What's in a name? Potentially your future.

A host of research shows just how much your name can affect your lifetime success, from your hireability to your spending habits.

We took a look at the research and have highlighted some of the surprising findings below.

Maggie Zhang contributed to an earlier version of this article.

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If your name is easy to pronounce, people will favor you more.

In a New York University study, researchers found that people with easier-to-pronounce names often have higher-status positions at work. One of the psychologists, Adam Alter, explains to Wired, "When we can process a piece of information more easily, when it's easier to comprehend, we come to like it more." In a further study, Alter also found that companies with simpler names and ticker symbols tended to perform better in the stock market. 

If your name is common, you are more likely to be hired.

In a Marquette University study, the researchers found evidence to suggest that names that were viewed as the least unique were more likable. People with common names were more likely to be hired, and those with rare names were least likely to be hired. That means that the Jameses, Marys, Johns, and Patricias of the world are in luck.

Uncommon names are associated with juvenile delinquency.

A 2009 study at Shippensburg University suggested that there's a strong relationship between the popularity of one's first name and juvenile criminal behavior. Researchers found that, regardless of race, young people with unpopular names were more likely to engage in criminal activity. The findings obviously don't show that the unusual names caused the behavior, but merely show a link between the two things. And the researchers have some theories about their findings. "Adolescents with unpopular names may be more prone to crime because they are treated differently by their peers, making it more difficult for them to form relationships," they write in a statement from the journal's publisher. "Juveniles with unpopular names may also act out because they ... dislike their names."

McDonald's was once the undisputed king of fast food.

But with sales falling, franchisees reporting gloomy outlooks, and popular fast-casual chains like Shake Shack and Chipotle chipping away at its fast-food throne, McDonald's has seen better days.

A recently renovated McDonald's in New York City may be the first concrete glimpse of the company's extensive turnaround plan.

The midtown location, which opened this week, features the city's first "Create Your Taste" kiosks. The company boasts that you can craft the "burger of your dreams."

Having grown up eating at McDonald's, I was curious to see how the chain was approaching the changing market. And from what I found, the brand has a bright future.

Upon opening the door, you're immediately confronted by McDonald's younger, hipper approach to the "Create Your Taste" experience: The walls are covered in enthusiastically trendy and bright New York-themed illustrations. This is part of McDonald's broader attempt to appeal to local markets.

There's no sitting space on the first of three levels — the tall touch screen kiosks now line the way to the order and pickup counter. The counter itself hasn't changed, with the menu above and cashiers ready to help below, but there's a whole new option now.

An attentive staff member helped me through the system at first. It was a little weird getting used to, but I warmed up to it.

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Russia is under US and EU sanctions over its aggressive policies in Ukraine, and budget pressures have forced the Kremlin to radically scale back its production of high-end weaponry.

But from August 1 to 15, Russia will still get to showcase its military might. 

The International Army Games, which are taking place outside of Moscow, are Russia's way of strengthening military cooperation with 16 countries during a time of increased international isolation for Moscow, while also showcasing the country's sizable arms industry.

Given the frosty relations between Russia and the West following the Ukraine crisis, the list of the countries participating in the games are not entirely surprising, as they're mostly Russian neighbors, traditional allies, or states with notably independent-minded foreign policies. 

The countries invited to the International Army Games include: Azerbaijan, Angola, Armenia, Belarus, China, Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Serbia, Tajikistan, and Venezuela. 

Here are some of the most impressive images from the military games.

One of the main events of the International Army Games is the Tank Biathlon.

The biathlon took place across varied terrain in order to simulate a number of battle scenarios.

Here, an Indian tank emerges from the water during the biathlon.

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The messaging app Slack is quickly becoming the main tool many companies use to communicate, and it's easy to see why.

You can chat with other employees individually, create channels for multiple people (think chat rooms), and continue the conversation from just about any device. Everything is archived and searchable, so it's easy to find old conversations. 

Slack also integrates with dozens of other services, including Google Calendar, the GIF database Giphy, and todo apps like Wunderlist.

With 1.1 million daily active users and 300,000 paid subscribers, it's clear that Slack is doing something right.

Whether you're new to Slack or have been using it since it launched nearly two years ago, here are some killer tips and tricks to help you get the most out of the service.

Know some keyboard shortcuts

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• Up arrow→ edit the last message you sent (within five minutes of sending it)
• Command + K→ -switch between channels/DMs without using a mouse
• /msg @user→ DM someone without clicking over to them (works from any channel)
• option + click on timestamp→ mark messages as unread from that time on
• +:emoji_name: → react to the most recent message in a channel with an emoji
• /shrug→ inserts this: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hack search to find exactly what you want

Get more out of search by entering these commands in Slack's search box:

• has:link → all results that contain a URL
• before/after/on/during: yesterday/today/week/month/year → specific times
• from:person → all results from a specific person in a channel

These can all be combined in a single search as well. So it might look something this: from:@name before: yesterday

Fine tune your notifications so you're alerted when people mention specific keywords

Slack can alert you whenever someone @ mentions your name or any keywords you might find interesting, like "Apple" or "free burritos in the kitchen."

To customize your notifications, go to Preferences→ Notifications.

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Back in 2013, "True Detective" star Vince Vaughn purchased this home in LA's La Cañada Flintridge area for $3.9 million. Two years later, he's selling it for $5.3 million. 

The five-bedroom, colonial-style mansion isn't exactly what you'd picture the "Swingers" actor living in, but since his 2006 split with Jennifer Aniston, the 45-year-old has settled into family life with wife Kyla Weber, a realtor from Canada. The couple bought the home — with a spacious kitchen and huge backyard — just before welcoming baby number two.

Elsewhere in Vaughn's real estate portfolio is a family-friendly "McMansion" in Manhattan Beach (bought from fired USC coach Lane Kiffin last year) and his former Chicago bachelor pad (famous for being the headquarters of Playboy in the '60s and '80s), which he's been trying to sell for a while. 

Christine Navarro of Partners Trust holds the listing for the Southern California estate. Keep scrolling for an inside-out tour.  

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Welcome to the Vaughn family's 5,563-square-foot mansion.

With two young children, Vaughn and his wife still made the brave decision of choosing an all-white color palette.

The formal dining room is the perfect size for family dinners and intimate gatherings.

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Salesforce is now a $50 billion cloud-computing juggernaut, but early on it was a software upstart mostly selling to small and medium-sized businesses.

It wasn’t until a guy named David Rudnitsky was hired as a sales executive in 2002 that it really saw its enterprise sales grow.

In fact, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was so impressed by Rudnitsky’s sales tactics that he dedicated a whole section about it in his own book, “Behind the Cloud.”

Rudnitsky's now moved to a company called Insidesales.com, but his legacy lives on through what Benioff calls "The Rudnitsky Playbook."

Here’s a paraphrased version of it.

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In 2002, Salesforce grew big enough to go after big companies. In order to grow its enterprise-sales team, Salesforce first hired a guy named Jim Steele from Ariba as its worldwide-sales leader.

While recruiting Steele, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff separately reached out to David Rudnitsky, one of Steele’s star players at Ariba, without telling Steele about it.

Benioff writes in his book, “After some convincing on my part, both signed on.” But Steele told us in a previous interview that he and Rudnitsky actually knew Benioff was reaching out to both of them separately. He says they secretly agreed to highly recommend each other to Benioff in order to get the job.

Instagram may be known for its dreamy filters, but it turns out the cool kids may not even be using them anymore. 

While some of the app’s 300 million users still rely on Rise and Valencia to take their selfies, others have graduated to more refined photo editing apps that make their pictures look professional thanks to retouching tools, selective editing functions, and amazing lens effects.

Plus if you’re filter-obsessed, the new apps have those, too — and they're way cooler than the same old ones you'd find on Instagram.

And just because you're filtering your pictures in another app doesn't mean you need to miss out on Instagram's thriving community. Once you're done editing, simply download your finished masterpiece to your photo library and upload it to the photo-sharing app of your choice and watch the "likes" pour in.

Keep reading to see the six best photo-editing apps that will make your pictures look amazing before you even upload to Instagram.

Faded is for the Instagram addict who wants more editing options.

Price: $0.99

Available in iOS

Faded has 10 preset filter categories with names like Clean, Film, and Portraits that then house four to eight different filters. After you choose which version best suits your image, you can then intensify or fade the effect for your best selfie.

If you want to get a little more creative than just your average filter, Faded lets you overlap other pictures or colors, and add cool lens touches like dust and scratches, different frames, or my personal favorite feature: Leaks.

Leaks has 20 different sunbeam effects to make it look as though a beam of flattering light has “accidentally” fallen across your frame — perfect for those outdoors-y shots.

And if there are a bunch of pictures you want to edit in the same way, Faded has a batch edit option. Edit one image until it’s perfect, then go into your library, select every picture you also want to have that similar effect, and hit apply.

VSCO Cam is for anyone looking for the "next" Instagram.

Price: Free

Available in iOS and Google Play

VSCO Cam comes with a standard set of 10 filters — which you can fade if the effect is too intense — plus other sets of filters that you can buy like an “Alchemy Collection” which says it’s best for lifestyle photography or the “Minimalist Collection” that claims to make still lives or architecture look amazing.

The editing features include the standard crop, saturate, contrast, and sharpen options as well as unfamiliar tools like “Skin Tone” that increases or decreases your skin’s saturation or “Shadows Tint” and “Highlights Ting” that adds a colorful haze to your picture.

And once your picture looks the way you want, it goes into your “Library” with all of your other edited pictures. This feature is super helpful for anyone obsessed with curating their Instagram feed so they’ll know how it complements their existing pictures before posting.

Plus, you can browse other people's shots on VSCO Cam too, which is why some have wondered if it will one day eclipse Instagram altogether.

Snapseed will make your brunch shots look amazing.

Price: Free

Available in iOS and Google Play

Snapseed is another app with its own set of filters. There are 12 in all, including Vintage, Noir, Lens Blur, and one called Glamour Glow. After you choose your filter, there are then 5-14 different versions of the filter that vary in contrast, exposure, and color.

And if you want to get really specific, there’s a tool option that lets you “brush” the filter onto specific parts of the image with your finger.

The app also has some cool features like being able to selectively brighten certain parts of your picture. Say you snap a picture of your gorgeous brunch, but half the table is in shadow. Using the “Selective” option, you can brighten that area of the table only without making the entire picture look too exposed.

My only criticism of Snapseed is that it’s hard to get the hang of at first. You need to tap and hold the picture to get more drop down options and hold and swipe to either side to increase or decrease your effect. But once you get used to it, Snapseed is fantastic.

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Millions of people have already signed up to purchase the OnePlus 2, the sequel to last year's most exciting Android phone, which you can only purchase if you receive an invite from the company.

The Chinese startup OnePlus unveiled the new phone in July, and sold out 30,000 units of the OnePlus 2 to Chinese customers in just 64 seconds. (The first round of invitation-related sales will begin on August 11.)

Last year's OnePlus One was special because it offered a big, powerful, premium phone that cost less than half the price of an unlocked iPhone. It was also loved by critics. And since quantities were limited from the start, demand skyrocketed as a result.

OnePlus hopes to keep its positive momentum going with this year's model. Here we break down all the features of the OnePlus 2 to give you an idea of why people are so excited about this phone.

For starters, the OnePlus 2 features a 5.5-inch display with 401 pixels per inch (ppi) to ensure a crisp, colorful display. It sounds identical to the 5.5-inch display with 401 ppi in the iPhone 6 Plus.

The OnePlus 2 also has a premium feel. Its body is made from an aluminum-magnesium alloy that was crafted to optimize antenna reception, temperature regulation, and performance. The screen is made of Gorilla Glass, the same scratch-resistant material Apple uses in its mobile devices.

If you need a fast, powerful Android phone, look no further. The OnePlus 2 is built with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 processor and an Adreno 430 GPU for high-performance computing and quality graphics. It also has 4 GB of RAM for quick multitasking (the iPhone 6 Plus has 1GB of RAM).

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What is Magic Leap?

Other than "the company that Google co-funded to the tune of $500 million," no one really knows. Well, okay, at least one person outside of Magic Leap knows – the MIT Technology Review's Rachel Metz is the only journalist who's been allowed to try out the Florida-based company's mysterious headset. There have been no press tours, no "development kits," no big Kickstarter campaigns. The company's CEO Rony Abovitz describes Magic Leap as a "techno-biology" company.

For a company that's raised hundreds of millions of dollars from high profile investors, that has one of Google's most important employees sitting on its board (Sundar Pinchai, the man in charge of all Google consumer products), Magic Leap has been amazingly quiet. Here's the long and short: Magic Leap is a technology company creating some form of "augmented reality" headset. The headset uses what are essentially tiny projectors to mix artificially-created light with the world in front of you – it "augments" the reality you see with your eyes.

Magic Leap believes this technology will change computing. Magic Leap believes its headset will kill of screens in general, from your home TV to your mobile phone (and everything in between). That remains to be seen.

On July 23, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published the most thorough patent application that Magic Leap has produced, complete with ridiculous drawings of what Magic Leap's headset is potentially capable of doing. As a reminder, patent applications are not indicative of final products necessarily. That being said, let's dive into the 185-page application to see what Magic Leap is up to.

The Google Glass look.

The first drawing in the patent application is what you see here: some sort of glasses-mounted device with a wire hanging from it, enabling the user to see a computer-generated image in their left eye. Is this what Magic Leap is making? Almost certainly not, but it does offer a glimpse into the kind of experience the company wants to offer. 

Watch out for that giant robot!

The second drawing is all about representing how Magic Leap's headset will work. The person wearing the headset sees the giant robot and the floating bee character, but no one else does. The headset is "augmenting" the wearer's reality by adding a massive robot statue and a bizarrely human bee.

An example of what Magic Leap doesn't want to make.

In the third drawing, a headset is shown with two displays intended to trick the eyes. This is essentially how virtual reality headsets work. Magic Leap president Rony Abovitz has repeatedly stated his disinterest in this type of solution. That's evident in the drawing's description from the patent: "Such configurations have been found to be uncomfortable for many users due to a mismatch between vergence [how eyes turn] and accommodation which must be overcome to perceive the images in three dimensions."

All that to say this is most certainly not Magic Leap's solution.

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Earlier this week, Netflix announced its new moms and dads can take off as much time as they want during the first year after their child's birth or adoption.

By announcing this policy, Netflix has joined the ranks of several major companies that have already instituted radical parental leave policies at odds with the US's lack of mandatory paid parental leave policies.

While US policymakers have been slow to acknowledge the benefits of guaranteeing paid time spent with a new child, companies like Netflix say they want their employees to be able to balance the needs of their growing families without worrying about work or finances.

"Experience shows people perform better at work when they're not worrying about home," Tawni Cranz, Netflix's chief talent officer, wrote on Netflix's blog. "This new policy, combined with our unlimited time off, allows employees to be supported during the changes in their lives and return to work more focused and dedicated." 

Here are some companies that are making life for new parents that much better with generous parental leave policies:

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Netflix

New parents at Netflix take as much paid parental leave as needed for up to one year after the birth or adoption of a new child, and they can choose to return full-time, part-time, and take additional time off as needed.

Twitter

Birth moms at Twitter can receive up to 20 weeks of full pay, while other new parents receive up to 10 weeks for "bonding time."

Microsoft

Come November 1, 2015, when Microsoft's new benefits policy goes into effect, parents can get 12 weeks of fully-paid leave, birth moms get an additional eight weeks of fully-paid leave, and if the birth mother chooses, she has the option of going on short-term disability for the two weeks before her due date. And as an added bonus, Microsoft employees can choose to take 12-week parental leave either all at once or in spurts. 

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Apple won a significant legal victory yesterday in a lawsuit brought against the company by former iPhone users who claim they can no longer receive texts from other iPhone users.

A federal judge declined to grant the suit "class action" status, meaning that all former iPhone customers who switched to Android won't be automatically regarded as plaintiffs in the suit. The lawsuit will proceed with only the individual named plaintiffs. That will likely severely curtail the price of any potential damages that Apple might have to pay. 

• Download a copy of the ruling here (PDF).

The plaintiff, Adrienne Moore, is a former Apple customer who says that Apple's iMessage system prevented text messages sent from iPhones from being delivered to her new Android phone.

The specific flaw in iMessage was that once a phone number was registered as an iPhone number via Apple's iCloud system, then messages were not delivered if the phone was not attached to iCloud. Android phones, of course, can't connect to iCloud.

It is possible to transfer a phone number from an iPhone to an Android, but as many customers found to their cost, you could only do that successfully by following this multi-step, 45-day-long procedure.

Apple denies the claims.

The judge ruled that the class action claim was "overbroad" because not all class members were affected in the same way. They had different contracts with their wireless providers for instance, and there may be different technical reasons why texts don't get delivered.

However, the plaintiff will take some comfort from the fact that the judge also wrote that she had established first-glance evidence that Apple may have caused her damages:

However, the Court finds that Plaintiff has put forth evidence of injury-in-fact. More specifically, Plaintiff has submitted exhibits and responses to interrogatories indicating that current Apple device users using iMessage sent Plaintiff text messages that Plaintiff did not receive on her non-Apple device.

... As to causation, the Court finds that Plaintiff has sufficiently put forth evidentiary support that her undelivered text messages are fairly traceable to Defendant’s alleged wrongful conduct.

The suit is ongoing.

Separately, Google and AT&T both recently filed motions in a related US federal lawsuit that alleges Apple wire-tapped users who ditched their iPhones for Android phones. In that case, former iPhone user Adam Backhaut, like Moore, says Apple's iMessage system prevented text messages sent from iPhones from being delivered to Android phones if the phone number had previously been used for an iPhone. 

Backhaut claims that iPhone texts are "illegally intercepted and interned by Apple" when sent to Android users. The "intercepted" messages are held indefinitely, the suit claims, and that allegedly counts as "unauthorized access" to a computer system and a violation of both the Stored Communications Act and the Federal Wire Tap Act.

The entry of the two companies into the lawsuit will be interesting because it raises the possibility that both of them will get a look at some of Apple's internal communications and documents regarding a three-year-long technical fiasco in which iPhones could not reliably send text messages to Android phones. Apple finally fixed the problem earlier this year.

Apple has argued that the lawsuits should be thrown out. Apple can’t wire tap its own facilities, the company's lawyers have argued. Users authorise and consent to Apple accessing their iMessages, and because Apple acted in good faith and without the necessary intent to literally spy on texts to Android customers, there is no case, the company has said in court.

Google and AT&T have both filed motions requesting that material they disclose in the lawsuit's "discovery" phase will be kept confidential, under seal. So we won't know exactly what they're telling Apple or the plaintiffs, or what Google and AT&T will learn from Apple, if anything.

Google, naturally, will be curious to know what Apple's employees knew about the way iMessage hobbled text-delivery to Android, and how fast Apple moved to fix it. 

AT&T's appearance in the case is also interesting because former AT&T and Apple employees have told Business Insider in emails that they lost sales on Android phones because of the issue. Customers would return new Androids to the store when they discovered they weren't receiving texts, and swap them for iPhones.

Apple has requested — and been granted — permission to conduct much of the litigation in secrecy. So we don't know how much of Apple's internal information will ever see the light of day. 

However, one filing in the case requests that certain internal emails remain confidential, including one addressed to CEO Tim Cook on April 28, 2013. The email has been sealed.

Other papers indicate that several Apple employees have been required to write affidavits about what they knew, or been questioned in depositions. Those employees include Justin Wood (an engineering manager), Andre Boule (software engineer) Gokul Thirumalai (engineering manager), Amol Pattekar (an engineer), Bill Heilman (senior director, AppleCare engineering & enterprise support),  John Kelly (manager of wireless diagnostics) and Jeffrey Kehlmann and Laura Heckman, whose roles at Apple are unclear.

The fact that so many of those job titles are in software or engineering suggests that the litigation is focusing in part on exactly how iMessage handled texts that were not being delivered to Android phones.

Below, we have collected a few highlights from the case, which give you a taste of just how far Apple has gone to make sure no one sees what is going on in the case.

Lawyers are already getting their hands on Apple's internal emails regarding the iMessage issue, including one addressed to CEO Tim Cook.

Here are the types of things that Apple wants to keep secret. Note that Apple admits that there was something wrong with iMessage that required "investigation" and "resolution."

Here, Apple admits that deregistering your phone number from iMessage takes 45 days.

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The economies of advanced nations aren't doing so well.

That's what respondents from around the world said when asked by the Pew Research Center if they thought the condition of their national economies was good or bad.

A median of 56% of the respondents from advanced nations described their economy as bad, versus 40% who described it as a good.

Some advanced countries have become more satisfied with their current economy but are less hopeful that it will improve in the next year — like the UK — while countries such as Israel have become more pessimistic about the economy but more hopeful about its future.

Business Insider has put together this feature to help make sense of the numbers. Be sure to check out the CIA World Factbook— from which some economic background was pulled — here and the full Pew Center study here.

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Advanced economies.

The Pew Research Center surveyed 11 advanced economies, with Germans the most bullish on their local economy and Italians the most downbeat.

Spain (+10) has seen the most significant upward shift in positive sentiment about the economy since 2014, while South Korea (-17) saw the most significant downward shift.

In 2014, neither Australia nor Canada was polled. Instead, the Pew Center polled Greece.

Among the advanced economies, Israelis were the most optimistic about the next 12 months. The French were the least.

Israelis were the most optimistic for the future, with close to half saying they expected the economy to improve.

France is the most pessimistic for the future, with 42% of respondents saying they expected their economy to worsen.

1. Germany

Who said the economy is good: 75% — though that's down 10 percentage points since 2014.

Who said it'll improve over 12 months: 25%, down 1 point since 2014. The majority believe the economy will stay the same.

What's been going on: The country exited the recession early on in 2009 because of a successful $70 billion euro stimulus package, a rebounding manufacturing sector, and exports. The country's GDP is expected to continue to grow because of low global energy prices, low inflation, and a weak euro.

Germany is one of Greece's biggest creditors. Many countries and analysts have advocated for debt relief, but Germany has instead demanded that $70 billion of public Greek funds be put aside in a private trust in Luxembourg and used to pay off debts. (CIA World Factbook)

GDP: $3.8 trillion in 2014 with 1.6% growth (World Bank).

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Tesla reported its second quarter financial results on Wednesday and now the stock is getting slammed.

Tesla's quarterly loss was less than expected while revenue expectations, but the company cut its outlook for vehicle deliveries.

In early trade on Thursday, the stock was off 8%. 

The electric car maker now expects to ship between 50,000 and 55,000 cars this year, which suggests the ultimate number will be lower than the 55,000 originally forecast. This delivery number was a point of emphasis for many investors.

Analysts reactions following the results were mixed.

Of the seven analysts notes reviewed by Business Insider, 4 were bullish with an "Outperform" or "Buy" rating. Three analysts were "Neutral," while Bank of America Merrill Lynch is down on the stock with a "Sell" rating.

Below are some details on Wall Street had to say:

SEE ALSO: Tesla slashes its outlook

Jefferies: BULLISH

Rating: Buy

Price Target: $360

Comment: "The more encouraging fact, which will likely be overlooked in the coming days (although it should really not be), is that management continues to strive for perfection and prefers quality over production ramp speed (e.g. it equated the Model X to a “sculptural work of art, but a very tricky thing to get right”). Demand is still very strong (CEO Musk repeated that Tesla has “so many advanced orders on the X, that this won’t be an issue in the early days”) and Tesla management remains “highly confident of a steady state production and demand of 1,600 to 1,800 vehicles per week combined for Model S and Model X,” which implies delivery of ~85K Models S/X combined in 2016 (est. 50 weeks)."

Baird: BULLISH

Rating: Outperform

Price Target: $335

Comment: "On the positive side, Q4 production ramp risk is reduced, and management confirmed initial Model X deliveries are on track. Long-term growth is intact, and we would be buyers ahead of the Model X configuration/reveal this month."

Credit Suisse: BULLISH

Rating: Outperform

Price Target: $325

Comment: "Demand growth was the key uncertainty coming into 2015 and, in our view, Tesla is passing with flying colors, largely due to the major improvements they've made across the Model S lineup (which by definition also improve the Model X). With Energy Storage emerging as a significant secondary revenue stream and Model X launch now appearing imminent, we believe the stock is much cheaper today than when the valuation was at similar levels a year ago."

A brilliant product needs a brilliant TV commercial.

Check out the best TV commercials from Apple, Samsung, Sega, and more, spanning the last several decades.

(And yes, Apple shows up a few times here.) 

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Apple's 1984 Super Bowl ad put the company and its Apple II computer on the map -- without actually saying a word about the product.

Back in 1998, a then-dominant Yahoo had its "Do You Yahoo?" campaign, showing off how a search engine could improve your life.

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"Genesis Does What Nintendon't" threw down the gauntlet between the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in the nineties.

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"The Daily Show" has made host Jon Stewart into a pop-culture icon.

In Stewart's path to success, he has also helped a lot of other people launch their careers.

"The Daily Show" pulled many comedians out of obscurity. 

After their time on the Comedy Central show has ended, former correspondents starred in and wrote movies and TV shows. Others hosted their own late night shows, taking what Stewart likely taught them and turning it into their own unique thing.

Thursday, August 4 marks Jon Stewart's final episode of "The Daily Show." Once his tenure ends, nobody knows what exactly he will do (though a return to stand-up seems very likely). No matter what he ends up doing, his legacy and influence will be seen in all the future comedy stars he helped find.

Here are some of the biggest stars that found success on "The Daily Show," and where you can find them today:

THEN: Stephen Colbert was a correspondent from 1997 through 2005. While he started while Craig Kilborn was still host, it was during Stewart's tenure he really developed the distinct character which defined his comedy career. As a correspondent, Colbert covered a variety of topics and even filled in as anchor for Stewart on a few occasions.

NOW: Colbert took on the ignorant persona he developed on "The Daily Show" and turned it into political satire gold on "The Colbert Report". Starting September 8, he will be the new host of "The Late Show" on CBS.

Colbert has also written three books and has also hosted the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2006. His bashing of both the Bush Administration and the press immediately went viral.

THEN: After many years at Chicago's famed Second City, Steve Carell got his big comedy break as a "Daily Show" correspondent. He was best known for his "Produce Pete" segment, as well as "Even Stevphen," where he faced off with Stephen Colbert on a variety of pressing issues.

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I visited North Korea in late 2014 for 16 days, right before the absolute lockdown caused by Ebola.

Most tourists experience only the political smokescreen of Pyongyang, but I had the privilege of visiting all its corners on one of the longest tours ever offered to foreigners in the hermit kingdom.

It was an eye-opening experience. Upon exiting the country, my cameras were searched for over two hours in Sinuiju. Many photos were deleted — but I had backups.

Here are some of the photos taken during my time in North Korea.

In the Demilitarized Zone, soldiers are more than happy to take photos and crack a smile. This is a far cry from the scare tactics and intimidation used on the South Korean side. This is almost certainly on purpose, possibly a passive-aggressive way to make a mockery of the precautions on the South.

The local school bus: Kids stack on top of one another for transit.

'Music Appreciation Room' — that’s what the sign on the door said. Photo taken in the Grand Peoples Study House, Pyongyang.

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Tonight, Jon Stewart will host his final episode of "The Daily Show." He's been at the show's helm for 16 years, from the end of the Clinton years to the close of the Obama era.

In that time, he's established himself as a national icon, taking to the air every night at 11 p.m. to, as New Yorker editor David Remnick put it, "expose our civic bizarreries." 

In honor of the end of his Emmy-winning tenure — though not, he reminds us, his actual end ("Guys, let me make something clear," he reminded his audience at a recent taping, The Week reports. "I'm not dying.") — we looked back on the incredible and winding career of the legendary comedian.

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Jonathan Stewart Leibowitz was born in 1962 in New York City. His mother, Marian, was a teacher who later became an educational consultant. His father, Don, was a physicist. (His older brother, Larry, was 2 at the time, and went on to work on Wall Street, and is the former COO of NYSE Euronext.)

Sources: The New Yorker, Moment

The Leibowitzes moved to a middle-class neighborhood in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, where Stewart grew up. His was one of the few Jewish families in town, and he was often teased as a kid, according to the New Yorker's Tad Friend. "He recalls being called 'Leibotits' and 'Leibosh--s,' and getting punched out at the bus stop when he was in the seventh grade."

Source: The New Yorker

When Stewart was 12, his parents divorced. According to The New Yorker, he was "deeply shaken by the breakup, and by his subsequent failure to find common ground with his father." In the 2002 profile, Stewart told Friend that his father had never seen him perform.

Source: The New Yorker

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OnePlus is a small Chinese tech company that has only released one device to date, the OnePlus One smartphone.

The One's successor, the OnePlus 2, is set for release on August 11. And people are already going crazy for it. 

In fact, it's one of the few Android phones that you'll ever find people lining up for like we see every year when the new iPhone launches.

That's because the OnePlus sells its devices on an invite-only basis, which garnered a huge amount of hype and demand. An invite guarantees you the opportunity to buy a OnePlus 2 device.

One of the main reasons why the One was in such demand was because of its high-end specs at an incredibly low $300 price tag.

The company is releasing the OnePlus 2 with the same invite-only system, and it reached the 2 million mark for reservations on Thursday.

OnePlus's co-founder Carl Pei told Tech Insider in an interview that they didn't want to make more phones than it had to, as it's a relatively small company compared to the likes of tech behemoths like Samsung, HTC, LG, and Motorola. At the same time, it's a genius strategy that creates a huge amount of demand.

Just take a look at these lines. 

Here are people queuing up for an invite in New York City's Times Square.

Here's a line in Berlin that needed a panorama to capture:

People in New Delhi seem pretty stoked about the OnePlus 2. The Samsung sign above the line for the OnePlus 2 is somewhat ironic.

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The skill of learning is something kids can and should practice if they want to have a fighting chance at fulfilling all those lofty goals their parents have set for them.

But some people keep studying — and thinking — the same way all their lives. 

Thankfully, cognitive science has taken a look at how people actually learn. The results are surprising and super helpful.

Mistakes should be celebrated and studied.

Being perfect is overrated.

The entire point of learning is to make attempts, fail, and find a lesson in where you went wrong.

In 2014, a study of motor learning found the brain has more or less reserved a space for the mistakes we make. Later, we can recruit those memories to do better next time.

If parents teach kids never to make mistakes, or shun them when mistakes happen, kids end up missing a wealth of knowledge.

Being optimistic helps you succeed.

Stressing kids out with negative reinforcement can get them stuck in a mental rut, filling them with self-doubt and anxiety, both of which are toxic for learning.

"Anxiety precludes you from exploring real solutions and real thought patterns that will come up with solutions," says Harvard Business School professor Alison Wood Brooks. 

Decades of positive psychology research suggest that we will become more successful in just about anything we try to do if we approach it with an open mind and see tangible room for improvement. 

Parents should teach kids to see learning as exploration. It will help give them a sense of determination, which they can manufacture into grit when the going gets rough.

Exciting topics are "stickier" than boring ones.

Kids naturally drift toward the weird and wacky, but as the rote experience of education gets them thinking in cold hard facts, that sense of fun can die off.

Parents: don't let that happen.

As early as possible, kids should gain an appreciation for why they remember Grandma's weird-smelling house and those highlighter-yellow shorts Dad wears on nighttime runs. It's because they're unique.

Author and former US memory champion Joshua Foer memorized a full deck of playing cards in under two minutes by tying each card to a weird image. Kids can do the same for their times tables and presidents. 

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Activist investor Bill Ackman has made the food and beverage multinational Mondelez International his newest target.

The hedge fund manager is likely to push for the company to cut costs or sell itself to a rival, according to The Wall Street Journal.  

One potential suitor is the recently-merged Kraft Heinz company — now the fifth-largest food company in the world.

The merger of Kraft and Heinz was orchestrated by 3G Capital, which is helmed by Brazilian billionaire Jorge Lemann, and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

Ackman himself is an investor in 3G's funds.

The private-equity firm has wasted little time in shaking up the upper ranks of the newly-combined company, and has a reputation for savage cost-cutting.

Lemann, a Swiss-Brazilian, has gone from journalist to national tennis champion to banker and now billionaire investor. Buffett likes to call him, "Georgie Paolo."

"Money is simply a way of measuring if the business is going well or not, but money in and of itself doesn't fascinate me," Lemann said in January 2008, according to an interview published in HSM Management magazine.

Shows you that he's just in it for the love of the game.

Lemann was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1939. His father was a Swiss businessman who immigrated to Brazil in the 1920s.

He left Brazil to attend Harvard, earning his bachelor's degree in economics in 1961. Lemann still has a great relationship with Harvard, helping Brazilian students study there and setting up scholarships.

After Harvard, Lemann's life was a mixed bag. He trained at Credit Suisse for a while and worked as a journalist at Brazil's third-oldest paper, Jornal do Brasil.