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News Corp’s Entertainment Division Has A New Name: “21st Century Fox”

The media conglomerate, which announced last year that it would split its entertainment and publishing divisions, will name its entertainment division “21st Century Fox.”

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp media conglomerate, which last summer confirmed it was considering splitting its publishing and entertainment divisions, has announced it will name its entertainment arm “21st Century Fox,” a play on its 20th Century Fox movie studio.

21st Century Fox, whose new moniker replaces the previous announced Fox Group, will maintain a global portfolio of cable and broadcasting networks that includes, among many, Fox, FX, National Geographic, and Star; it will also house the aforementioned 20th Century Fox film studio.

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Find Out Where You Rank On The List Of The World’s Richest People

Probably higher than you think. And if that’s the case, perhaps the news might put you in a charitable mood.

Most people are interested in how much money the fabulously wealthy have. An app Co.Create mentioned last fall even lets you search to see how much any Hollywood star is worth. While uncovering these numbers can only make people with average bank accounts feel smaller, perhaps finding out where they rank on the Global Rich List will have the opposite effect.

Created by London-based agency Poke, The GRL asks users how much their yearly salary adds up to, and then let’s them know what percentage of the world’s richest people they’re in. The team at Poke put the list together with calculations based on figures from the World Bank Development Research Group, in order to show people, in real numbers, where thy stand financially in relation to the rest of the world.

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Why Your iPhone Addiction Is Snuffing Your Creativity

Having a stimulation fix in your pocket isn’t always the best for you. In praise of the power of boredom.

You know the feeling–you’re walking to the coffee machine, and you feel a tingle of knowledge-needing excitement. You pull out your phone to check Twitter, and promptly walk into a wall.

Your iPhone acts like an endless supply of Cheetos

And while that may be what’s happening with your face, it’s also what’s happening with your creative energy. When we’re constantly thumbing at our smartphones, our minds are always engaged–yay, stimulation!–but we’re not actually thinking about anything. Like Brian S. Hall at ReadWrite says, since we never get bored, we never get creative.

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Infographic: 60 Seconds Of Kobe Bryant’s Salary Vs. A School Teacher’s

How much does one of the NBA’s biggest stars make in a minute, compared to someone we trust with our childrens’ future? You don’t even want to know.

Every minute, Kobe Bryant makes $162.55. By comparison, a family doctor–what most of us consider a decent occupation!–makes $1.35. In that same amount of time, an elementary teacher makes $0.43 (yes, forty three cents). And a minimum-wage worker pulls in just over a dime–a mere $0.12.

For CNNMoney, designer BÃ¥rd Edlund created a fantastic animation to visualize this disparity. But rather than turning to stacks of gold or even bar graphs, Edlund rendered the data in circles. Which may not sound all that radical–but in data visualization, the area (or value) of circles can be difficult to compare.

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Microsoft Rumored To Have Google Glass Rival On The Way

Will AR goggles become the new Ray-Bans?

Industry analyst Brian White is the source of a new rumor about Microsoft’s future in wearable tech: White suggests that Microsoft is following Google’s lead and will introduce its own wearable augmented reality goggles in the first half of 2014.

White’s argument is that Google has made such a splash in both hardware and the software apps that will support Glass that Microsoft is going to try to directly compete with Google. Since Microsoft has been moving into smartphone and tablet markets in an effort to rival both Google and Apple, White’s arguments are plausible: Microsoft could easily be keen to tap into the reams of user data that connected AR goggles will generate as Google itself is. The same reason explains why other players including China’s Baidu and a long list of other folks are also reportedly working in the AR headware space.

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Ex-Zynga Employees Lament Bungled OMGPOP Acquisition

Was Zynga’s $183 million acquisition of OMGPOP a complete flop?

Last week, in a company-wide email, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus initiated “Mandatory Meditation Mondays.”

“I recently spent a great weekend with our senior leaders at a nearby Ashram,” Pincus wrote in his message, which Zynga shared with Fast Company. “We spent the weekend doing yoga and meditation in addition to juice cleanses. We all found this incredibly grounding and left more mindful of what it takes to win this year. So, we have all agreed it will be a fun experiment to start having the entire company spend an hour every Monday in silent, joint meditation…Let’s try this for the second quarter and see if we generate better metrics through mindfulness.”

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Tesla’s Model S Beats Sales Goals, Makes Profitability Likely

Tesla cuts budget Model S, but looks on course to make money.

Tesla has said it has beaten its sales goal for the first quarter, selling 4,750 Model S electric cars–that’s 250 above its predicted quota. If sales keep up, the company looks like it will safely reach its plan to sell 20,000 vehicles this year.

The company has also said it won’t be selling the 40 kWh version of the car because it wasn’t seeing enough demand for the entry-level option.

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Facebook Gets Thumbs-Up To Build Second Menlo Park Campus, Designed By Starchitect Frank Gehry

The 433,555-square-foot building will connect to the existing offices by underground tunnel. Cue privacy jokes.

Facebook‘s office space is expanding. The firm got the go-ahead from the Palo Alto council on Tuesday night to build a second campus at Menlo Park. The project will be designed by Frank Gehry and is expected to be an “extremely long” 433,555-square-foot building that will connect to the existing offices via a tunnel running under the Bayfront Expressway, which will divide the two campuses.

Will the new one look like a spaceship? Too soon to tell.

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A New Map Of The U.S., Created By How Our Dollar Bills Move

Using a site that tracks dollar bills, a theoretical physicist noticed that our state boundaries are rather arbitrary, but that money tends to stay within new, more realistic boundaries.

To theoretical physicist Dirk Brockmann, the borders of the United States are out of date.

“Some are kind of arbitrary like New Mexico, Arizona: they’re just kind of drawn on the map,” says Brockmann. “Often, they no longer correlate with our behavior.”

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Google Glass To Be Made In U.S.A.–By Foxconn

The manufacturer of the hi-tech specs will be Hon Hai Precision Industry (also known as Foxconn) at its Santa Clara plant.

Google‘s nearly here wearable tech, Project Glass, will be made in California.

Google has entrusted the manufacture of its AR glasses (the first batch of which are about to be sent to 8,000 lucky recipients) to Taiwanese firm Hon Hai, which you may know as Foxconn–yes, the guys that make, among other products, the iPhone.

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