While Hollywood has tried to get the story of the rivalry between Apple visionary Steve Jobs and Microsoft trailblazer Bill Gates right, Steve Wozniak had a front row seat as it went down in real time.

Wozniak was the co-founder and technical genius behind Apple. In that role, he was the man that brought Jobs' visions to life. Over the years, he would get to know both Jobs and Gates very well as Apple and Microsoft weaved in and out of being competitors and partners.

During a press call on Wednesday for National Geographic Channel's "American Genius," Wozniak explained the main difference between Jobs and Gates.

"Steve Jobs [has] a very futuristic forward vision, almost a bit of the science fiction, 'Here’s what life could be,' but Bill Gates had more of an execution ability to build the things that are needed now, to build a company now, make the profits now, in the short-term," Wozniak explained. "I think that was the biggest difference between them."

Wozniak, who was interviewed on the upcoming National Geographic program, said that while Jobs may be the more celebrated figure currently in the story of the rise of personal computers, Gates was the one who really understood how to make money.

"You really need the vision like Steve Jobs has, but the vision doesn’t go anywhere if you try to jump in and build products before they are cost effective for what they do, return on investment is there," he said.

Wozniak added, "It was during the time of the Macintosh that the world market grew 10 times and Apple did not go up with it."

"American Genius: Jobs vs. Gates" premieres Monday, June 1 at 9 p.m. on National Geographic Channel.

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After the global box-office success of "Furious 7," Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson returns to theaters this weekend in "San Andreas," another high-octane adrenaline rush which sees Johnson saving lives as a first responder at the expense of the largest earthquake of all time.

Though the film has been getting mixed reviews, estimates are predicting the film will have an opening north of $40 million.

Since 2002's "The Scorpion King," The Rock has become a box-office king proving he could win over audiences as a single dad in "Tooth Fairy" or as a heavy-hitting action star in "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," and the "Fast and Furious" saga. His movies combined have made over $5.2 billion worldwide. 

But before he was rocking the box office, he was just a wrestler, best known for his signature move "The People's Elbow."

Frank Pallotta and Mallory Schlossberg contributed to an earlier version of this story.

Before he was "The Rock," Dwayne Johnson was born May 2, 1972, in Hayward, California.

Source: Biography

Wrestling is in Johnson's blood. His father, Rocky "Soul Man" Johnson, was a member of the first African-American tag-team champions and his grandfather, Peter Maivia, was one of the first Samoan wrestlers.

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Johnson didn't go straight to wrestling. His first sport was football. After starring in high school he played in college for the Miami Hurricanes. Over his tenure at the school, Johnson started just once but appeared in 39 games and had 77 tackles, and he was a part of the 1991 national championship team.

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Sports video games are similar to the world's actual sports in one major way: They heavily target men over women. Despite the presence and popularity of female athletes across a variety of sports, it remains rare to see female athletes and leagues in major sports video games.

That's exactly why it was such a big deal this week when EA Sports announced the inclusion of 12 female teams to its wildly popular FIFA franchise. The teams will be part of this year's game, "FIFA 16."

Here's an introductory trailer celebrating their inclusion:

But not everyone was so excited.

That tweet comes from EA Sports exec Peter Moore, and it highlights the uphill battle diversity faces in the world of video games (to say nothing of the larger world of sports). EA Sports isn't new to this battle. The company highlights female golfers and the LPGA in its "PGA Tour" golfing video game series and has for years.

But when it comes to, say, basketball, the WNBA has never appeared in anything from EA Sports or rival 2K Games — zero times — despite the fact that NBA video games sell incredibly well. Last year's game from the dominant franchise, "NBA 2K15," sold well over 5 million copies.

The move from EA Sports to include 12 female teams in "FIFA 16" comes at a time when video game developers are re-assessing their representation of women and minorities in all video-game genres. The blockbuster series "Assassin's Creed" is getting a female protagonist to lead this year's game, and even added female fodder enemies.

Sounds like no big deal, right? That's because it shouldn't be. But it is! Here's a lineup of last year's major holiday games:

Pretty guy-centric, no? The Associated Press thought so as well and, after last year's annual video-game industry trade show (E3), published a piece titled, "Lack Of Leading Ladies Haunts Video Games."

In it, the heads of the game industry's largest game publishers spoke to why there aren't more female characters in major video games. "Any character you create requires extra resources, gender aside,” Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg told the AP. "Any character that has a different look, voice, mechanics or way of moving, requires more work. But that’s not a reason not to do something. We create lots of different characters with lots of different movements." 

Activision's main rival, EA, had different logic. Patrick Soderlund, executive vice president at EA Studios, told the AP, "My thesis is that it’s a male-dominated business. I’m not sure that flies, but I think it overall may have something to do with it — that boys tend to design for boys and women for women." And with under 20% of the game industry represented by women, many more games end up geared toward men.

So why aren't there more female athletes in sports games? That's less clear, but it sounds like the reason why more women aren't represented in video games is a combination of cheapness — studios not wanting to shell out to create more characters — and many game developers/executives being male. That is changing, but it's changing very slowly.

The status quo in representation is changing across the board, and moves like the one EA Sports is making with "FIFA 16" are emblematic of that change. For now, though, they're just baby steps.

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In the last words of his 2006 autobiography, "iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon," Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak relays an exuberant and instructive message to his readers: "And have fun doing it." 

During a press call for the upcoming National Geographic mini-series "American Genius," one reporter probed Wozniak about that particular passage, asking, "Have you always had fun with your life? There are a lot of people who are very successful who don’t seem to have much fun doing it."

Wozniak responded with an all-encompassing life philosophy:

"You know what?  People running companies, you see a lot and so you’ve got to be upset and you’ve got to be driving and pushing hard.  I run into an equal number of CEOs of big successful companies that are friendly, that are well liked, some that even love to tell jokes all the time.  So, it can go both ways.  I don’t think that has to do with business success.

I had a lifetime philosophy that everything you do in life, whether it’s work or not, you should include an element of fun in it.  So, it was a personal philosophy of mine, but it also partly kept me out of—I had philosophies about being nice, a whole bunch of formulas that really said I cannot run a company or be political.  I can’t tell people bad things about themselves, that sort of thing.  It comes along with me, but I was sort of an extreme example."

"American Genius," which premieres on the National Geographic Channel on June 1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, will lead off with an episode titled "Jobs vs. Gates." This first installment in the mini-series will detail the innovation race in the 1980s between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and will feature commentary from Wozniak, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, politician Mitt Romney, and others.

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For a long time, one of the biggest genres in comic books wasn't about superheroes at all—it was romance. Some of the biggest names in comics history, people responsible for creating the superheroes that now make billions in the box office, first built their reputation in romance comics. Creators like Jack Kirby (who almost single-handedly invented the entire Marvel Universe) and Joe Simon (who co-created Captain America with Kirby) created titles like "Young Romance" before moving on to the stories that made them famous—just before the eventual demise of romance comics. 

Now, one woman is trying to bring back romance comics after decades of dormancy—and she might be on to something. 

Janelle Asselin has led a career completely immersed in comics. Early on, she edited comics for both DC Entertainment and Disney Publishing before pivoting to criticism and co-editing Comics Alliance. Now, she's also the CEO of Rosy Press, a new publishing company specializing in romance comics. Its first publication—the monthly digital anthology "Fresh Romance"—just went on sale this week after an enormously successful Kickstarter.

But Asselin isn't just trying to resurrect a dormant genre in comics with Rosy Press and "Fresh Romance" —she's trying to help push the comics industry forward and make it more welcoming for women.

"I hope that the success of 'Fresh Romance' and the positive reaction to it will help comics publishers see that women are a viable demographic with money to spend, but also a demographic that knows pandering and bullshit when they see it," Asselin told Business Insider. "There are opportunities here for publishers and businesses to connect with a growing, powerful demographic if they put earnest thought behind their initiatives and work to truly understand just how varied and diverse women are as a readership."

Asselin isn't wrong. While data and research on the subject is only just starting to emerge, social media and convention attendance has made it undeniably clear: more women are reading comics than ever before, and they're hungry for stories aimed at them. 

This is something that Asselin argues is a big part of the original demise of romance comics. 

"The creators working on romance comics in the late 60s and early 70s were mostly guys who wrote what they thought girls and women wanted to read," says Asselin. That, combined with the content regulations imposed by the Comics Code Authority that objected to "immoral" content and the beginnings of second wave feminism and the sexual revolution—all resulted in a perfect storm that sounded a death knell for the golden age of romance comics. 

"An increasingly sophisticated and liberated female audience had no interest in those saccharine stories," says Asselin. "The real reason that now is a good time to bring them back is that women are reading comics in constantly increasing numbers and women who don’t already comics tend to be more open to the medium than they have for the last few decades. Plus, romance does really well in novels and there’s a lot of what makes the genre appealing that can easily be translated into romance comics."

Indeed, romance novelists are literary rock stars, immensely successful in an industry otherwise beset by woes. Nevertheless, they are perceived as lowbrow and not worthy of serious critical consideration. This perception, Asselin points out, is something they have in common with the comic book medium as a whole, and what makes romance an comics an ideal pairing. 

"Much like romance, comics are often dismissed as being a lesser form of publishing. While romance is often dismissed because of it’s femininity and formulaic nature, comics have often been dismissed due to a belief that anything illustrated is for children and because of the masculinity and formulaic nature of its most identifiable genre, super heroes," says Asselin. "'Serious' comics produced for the literary-minded are branded as graphic novels, while a romantically themed literary novel will be described as a romance last, if ever. The pulp roots of the romance genre and the comics medium make it an easy pairing because of all of that."

There's also a proven case study one can look to and see how viable a genre romance comics is—Japanese manga.

"Japan has been doing romance comics for decades and romance manga is very popular here in the US too. The genre is appealing to people who already read comics, but there’s very little offered by the US comics industry that fits the mold," says Asselin. "I think the comics industry needs more women as creators and readers, and it would be a mistake to not try to make that happen with a genre that has been women-focused for so long."

"Fresh Romance," then, is the culmination of all of these developments Asselin has long observed and even studied while obtaining a Masters degree in publishing from Pace University. Its debut issue contains the first entries for three serialized stories in very different sub-genres: a high school romance, a Regency romance, and a quirky tale about meet-cutes with a possible sci-fi twist.

"It’s been really fascinating to see how different writers and artists approach the romance genre - a lot of these creators haven’t worked in the genre before, so it’s a chance for them to try something new," says Asselin. "In "School Spirit" by Kate Leth and Arielle Jovellanos, the story picks up while the key romances are already under way but are still evolving, but in our other two stories (“Ruined” by Sarah Vaughn and Sarah Winifred Searle and “The Ruby Equation” by Sarah Kuhn and Sally Jane Thompson) the readers will see the beginnings of romance. And all of those stories feature very different lead characters and plotlines."

Asselin has plans for much more in the future and hopes that more creators will join the small-but-notable roster she's built—Rosy Press will be accepting submissions for "Fresh Romance." However, most successful comics creators aren't just out to create great work, but foster communities, and Asselin is no different. 

"My highest hope is that it’s a supportive, fun community that is not just engaged in our comics but wants to be involved in the larger comics culture," says Asselin. "I’d love to see existing comics readers and new comics readers bonding over "Fresh Romance." Plus, I love talking to people on Twitter (when they’re not hostile, anyway) and I know a lot of the Rosy Press creators do as well - and we all believe in the goal of spreading the joy of comics and making the industry a better, more welcoming place."

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On Thursday, actress Kristen Bell accidentally ordered an UberPool — a carpooling option on the Uber app — when she actually intended to order a private car. 

She live-tweeted the resulting experience to her 1.79 million followers.

 She was just a little confused.

But the real fun for Bell's Twitter followers began once another passenger got in the car.

Bell was apparently so bored during the ride that she started making bad jokes.

But back to the ride ...

All's well that ends well.

And her fans loved being along for the ride.

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There are a lot of things the president of the United States is not allowed to have or do.

For example, President Obama has a BlackBerry, because there's technology in the iPhone he's not allowed to have.

And it took until May for Obama to finally get his own Twitter account, @POTUS — president of the United States.

Sometimes, being president is kind of like being a prisoner in the White House. Obama described some of the limitations of being president in a March interview with Jimmy Kimmel.

On the show, Obama said he wasn't allowed to drive himself anywhere, and joked about a time he once stole the keys to an electric car and drove around the south lawn, which terrified his secret service. And at daylight-saving time, Obama doesn't have to change a single clock. The one at his bedside is changed for him by his staff.

So what happens when Obama gets hungry in the middle of the night and wants to get a snack?

"Is there someone in your kitchen all night?" Kimmel asked Obama. "If you want to have a sandwich, would you have to wake someone up?"

"I wouldn't wake someone up," Obama replied.

"You're allowed to go in your refrigerator on your own?" Kimmel questioned.

"I am!" the president replied. "There's a refrigerator, and there's silverware."

Although Obama admits, "It's been a while since I cooked."

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Yet another comic book series is going to be adapted for the big screen, and there's good news and bad news. 

The good news: That comic is "Lumberjanes," one of the best comic books of 2014. It's about five girls who are best friends and attend the "Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types." They're like Girl Scouts, but aren't as concerned with selling cookies as they are with being awesome, as well as fighting weird supernatural bearwomen because, to quote the comic, "duh."

"Lumberjanes" is also a fantastic piece of feminist fiction, created for women, by women at a time when cultural concern for comic book publishers' efforts to reach out to female fans began to reach a fever pitch. Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Waters, Grace Ellis, and Brooke A. Allen's creation managed to be both necessary and entertaining, simultaneously important, and a really fun time. 

It is also very, very funny. 

Here's the bad news, or at least the strange news: According to The Wrap, 20th Century Fox has chosen Will Widger—writer of the hot Black List script "Munchkin"—to adapt the comic for the screen. That's a bit concerning. 

As Rachel Handlen writes over at The Dissolve, "It’s massively disappointing that Fox didn’t entrust a woman with adapting this lady-empowering, trope-smashing work of art." She's right, too. Half of the point of "Lumberjanes" is that, behind the extremely funny, all-ages adventures, is a fierce defiance of old assumptions that pop culture made by and for women doesn't have broad appeal, and that women aren't worth marketing anything other than romances to. 

Widger may be a very good writer—and he probably is—but ultimately, the decision to hire him will come across as hopelessly tone deaf at best, and a betrayal of what the "Lumberjanes" comic stands for at worst.  

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Ever since the release of "Mad Max" mid-May, the film's fan base has grown rapidly and more passionate by the day. It has inspired memes and mashups alike, including one very clever one simply called "Mario Kart: Fury Road."

Now, the phenomenon of "Fury Road" is taking one of the biggest websites in the world by storm.

For those who have seen the movie, you might recall the War Boys, one of the many warring tribes of this post-apocalyptic world and main antagonists to Max (Tom Hardy) and Furiosa (Charlize Theron). In the film, they cover their faces with a chrome spray right before sacrificing their lives for their leader Immortan Joe. Their deaths are supposed be rewarded with an eternal visit to Valhalla, the heavenly place that is a central aspect of both Norse and War Boy mythology.

The fans have now made it to Amazon and have infiltrated the page for Wilton Silver Color Mist, a food coloring spray that very much resembles the spray from the film.

Here's what that product looks like:

Here's how the spray looks on one of the War Boys in the film:

The Wilton Silver Color Mist, which could easily be a product used by the boys, has inspired a page that is now covered in "Mad Max" references and jokes. 

It all starts in the FAQ section of the product on Amazon, which other fans have taken to answering:

One of these questions even merited a serious answer:

The madness didn't stop there.

Not long after the movie came out, "Fury Road" fans took to the comment section of the product and have essentially taken it over.

Prior to the film's release, the comments were solely about food.

Now you can find reviews like this:

The very first one seemed to pop up on May 20, just five days after "Fury Road" was released, showing how instantly quotable this movie really is.

Some of them contain very specific references to the movie.

And some people used this to somehow give the product negative reviews.

Somebody else might have done Wilton a favor and come up with a new tagline.

The spray paint related references have gone beyond Amazon into real-life situations.

Earlier today, a Home Depot that ran out of silver and chrome paint used "Fury Road" to explain the inconvenience to its customers:

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Fresh off the success of 1999's "Star Wars: Episode 1," actress Natalie Portman enrolled in Harvard University.

In 2003, she graduated with a degree in psychology.

But Portman's time at school wasn't always easy.

While addressing Harvard's graduating class on Wednesday, she began by revealing, "I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation, I'm still insecure about my own worthiness."

"Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999," the now 33-year-old explained. "I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth I would have to prove that I wasn’t just a dumb actress."

She continued:

When I got to Harvard, just after the release of 'Star Wars: Episode 1,' I feared people would assume I had gotten in just for being famous and not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And they would not have been far from the truth. When I came here, I had never written a 10-page paper before. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of fellow students who thought that the workload here was easy compared to high school. I was completely overwhelmed, and thought that reading 1,000 pages a week was unimaginable or that writing a 50-page thesis was something that I could never do.

Portman explains that she arrived at Harvard with the intention of proving she could be serious.

"I had been acting since I was 11 but I thought that acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned with being taken seriously," she told the crowd.

Looking back, "it’s easy now to romanticize my time here," Portman admits, "but I had some very difficult times here too."

"Some combination of being 19, dealing with my first heartbreak, taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side affects, and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months led me to some pretty dark moments particularly during sophomore year," she explained. "There were several occasions I started crying during meetings with professors, overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning."

Portman says that after taking intense courses and being "seriousness for seriousness' sake," she finally allowed herself to realize that her true passion all along was acting. 

"When I got to my graduation, after four years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn't wait to go back and make more films," Portman told the students. "I wanted to tell stories, imagine the lives of others, and help others to do the same. My Harvard degree represents to me the curiosity and invention that we're encouraged here, the friendships I've maintained."

Portman also drove home another point — using naïveté and youth to one's benefit.

"Make use of the fact that you don't doubt yourself too much right now," she urged graduates. "As we get older, we get more realistic and that includes about our own abilities or lack thereof. That realism does us no favors."

"Fear protects us in many ways, but what has served me is diving into my own obliviousness," Portman explained. "Being more confident than I should be ... trying things that you never would have tried. Your inexperience is an asset in that it will make you think in original, unconventional ways. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset."

Portman says this was especially poignant for her when making "Black Swan," for which she later won the Oscar for best actress in 2010.

When first approached about the role, she lied and told the director she was "basically a professional" ballerina. She didn't realize until she had already gotten the job that she was "about 15 years from" being an actual professional.

"The point is, if I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one of my greatest personal and professional achievements," said Portman.

But above all, says the married mother of a little boy, "The most fulfilling things I've experienced have truly been the human interactions."

"It's a cliché because it's true — helping others ends up helping you more than anyone," she says. "Getting out of your own concerns and caring about someone else's life for a while reminds you that you are not the center of the universe."

Check out Portman's full speech below. It's worth a watch:

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In recent years, YouTube has been dominated by "Let's Play" videos that show people playing popular video games and adding their own funny commentary.

Eleven of the top 20 independent YouTubers— including the number one, PewDiePie — make the bizarre and popular videos.

The trend can baffle some people. A recent South Park episode even parodied the gulf between those who love “Let’s Play” videos and those who just don't get it.

When Dan Tibbets joined YouTube gaming giant Machinima as its chief content officer last September, he wasn't sure what to make of "Let's Play" videos.

“I wanted to find out what the special thing was that makes so many millions of people watch them on a daily basis,” Tibbets told Business Insider.

This need to understand wasn't just a matter of curiosity for Tibbets. It was a necessity. 

Machinima is one of the biggest purveyors of “Let’s Play” videos in the world. After studying the videos, the appeal became clear.

“A lot of the content that Machinima has that is game-play based is really about personalities,” Tibbet explains. “What they are really doing is entertaining a mass audience through their stories about the game or around the game or their lives, using game-play as a background. They are incredible radio hosts, comedians, writers, and on-air personalities. When you really look at it, it’s a group of storytellers and filmmakers.”

Tibbets has been developing “Let’s Play” talent and assessing how Machinima can use them in other forms of entertainment like talk shows, animated shows, and live-action comedy programs on YouTube, on television, or in movies.

One of Machinima's most popular "Let's Play" gamers, Jerome Aceti (aka JeromeASF), has amassed a dedicated audience of more than 3.5 million subscribers by making videos around Minecraft. Tibbets says he recognized Aceti’s talent for comedy, and Aceti has now been working with the Machinima team to develop a variety of new programs — including animated projects and the recently announced “Jerome ASF’s The Baka Chronicles.”

Here's one of Aceti's most popular "Let's Play" videos:

Aceti is even moving into traditional media, though that too is based around his Minecraft persona. He hosts the television show "Talking Minecraft" on Fusion, along with another Let's Play Minecraft gamer, Jordan "Captain Sparklez" Maron. 

"Jerome has so many other dimensions to him that you want to harness creatively," Tibbets said.

It may only be a matter of time before Aceti breaks out of the gaming niche. 

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"The End of the Tour," aka "that Jason Segel David Foster Wallace movie," is a not a traditional, life-spanning biopic, and thank heavens for that. The film is a more personal, meditative examination of the artist that has enough wisdom and profundity to appeal to fans and novices alike.

"The End of the Tour" is based on Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky's (Jesse Eisenberg) memoir, which was based on a Rolling Stone long-form interview that was never published. In 1996, Lipsky traveled to Bloomington, Illinois, to spend five days with Wallace (Jason Segel) and accompany him on the final stretch of his publicity book tour for his best-known novel, "Infinite Jest."

Over the course of these five days, Lipsky keeps his tape recorder on as he and Wallace pontificate on anything and everything, from the big questions about life and loneliness to more petty things like how "Die Hard" is awesome and what Alanis Morissette would look like eating a bologna sandwich. It's a very intimate experience, and the camera often feels like a fly on the wall. 

Segel is sublime in what is easily his best and most serious performance. Segel still gets big laughs, but they come from the undeniable chemistry — and, later, the tension — between him and Eisenberg, who also puts in stellar work here. Segel perfectly conveys Wallace's disinterest in his own fame while highlighting his worrying obsession with the public's perception of him, which is no easy task.

It's a complicated role and Segel truly owns it. The scene in which Lipsky asks Wallace why he wears the bandana is particularly moving — it's here that Wallace comes face to face with the idea of his own mythos, and the true weight of his dilemma is felt. 

There are so many subtle, touching moments that display Wallace's genius as well as those that hint at the inner turmoil that ultimately led to his suicide. Segel's portrayal of Wallace is equal parts aloof and disturbed, but director James Ponsoldt ("The Spectacular Now," "Smashed") never exploits his alleged "dark side" for a cheap sentimental moment. All the humanizing moments connect on a real emotional level without pandering to the audience, and Ponsoldt brilliantly turns biopic conventions on their heads by refusing to peg Wallace down to any one interpretation. 

The film is essentially one long, occasionally philosophical and always amusing, ongoing conversation. It's surprisingly moving, wise and full of profound and well-articulated ideas, so much so that I had to stop taking notes as I was basically writing down every other line. Fans of Wallace's writing will find plenty to love here, but even the unfamiliar will walk away inspired and affected.

Watch the trailer below. 

"The End of the Tour" plays BAMcinemafest in Brooklyn on Wednesday, June 17. 

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Pixar's latest, "Inside Out," packs all the feels. Quite literally.

The movie follows 11-year-old Riley, spirited and goofy, as her dad's new job in San Francisco uproots the family from the Midwest. Helping to navigate Riley through this change are her emotions: Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Sadness (Phyllis Smith).

The anthropomorphic emotions live in Headquarters, the control center of Riley's mind, where they work together to advise her through everyday life. It's one of Pixar's most daring concepts to date. Directors Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen reimagine the brain as a Rube Goldberg-inspired aparatus, where memories are stored in glowing orbs that play back like Vines and a literal train of thought runs on a track through her psyche.

"Inside Out" is an unmistakable Pixar production. Much like "Toy Story," Finding Nemo," and "Up," the movie takes you on wildly funny adventures, all while tugging at the heartstrings. It strikes a perfect balance between childlike wonder and enthusiasm and smart, crass humor — appeasing both the kids and adults watching. And while "Inside Out," which is the studio's first release since 2013's "Monsters University," falls just shy of its predecessors' emotional pull, it surpasses them in its stunning animation and technical feats.

In an interview at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, California, Del Carmen ("Up," "Ratatouille") told Business Insider that the team set out to create the "largest set" of any animated movie. It was an absurdly tall order.

"We had to create the worlds that have never existed before. What does the interior of the mind look like? What are the systems in place?" del Carmen said. How do you visualize short-term memory converting into long-term memory, and the process of forgetting things? "We had to make that represented in the movie."

A person's personality, for example, is made up of large, amusement park-like "personality islands." Each represents a core trait or value. Below, we see the emotions peering out into the vast landscape of Riley's mind, where family island, friendship island, ice hockey island, and goofball island form her very essence.

The emotions interact with the real world through the looking glass: Riley's eyes. The vibrant colors and detail are exquisite.

Getting an audience to care about such conceptual characters — emotions that you recognize, but have never seen manifested in the physical form — is an enormous challenge. But Pixar made their lives all the more difficult by advancing the tech used to make the film.

If you look at Joy, her clothes, teeth, and hair appear plain, however, her skin appears to shed twinkling particles of energy. Pixar's chief creative officer John Lasseter described them as "champagne" bubbles.

When Anger is particularly angry, his skin prickles even more. This technique informs the viewer how the emotions are feeling.

Del Carmen told us this bold style didn't come cheap, but the effect was worth it.

"Having a character that is made of little particles that actually move around and lift up and disappear and not be distracting" was a tall order, he said. They blew through the budget in order to do it. But, "these characters are uniquely their own. They're not toys, they're not made out of plastic or wood, they're emotions." Their texture is how you know.

Typically, once the animators and voice actors finish their jobs, the footage is sent to the lighting department, where technicians manually light the frames and characters to make them more dynamic. This process can be arduous, particularly when the leads appear to be light sources themselves.

Pixar sped up this process by developing a new lighting technology that automatically made the characters' feet and appendages emit light on their surroundings, Cinemablend's Nick Romano reported in an interview with the filmmakers. 

It's as simple as that. Add some effervescent glitter, and boom — you've turned chemical firings in the brain into a digestible and iconic visual metaphor for understanding what role emotions play in your life and the lives of those around you. "Inside Out" teaches that each serves you in some way, be it Joy who fulfills you, Fear who keeps you safe, or Anger who defends you when you are wronged; and the film's ambitious animation succeeds in executing that concept.

I certainly hope for an "Inside Out" sequel starring Puberty.

"Inside Out" is in theaters June 19.

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Fans have just assumed that HBO's "Silicon Valley" based its raunchy venture capitalist Russell Hanneman on Mark Cuban, but Sunday's episode pretty much answers the question.

In a scene with the guys of Pied Piper, Russ (Chris Diamantopoulos) says that he has been informed that his net worth had fallen below a billion dollars. The news sent him into a tailspin and he asked the guys to prematurely jump to a revenue-producing model of Pied Piper.

During that conversation, he describes the moment he became a billionaire.

"I remember the second I became a billionaire," Russ said. "I was a-- naked, sitting right there, just clicking and refreshing, clicking and refreshing, watching the stock rise. And when it happened, I popped a [expletive] so fast I went blind for a full minute, [expletive] all over those cushions."

Sound familiar?

Cuban told a very similar story (minus the raunchy, expletive part) in August 2014 during a podcast interview.

"Literally, I was sitting in front of a computer, naked, hitting the refresh because we were close — waiting until my net worth hit that billion when the stock price got to a certain point, and then I kinda screamed and jumped around and then got dressed," the "Shark Tank" co-host said.

When asked about the scene, Cuban simply told Business Insider, "Russ is hysterical. I cracked up when I saw it."

So, Russell and Cuban are both colorful characters. They both brought radio to the internet in billion dollar deals. They both have invested in several companies. And now, both of them watched their money grow to the billion dollar level. Those are some pretty compelling similarities.

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While Hollywood has tried to get the story of the rivalry between Apple visionary Steve Jobs and Microsoft trailblazer Bill Gates right, Steve Wozniak had a front-row seat as it went down in real time.

Wozniak was the cofounder and technical genius behind Apple. In that role, he was the man who brought Jobs' visions to life. Over the years, he would get to know both Jobs and Gates very well as Apple and Microsoft weaved in and out of being competitors and partners.

During a press call on Wednesday for National Geographic Channel's "American Genius," Wozniak explained the main difference between Jobs and Gates.

He said Jobs had "a very futuristic forward vision, almost a bit of the science fiction, 'Here’s what life could be,' but Bill Gates had more of an execution ability to build the things that are needed now, to build a company now, make the profits now, in the short-term.

"I think that was the biggest difference between them," he said.

Wozniak said that while the late Jobs may now be the more celebrated figure in the story of the rise of personal computers, Gates was the one who really understood how to make money.

"You really need the vision like Steve Jobs had, but the vision doesn't go anywhere if you try to jump in and build products before they are cost effective for what they do, return on investment is there," he said.

Wozniak added: "It was during the time of the Macintosh that the world market grew 10 times and Apple did not go up with it."

"American Genius: Jobs vs. Gates" premieres Monday, June 1, at 9 p.m. on National Geographic Channel.

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Google I/O, the annual Google developers conference usually provides some pretty sweet swag for its attendees, such as the newest laptops and tablets. This year, they revelaed their virtual reality platform collaboration with GoPro called "Jump."

Google first dabbled in virtual reality at last year's conference with a piece of cardboard. Presented at the end of the conference, "Google Cardboard" was a way for Google to prove how simple virtual reality can be. We were intrigued, so we built one ourselves. 

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On Sunday, E!'s hit reality show "Rich Kids of Beverly Hills" returned for a third season.

The hour-long, "Rich Kids Of Instagram" Tumblr-inspired show features seven friends from 90210 who drop thousands of dollars on clothes, shoes, cars, and partying like it's their job — because that's exactly what it is for some of these "funemployed" 20-somethings. 

Get to know the cast and catch up on the series here before delving into the current season three.

"Rich Kids of Beverly Hills" airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on E!

Meet 27-year-old Dorothy Wang, who was born and raised in Beverly Hills — "The best city in the world."

In the pilot episode, Dorothy says, "Growing up, my parents never talked about money. It wasn't until it was printed in Forbes that I knew how much money we had."

Dorothy is currently "funemployed and fabuluxe," but "when I grow up I want to be the Asian sensation of the world."

In the last words of his 2006 autobiography, "iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon," Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak relays an exuberant and instructive message to his readers: "And have fun doing it." 

During a press call for the upcoming National Geographic mini-series "American Genius," one reporter probed Wozniak about that particular passage, asking, "Have you always had fun with your life? There are a lot of people who are very successful who don’t seem to have much fun doing it."

Wozniak responded with an all-encompassing life philosophy:

"You know what?  People running companies, you see a lot and so you’ve got to be upset and you’ve got to be driving and pushing hard.  I run into an equal number of CEOs of big successful companies that are friendly, that are well liked, some that even love to tell jokes all the time.  So, it can go both ways.  I don’t think that has to do with business success.

I had a lifetime philosophy that everything you do in life, whether it’s work or not, you should include an element of fun in it.  So, it was a personal philosophy of mine, but it also partly kept me out of—I had philosophies about being nice, a whole bunch of formulas that really said I cannot run a company or be political.  I can’t tell people bad things about themselves, that sort of thing.  It comes along with me, but I was sort of an extreme example."

"American Genius," which premieres on the National Geographic Channel on June 1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, will lead off with an episode titled "Jobs vs. Gates." This first installment in the mini-series will detail the innovation race in the 1980s between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and will feature commentary from Wozniak, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, politician Mitt Romney, and others.

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Here's a quick and fun way to enrich your business knowledge: streaming documentaries on Netflix.

The online movie and TV service has a vast cache of business and tech documentaries that anyone with a subscription can watch instantly. The topics range from profiles of great tech innovators like Steve Jobs to deep dives into industrial design.

Each of these 12 documentaries offers an entertaining storyline, as well as valuable insights into business success. 

Alison Griswold contributed to an earlier version of this article.

How lifelong dedication and obsession with quality can pay off

"Jiro Dreams Of Sushi" profiles Jiro Ono, a Japanese sushi chef and restaurant owner who is widely revered for his skill and $300-a-plate dinners. It follows the 85-year-old master as he works with vendors to secure the finest ingredients, manages and mentors his staff, and prepares his son to succeed him when he retires. The movie brings viewers inside the dedication, obsession, and decades of hard work it takes to achieve perfection.

The best tricks to transform your life

"TED Talks: Life Hacks" is a collection of 10 popular TED lectures that offer tips and insights for success in life and business. You'll learn body-language secrets from Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy, research-backed productivity tricks from positive psychology expert Shawn Achor, and more.

How to stage a dramatic turnaround

"Inside: Lego," a short 2014 film by Bloomberg, takes viewers inside one of the greatest turnaround stories in recent history. Lego, the Denmark-based toy maker, was in trouble in the early 2000s. It had overextended, lost its identity, and was bleeding money. After executing CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp's strategy to refocus on the core business, Lego rebounded to become the world's fastest-growing toy company.