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There was one big thing missing from The Oregon Trail, according to the game's co-creator

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Oregon TrailThe Oregon Trail has held a special place in the hearts of many since it debuted its iconic mix of history, addictive gameplay, and dysentery in the 1970s.

But even though the game was beloved by teachers for getting kids excited about history, there was one perspective the game was missing, according to co-creator Don Rawitsch.

In a Reddit AMA, Rawitsch said it would had been interesting for them to add a Native American viewpoint, “perhaps a character who watches the wagons come into that territory.” He also said that in the game, the creators were careful to label raids “riders attack,” since they often came from “white bandits,” and not Native Americans.

Rawitsch also shared that he hopes the words on his tombstone would be, “He helped kids learn,” and that he can’t wait for a virtual reality version of the game. Neither can we.

You can read the full AMA over at Reddit.

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Nicki Minaj just won a major fight for streaming that will change the music industry

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Streaming just won another victory in the music industry, and it'll make some artists very happy.

Until now, if a musician went platinum, that certification was based purely on sales, both physical and digital. It didn't matter how many times a record was listened to on Spotify or Apple Music.

But on Monday, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) announced that it would be modernizing its gold and platinum certification process for albums, which will include both on-demand audio and video streams.

In the new methodology, 1,500 streams will count as the equivalent of 10 track sales or 1 album sale.

This means that the RIAA is retroactively awarding 17 different album titles with gold or platinum certifications. Among the newly platinum albums: Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly," Hozier's self-titled album, and Coldplay's "Ghost Stories."

Nicki Minaj has been one of the most vocal proponents of counting streaming toward an artist's sales and certifications. She announced that her most recent album, "The Pinkprint," had gone triple platinum including streaming (officially, it hadn't even gone platinum) and faced a lot of criticism online.

While Minaj was not one of the artists given a new album certification Monday, it looks like the industry is only moving further her way.

 

 

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The new Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue features 13 A-list actresses — and it's one of the most diverse ever

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Vanity Fair released the cover of its 2016 Hollywood Issue on Monday, and the stunning image features a powerhouse group of 13 actresses.

The issue's portfolio focused on presenting "raw, intimate, and honest" portraits of the actresses, explained Vanity Fair's style director, Jessica Diehl. The photos, taken by Annie Leibovitz, were "dismissive of the shackles of airbrushing and Picasso’d Photoshop manipulations."

“As much as we wanted glamour on the cover, because the Hollywood cover is, to us, an occasion, what we thought was interesting is to see them, really, as the canvas that they are to all the various characters they’ve played over the years, and just be very true portraits of them,” Diehl said.

Diverse in both age and race, the cover features Jane Fonda, Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlotte Rampling, Rachel Weisz, Brie Larson, Lupita Nyong'o, Alicia Vikander, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Saoirse Ronan, Helen Mirren, and Diane Keaton.  

This year's cover is more diverse than last year's issue, which only featured two actors of color: David Oyelowo and Oscar Isaac. 

Vanity Fair's covers have varied in diversity throughout the years. While 2014 featured a record six actors of color (out of 12 actors featured), some issues, such as 2010, failed to feature any.

Here's a look at some of the past covers of Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue:  

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Kanye West is rolling out 'best album of all time' with a performance streamed across the world

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Kanye West will release his seventh album, "Waves," February 11 with a performance at Madison Square Garden that will be streamed live in select theaters around the world.

Yeezy Season 3, as it's called in an announcement with details Monday, will feature a performance by conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft, who also performed at West's fashion shows, Yeezy Season 1 and Season 2.

A message on the ticket site explains that the event will be streamed "via satellite," so "local weather conditions could possibly affect the transmission of content to each cinema." The tickets are non-refundable and can be purchased here. There are currently no North American showings listed.  

"Waves" will include “Wolves,” “Fade,” “No More Parties in L.A.,” and “Real Friends.” West revealed a track list, boasting that he's "finished with the best album of all time."

As sales of albums continue to decline across the board, major artists struggle to find ways to make their album rollouts events that stand out amid the noise (much like Adele did with "25"). Kanye is making his a literal event at a venue near you.

 

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Business Insider is hiring travel, food, and design interns for the INSIDER team

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Business Insider is looking for interns to write for INSIDERa new publication that delivers stories to readers across digital platforms.

Specifically, we are looking for fledgling reporters who want to cover food, travel, and design.

Editorial interns on INSIDER are true multi-media journalists: They write posts, create gorgeous photo features, and collaborate with our video editors on scripts for short videos. Interns should also be ready to go out in the field to take video and photos, and interview sources.

The ideal candidate is obsessed with his or her chosen vertical. He or she is a home chef who loves to Instagram finished meals; has backpacked around the world and kept a blog about the experience; or devours design websites for the latest in home decor and style. 

He or she is a fastidious reporter and writer with a passion for telling great stories. He or she has tons of ideas, and is excited to work on a new publication that's evolving quickly.

At INSIDER, our motto is "Life is an adventure." We tell stories for, about, and by people who seize life. That means they love to travel, try new foods, listen new music, and love people who do the same. When they see something wrong in the world, they fight for what's right. INSIDER is distributed across social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube, as well as on the web.

Our interns are an integral part of our team, and many of our current writers and editors started in our internship program. We seek out self-starters and people who are enthusiastic about collaborating with reporters, fellow producers, social media editors, and other team members.

This internship position is at our Flatiron headquarters in New York City. The internship will run for six months, and interns are encouraged to work full-time (40 hours a week) if their schedule allows.

Click here to apply for the editorial internship in food. 

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Fans want this young Harrison Ford lookalike to be the next Han Solo — and he says he's ready

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"Star Wars" fans can expect a Han Solo standalone film from Disney in 2018, but the actor who will portray the young Solo has yet to be chosen.

In early January, a shortlist of talent being auditioned — including Dave Franco and Miles Teller — was released. But there's one name absent from the list that some fans immediately rallied behind: Anthony Ingruber. 

 

The 25-year-old actor made his film debut in Disney's TV movie "Avalon High" back in 2010, but he's best-known for his portrayal of a young Harrison Ford in 2015's "Age of Adaline." 

In 2008, Ingruber posted a video to YouTube of himself doing a Han Solo impersonation. The video has since racked up over a million views and it even drew the attention of "Age of Adaline" director Lee Toland Krieger, which led to Ingruber's role in the film. 

"It was really important for me to find a balance between delivering the role as an original piece, while still applying some of the mannerisms that Ford is famous for," Ingruber told Business Insider. "So it was not simply a matter of impersonating him, but rather taking those elements to build a new, although still recognizable, character." 

Ingruber got to meet his idol while working on the set of "Age of Adaline," after the director organized it.

Harrison Ford anthony ingruberIngruber said people started pointing out the resemblance when he was 14. As the son of a diplomat, he moved to various countries throughout his childhod and devloped an adoration for movies, which eventually resulted in him practicing impersonations of actors like Ford and Jack Nicholson.

"One of the few constants I had in my life was my love of film and the iconic actors that had been my childhood heroes," he said. "I had already developed a passion for film and had spent a lot of my childhood watching their movies so the mannerisms and voices had kind of sunken in. This was something I always enjoyed doing throughout my teen years, as it always got a great response and made me a lot of friends. It also sparked my main goal of becoming an actor in my own right."   

He said he's amazed by the support he's received from fans and would gladly take the Han Solo movie role if the opportunity presented itself.

"I'm so grateful to the fans for their awesome support and confidence in me," he said. "When the news of casting first started, my internet actually stopped working due to the massive amount of tweets and comments from lifelong 'Star Wars' fans who were campaigning for me to play Han."  

Watch his Han Solo impersonation below:

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Netflix's new 'outlaw comedy' show 'The Characters' looks like its funniest yet

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Netflix is ramping up its comedy slate.

The company's new show "The Characters," available March 11, gives eight rising comedians full control of their own show. So a half-hour program with no rules or restrictions. What could go wrong?

Well, from the looks of this trailer, there are some weird and unusual things in store. Netflix, which labels "The Characters" "outlaw comedy" in a press release, could have a cult hit on its hands.

The comics are: Lauren Lapkus ("Orange Is the New Black"), Kate Berlant ("The Meltdown"), Dr. Brown ("Dr. Brown"), Paul W. Downs ("Broad City"), John Early ("Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp"), Tim Robinson ("Saturday Night Live"), Natasha Rothwell (an "SNL" writer) and Henry Zebrowski ("Heroes Reborn").

There will also be guest stars including Cecily Strong and Bobby Moynihan of "SNL," Abbi Jacobson of "Broad City," and model/actor Tyson Beckford.

 

Netflix dived into sketch comedy with its original show "W/ Bob & David," starring Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, last year.

Watch the trailer for "The Characters" here:

 

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HBO just took another small step back from traditional TV

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animals hboWith the release of its HBO Now app last year, HBO became the first cable network to dive headfirst into the “apps as TV” concept. The standalone app let you order HBO a la carte for $15 a month — no cable package required.

Now HBO has given another indication that it wants to push people toward its apps, announcing that it will release its new series, “Animals,” one day early on both HBO Now and HBO Go (HBO’s other streaming app that is tied to a cable subscription).

The series premiere will be available to stream [on the apps] Thursday, Feb. 4, with subsequent episodes available to stream the following Thursdays ahead of their Friday night debuts on HBO,” the company writes, according to Exstreamist. “HBO’s linear subscribers will also be able to watch the series one day early each week via HBO On Demand.”

While the fine print says you can still watch the shows on your TV on-demand, the emphasis HBO puts is on the apps, and the initiative is clearly designed to entice people toward them, and away from the idea of a show playing at a specific time.

HBO’s CEO, Richard Plepler, has said that HBO wants to become "ecosystem agnostic." That means having an HBO app live wherever you are: your computer, phone, tablet, smart TV, Apple TV, Roku, and so on. What it doesn’t mean is having HBO tied to your cable subscription.

One motivating factor is likely that parts of HBO’s brand seem to hurt from their association with expensive cable packages. HBO’s hit show “Game of Thrones” has been the most pirated show in the world for four straight years. Last year, the show had more than twice the number of downloads on BitTorrent as its closest competitor, “The Walking Dead.” The thinking is that many of these pirates don’t want to pay the high price for a cable package, but perhaps would pay for HBO alone. If this is the case, it makes sense for HBO to try and raise the profile of its apps, particularly HBO Now, hopefully turning potential pirates into paying customers.

A source familiar with the matter says there's a possibility this type of release schedule could continue, but that there are no immediate plans to shift the bulk of the catalog this way.

Here is the trailer for “Animals”:

 

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How Netflix measures success (NFLX)

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House of CardsNetflix has always had a different method of evaluating success than traditional TV networks or movie studios. While TV giants rely on ratings so they can hawk space to advertisers, Netflix is purely subscriber-based.

That means that the most important economic metric for Netflix is how much a TV show or movie contributes to Netflix's ability to sign up and retain customers.

The problem is that it's a hard thing to measure, Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt tells Business Insider. Hunt says to get close, the main metric the company uses to judge success is a variation on viewing hours called "valued hours."

This isn't simply a raw tally of how many hours people spent watching Netflix. It also takes into account what percentage of someone's total viewing that represents. In other words, if you watch a lot of Netflix, your hours are worth less to Netflix. This makes sense when you consider that the most vital unit to Netflix is a "subscriber."

Hypothetically, if one particular show is the only thing on Netflix a subset of subscribers watches, but they still pay every month for Netflix, then that show must be really important for them. And Netflix will consider that show valuable to the service.

But Hunt says that while this metric is probably the biggest single factor Netflix looks at, it's just one of many that make up the company's analysis.

Another crucial factor Netflix is trying to nail down is the concept of "enjoyment," or how much you liked a show. This hasn't been easy. We previously reported that Netflix has been looking to change its five-star rating system because the company thinks people tend to rate shows based on how objectively good they consider them, and not how much they enjoyed watching them.

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The 19 coolest new businesses in Atlanta

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Atlanta is one of the hottest up-and-coming cities in the south. It's increasingly becoming a destination for good food, drinks, shopping, and conducting business in general.

We found 19 cool, small businesses in the Atlanta-metro area that opened within the last five years or so — everything from a company that makes adult sodas to a bed and breakfast that doubles as an urban farm.

Keep scrolling to check out the coolest new businesses in the ATL.

SEE ALSO: The 16 coolest new businesses in Portland

AND: The 50 coolest new businesses in America

American Row House

91 Church St., Marietta

What it is: The SoulCycle of rowing.

Why it's cool: Rowing will work 84% of the muscles in the body when done correctly, and American Row House aims to take the effectiveness of a rowing workout to a studio setting. Founded by a husband-and-wife team — an exercise physiologist and a chiropractor — ARH is based on the SoulCycle model of exercising, with a supportive environment and luxurious amenities like organic coffee and eucalyptus towels.



Brash Coffee

1168 Howell Mill Rd.

What it is: A hip, new coffee shop built inside a couple of shipping containers.

Why it's cool: Brash Coffee started in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and recently opened its second location in Atlanta's Westside Provisions District. But instead of a traditional brick-and-mortar store, Brash repurposed two shipping containers on a grassy patch in front of Yeah!Burger. With floor-to-ceiling windows and a sleek, modern interior, Brash serves ethically sourced coffee that the baristas roast in-house.



Church Murch

489 Edgewood Ave.

What it is: A kitchy store spunoff from a church bar and ping-pong emporium.

Why it's cool: From the founder of the successful Sister Louisa's Church of the Living Room and Ping Pong Emporium — an eccentric, church-themed tavern and table tennis venue — Church Murch is the just-launched retail store by the same owner. Church Murch sells all kinds of bric-a-brac and tchotchkes from vintage choir robes to greeting cards, Bible belts, bumper stickers, and artwork by Sister Louisa's owner Grant Henry.



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Business Insider is hiring a social media intern for the INSIDER team

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Business Insider is looking for a social media intern for INSIDER, a new publication that delivers stories to readers across digital platforms.

INSIDER is distributed across social media, including FacebookTwitterInstagram, Snapchat, and YouTube, as well as on the web. The social media intern plays an integral role by helping to run our growing network of social media accounts.

The ideal candidate is organized and a multitasker who can manage posting schedules across several social media channels. He or she is a sharp writer, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and possesses excellent communication skills.

At INSIDER, our motto is "Life is an adventure." We tell stories for, about, and by people who seize life. That means they love to travel, try new foods, listen new music, and love people who do the same. When they see something wrong in the world, they fight for what's right. 

Interns are an integral part of our team, and many of our current writers and editors started in our internship program. We seek out self-starters and people who are enthusiastic about collaborating with reporters, fellow producers, social media editors, and other team members.

This internship position is at our Flatiron headquarters in New York City. The internship will run for six months, and interns are encouraged to work full-time (40 hours a week) if their schedule allows.

Click here to apply for the role of social media intern at INSIDER. Please include a resume and cover letter.

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An Iranian actress posted Instagram photos of herself without a hijab and was forced to flee the country

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Recently, Iranian actress Sadaf Taherian posted a series of photos of herself without a hijab. Since this goes against Iranian laws, which state that women aren't allowed to remove their hijabs in public, the Iranian government labeled Taherian an "offender," and pulled her hit TV show off the air.

She fled for the United Arab Emirates, where she continues to post photos without a hijab online.

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RANKED: The 10 worst movies to win the best picture Oscar — and what should have won

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Winning the best picture Oscar at the Academy Awards doesn't just say that a movie is regarded by Hollywood as the top achievement in the medium for the year, but cements it with past winners that have gone on to become classics like "The Godfather," "Lawrence of Arabia," and "On the Waterfront."

But the Academy voters don't always get it right. Tucked away in the 89 years of Oscar ceremonies, there have been best picture winners that quickly vanish from the zeitgeist, never to be heard from again. That's often because they weren't as good as originally thought. 

Here we look back on the 10 most disappointing best picture winners and choose the nominees that should have won:

SEE ALSO: RANKED: The 12 greatest movies to win the best picture Oscar

10. “Around the World in 80 Days” (1956)

Based on the Jules Verne novel, this film used all of Hollywood's resources (a $6 million budget in the 1950s was far from cheap) to create a sprawling look at the world, but the story of super-rich English gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) who attempts to win his wager to navigate the globe is silly and far from memorable. 



SHOULD HAVE WON: “The Ten Commandments”

Cecil B. DeMille's final directing effort still holds strong today. With its all-star cast, particularly the incredible performance by Charlton Heston as Moses (he didn't even get an Oscar nomination for the role), and its remarkable effects for that era, it's a movie that should have been recognized with the top prize.  



9. “Ordinary People” (1980)

The late 1970s and early 1980s were when the melodrama was at its zenith in movie theaters, and "Ordinary People" came around at the perfect time. The film didn't just win best picture but also best director for Robert Redford and best actor for Timothy Hutton. Granted, the film has explosive performances in it, but there needs to be more than great acting to win best picture.



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Aerosmith's Steven Tyler stars in a Super Bowl ad as a singing, Skittles portrait of himself

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Skittles released its Super Bowl 50 commercial on Tuesday. It will air during the second quarter of the game.

Continuing its long-running "Taste the Rainbow" marketing push, the ad stars Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.

In the first Skittles ad to feature "a real-life celebrity," Tyler is shown a portrait of himself made entirely of Skittles.

Tyler's candy version begins to sing. Real-life Tyler challenges the portrait to sing in higher and higher octaves until he eventually collapses all over the floor.

Skittles says in a press release that the ad, created by agency DDB Chicago, was inspired by the trend of Skittles fans making crafts out of the candy — like pictures, recipes, and stop-motion films.

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Steven Avery just wrote a letter from jail to all his 'Making a Murderer' supporters

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Steven Avery wrote a letter from prison to his supporters over the weekend. And although it's short, it details the next step of his plan to be exonerated for murder.

His new attorney, Kathleen Zellner, shared the letter via Twitter. Dated January 29, it reads:

"To my supporters:

I want every forensic test possible done [because] I am innocent.

Steven Avery"

 Avery's request mirrors what Zellner said in a Dateline NBC special on Friday. She believes that advances in forensic testing will be the key to clearing his name. 

"Generally, since 2007, there have been significant advances in forensic testing ... the clearest way to do this is with scientific testing," Zellner said in her first TV interview since taking the case. "Am I going to tell you exactly what it is? I am not. But it's been a long time. There was a lot of evidence that wasn't tested."

Zellner, an Illinois lawyer who specializes in wrongful conviction cases, believes Avery is innocent of the 2005 murder of Halbach.

making a murderer defense team framing theory.PNGActivity around Avery's conviction for the murder of Teresa Halbach, an AutoTrader magazine photographer allegedly last seen on his property, has been noticeably higher over the past week.

On Friday, Avery's supporters protested in front of the courthouse in his home of Manitowoc County. That was followed by TV specials from "Dateline" and Investigation Discovery over the weekend.

Debates have been raging around Avery's conviction since December, when Netflix released "Making a Murderer," a 10-episode series following Avery and his then-teen nephew Brendan Dassey's trials in the murder of Halbach. Its themes of police corruption and the impact of wealth and media on the criminal justice system hit home with many viewers.

Avery and Dassey are currently serving a life sentence.

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Drake has a Super Bowl ad that hilariously ruins his 'Hotline Bling' dance moves

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Drake and his meme-worthy dance moves are hitting the small screen in a new ad for T-Mobile.

For its "Un-Carrier" campaign, T-Mobile shows how other "wireless networks ruin everything." The ad does this by having some executives give Drake lyrical changes to his hit song "Hotline Bling" so that it's in line with the carrier's rules.

The changes include adding "device eligible for upgrade after 24 months" and "streaming music will incur data charges" to the words.

Late last year, T-Mobile announced a plan that would allow users to stream online music and video without using data.  

"These changes don't ruin the song at all," the smiling Drake says before getting back to his dancing.

The ad will air Super Bowl Sunday.

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Watch the ad below:

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Rihanna's latest album only sold 460 copies in a day thanks to giveaways and streaming

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Rihanna's latest album release, "Anti," is her lowest-charting album debut, but a streaming sensation.

Following an interactive marketing campaign and an accidental album leak on Tidal, her seventh album was officially released Wednesday, January 27, on the streaming service in which she's a partner along with Jay Z.

The album debuted at No. 27 on the Billboard 200, selling less than 1,000 copies in the United States in its first day on sale. According to the New York Times, a source with knowledge of the Nielsen numbers said only 460 albums were sold on that Thursday.

But through Rihanna's sponsorship deal with Samsung, 1.47 million copies of "Anti" were handed out as free downloads to fans, and the album has been streamed 5.6 million times, according to Tidal.

Data from Nielsen says that the album had been streamed 4.7 million times by the end of the January 28.  

The album was released commercially Thursday, following the giveaway. Billboard doesn't include free downloads on its chart ranking, so it had only been on sale for a few hours when Billboard released the list, which tracks sales Friday through Thursday of each week.  

The single “Work,” which features Drake, opened at No. 9 on Billboard's Hot 100 but debuted at No. 1 on the Digital Songs list. A physical copy of "Anti" is scheduled for release February 5.

SEE ALSO: Tidal is blaming Universal for Rihanna's 'ANTI' album leaking on Tidal

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The 10 richest people in Asia

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The largest continent by size and population, Asia has also grown into a financial powerhouse. It's home to the world's second-, third-, and ninth-largest economies in China, Japan, and India, respectively. The continent is also the playground for 10 of the planet's 50 wealthiest people, who are worth a combined $205 billion.

With a fortune of $29.2 billion, real estate mogul Wang Jianlin is the richest person in Asia, followed by Alibaba founder Jack Ma at $26.5 billion. India's wealthiest man, industrial magnate Mukesh Ambani, rounds out the top three with a net worth of $24.8 billion.

This comes from new data provided to Business Insider by Wealth-X, a company that conducts research on the super-wealthy, featured in our recent ranking of the world's richest people. Wealth-X maintains a database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high-net-worth people, using a proprietary valuation model to discern the size of their fortunes.

Read on to learn more about the richest people on the world's largest continent, who range from tech tycoons to real estate giants. 

SEE ALSO: The 50 richest people on earth

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10. Lei Jun

Net worth:$14.4 billion

Age: 45

Country: China

Industry: Tech

Source of wealth: Self-made; Xiaomi

Like several of his fellow 21st-century Chinese billionaires, Lei Jun earned his $14.4 billion fortune in tech. His smartphone maker, Xiaomi, became the fourth-largest smartphone vendor in the world, and the largest in China, within about three years of its founding.

Lei got his start in tech shortly after college when he joined Kingsoft, a Chinese software company similar to Microsoft, as an engineer. During his tenure at Kingsoft, Lei served as chief technology officer, president, and CEO, succeeding in taking the company public in 2007 before resigning. In 2010, after spending a few years as a venture capitalist, the already-wealthy Chinese entrepreneur founded Xiaomi with a former Google China executive. Lei was appointed chairman of Kingsoft in 2011 and forged a partnership between the two companies to provide cloud-storage capabilities for his phones.

Xiaomi, often referred to as "the Apple of China," is now the second most valuable private-tech company in the world, with a $46 billion valuation. But as sales growth has slowed, experts are contemplating the sustainability of Xiaomi's business model in overseas markets.



9. Dilip Shanghvi

Net worth:$16.4 billion

Age: 60

Country: India

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Source of wealth: Self-made; Sun Pharmaceutical Industries

After graduating from the University of Calcutta in 1982, Dilip Shanghvi started working at his father's wholesale generic-drugs business, where he saw an opportunity to manufacture Lithosun, a drug that treated manic-depressive disorders and was unavailable in much of eastern India. That was the genesis of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, which Shangvi founded in 1983 with a $1,000 investment from his father.

In its first year of business, Sun Pharma generated more than $100,000 in sales, and in 1994 the company went public on the Bombay Stock Exchange. It began expanding shortly thereafter, entering the global generic-drug market by acquiring Michigan-based Caraco Pharmaceuticals Laboratories in 1997, the first of many international acquisitions. In 2012, Shanghvi stepped down as chairman and now serves as managing director of the company, which generates $4.5 billion in sales.

Early in 2015, Shanghvi became the richest man in India for a period of time after his company's stocks surged. No matter the number, Shanghvi remains devoted to philanthropy as founder and chairman of the Shantilal Shanghvi Foundation, which donates to education, social-welfare, and community-development causes.



8. Azim Premji

Net worth:$16.5 billion

Age: 70

Country: India

Industry: Technology

Source of wealth: Inheritance/self-made; Wipro

In 1966, 21-year-old Azim Premji dropped out of Stanford in the wake of his father's death to take the helm of his father's company Western India Vegetable Products — later renamed Wipro. It was under Premji's leadership that the company diversified into toiletries and bath products and, eventually, IT, and the company grew exponentially. Now India's third-largest IT giant, Wipro generated revenues of $7.6 billion in its most recent fiscal year.

Just days into the new year, Premji named Abidali Neemuchwala, a Dallas-based consultancy executive, the new CEO of Wipro, citing him as the best leader to take Wipro into "its next phase of growth." Neemuchwala had been brought on to Wipro as chief operating officer last April after years of working for rival Tata Consultancy Services.

Premji is known for his generosity. He signed the Giving Pledge, committing to donate at least half of his wealth to charity, and in 2015 was named "the most generous Indian" on the Hurun India Philanthropy list for the third year in a row.



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Everybody is obsessed with O.J. Simpson again — here's what the trial's key players are doing 21 years later

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FX's upcoming "American Horror Story" is breathing new life into the O.J. Simpson murder case, as is an explosive upcoming ESPN documentary on the trial.

More than 20 years ago, many Americans were shocked when a jury acquitted Simpson of the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman.

Despite two decades having passed, people still obsess over the case and whether Simpson, a former NFL player, was guilty of stabbing his ex and her friend to death.

The drama of the televised trial unfolded in Americans' living rooms — including the scene where Simpson tried on a glove that supposedly belonged to the killer. Of course, it didn't fit.

Many of the star players in the Simpson trial are still trotted out to weigh in on current court cases, including the trial of Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted of "culpable homicide" for killing his girlfriend. (An appeals court later scaled the conviction up to murder.)

Other lawyers involved in the Simpson case have taken strikingly different routes, devoting their lives to helping to exonerate innocent people.

You might not have heard some of these names in a while. Here's what the stars of the O.J. Simpson trial are up to today.

SEE ALSO: Where are they now: the stars of the Clinton impeachment scandal

Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti has found a new calling — photography.

As the district attorney in Los Angeles in 1994, Gil Garcetti captured national attention when his office decided not to pursue the death penalty while prosecuting O.J. Simpson.

When Simpson was acquitted in 1995, people began writing Garcetti's "political obituaries," The New York Times noted. But he redeemed himself the next year when his office secured a conviction of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who killed their parents. 

These days, Garcetti has pursued a different career: photography. In 2014, CNN reported that he had completed eight books of photographic essays and become an opponent of the death penalty.

"My focus is on photography and other things not related to the criminal-justice system or even to the law. I made that career decision when I left, after the voters told me to leave," he told CNN.

Garcetti does keep some crime drama in his life, though. He has served as a consultant for the TV show "The Closer" and, more recently, "Major Crimes."

Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood plays him in the FX series. 



Former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman went on to write true-crime books and serve as a forensic and crime-scene expert for Fox News.

One of the first investigators on the crime scene, Mark Fuhrman, later testified that he found the notorious bloody glove, The New York Times reported back in 1995.

Fuhrman made national headlines when he was accused of being a racist and even of using the "n" word. He pleaded "no contest" to a perjury charge that he lied in court about using the slur.

These days, Fuhrman serves as a forensic and crime-scene expert for Fox News Channel.

He's written a number of books, including "Murder in Greenwich," which chronicles an unsolved murder that has gotten national attention.

Steve Pasquale plays Fuhrman in the FX show. 



Former prosecutor Marcia Clark now writes legal thrillers.

Lead prosecutor Marcia Clark became a household name during the 1994-1995 trial, which was broadcast into the living rooms of everyday Americans.

By October 1994, a "roving band of reporters" surrounded Clark as she left the courthouse one day, The New York Times reported at the time

The Times noted that Clark made efforts to change her appearance in an apparent effort to seem more sympathetic to the jury. During the trial, she started sporting "shorter, better-kempt hair that framed her face, warmer and lighter-colored dresses with softer fabrics, more jewelry," according to The Times.

Clark scored a $4.2 million book deal by the end of the trial. These days, Clark describes herself on her Facebook page as the author of the Rachel Knight series about a district attorney in Los Angeles.

"Writing novels and being in the courtroom — it's a storytelling job, no matter how you look at it," Clark told Oprah Winfrey in 2013. "It's the same thing."

Clark — who's played by Sarah Paulson in the FX show — recently spoke to the New York Post about the dramatization of the O.J. trial.

"I could sit back and appreciate the brilliance of the performers, but I kept coming back to the idea that two people are dead. Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. It was pretty hard sitting through the first two episodes," Clark told the Post. "Whatever you think of [OJ] Simpson, the murderer walked away. No one was brought to justice."



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