The 2016 Geneva Motor Show is the first major European car show of the year. The world's top brands will come out in force with their latest and greatest offerings. From Aston Martin to McLaren, from Ferrari to Bugatti, from Lamborghini to Porsche, the next generation of exotics will debut at the show.

In addition, there will be a bevy of production-ready models from mass-market luxury brands, such as Jaguar, Maserati, Lexus, and BMW. 

The 2016 Geneva International Motor Show will run from March 3-13 at the Palexpo Arena in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Leading the high-profile reveals is Bugatti's $2.6-million Chiron hypercar. The 1,500-horsepower beast is the follow up to the Veyron.

Ferrari will introduce an updated version of its FF GT car, called the GTC4 Lusso.

Lamborghini will introduce an ultra-rare, special-edition supercar, the Centenario, to celebrate the 100th birthday of founder Ferruccio Lamborghini.

LG's crazy new phone, the G5, has two new features that set it apart from Apple's iPhone in major ways:

1. It has a removable bottom, a novel way to add features without requiring adapters or cases.
2. There's a cool new camera that does a lot more than the iPhone camera's can.

But that's not all! Here's what else the G5 can do that the iPhone can't:

First, it has a removable bottom that lets you do a whole bunch of crazy things that most phones can't.

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You can swap out a dead battery with a fresh one.

You can also add "modules" that add to the phone's functionality. Below is a camera grip that helps with zooming, focusing, and recording video. There's an extra battery in the grip, too!

Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones" season six, including speculation of events.

"Game of Thrones" season six is set to premiere on April 24, and HBO is ramping up its release of new material. We have 20 set photos, and several major teaser videos already. Now, a five-minute behind-the-scenes video was released, and fans have their first close-up of major action happening.

If you haven't seen it yet, head to the Making Game of Thrones site and check out the footage. We've broken down every new scene for you. Let's take a look!

Everyone's dying to know what happened to Jon Snow. For now, we get only a glimpse of Melisandre and Davos. It looks like they're talking inside somewhere.

Then we get a close-up of Melisandre. She doesn't look pleased about something.

There's one outdoor shot of a lot of snow, and it looks like nighttime. Aftermath of Jon's stabbing, perhaps?

Now that Leonardo DiCaprio has won his first Academy Award, the days of the "poor Leo" meme are over.

For years, fans have been pining for DiCaprio to get a best actor Academy Award after striking out four times. But now that he's accomplished his goal, that doesn't mean the party has to end.

Since the 41-year-old actor took home the Oscar gold, fans have already started making a new crop of Leo memes.

These are the best we've seen so far:

It's taken only more than two decades, but DiCaprio has finally won his first Academy Award.

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Nope. This is very real.

It is not a dream.

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If you're a germophobe, you might want to stay away from the New York City subway. 

A recent study by Travelmath found that the New York City subway has the most germs of five major US public transit lines, beating out Washington, DC, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Researchers found that underground trains in New York had an average of two million colony-forming units per square inch, according to Conde Nast Traveler. That's roughly 900 times the number of germs found on a typical airplane tray table.

But if you're a typographer, designer, and photographer with a twisted fascination for germs like Craig Ward, you might want to swab a sample, take it home, put it under a microscope, and snap a picture.

Ward began taking samples of germs from across all 22 New York City subway lines in the summer of 2015. For each sample, he cultivated the germs into the shape of the train line's name, creating a depiction of the subway system that is both grotesque and captivating. 

While his findings may not be 100% accurate given his less-than-precise process, he told us that his results "are true with a degree of certainty." 

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To gather samples, Ward used damp sterile sponges that were cut in the shape of the subway line's name. He'd then put the findings into triptych soy agar and seal them in a petri dish, which cultivated growth.

Ward collected his samples during off-peak subway hours, when the trains wouldn't be as crowded. Regardless, no one ever questioned him while he diligently sponged down the poles. "Let's be honest, you can kind of do as you please on the subway," Ward told Business Insider. "People are pretty tolerant."

"Most of what I found was really very common and is no more than you’d expect to find by, say, shaking hands with a group of people before a meeting," he said.

As a 14 year old, Daymond John had yet to be diagnosed with dyslexia but knew that he struggled with reading.

However, there was one book —Napoleon Hill's 1937 classic "Think and Grow Rich"— that so enthralled him, he not only pushed through it but decided to read it again every year.

In John's own book, "The Power of Broke," he writes that the book profoundly changed his mindset from focusing on what he didn't want to become to instead concentrating on what he did want to become. This shift allowed him to start FUBU in his early 20s and then grow it into a company that brought in multimillion-dollar business, he says.

In a recent Reddit "AMA", the "Shark Tank" investor shared several books that he thinks every new entrepreneur should read. We've collected them here along with some books John previously told Business Insider had changed his life.

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'Think and Grow Rich' by Napoleon Hill

When the legendary businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie met Hill as a young journalist in 1908, Carnegie decided he liked Hill so much that he would use Hill as a vehicle for distributing the strategies he considered responsible for his success. This essentially launched Hill's career as one of the founders of the personal success genre.

Hill's greatest work, "Think and Grow Rich," was first published in 1937 and became one of the top-selling books of all time. It's a collection of insights derived from interviews with Carnegie, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford that teaches readers how to develop the drive and habits necessary to maximize one's potential.

"The main takeaway from that was goal-setting,"John says. "It was the fact that if you don't set a specific goal, then how can you expect to hit it?" One of the fundamental ideas in the book is determining your purpose in life and working toward concrete milestones.

John says that "Think and Grow Rich" made him realize that when he didn't set very specific goals for himself, he could find himself making excuses for why he wasn't working as hard as he could.

Find it here »

'How to Win Friends and Influence People' by Dale Carnegie

John says that he's a fan of all of Carnegie's books. Carnegie was a contemporary of Hill's, and his writings on how to maximize success have had just as much longevity.

Carnegie's most widely read book is "How to Win Friends and Influence People," first published in 1936. It is a collection of advice on self-promotion and describes how the most influential people listen more than they speak.

Warren Buffett famously took Carnegie's class on the subject when he was 20 years old and still has the diploma he received for it in his office.

Find it here »

'Who Moved My Cheese?' by Spencer Johnson

Johnson's parable has been a consistently best-selling business book since it was released in 1998. It tells the story of two mice and two sprite-like people living in a maze where the location of cheese suddenly starts changing every day.

When Johnson wrote the book, companies around the world were adapting to the rise of a more accessible internet and new ways of doing business. Its lessons on how to let go of a fear of change, however, are timeless.

John says that he used to think that throwing money at a failing business would somehow save it, but at this point in his career he understands that he needs to take a more measured approach.

"Money's not going to make it any better. It may make the opportunity come faster, but it also can hurt you if you think that money's going to solve it," John says.

Find it here »

Sea sponges are amazing. They live in the tropics and under polar ice. They come in a huge variety of colors, can live a few months or decades, and are used for everything from scrubbing plates to tampons.

And now, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have confirmed that the simple sponge may have been the animal that started it all 640 million years ago.

So while they're definitely not our evolutionary "cousins" in the way that chimpanzees are, they're quite possibly our most venerable predecessor confirmed to date.

Here's how scientists made the remarkable discovery.

Biologists have long suspected sea sponges were one of the first multicellular organisms on the planet.

Sea sponge fossils even predate the Cambrian explosion 540 million years ago, when diverse multicellular life burst on to the scene.

Trouble is, fossils that old are hard to interpret — sponges are very, well, squishy. So it has been difficult to conclude they were the first animals.

Salary potential shouldn't be the sole thing that attracts you to a major in college — things like passion, interest, and aptitude should also be considered. But it's still nice to know which degrees pay off the fastest. (And we can't blame you for being drawn to those.)

PayScale, the creator of the world's largest compensation database, recently looked at the starting pay for millions of professionals and sorted the results by college major.

Here are the 22 majors with the highest starting salaries:

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22. Business and Information Technology

Median starting pay: $56,900

Median mid-career pay: $99,100

% change from starting to mid-career: +74%

21. Architectural Engineering

Median starting pay: $57,000

Median mid-career pay: $90,400

% change from starting to mid-career: +59%

20. Physics

Median starting pay: $57,200

Median mid-career pay: $105,100

% change from starting to mid-career: +85%

Technical skills: Check. Education: Check. Qualifications: Check. Soft skills: Womp womp.

Hiring managers seek a certain "je ne sais quoi," a certain "it" factor, when evaluating candidates. When soft skills are clearly absent, or don't get appropriately emphasized during a job interview, it could be game over for your candidacy.

Yes, some industries and roles put more weight on this than others. But when I worked in financial services corporate recruiting, and candidates had nearly identical resumes, education, and work experience, those who highlighted soft skills were hired.

They emphasized their incredible people skills, work ethic, and overall positive presence.

Here are four things hiring managers look for in a stellar hire.

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1. Plays well with others

Lunch interviews were the norm to determine how well someone fit in with the group. Could she effectively make small talk, smile, and get along with a variety of personalities on the team?

More often than not, hiring managers are assessing your interpersonal skills, and one way to effectively do this entails putting you in front of your peers. In fact, hiring managers repeatedly informed me that they can easily teach smart new hires specific technical skills, but people skills are valuable and harder to teach.

Your ability to make small talk, even if that's not your forte, is key to acing the lunch interview and demonstrating that "plays well with others" skill set. One way to improve this skill is to go to social events that you normally wouldn't attend. Venture outside your comfort zone, even for 30 minutes, and force yourself to have pleasant conversations with at least three people. By doing so, you'll sharpen your conversational skills and stay abreast of current events to have topics to discuss at your fingertips. And even though it's an election year, resist the temptation to talk about politics.

2. Gets fired up

Do you have what it takes to succeed and own your career? Run with it.

Instead of dimming your inner light and enthusiasm during a job interview, let your authentic, genuine ambition shine. I once asked the new hiring manager of a group with a unique job description and technology-heavy skill set what he was looking for in a stellar candidate.

"What's the top qualification you want me to focus on?" I asked.

He responded, "I'm looking for fire in their bellies."

As much as job seekers think there's a quantitative analysis or in-depth evaluation experience, it often comes down to basics, like "fire in your belly."

Candidates are able to convey this by explaining how they envision an exciting career full of growth. This isn't one of those fake-it-till-you-make-it conversations. And it isn't something to be glossed over on a cover letter. The people I've seen with a true fire have eyes that illuminate when they talk about their career or industry.

Be careful not to overdo it. Yes, it's important to demonstrate interest and ambition, but if you go too far, it could backfire and come across as overzealous. You can always practice a statement that's succinct and effective while you're conducting mock interviews with a mentor or friend.

3. Works hard

Do your homework and come to the interview with an example of your work ethic. Even if interviewers don't dive into behavioral-based interview questions seeking a specific example from your work history, insert it into the interview anyway. Feel free to rely heavily on this tactic during informational interviews and networking conversations as well. Let people you meet get to know you — the true you, work ethic included — beyond the surface information they can easily find on your social media profiles.

During the question portion at the conclusion of your interview, ask about the corporate culture by giving an example of when you went above and beyond and how you enjoy surrounding yourself with like-minded top performers.

Think of it this way: Hiring managers don't want to micromanage somebody, for the most part, and they certainly don't want to hear a direct report refuse to do specific work because it's "not their job." Instead, they want someone who can roll up their sleeves and dive in, adjust to a potentially changing work environment, learn, grow, and make an impact on the organization.

Boston Dynamics has come out with a new version of its Atlas robot that is more mobile, more agile, lighter, quieter, and doesn’t require a power tether.

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The new robot was introduced in a YouTube video this morning where it was shown escaping a building and marching through the snow:

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Then it stacked boxes like some sort of Robo-POG:

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Like other POGs, the Atlas was bullied pretty harshly on the job:

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The new generation Atlas weighs only 180 pounds, approximately half the weight of its 330-pound predecessor. It is powered by onboard batteries and can navigate obstacles that tripped up earlier Atlas robots at the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

Boston Dynamics has withdrawn from the DARPA challenge to focus on building commercially-viable robots, meaning they might try to sell the robot to the military or other buyers within the next few years.

Still, the Atlas is far from reaching the battlefield. The new improvements could get it ready to serve behind the lines, but it’s about as noisy as the BigDog robot which was shelved by the Marine Corps for being too loud. And there are no signs that it’s ready to carry its own weapon.

For now, developers will probably continue to target disaster response and similar missions.

Being more productive is about working smarter, not harder, and making the most of each day. While this is no easy feat, getting more done in less time is a much more attainable goal if you're not sabotaging yourself with bad habits.

Following are 13 things you should stop doing right now to become more productive.

Aaron Taube contributed to an earlier version of this article.

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1. Impulsive web browsing

Since most of us have access to the internet at work, it's easy to get sidetracked looking up the answer to a random question that just popped into your head.

That's why Quora user Suresh Rathinam recommends writing down these thoughts or questions on a notepad. This way, you can look up the information you want later, when you're not trying to get work done.

2. Multitasking

While many people believe they're great at doing two things at once, scientific research has found that just 2% of the population is capable of effectively multitasking.

For the rest of us, multitasking is a bad habit that decreases our attention spans and makes us less productive in the long run.

3. Checking email throughout the day

Constant internet access can also lead people to check email throughout the day. Sadly, each time you do this, you lose up to 25 minutes of work time. What's more, the constant checking of email makes you dumber.

Instead, strategy consultant Ron Friedman suggests quitting Outlook, closing email tabs, and turning off your phone for 30-minute chunks of deep-diving work.

There's a minority that not many people think about and has stumped scientists for decades: lefties.

About 10% of the human population is left-handed, yet no one knows for sure why lefties are so rare.

It's probably the result of a mix of factors, including things related to genetics, evolution, and even prenatal hormones. Or, it could be the result of something else entirely.

Here are some of the most interesting facts researchers have reported as they attempt to unlock the keys to left-handedness:

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Twins are more likely to be left-handed, but no one knows why.

Source: Behavior Genetics, 1996

Two left-handed parents have a 26.1% chance of having a left-handed child whereas two right-handed parents only have a 9.5% chance.

Source: Handbook of Neuropsychology, 1992

Most animals show no preference for handedness, or when one hand is more dominant than the other. Humans and our closest relatives, chimps, are an exception. About 90% of humans and 70% of chimps are right-handed.

Source: Monitor on Psychology, 2009

The 2015 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Letter was released on Saturday morning. As usual, the letter is informative, entertaining, and an all-around great read. This year, Warren Buffett seemed to have wanted to clear up some misconceptions that have been lingering around.

Here are 4 myths that he busted in his letter.

Myth #1: Warren Buffett has lost his investing magic

In 2015, the S&P 500 (including dividends) returned 1.4%. Berkshire Hathaway’s stock was down 12.5%.

On top of Berkshire’s own lagging stock performance, many of Buffett’s favorite stocks also suffered. American Express and IBM were down 26% and 24% in 2015, respectively. Many are also waiting for the imminent downfall of Coca-Cola and Wal-Mart.

Much like in the late 1990’s when many critics called Buffett a “has-been” and “out of touch”, there are many people out there today who somehow continue to doubt his ability.

According to Doug Kass, founder of hedge fund Seabreeze Investment Partners, “His underperformance is getting conspicuous. He must address it.” Kass is selling Berkshire shares short.

Well, Buffett didn’t have to write anything to dispel this myth – Berkshire’s 2015 results spoke for themselves.

Berkshire Hathaway had a good year last year.

Despite softness in the company’s insurance operations, the rest of Berkshire’s businesses were more profitable in 2015 than in 2014. Total revenue grew 8%, earnings per share grew 21%, and cash and cash equivalents grew by $8.5 billion. Berkshire’s book value per share was $155,501, up 6.4% from last year.

Book value used to be a useful proxy for Berkshire’s intrinsic value, because the company’s investments in marketable securities (i.e. stocks) are marked on the balance sheet at their quoted price. However, Berkshire shifted its focus to the outright ownership of businesses in the early 1990s. Acquisitions are treated differently by accountants – they are held on the balance sheet closer to original cost, and can be revalued down but never up. Consequently, Berkshire’s intrinsic value should greatly exceed its intrinsic value.

Buffett has said many times that Berkshire would be “delighted to repurchase our shares should they sell as low as 120% of book value,” at which point they would be very attractively priced. Berkshire’s Class A shares closed at $198,190.50 on Friday, which is 127% of book value.

It seems to me that Berkshire is very much undervalued right now and should trade closer to $230,000 per share.

Note: As it turns out Doug Kass has been shorting Berkshire stock since 2013. Berkshire shares have risen about 30% since then.

Myth #2: America is doomed

Warren Buffett called out the presidential candidates in the Shareholders Letter, saying they “can’t stop speaking about our country’s problems (which, of course, only they can solve).” As a result of this “negative drumbeat,” many Americans really do believe that their children will not live as well as people are living today.

Buffett says “That view is dead wrong: The babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history.”

He continues:

American GDP per capita is now about $56,000. As I mentioned last year that – in real terms – is a staggering six times the amount in 1930, the year I was born, a leap far beyond the wildest dreams of my parents or their contemporaries. U.S. citizens are not intrinsically more intelligent today, nor do they work harder than did Americans in 1930. Rather, they work far more efficiently and thereby produce far more. This all-powerful trend is certain to continue: America’s economic magic remains alive and well.

Indeed, most of today’s children are doing well. All families in my upper middle-class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth. His unparalleled fortune couldn’t buy what we now take for granted, whether the field is – to name just a few – transportation, entertainment, communication or medical services. Rockefeller certainly had power and fame; he could not, however, live as well as my neighbors now do.

Just like it never pays to bet against Warren Buffett’s talent, “for 240 years it’s been a terrible mistake to bet against America, and now is no time to start. America’s golden goose of commerce and innovation will continue to lay more and larger eggs.”

Myth #3: Clayton Homes preys on the poor

Berkshire subsidiary Clayton Homes is the country’s largest builder of manufactured housing (mobile and modular homes), which are mostly bought by lower-income citizens. Clayton Homes has a 45% market share of new manufactured homes and also originates 35% of all mortgages on manufactured homes.

Clayton Homes has been the topic of a series of articles by The Center for Public Integrity and The Seattle Times that assert that the company “preys on the poor” with predatory lending practices.

These allegations have surely been painful for Warren – every two years he sends a 2 page memoto the 80+ managers of Berkshire’s subsidiaries with the reminder: “We can afford to lose money — even a lot of money. But we can’t afford to lose reputation — even a shred of reputation.”

This year, Buffett dedicated 2 pages of the 31-page Shareholders Letter to discuss Clayton Homes.

While he didn’t directly address The Seattle Times’s claim that Clayton Homes exploits minorities, Buffett did make a very strong defense against the predatory lending accusations:

• Although other lenders have come and gone, Clayton steadfastly financed home buyers throughout the panic days of 2008-2009, even financing dealers who did not sell our homes. The funds Berkshire supplied to Goldman Sachs and General Electric at that time produced headlines; the funds Berkshire quietly delivered to Clayton both made home ownership possible for thousands of families and kept many non-Clayton dealers alive.
• Berkshire’s retail outlets, employing simple language and large type, consistently inform home buyers of alternative sources for financing – most of it coming from local banks – and always secure acknowledgments from customers that this information has been received and read. Buffett actually included a copy of the actual form Clayton uses at the back of the Annual Report.
• In contrast to the risky mortgage practices that took place during the subprime crises that caused the Great Recession – where “(1) an originator in, say, California would make loans and (2) promptly sell them to an investment or commercial bank in, say, New York, which would package many mortgages to serve as collateral for a dizzyingly complicated array of mortgage-backed securities to be (3) sold to unwitting institutions around the world” – Clayton holds every single mortgage is originates (other than those that qualify for a government guarantee). Consequently, Berkshire must live with the pain it would cause itself if it grants bad credit (which dwarfs the profit it would record from the original sale of the home).
• Clayton’s mortgage practices have been continuously reviewed and examined by the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Housing and
  Urban Development, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as well as by dozens of states. During the past two years, various federal and state authorities (from 25 states) examined and reviewed Clayton and its mortgages on 65 occasions. The result? Berkshire’s total fines during this period were $38,200 and our refunds to customers $704,678.
• Clayton only had to foreclose on 2.64% of its manufactured-home mortgages last year and 95.4% of its borrowers were current on their payments at year-end.

For the billionaire who doesn't want to sleep too far from his sports car, the perfect home is almost ready for move in to: Miami's Porsche Design Tower.

The 60-story building on Sunny Isles Beach is the first one in the US by the famed Porsche brand, which chose this Florida real-estate playground to make its mark. More importantly, it's also the first building to contain a patented "Dezervator," essentially a drive-in car elevator.

Slated for completion in June 2016, only eight of the 132 units are still on the market — but that includes the four-level, 17,000-square-foot penthouse, up for grabs for $32.5 million. That penthouse comes with two private pools and a four-car "sky garage."

The buyer will be in good company, as at least 22 billionaires have already bought in. Meanwhile, regular units can display up to nine cars, with extra space available for an added purchase price. Other building amenities include a spa, a ballroom, a movie theater, and a game room with race-car simulators.

Check out the latest pictures of the tower and its unique car elevator below:

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The tower is 60 stories tall, rising 650 feet on the shorefront of Sunny Isles Beach.

It's scheduled for completion in June. Ninety-four percent of the units have already sold — 22 of them to billionaires.

There's a large pool on the ground floor, just steps away from the beach.

Tinder CEO Sean Rad has put his swanky $1.8 million Los Angeles condo up for sale, according to Variety. The Wilshire Corridor pad is 2,298 square feet, with 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.

Rad has been in and out of the news for his tendency to put his foot in his mouth, including (allegedly) mixing up the word sapiosexual (someone attracted to intelligence) for a much more controversial word.

Rad, for his part, claims he is misunderstood. "I'm dealing with all of these stereotypes,"he told Fast Company. "Because I'm a successful guy in tech I must be a douche bag. Because I run a dating app I must be a womanizer."

But he still admits that he is addicted to Tinder and falls in love with another girl every other week.

If you want to follow in Rad's completely not-womanizing footsteps, you can't go wrong with this bachelor (or bachelorette) pad. Rad says that a famous supermodel propositioned him, nay was "begging" him, and he turned her down — possibly in this very condo! This could be you.

Rad himself has upgraded to a $7.5 million penthouse three quarters of a mile away from this one, according to Variety.

Check out the pictures below and see the listing:

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A giant candelabra light fixture and access to a nearby balcony make for a nice living room. The acoustic guitars are probably part of the staging, and not included.

A fireplace in the bedroom is nice and cozy.

The corner tub is perfect for place to soak after a tough day at work. There's even a TV in the bathroom.

Google's artificial intelligence has made some really trippy images.

The images amazed so many people that Google open sourced the code, appropriately dubbed DeepDream, that enables you to make them! (You can learn more about how the images are made here.)

To celebrate this new branch of art, Google held an auction Friday at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco. Overall, 29 images were sold, some made by Google employees themselves and others made by those who took advantage of DeepDream on their own time.

Here's the 29 images that raised $97,605:

Unnamed by Alexander Mordvintsev, a software engineer hailing from Russia.

Unnamed by Mordvintsev.

Unnamed by Mordvintsev.

Apple is reportedly holding an event later this month to introduce a few new products, including a new iPhone and a new iPad.

We've already written about what to expect from the iPhone SE, the name of Apple's next 4-inch iPhone set to debut this month. But we haven't dug into the next iPad, which reports say will be a smaller version of Apple's 12.9-inch iPad Pro that launched late last year.

Here's what we're expecting from Apple's next iPad.

It will support the Apple Pencil and another Apple-made Smart Keyboard.

The iPad Pro was made to replace your laptop, so Apple built a $99 stylus and a $170 detachable Bluetooth keyboard, each sold separately, to supplement the tablet's abilities. 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman says the 9.7-inch iPad coming this month will work with the Apple Pencil and an "optimized" Smart Keyboard cover, which we're guessing is smaller and a little better to use.

It'll have the same innards as the iPad Pro.

In this new iPad, Apple is reportedly using the same CPU — Apple's A9X processor — that powers the larger iPad Pro. We're guessing this processor was optimized for the Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard, in addition to everything else the iPad can do, to ensure speed and fluidity.

The new iPad might actually have a better camera than the iPad Pro.

Most people don't buy tablets for their cameras, but Apple is still reportedly including a 12-megapixel rear shooter in the new iPad coming this month. With those specs, it should be comparable to the camera in the iPhone 6s, which is one of the best smartphone cameras in the world right now. It would be even better than the 8-megapixel rear camera that shipped with the larger iPad Pro just a few months ago.

California native Donald Bren is the wealthiest real estate developer in America, according to our list of the 50 richest people on earth, produced in collaboration with Wealth-X.

The mogul has an estimated net worth of $17 billion that comes primarily from his development and property investments in Southern California.

Bren's privately-held real estate investment company, Irvine Company, has aportfolio of properties that exceeds 110 million square feet and includes office buildings, apartments, marinas, and hotels, most of which is located in picturesque Orange County.

At 83 years old, the former US Marine is still running the show as chairman of Irvine Company — here's the story behind his success.

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Donald Bren was born in Los Angeles in 1932. His father, a movie producer, and his mother, a patron of the performing arts, divorced when he was 10. His father remarried to an actress and his mother to a well-off industrialist.

Sources: Wealth-X, Fortune

Bren and his brother attended Beverly Hills High School and spent their summers working as carpenters for their dad's real estate development business. A key lesson he learned from his father: "When you hold property over the long term, you’re able to create better values and you have something tangible to show for it," Bren told the Los Angeles Times in 2011.

Sources: Fortune, Los Angeles Times

Bren earned a partial athletic scholarship to the University of Washington for skiing. He was reportedly a stylish skier and an avid competitor who was set to go to the 1956 Olympics but couldn't participate because of a broken ankle.

Source: Fortune

When 23-year-old Brandon headed from Massachusetts to the Bay Area in mid-May to start work as a software engineer at Google, he opted out of settling into an overpriced San Francisco apartment. Instead, he moved into a 128-square-foot truck.

The idea started to formulate while Brandon — who asked to withhold his last name and photo to maintain his privacy on campus — was interning at Google last summer and living in the cheapest corporate housing offered: two bedrooms and four people for about $65 a night (roughly $2,000 a month), he told Business Insider.

"I realized I was paying an exorbitant amount of money for the apartment I was staying in — and I was almost never home," he says. "It's really hard to justify throwing that kind of money away. You're essentially burning it — you're not putting equity in anything and you're not building it up for a future — and that was really hard for me to reconcile."

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He started laying the groundwork for living out of a truck immediately, as he knew he'd be returning to work full time in San Francisco. A school year later, he was purchasing a 16-foot 2006 Ford with 157,000 miles on it.

It cost him an even $10,000, which he paid up front with his signing bonus. His projected "break-even point" is October 21, according to the live-updating "savings clock" he created on his blog, "Thoughts from Inside the Box."

His one fixed cost is truck insurance — $121 a month — as he doesn't use electricity, and his phone bill is handled by Google.

"I don't actually own anything that needs to be plugged in,"he explains on his blog. "The truck has a few built-in overhead lights, and I have a motion-sensitive battery-powered lamp I use at night. I have a small battery pack that I charge up at work every few days, and I use that to charge my headphones and cellphone at night. My work laptop will last the night on a charge, and then I charge it at work."

The space is sparse and minimal, he says: "The main things that I have are a bed, a dresser, and I built a coat rack to hang up my clothes. Besides that, and a few stuffed animals, there's pretty much nothing in there."

As for food and showers, that's all on Google's campus. He eats breakfast, lunch, and dinner at work and showers every morning in the corporate gym post-workout.

Few expenses mean significant savings: "I'm going for a target of saving about 90% of my after-tax income, and throwing that in student loans and investments," he says.

He graduated with $22,434 worth of student loans, and has paid it down to $16,449 over the course of four months. "As a conservative estimate (and taking bonuses into consideration), I expect to have them paid off within the next six months, saving thousands of dollars over the standard 10-year, or even 20-year plans," he says.

Additionally, saving on rent has allowed him to dine at nice restaurants and enjoy San Francisco more than if he opted for living in an apartment.

The 1930s were difficult years for New York City, as the Great Depression took a toll on the city and its residents.

But still, compare the city's scenery from that period, and it may seem similar to the present day — the streets were always congested, subway lines were running, and people filled the iconic buildings that we still see today.

We dove into the New York Public Library's archives to find vintage photos of some of New York's most iconic sites, then compared them to how those same places look today. It's a good reminder of how much things change — and yet, how they stay the same. 

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In 1935, Washington Square Park added a one-way circular road to help ease up busy road traffic. With this change, the streets surrounding the park were widened, requiring pedestrians to cross a large stream of cars just to access the park.

Source: nycgovparks.org

Today the park has a large area for pedestrians to walk around without running into any road traffic. The park serves as a gathering place for local residents, chess players, students, and tourists from around the globe.

The Empire State Building was built in 1931. At the time of its completion, it was 102 stories and 1,250 feet high and was the world's tallest skyscraper.