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Bruce Springsteen is about to turn 67 and has been rocking his Fender Telecaster and turning in marathon live shows for decades.

He's also now publishing a 500-page autobiography about his life, his music, and his long association with the state of New Jersey, and the open road.

The title is, naturally, "Born to Run," same as Springsteen's best-known song and album.

The September Vanity Fair has Bruce on the cover, astride a motorcycle, and a profile inside by David Kamp. Читать дальше...

The original "Super Mario Bros." is a classic video game.

It's a colorful, surreal, delightful game that's still beloved by millions of people the world over.

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And, for years, it was the first video game played by millions of children. 

But times have changed!

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Today's kids are growing up with smartphones in the same way that I grew up with the Nintendo Entertainment System. 

Nintendo's creative lead, Shigeru Miyamoto — the father... Читать дальше...

An aspiring police officer spent two months undercover in an Indiana county jail as part of A&E's documentary show "60 Days In." In an interview with Business Insider, Ryan shared that the inmates "ran everything" in jail and that the guards only had an "illusion of power."

The 2015 NFL season did not end the way that Luke Kuechly and the Carolina Panthers would have liked.

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OfferUp is making waves as a mobile-only hybrid between Craigslist and eBay — and so far, users are loving it. 

The company is said to have surpassed the early days of eBay in terms of sales volume, and its users are spending the same amount of time on OfferUp in a day as they do on Snapchat or Instagram.

On Thursday, it raised a fresh $119 million round of venture capital, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. 

As someone addicted to Snapchat with some extra furniture pieces lying around... Читать дальше...

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Zara's mysterious founder, Amancio Ortega, just surpassed Bill Gates to become the richest man in the world. 

Shares of the Spanish retailer's parent company, Inditex, rose 2.5%. That boosted Ortega's fortune to $79.5 billion, according to Forbes. 

Bill Gates' net worth is $78.5 billion. 

Despite Ortega's impressive net worth, many people have never heard of him.

The 80-year-old Spaniard fiercely guards his privacy and gives few interviews to the press. Читать дальше...

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San Franciscans know riding the city's subway system, known as BART, before 9 a.m. is roughly the equivalent of being trapped inside a Russian nesting doll made up of sardine cans.

You emerge from the station hot, sweaty, and usually late to work.

In an effort to make the trains less crowded, BART is rolling out a new program that pays riders cash for commuting outside of rush hour. The payout is marginal, but city-dwellers will likely welcome any... Читать дальше...

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Disney's next anticipated animated feature is "Moana" — a film about a young South Pacific girl who teams up with a demi-god on an oceanic adventure. According to BuzzFeed, the movie will feature at least two Easter eggs from previous Disney films. 

The first Easter egg is, if anything, a bit predictable. Flounder (Princess Ariel's guppy friend from "The Little Mermaid") will make a mystery appearance. "You'll have to find Flounder," co-director John Musker told BuzzFeed. "I... Читать дальше...

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Donald Trump spent seven minutes of his major address on education reform Thursday to defend his false assertion that he was against the Iraq War before it started.

The subject came back to the center of discussion after Trump brought it up in Wednesday night's Commander-in-Chief Forum on NBC.

"I happened to hear Hillary Clinton say that I was not against the war in Iraq," he said Wednesday. "I was totally against the war in Iraq. You can look at Esquire magazine from '04. Читать дальше...

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Amazon Marketplace — not Costco — is the top online seller of Costco's private-label brand, Kirkland Signature, according to a new study.

Amazon is responsible for 70% of Kirkland's online sales, while Costco is only responsible for 23%, according to the study by analytics firm 1010data.

Jet.com is in third place with a 5.5% share of Kirkland's online sales.

"I have always associated the Kirkland Signature brand with Costco, which is why I was so surprised... Читать дальше...

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Three years ago, a 'Grease' fan took to the Internet to posit a bizarre theory: What if Sandy Olsson — the goody two-shoes turned leather-clad vixen played by Olivia Newton John — was actually dead for the entire duration of the movie?

The theory, originally shared by Redditor atomicbolt in 2013, has recently resurfaced on social media, the Daily Mail reports, causing a ruckus among dedicated fans of the 1978 movie musical. 

The theory stems from one of... Читать дальше...

The loonie doesn’t look like it’ll be soaring anytime soon. The oil market sucks, millennials are getting squeezed, and the economy is concentrated in real estate. It’s no wonder analysts are now calling a further decline anticipating another 15 drop against the US dollar. On the other hand, that plummeting loonie could lead to a further rise in home prices.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX likely will be grounded for nine to 12 months while it investigates the cause of last week's launch pad accident and makes any repairs, the chief executive of SpaceX's prime U.S. competitor said on Thursday.

"It typically takes nine to 12 months for people to return to flight. That's what the history is," Tory Bruno, chief executive of United Launch Alliance, told Reuters.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster exploded on the launch pad on Sept. Читать дальше...

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As Hurricane Hermine passed through Florida last week and moved northward, Langley Air Force Base in Virginia was faced with the problem of protecting its F-22 Raptors. 

Costing about $140 million a pop, not including development costs, the stealth aircraft became vulnerable to the elements as Virginia declared a state of emergency. 

That's when the Air Force reached out to NASA’s Langley Research Center nearby.

With 85,200 square feet of space in their hangar... Читать дальше...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones," including speculation of future events and details from the book series.

Apple held a huge event on Wednesday to unveil a ton of new products, including new iPhones, a new Apple Watch, and much more.

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Twitter stock is down more than 6% in midday trading on Thursday as Wall Street appears to have little faith that a closely-watched board meeting will result in the company getting sold. 

Twitter's board of directors is meeting today and the struggling social media service's ongoing challenges reviving its stalled growth are sure to be at the top of the agenda. Previous media reports have suggested that the board would discuss whether a sale of the company might make sense... Читать дальше...

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Landon Donovan is coming back to MLS.

34-year-old Donovan is coming out of retirement to join the Los Angeles Galaxy, as first reported by Blake Thomsen of The Cauldron. Several other reporters have confirmed the report.

Donovan retired in 2014 after winning a championship with the Galaxy. He retired as the team's all-time leader in goals and assists.

Donovan's retirement also came shortly after he was cut from the US national team by head coach Jurgen Klinsmann. Читать дальше...

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Matthew McConaughey gained 40 pounds and a receding hairline for his upcoming film "Gold," and from the looks of the movie's first trailer, the transformation has made for an incredible performance.

The TWC-Dimension film stars McConaughey, Bryce Dallas Howard ("Jurassic World"), and Edgar Ramirez ("Point Break"). It's the first directorial effort from Stephen Gaghan since the release of his Oscar-winning film "Syriana" in 2005. (In case you forgot, George Clooney won... Читать дальше...

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Building and maintaining customer relationships used to be as simple as assigning a personable, responsible account rep to handle questions or concerns. Not anymore.

Calls and emails into a contact center are effectively being replaced with a slew of social-media options perfect for immediate — and very public — responses to customer inquiries. Over the past decade or so, Facebook changed the customer-engagement game with its creation of Facebook Pages. Twitter feeds... Читать дальше...

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We're now more than a year into the Zika outbreak in the Americas, and the effects are starting to show in Brazil.

Over the past year, rates of birth defects in Brazil have doubled, while instances of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a condition in which the immune system attacks the body's nervous system, have tripled, according to a study published online in the CDC's journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization confirmed... Читать дальше...

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Most people would stop taking a drug if it caused them to have grand mal seizures for hours and puke uncontrollably. But for Tim Ferriss, the famous author of "The 4-hour Workweek", ayahuasca is a drug that vaporized his anger overnight.

"It’s mind-boggling how much it can do in one or two nights," Ferriss, an early investor in tech startups such as Uber, Evernote and Duolingo, told The New Yorker. 

Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic drink made from boiling Amazonian plants. Читать дальше...

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Aleppo is one of Syria's largest cities and one of its most divided. For years, control of the city has been split between President Bashar Assad's forces and the rebels fighting his authoritarian regime.

The fighting has set off a large-scale humanitarian crisis as civilians are bombarded daily and areas are cut off from receiving aid.

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president of the United States, was roundly mocked on Thursday when he appeared... Читать дальше...

Sarah Jacobs

Sarah LaFleur is the founder and CEO of MM.LaFleur, a clothing brand designed specifically for professional women. LaFleur, whose sold-out dresses have at times amassed a 1,600-person waitlist, has a great rule of thumb when it comes to shopping and purchasing clothes for work — and the rule can apply to both men and women in the office.

She calls it the 40/40/20 rule.

"Our 40/40/20 philosophy centers around the idea of building a balanced wardrobe," LaFleur told Business Insider. Читать дальше...