Reason 3,937 we love emoji: they tell a story. Whether that's a story about what's wrong with your life or a story about how you danced your butt off last night, those little symbols capture so much significance.

But if you thought you were good at using emoji to tell your story, think again. Once you see these 17 examples of perfect emoji use, you'll realize your emoji game is pretty weak.

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An intense game of connect four

All dressed up and nowhere to go

Clever, these two

This week, hundreds of thousands of aerospace professionals, world leaders, civilian plane junkies and journalists will converge on Le Bourget airport, just east of Paris, for the 51st Paris Air Show.

Airbus and Boeing are out in force, trying to coax potential buyers into ordering models of their planes. Other players are on display as well, including Embraer and Bombardier.

This year marks a return for U.S. military aircraft, which did not make it to the last show in 2011, because of sequestration. 

The Paris Air Show, the oldest in the world, was first held in 1909 as an extension of the Paris Motor Show, and was quickly made into a standalone event soon after. 

The Patrouille de France display team opened the show on Monday, known as "inauguration day," for the 51st International Paris Air Show.

Thousands were on hand at Le Bourget airport. Here, they watched an Airbus A380 perform.

French President Francois Hollande was on hand to partake in the festivities.

Eighties singer Phil Collins just dropped $33 million on a Mediterranean-style mansion once owned by Jennifer Lopez. 

The previous owner, healthcare entrepreneur Mark Gainor, bought the home from Lopez in 2005 for $13.9 million. 

Gainor first listed the property in 2010 for $29 million. Two years later, after he'd given it an $11 million facelift, Gainor relisted the home for $40 million. 

Meredith Galante contributed to an earlier version of this post. 

Built in 1929, the house sits on over an acre of land with 200 feet of waterfront on Biscayne Bay.

Go outside and see the Miami skyline from your 60-foot long swimming pool, outdoor kitchen, or boat dock.

The master bedroom has an office, terrace, gym, and 1,000-square-foot closet.

There is such a thing as a free lunch, and you can find it at a lot of tech companies. 

Free food is no longer enough to attract new tech talent or retain the employees you already have. 

Tech companies are coming up with new job perks that go above and beyond your traditional health insurance and paid vacation days. 

Apple and Facebook: Egg freezing

Both Apple and Facebook offer women the opportunity to freeze their eggs and will pay to cover the costs up to $20,000. It's part of Apple's "fertility benefits" and Facebook's "surrogacy benefits" plans, which includes other benefits like access to fertility treatments, surrogate mothers and sperm banks.

Facebook: $4,000 in "Baby Cash"

If you have a newborn, Facebook will give you an extra $4,000 to in "baby cash" in addition to the four months off both moms and dads get at the company.

Deloitte and Salesforce: Caretakers for aging parents

Benefits don't have to be limited to newborns, either.

Deloitte and Salesforce are examples of two companies that extend back-up care options to elderly or aging parents since qualified caretakers can sometimes be harder to find than a last-minute babysitter.

Did you know that Uber delivers food?

The popular — and controversial— car hailing app has been branching out beyond cars with features like UberRush, a bike courier service.

You can also use Uber to get freshly prepared meals from local restaurants in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Toronto.

I just moved to New York City and decided to give it a try.

Uber's food delivery service, which is called UberEats, doesn't have its own app. If you're in a city where it operates, UberEats shows up as an option next to all of Uber's other methods of transportation.

In New York, UberEats is only available from 11 am to 2pm on weekdays, and only for delivery between 14th Street and 59th Street in Manhattan. There's a new menu every week that gives a couple of options for each day.

Once you slide over to UberEats, you see little fork and knife icons, rather than the cars that are around you when you use Uber to get a ride somewhere.

The button to request a car also changes to let you view the day's menu. The Business Insider office is in New York City's Flatiron district, and there were a few people available to make deliveries at peak lunch time.

The menu for the day is small but tasty looking: a brisket burrito from Tres Carnes, a bagel from Baz Bagel, and some kind of fancy chocolate bar.

Let's do the brisket burrito.

Yikes! That $4 delivery fee is pretty steep.

My food will be here in three minutes. Not bad. I'm ready for you, Jeffrey.

I run out of our office and onto 5th Avenue, searching for my food.

Uber gets my location a little bit off, so I have to walk a block up to the pin. Who will get there first?

I somehow miss where the Uber app said that this was a delivery on foot rather than in a car, so I keep looking for a car. So it takes a few extra minutes for me to find Jeffrey. But at least he texts to tell me where he is.

He has an insulated cart to keep all of the food hot.

We don't talk much, but he's pleasant and helpful. Like using an Uber car, it's nice not worrying about cash or a credit card.

Score!

It's time to survey the goods. I get sour cream, spicy salsa and utensils.

Now it's time to dig in. The burrito is good. I like the brisket and veggies, but it's a tad dry and could use some kind of sauce. I still eat it within five minutes.

After trying UberEats, I was impressed with the convenience of ordering food from my phone and having it delivered right away. But with a $4 delivery fee, the burrito itself wasn't worth paying $15. It was good, but not that good.

I'm not sure if UberEats will do well. It's technically been around since last fall, but it just launched in New York at the end of April, and it's really expensive.

A spokeswoman for UberEats recently told The Wall Street Journal that the reaction “has been overwhelmingly positive,” and the service "could expand to as many as 15 cities in coming months."

But with Seamless, Instacart, GrubHub, and plenty of others doing on-demand food delivery, Uber is going to have to do better than this to stand out.

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Last week, Apple took the wraps off iOS 9 — the next major software update for the iPhone and iPad.

Big changes include an improved version of Siri, an iPad split-screen mode, and new Maps features.

But there are tons of tidbits Apple didn't mention. Now that developers with early access to the trial version have played with it, here are some other key features. 

(These are based on the iOS 9 beta and could change before the final version is released). 

The keyboard's new shift key makes it easier to tell if caps lock is on.

Some iPhone users have complained that the iOS keyboard's current shift key makes it difficult to tell if you're typing in caps or lowercase since it blends in with the keyboard. But in iOS 9, when you tap the shift key the keyboard will appear in all capital letters. When you tap it again to return to lowercase, all of the letters will change to lowercase as well. In iOS 8, the keys remain in caps lock on the keyboard even when you're typing in lowercase, which can be confusing. 

You'll be able to download apps faster and with less data.

One of the biggest things developers seem to be excited about is the idea that app bundles are getting a lot smaller, which is known as app thinning. This means that you'll be able to download apps quickly while using less data to do so. Instead of downloading a really big app all at once, iOS 9 will download a condensed version quickly at first and then continue to install the rest of the app in the background. This will be especially important in emerging markets where internet connections are sluggish. 

In iOS 9, you can search for certain settings in the settings menu.

Apple is making a lot of improvements that make iOS even easier to use, and one way it's doing that is by making settings searchable. There's now a search bar in the settings menu that lets you easily find and access anything. 

Volcanic eruptions have sculpted the landscape, buried cities and reshaped the course of history.

When volcanoes blow their tops, they can do so without warning — and with devastating consequences.

In 1996, a leading international volcanology group identified more than a dozen volcanoes that are particularly deserving of study because they have a history of large, destructive eruptions, are close to populated areas, and could erupt again in the near future.

Many of these volcanoes remain active today, and could wreak havoc on communities that live in their shadow.

Mauna Loa, an active volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, is widely considered the largest land volcano on Earth. It has a volume of 18,000 cubic miles! Because of its shape, Mauna Loa is known as a shield volcano. The last time it erupted was 1984, when lava poured out of vents on its northeast rift zone on Pu‘u‘ula‘ula (Red Hill), shown below. No recent eruptions have killed anyone, but they have destroyed villages.

Taal Volcano, located on the island of Luzon, is the second most active volcano in the Philippines. It has erupted violently several times in the past, including a 1911 eruption that killed more than 1,300 people and destroyed homes and livestock. It last erupted in 1977.

Tenerife is the largest island in the Canary Island archipelago, crowned by Pico de Teide volcano. At 12,198 feet above sea level, the peak, shown in this satellite image taken in August 1991, represents the highest elevation in the Atlantic Ocean. Teide has erupted several times since the island was settled in 1402, most recently in 1909.

Lonely Planet just released its Best in Europe list for 2015.

The list includes the best places in Europe, the best beaches in Europe, and the best places for family holidays in Europe.

These lists were created by a team of European travel experts and aim to highlight European destinations that are lesser known but up and coming versus obvious, already popular destinations.

The 10 beaches that made Lonely Planet's list span the continent, from Montenegro to Iceland. 

10. Curonian Spit, Kaliningrad, Lithuania

9. Voutoumi Beach, Paxos, Greece

8. Sandwood Bay, Sutherland, Scotland

In most museums, the look-don't-touch rule is inflexible - they're none too keen on throwing punches at a Monet.

But for those who just can't resist getting into the action, there are some pieces a tad more accessible.

From clouds of light to lasers, slides to giant bubbles, these installations make a day at the museum the most fun - and in some cases, exhausting - thing you can do. 

A crowd enjoys the light installation "CLOUD" in Marina Bay, Singapore. Canadian artists Wayne Garrett and Caitlind Brown used 6,000 light bulbs for the piece.

The "Mirror Box" creates a never-ending myriad of reflections for the Museum Center in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Many pieces here are interactive, brought in by a young group of art-minded engineers and scientists.

It's pretty tempting to read within Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo's "aMAZEme", a labyrinthine maze constructed of some 250,000 used and new books.

This unfinished East Hampton compound packs 11 parcels for the price of one.

Minutes away from East Hampton Village, the 18,000-square-foot, English manor-style home sits on approximately 23 acres of land.

Call it a family mansion or an equestrian estate, either way the listing price is $55 million. 

Dana Trotter of Sotheby’s International Realty holds the listing.

The main house has 12 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, and four partial baths — try not to get lost.

The ground floor alone has a spa, sauna, steam room, massage room, gym, and home theater.

This outdoor fireplace is one of nine scattered throughout the main house and guest houses.

Victoria's Secret's Pink brand is the company's line aimed primarily at a younger, collegiate audience.

The hot brand recently announced its newest face, Rachel Hilbert, a 20-year-old former competitive skier hailing from Rochester, NY.

We talked to Hilbert and learned more about her background. 

Hilbert's modeling career kicked off when she was young. "Everyone in my hometown used to tell me I should try modeling. So when I was 15 I came down to NYC with my mom to open calls, and it happened from there," she said.

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Hilbert modeled for Victoria's Secret Pink in the past but is thrilled with her new position. "What I like most working with Victoria's Secret Pink is I really get to be myself during the shoots, and I absolutely love everything I wear."

She's no stranger to the modeling scene, having already booked campaigns with Urban Outfitters, Express, Delia’s, and Konis.

Source: IMG Models

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Qatar Airways was just named the Best Airline in the World by Skytrax.

Back in 2013, at the Paris Air Show, Qatar Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner created a lot of buzz.

The Dreamliner had endured a tough launch, but by 2013, it was getting its footing and Boeing was racking up the orders.

Business Insider took a tour of the brand-new Qatar jet at the time.

We were impressed.

[An earlier version of this post was written by Alex Davies.]

Qatar Airways took delivery of its Dreamliner just a few days before the 2013 Paris Air Show kicked off.

The entrance of the Qatar 787 leads to business class (there's no first class on this plane).

There's room under the seat for passengers to stretch and prop up their legs.

Qatar Airways has been named the Best Airline in the World for 2015 by leading aviation consumer website Skytrax.

The Gulf-based carrier was presented with the honor at an award ceremony on Tuesday at the 2015 Paris Air Show.

"I am honored to lead a company that has paved such an accomplished path to excellence, and innovation, demonstrating the team's unwavering pride in their work and the experience provided to each of our passengers," Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar Al Baker said in a statement.

"Becoming an award-winning airline takes dedication and passion— and retaining such a ranking takes commitment, which I thank each and every team member at Qatar Airways for."

The Skytrax rankings are based on the impression of 18.9 million travelers from 105 different countries. The survey, which covered more than 245 airlines, measured 41 different parameters ranging from boarding procedures to seat comfort to the quality of service. 

Here are the 20 best airlines in the world according to the result of the Skytrax survey. 

20. British Airways

Previous rank: 17

Why it's awesome: Although British Airways didn't take home any superlatives at the award show, the airline cracked the top 20 list by putting in a solid performance. Skytrax reviewers gave BA consistent middle of the road ratings across the board for value, inflight entertainment, staff service, and seat comfort.

See additional airline information at Skytrax

19. Thai Airways

Previous rank: 14

Why it's awesome: Thai Airways has long been an industry leader for quality service. So it's no surprise to find the Thai national carrier so high up on the list. Though its most heralded products are its business and first-class services, fliers found their economy seats to be of high quality, as well.

Economy fliers on Skytrax also noted the crew's friendly demeanor and delectable dining options. However, some customers found the lack of seat-back-mounted personal entertainment displays on some of the fleet's older Airbus and Boeing jets to be disappointing.

See additional airline information at Skytrax

18. Dragonair

Previous rank: 28

Why it's awesome: Dragonair is Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific's regional subsidiary and is the only regional airline to crack the top 20. In fact, Skytrax named Dragonair the World's Best Regional Airline — an honor the airline also held in 2010 and 2011. 

See additional airline information at Skytrax

It's becoming more and more expensive to live in Silicon Valley, and recent studies by real estate brokerage Redfin show that more and more people are looking to move away from the area. 

When you compare the modest homes that you can buy in Silicon Valley with the mansions you could buy elsewhere, it's easy to see why. 

Our friends at Redfin helped us to find homes that will cost you $1 million or $2 million in different cities across the US.

You might be surprised to see how much the same amount of money can get you in different real estate markets.

In Silicon Valley, $1 million gets you a modest home that was built in the '70s.

Price: $999,999

Square feet: 2,474

Address: 5122 Kozo Place, San Jose

But in Seattle, $1 million can get you a sleek, modern home with views of Lake Washington.

Price: $1.05 million

Square feet: 1,620

Address:2518 Everrett Ave E, Seattle

In Boston, the same amount of money buys you a Tudor home with four bedrooms and 2,596 square feet of space.

Price: $999,900

Square feet: 2,596

Address: 284 Pond Street, Boston 

Creativity and art are usually thought of as the domains of humans.

But computer scientists from Rutgers University have designed an algorithm that shows that computers may be just as skilled at critiquing artwork. By judging paintings based on their novelty and influence, the mathematical algorithm selected the most creative paintings and sculptures of each era.

The study, published in arxiv, found that more often than not, the computer chose what most art historians would also agree are groundbreaking works, like Edvard Munch's "The Scream" and Pablo Picasso's "The Young Ladies of Avignon."

Scroll down to see which paintings made the cut, and why.

The algorithm's network included over 62,000 paintings spanning 550 years and some of the most well-known names in art history, from the Renassaince era to the age of pop art. This painting by Lorenzo di Credi is often called the Dreyfus Madonna, after Gustav Dreyfus, one of its longtime owners.

The paintings were arranged on a timeline according to the date it was made, so each painting could be critiqued with a historical point of view. The algorithm looked for paintings that differed from the work that came before to measure its novelty. This fresco mural by Andrea Mantegna decorates one of the walls in a castle in Mantua, Italy.

The computer algorithm also weighed how influential each painting was by looking at paintings that imitated its style. Leonardo da Vinci painted this portrait of St. John the Baptist late in his career, leading an artistic era called Mannerism, which is characterized by exaggerated poses.

While Qatar has been making a name for itself with its epic Boeing 787 Dreamliner and its incredible first class amenities, it offers an awesome in-flight experience from the front of the plane all the way to the back.

In business and first class, passengers get fresh flowers, chandeliers, sumptuous leather seats, top-shelf liquor and canapés.

The first class lounge has leather benches that are a welcome break on long flights.

There's also plenty of room to stretch out.

"The sky above us is an essential part of our nature," Babak Tafreshi said in a statement announcing the winners of this year's International Earth and Sky Photo Contest.

Tafreshi established the program The World at Night (TWAN), which co-founded this annual photo contest in 2008. The goal of the contest is to raise awareness about light pollution, which drowns our view of planets, stars, and galaxies in the night sky — a sight that is growing more rare each year as cities swell bigger and brighter.

"Perhaps from this perspective we can better preserve the natural night sky and reconnect it with our modern life," Tafreshi said about the contest.

Here are the 10 award-winning photos for this year, selected from an initial pool of over 1,000. You can learn more about the contest on the TWAN website.

The bright band of the Milky Way Galaxy is a beautiful backdrop to this photo of Mt. Rainier in Washington state.

Mount Bromo is the smoking, distant volcano in this photo composition taken in East Java, Indonesia with star trails — the arcs of light in the sky — in the background.

City lights illuminate the clouds in this photo of Russia's northern Caucasus Mountains. Peak Terskol Observatory sits at the center against a starry night sky.

To little surprise for most of Wall Street, the Federal Open Market Committee decided on Wednesday to keep rates near zero.

The FOMC has four more meetings scheduled for this year — July, September, October, and December — but only the September and December meetings will have press conferences.

Many on Wall Street believe that this automatically rules out July and October for any action.

With notes pouring in from all of the top Wall Street analysts, the majority seem to still be confident in an initial 0.25% hike in September, followed by another 0.25% in December. But not everyone feels this way.

For a big overview, here's when Wall Street's leading economists think the Fed will raise rates and what they're saying about potential Fed action:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Ethan S. Harris: September

"The FOMC leaned in the dovish direction at its latest meeting, with a slightly more bullish statement more than offset by downward revisions to forecast. We reaffirm our long-standing call for a September liftoff, with a higher risk of later rather than sooner… Going into the meeting some analysts argued that if the Fed planned to hike in September they would want to signal that at this meeting. We strongly disagree. Clearly the Fed wants to maintain its optionality as long as it is not misleading the market."

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Chris Rupkey: September

"The Fed says the economy is still on track for them to raise rates in 2015. The devil is in the details though as we need to know what meeting. The consensus for September liftoff has come undone. There are an increasing number, seven out of seventeen, who say December or later now. For our money, we still think a rate hike by September. It all depends on the data, the data being unemployment. We think unemployment will be at 5.2% by the time the Fed meets in September and are taking Fed Chair Yellen at her word that policy could speed up or slow down depending on the economy."

Barclays, Michael Gapen: September

"Chair Yellen’s lack of confidence in the outlook stands in stark contrast to the contents of the FOMC statement and projections, the latter of which were largely in line with our expectation and support at least one rate hike this year. We maintain our outlook for a September rate increase, given our confidence in the strength of the incoming data and our outlook for acceleration in private consumption, but the Chair’s less-than-inspiring performance suggests the bar for rate hikes is higher than it was and could, yet again, result in a further shift of the goal posts."

There's no doubt that having a degree can open certain doors for you in life, but that's not to say that without one you can't break into the 1%.

Though many of today's most successful business people are alumni of Ivy League or Russell Group institutions, there are a surprising number of billionaires who never even graduated university - about 35%, in fact. 

(Net worth figures according to Forbes)

11) Sir Alan Sugar - Net worth: £1 billion ($1.54 billion)

Age: 68

How he made his money: Consumer electronics and founder of Amstrad

What he did instead of university: Sugar grew up on a council estate in London and dropped out of education when he was just 14. He then went on to work for the Ministry of Education as a statistician for a brief period before selling electronics and car aerials from the back of a van he bought for £50. He has been very vocal about his opinion of higher education, branding university "a waste of time."

10) John Caudwell - Net worth: £1.7 billion ($2.7 billion)

Age: 62

How he made his money: Telecoms and founder of Phones 4 U.

What he did instead of university: Caudwell was 15 when he left education, and he spent his younger years as a second-hand car dealer. It wasn't until 1987, aged 35, shortly after the first mobile phones became commercially available, that he and his brother ventured into the telecoms market and founded the business that would eventually build them their fortune.

9) Ingvar Kampgrad - Net worth: £2.2 billion ($3.4 billion)

Age: 89

How he made his money: Founder of IKEA.

What he did instead of university: Kampgrad showed entrepreneurial spirit from a young age, selling match sticks to his neighbours as a child from his bike. At 17, his dad gave him a small cash reward for his school studies which he used to create IKEA. He chose business over education and five years later, he added furniture to IKEA's product portfolio. He opened the first IKEA in 1958, aged 32.