were only given the sounds these animals make?
One of them chirps. Another one squeaks. The third booms (that's the technical term). Do you know what sound belongs to which animal?
Booms and chirps aren't even the craziest sounds you'll hear in this compilation of shocking noises made by some of the world's most recognizable animals. Perhaps the most bizarre is a bird that sounds exactly like an old-school polaroid click camera.
A single animal can produce dozens of different sounds for different purposes. Here, we provide an example of one call from each.
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Read more about why cheetahs chirp and lions roar.
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Read more about how ostrich sounds in Ostrich Production Systems.
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Read more information about Teddy and porcupine behavior on National Geographic.
Architect Marvin Mitchell has bought Frank Sinatra's former penthouse at the Edgewater building on 530 E. 72nd Street for a cool $4.995 million.
Mitchell — who told The Wall Street Journal that he purchased the home for its spacious floorplan, not its history — takes ownership of the 3,200-square-foot, tri-level apartment just four years after the previous owner, Long Island car insurance executive Penny Hart, renovated it. Hart, who bought the home for a reported $2.5 million and never lived in it, first listed it at $7.7 million in 2012.
The Met Ball is the most anticipated single event of the year in fashion and since the dawn of Instagram, fashion fans have been able to follow along by refreshing their social media apps and watching selfies from the likes of Cara Delevingne, Kim Kardashian and Solange Knowles (pre-elevator fight) pour in.
But this year, social media and selfies alike have reportedly been banned from the event.
This will make following the event online as it progresses difficult, and will pretty much do away with any behind-the-scenes shots to which fans have become accustomed.
Some speculate that the ban is part of an effort to give "Vogue" more editorial control of the photos as they shoot a documentary about the event, according to Page Six, while one source told the "Post,""It has solely to do with guests' security and enjoyment of the event."
We can always reminisce about the selfie-heavy Met Galas of the past few years, though — and hope that Wintour changes her mind next year. She did end up lifting her rumored ban on Kim Kardashian a couple of years ago, after all.
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