Warning: Minor spoilers below.

The moment I realized "Solo: A Star Wars Movie" wasn't for me was toward the two-hour mark of the movie, when I realized we were nowhere near the end.

Granted, there was about only 15 minutes left in the movie, but it felt like an eternity. I've had that feeling in many movies in my life — when it just won't end. But never for a "Star Wars" movie.

"Solo" is not an awful movie, it just has a few awful parts that feel uninspired. This is particularly true in the third act of the movie.

In "Solo" (opening May 25), we follow the progression of Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) from a small-time hood on his home planet of Corellia, with dreams of being a great pilot cruising through the galaxy, to eventually becoming a space pirate.

There are thrilling action sequences, cinematographer Bradford Young ("Arrival") gives the movie a beautiful look, there are fantastic performances by Ehrenreich and Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, and Donald Glover completely knocks it out of the park as Lando Calrissian.

But the movie crumbles following Han and the gang's thrilling completion of the legendary Kessel Run. The conclusion of the movie is stale, filled with cliches, and tries too hard to set the foundation for future "Solo" movies by featuring one of the most random cameos you'll ever see in a movie (more on that in a sec, but don't worry, no spoilers).

That's certainly not my only issue with the movie.

It starts with some really lame opening text that sets the stage. The worst piece is the use of the words "mean streets" in describing the planet Solo grew up on. And the movie at times tries a little too hard to make Han an idealistic jokester. Personally, I think this is less the leftover effect of Chris Miller and Phil Lord's involvement in the movie as one-time directors, and more on eventual director Ron Howard's vanilla style.Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian is fantastic. Lucasfilm However, there are some great elements to the story, as well.

Young's photography goes from smoky original "Blade Runner" vibe in the beginning to wide epic shots by the end. Glover's Calrissian sounds like the actor who originally played him, Billy Dee Williams, and has a flawless style. He's also paired with a sassy robot co-pilot, L3-37 (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) that is a total scene stealer. And Ehrenreich actually pulls off playing Solo, not so much by doing his best Harrison Ford impression, but instead showing us a different side of the character. This is how Solo was before the galaxy chewed up all the youthful optimism he had about life and spit him back out.

And we see the Millennium Falcon at its one-time pristine condition, which is a thrill to take in.

The biggest issue the movie has is that the screenwriters Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan try to shoe-horn a plot twist at the end that is so unnecessary. In teasing a potential villain path for Han's love interest in the movie, Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke), they bring back a character from the "Star Wars" saga that is a fan favorite, but is a bizarre choice to be included in this story. It certainly is going to make an uproar when general audiences see the movie, primarily because it feels so blatantly force fed.

Like all "Star Wars" movies, there will be those who will absolutely love this movie, and there are certainly things to enjoy about it. The supporting cast — filled with veterans like Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany, Thandie Newton, and one character voiced by Jon Favreau — are all great and mesh perfectly with the leads.

But my fear is "Solo" shows signs that Disney/Lucasfilm are hitting a point where the beloved "Star Wars" universe could be headed to a watered-down moment. Is there a need to have a "Star Wars" movie released every single year, especially with multiple "Star Wars" series coming to Disney's streaming service in the coming years?

To this point, all the movies released so far since Disney took over Lucasfilm have been enormous money makers, so obviously the studio won't want to slow down. But "Solo" may be the first indication that it might be time to pump the brakes and take more time to focus on the stories, and make sure everything is right (especially the creatives involved) before making a movie.

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David Tepper’s hedge fund, Appaloosa Management, exited its stake in Apple during the first quarter, documents filed Tuesday show.

At Tuesday’s prices, the sale of 4,587,852 shares would be worth more than $853 million.

The sale was made public in a form known as a 13-F, which all institutional asset managers are required to file after each quarter. Because funds are only required to disclose their current holdings, it’s not clear when or at what price the fund sold off its stake. 

Regardless, Tepper likely saw a hefty profit thanks to the appreciation of Apple even in recent months. Since November, when a smaller stake was first disclosed by Appaloosa, the stock has risen 9%. The fund's initial purchase happened some time between July and September, when Apple shares were even lower.

Tuesday’s filings come just hours after Tepper reportedly agreed to buy the Carolina Panthers from team founder Jerry Richardson for $2.2 billion. The purchase is pending a vote at the NFL owners meeting next week in Atlanta.

The fund, whose holdings of public securities fell 7.1% to $9.71 billion in the quarter, also added a new stake in Wells Fargo while upping its stake in MGM and Google-parent Alphabet

The horizon seems to stretch toward infinity on Earth's surface, where the vast majority of us will spend our entire lives.

But photos from space don't lie about the real stature of our home planet.

Earth is a puny, insignificant speck that floats in an endless black void, and a new NASA photo is all the more proof of this moving (and perhaps depressing) fact of life.

The image was taken from a distance of about 621,371 miles (1 million kilometers) away, by a tiny satellite that's currently on its way to Mars.

When NASA's InSight lander launched on May 5, it was accompanied by two identical, backpack-size satellites collectively called Mars Cube One, or MarCO. MarCO-A and MarCO-B are tiny, modular spacecraft known as "CubeSats," and today they're officially the smallest satellites ever sent past the moon.

During a series of tests on May 9, MarCO-B — which engineers call "Wall-E" — took its first-ever photo so scientists could check that its antenna deployed correctly. In the resulting image, two familiar objects appear: Earth and its moon.

A photo of Earth and the moon taken by MarCO-B about 1 million kilometers away from the planet.NASA/JPL-Caltech

It's easy to miss the celestial partners in the picture.

To help us out, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a labeled version that highlights Earth, the moon, and various parts of MarCO-B.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Capturing Earth and the moon in the photo was no accident.

NASA said the image is meant to honor the "pale blue dot" photo proposed by famed physicist Carl Sagan and taken by the Voyager spacecraft in 1990.

"Consider it our homage to Voyager," Andy Klesh, MarCO's chief engineer at NASA-JPL, said in a press release about the image. "CubeSats have never gone this far into space before, so it's a big milestone. Both our CubeSats are healthy and functioning properly. We're looking forward to seeing them travel even farther."

The MarCO satellites are designed to test the benefits of launching CubeSats in deep space.

If at least one MarCO satellite safely reaches the red planet, it could help scientists on Earth get better, quicker information about the InSight spacecraft's attempt to descend toward and land on the Martian surface.

San Francisco is in trouble. The streets are filthy. Housing prices are out-of-control. The city is host to 1.23% of all homeless Americans.

Some San Franciscans are fed up with the tech industry, which they blame for gentrification and the still-painful housing crisis. They want a reckoning to come for Big Tech — courtesy of the next mayor.

San Francisco elects a new mayor in less than three weeks, and the candidates are battling over the best path to regulate the tech industry and its presence in the city. The top contenders are expected to take a harder line with the tech companies that have sprouted throughout the city, thanks to generous tax breaks and other favorable policies. The era of tech-friendly civic policy in San Francisco may be coming to an end.

Seven mayoral candidates met for one final debate on Monday evening at the Commonwealth Club. During the last portion of the debate, the moderator read questions from the audience, ranging in topic from the city's homelessness epidemic to the onslaught of electric scooters.

"Why is the rent so damn high?" the moderator read from a card.

The room broke out in laughter that quickly subsided, as an audience of about 200 people waited to hear how their next mayor plans to reckon with out-of-control housing prices.

San Francisco is in the thralls of a housing emergency. The median two-bedroom rent of $3,060 is more than double the national average of $1,170, and only 12% of families can afford to buy a home in the city. Lower-income residents are leaving in droves, as tech and finance professionals migrate into the city for high-paying jobs, driving housing prices even higher.

Audience questions during the debate made it clear, if it weren't before: Some residents are fed up with what they see as the tech industry leeching off their city, and they want the next mayor to force Big Tech to pay up.

Candidate Mark Leno, a former California state senator, called on tech companies to hire more residents for jobs in administrative offices and sales. He cited the number of college-educated San Franciscans driving taxis to suggest that underemployment is something tech can solve.

"We need to make sure that [the tech industry's] success is our success," Leno said.

An Uber self-driving vehicle climbs a hill in San Francisco. Uber

Supervisor Jane Kim, who's also running for mayor, came down on the tech industry for "their role in exacerbating the income gap," which she called the fastest-growing in the country. San Francisco's middle class shrank from about half the population in the 1990s to about 33% in 2012.

She suggested that local government work together with the tech industry to address how these companies "treat their lowest-paid workers." She asked, "What benefits do they provide them?"

Kim went on, "Can they stop contracting out [...] so that our janitors, our cafeteria workers, our security guards have security to live in the Bay Area and be able to raise their families here?"

Candidate Ellen Lee Zhou, a public health worker and union representative considered to be an underdog, asked that the tech industry considered "supplying their own apartments for their own employees." As mayor, she said she would ask tech companies to donate buildings for developing affordable housing.

People from the audience asked the candidates to address the insane traffic jams that residents face downtown, where some 6,500 Uber and Lyft cars roam the streets during peak hours.

Richie Greenberg, a small business adviser and the only Republican in the race, and San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed — who served as acting mayor briefly after the sudden death of previous mayor Ed Lee — both said they would place a cap on the number of ride-hailing cars permitted on the road at any time. Breed went a step further, saying she would curb some vehicles with on-demand startups like Postmates and Caviar to reduce congestion.

San Francisco will vote on June 5 — the same day as the statewide California elections.

With Facebook under scrutiny for its privacy practices, some nurses in San Francisco want to remove the name of the company's founder from a local public hospital.

The nurses, many of whom work for the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital And Trauma Center — commonly referred to as just the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital — worry that patients will associate it with the social network and its recent scandal involving the leak of data to Cambridge Analytica. They're also concerned about being connected with Zuckerberg and Facebook in light of some of the company's ethically questionable practices in the past.

On Saturday, a small group of nurses staged a protest outside the hospital, taping over the word "Zuckerberg" on a sign.

"To give the name away to someone who has caused a great deal of harm in the world is entirely inappropriate," nurse Sasha Cuttler told Business Insider.

The New York Times previously reported on the protest.

San Francisco General Hospital was renamed in 2015 after Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan donated $75 million to the institution. The name change has aroused opposition since it was first announced.

A union that includes nursing employees from the hospital circulated a petition in 2015 urging the hospital allow city residents to have some say in the name. The petition noted that residents in 2008 had approved $887 million bond measure to support the hospital.

"Although Mr. Zuckerberg and Dr. Chan's $75 million donation is appreciated and needed, we feel strongly that it is wrong to name the whole hospital for them," the petition read.

Objections to using Zuckerberg's name have been raised for years

The objections to the name have been reignited by the recent string of scandals for Facebook, particularly the one involving Cambridge Analytica. But they also reflect longstanding concerns about the company and its practices.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan AP One thing the nurses pointed to was a 2015 study Facebook conducted in which its researchers manipulated users' emotions without their knowledge or consent. That study was widely criticized after it became public, with many deeming it unethical.

The nurses are also worried that Facebook might use Zuckerberg's relationship with the hospital to try to obtain data on its patients. They pointed to a CNBC report about how Facebook quietly tried to pursue data-sharing arrangements with other hospitals.

The CNBC report didn't specifically cite any contact between the company and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. In a statement at the time, Facebook said the hospital data-sharing initiative didn't progress past the "planning stage."

"We are in charge of keeping our most vulnerable people private and protected ... Now people wonder, 'How much is my privacy protected at a hospital with that name on it?'" Heater Ali, an employee at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, told The New York Times.

One nurse thinks it should be renamed after an LGBTQ activist

But even some of the city's political elite are starting to second-guess the decision to rename the hospital.

"Had we known what we know now, perhaps we wouldn't have accepted the funds from Zuckerberg," John Avalos, a former San Francisco supervisor, told The Times.

A Facebook spokesperson did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

The protesters don't have a consensus pick for what the hospital should be named, if Zuckerberg's name is removed. Instead, they believe San Francisco residents should get to choose a name in a citywide vote, Cuttler said.

Cuttler has a personal preference — José Sarria, an LGBTQ civil rights activist and drag queen. In 1961, Sarria, who went by the drag name "the Widow Norton," became the first openly gay candidate to run for public office in the United States.

A Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital spokesperson did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

May 14, 2018

For the second year Amy and I are supporting the Open Weekend – a celebration of neurodiversity in the startup community – through the Anchor Point Foundation. If you or a loved one have a mental health condition or just want to learn more or help out, I encourage you to check out the event.

Friday, May 18th starts off with the Brain Crawl at Boulder Startup Week. My good friend Jerry Colonna and I spoke at this part of the weekend last year. Saturday, May 19th is the alternative hackathon being held at Techstars. You can RSVP here to attend, mentor as a behavioral health specialist or specialist in some other area like marketing, PR, or engineering, or just jump in to learn more. Sunday will wrap up the weekend with a social day of outdoor games, meditation, and more.

Here is a click to tweet if you want to spread the word or RSVP to the Open Weekend Boulder 2018.

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