When business met showbiz: why was Benedict Cumberbatch hanging out with Mark Zuckerberg? Presenter Benedict Cumberbatch and Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg speak onstage during the Breakthrough Prize Awards ceremony, which honours the best scientists, and this year for the first time, the best mathematicians. The awards' founders include Google co-founder, Sergey Brin and founder of personal genomics company 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki as well as Alibaba head, Jack Ma and former Alibaba employee, Cathy Zhang. Russian billionaire venture capitalist, Yuri and artist Julia Milner, and Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, who is a paediatrician, are also co-founders. Picture: Steve Jennings/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize