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Seven hundred movers and shakers from New York and New Jersey walked the green carpet and posed for “dronies” (photos taken from hovering quadcopters), mingled with R2-D2, challenged a fist-pumping Rubik’s Cube-solving robot over cocktails, and watched a hair-raising one-million-volt Tesla Coil Lightning Show—all before a four-star dinner at The Liberty Science Center’s Genius Gala 4.0, where it bestowed its coveted Genius Awards on Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon; Vint Cerf, “Father of the Internet” and now Chief Internet Evangelist at Google; and SETI astronomer Jill Tarter of “Contact” fame.