There's been breaking news about President Donald Trump just about every day for the past week. And on Tuesday night, Seth Meyers rushed to tackle the latest development in another “Closer Look” segment on "Late Night."

“Let’s just take a second to think about how insane the last eight days have been,” Meyers said, before rounding up all the events that have transpired over that time and explaining why he believes they make Trump "deeply unfit."

On top of the news on Monday that Trump reportedly shared classified information with Russians at the Oval office, The New York Times reported on Tuesday that James Comey wrote memos that reveal Trump asked the former FBI director, before he was fired by Trump, to stop the investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

During the segment, Meyers quoted a Trump adviser who spoke to Politico: "He [Trump] doesn’t really know any boundaries. He doesn’t think in those terms. He doesn’t sometimes realize the implications of what he’s saying."

Then Meyers said, “He doesn’t know boundaries, he doesn’t know the implications of what he says. When a ball rolls behind the couch, he thinks it’s gone forever. You know, president stuff.”

Showing clips of Trump throughout his presidential campaign, Meyers pointed out how seriously Trump took the handling of confidential and classified information — especially when it came to Hillary Clinton’s emails.

“Of course, it turns out the Russians didn’t need to hack Hillary’s email server,” Meyers said. “They were able to hack Trump’s mouth.”

Then Meyers showed the clip of Trump saying, “Hillary Clinton is unfit and unqualified to be president of the United States. If Hillary is elected, she would be under protracted criminal investigation likely followed by the trial of a sitting president.”

“It’s amazing,” Meyers said. “The only thing he got wrong was the president’s name. This whole thing is like a horror movie where the police call Trump and say, ‘The killer is calling from inside the house. And also, we’re pretty sure you’re the killer.’”

The host then demanded action from Washington.

“We need Republicans to stand up and do something,“ Meyers said. “Because right now, we got a president who is deeply unfit for the office.”

You can watch the entire segment below:

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In 1973, retired tennis pro Bobby Riggs, once the No. 1 tennis player in the world, came up with a clever way to promote himself (and earn some cash): He would play tennis against female pros, who he publicly said were inferior and whom he could beat at 55 years old.

This led to a nationally televised match dubbed the "Battle of the Sexes" between Riggs and Billy Jean King. King went on to win the match, which become a landmark moment for gender equality.

Fox Searchlight is now coming out with a movie that looks at the match and what led to it, called "Battle of the Sexes," starring recent Oscar winner Emma Stone as King and Steve Carell as Riggs. 

Both actors look perfectly cast for the roles of the outlandish Riggs and the reserved King. The trailer shows the movie as a commentary on the male-dominated world of that era. Riggs spouts absurdly sexist things, such as, "I am not saying that women do not belong on the court. Who would pick up the balls otherwise?"

Meanwhile, Stone's King knows that if she can win a match against Riggs, it would be a step closer to women being treated with more respect not just in her sport but in every career.

Watch the trailer below. The movie will be out in theaters September 22.

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Jimmy Fallon addressed the outrage over what many called his "softball" interview with Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign on NBC's "Tonight Show."

"They have a right to be mad,” Fallon said in a new interview with The New York Times. “If I let anyone down, it hurt my feelings that they didn’t like it. I got it."

Fallon's critics, which included former "Late Show" host David Letterman, complained that Fallon wasn't aggressive enough with the then-presidential candidate. Given that "The Tonight Show" was one of the few talk shows granted an interview with Trump, many viewers ridiculed Fallon's playful tone, including wrapping the inteview by messing up Trump's uniquely styled hair.

“I’m a people pleaser. If there’s one bad thing on Twitter about me, it will make me upset. So, after this happened, I was devastated. I didn’t mean anything by it. I was just trying to have fun," Fallon said of the fallout from the interview.

In particular, the host didn't seem to realize in the moment how tousling Trump's hair would be seen.

"I didn’t do it to humanize him," Fallon said. "I almost did it to minimize him."

Fallon didn't just suffer hurt feelings following the incident. In the wake of the interview, Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" began closing the ratings gap between it and Fallon's show. As of May 12, Colbert has enjoyed a 15-week streak of beating Fallon in total viewers, according to Nielsen. While losing that metric, Fallon has been able to hold on to the No. 1 spot for the audience advertisers want most, adults under 50 years old.

NBC executives told The Times that they're not worried about the ratings losses and support whatever Fallon wants to do creatively. Best known for convincing his guests to participate in comedy sketches and off-the-wall games, Fallon does acknowledge that today's political climate dictates some changes for the show.

“Of course the show has to change,” he said. “It’s a different environment. I don’t know what bits we’re going to do, but we’re trying everything.”

Regardless, he doesn't want the show to be all about the president.

“There’s only so many bits you can do,” he said. “I’m happy that only 50% of my monologue is about Trump.”

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Apple Music has reversed course on a controversial business strategy that left many in the industry with a sour taste in their mouths, according to Apple exec and music industry titan Jimmy Iovine.

The idea of paying artists for "exclusives," or windows when their albums appear only on a specific streaming service — like Apple Music, Spotify, or Tidal — has been hotly debated over the last year.

Apple Music initially made it a significant piece of the company's strategy, snagging high-profile exclusives from the likes of Drake, Frank Ocean, and Chance the Rapper. Jay Z's Tidal, a smaller player, went full-throttle as well, getting Rihanna, Beyonce, and Kanye West. But market leader Spotify came out swinging against the practice, declaring it bad for both artists and fans.

Now Apple Music seems to be leaning away from exclusives.

"We tried it," Iovine said of exclusives in a new interview with Music Business Worldwide. "We’ll still do some stuff with the occasional artist. The labels don’t seem to like it and ultimately it’s their content." Later in the interview Iovine said that, generally, Apple Music didn't want to disrespect or hurt record companies.

Kanye's tough decision

The music industry sentiment toward exclusives shows how different the market for streaming video — i.e. Netflix — is from that of streaming music. Exclusive content has become the centerpiece for all the major video players, from Netflix to Hulu to Amazon Prime Video. It's what defines the brand and wins customer loyalty.

Not so in music, where it has gotten a bad reaction from many labels and artists.

Last year, Universal's CEO reportedly told the company's labels to stop making exclusive deals with streaming services.

Kanye West also spoke out last year about the trouble the practice caused him in the lead-up to his latest album.

Before the release of "The Life of Pablo," West was "in the [Apple Music] building all the time," a former Apple Music staffer told Business Insider. That person said the general feeling was that Apple Music would get an exclusive window on his new album. But West was caught between his relationship with Jay Z, who owns much of Tidal, and Larry Jackson, Apple Music's head of content. (West also owns an undisclosed portion of Tidal himself, along with some other heavyweight artists.)

West ended up giving the exclusive window to Tidal instead of Apple Music, but it wasn't a decision that came easily, it seems.

"This Tidal Apple beef is f------- up the music game," West wrote on Twitter last year. "I need Tim Cook Jay Z Dez Jimmy Larry me and Drake Scooter on the phone or in a room this week!!! F--- all this d--k swinging contest. We all gon be dead in 100 Years. Let the kids have the music. Apple give Jay his check for Tidal now and stop tying to act like you Steve [Jobs]."

West was likely referring to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Jay Z, Jimmy Iovine, Larry Jackson, Apple Music-aligned rapper Drake (who reportedly signed a $19 million deal with Apple in 2015), and music mogul Scooter Braun.

While West might not get his wish for Apple to buy Tidal, a move away from exclusives could make the release process less fraught for superstar artists trying to weigh up-front cash against maximum initial reach.

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With "Alien: Covenant" coming out in theaters on Friday, director Ridley Scott is continuing the story of space's most horrific species that he started 38 years ago with his sci-fi classic.

Since then, we've been entertained and more than a little scared following the battles franchise hero Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has had with all sorts of aliens — from the chest-burster in "Alien" to the menaces in "Aliens." Meanwhile, we held back laughter while watching the awful spin-off "Alien vs. Predator" franchise. 

Here we look back on all the movies to rank the best "Alien" movie ever:

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8. "Alien vs. Predator: Requiem" (2007)

Made smack-dab in the dark days of the "Alien" franchise when Ridley Scott was too busy making movies with Russell Crowe to worry about what was happening to his creation, "Requiem" was apparently able to get off the ground solely on the basis of having the alien fight the Predator again.

It's a terrible sequel, featuring low-grade special effects and zero stars. We all have to thank Sir Ridley for deciding to make Alien prequels or who knows what other characters from the 20th Century Fox library the alien would have fought next.

7. "Alien: Resurrection" (1997)

The last movie starring Weaver is a disappointing attempt to expand the franchise. You can't ignore the star's disinterest in coming back to play the character or Winona Ryder looking so out of place. However, it does have some great character actors sprinkled throughout.

6. "AVP: Alien vs. Predator" (2004)

Director Paul W. S. Anderson (the "Resident Evil" movies) pits two iconic sci-fi characters against one another. I could give you a little sense of the plot but, honestly, aren't you just watching to see the alien and Predator fight?

Netflix has been waging war at Cannes, the world's most prestigious film festival, and now Will Smith has come to the streaming giant's defense.

When Netflix got two films into Cannes this year, Boon Joon-Ho's "Ojka" and Noah Baumbach's "The Meyerowitz Stories," it seemed like a big step forward for the company, which has repeatedly clashed with movie theaters over its commitment to make movies available online the same day they appear in theaters.

But that small victory came crashing back when Cannes decided to tweak its competition rules after this year as a result of the backlash toward the Netflix titles. Going forward, films will only qualify if they have a theatrical release in France (it's unclear whether those two titles will).

"The establishment closing ranks against us," Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wrote on Facebook. "See Okja on Netflix June 28th. Amazing film that theatre chains want to block us from entering into Cannes film festival competition."

In a Cannes jury press conference Wednesday, legendary director Pedro Almodovar seemed to come down against Netflix. “I personally do not conceive, not only the Palme d’Or, any other prize being given to a film and not being able to see this film on a big screen,” Almodovar said, according to Variety. “All this doesn’t mean I’m not open or don’t celebrate the new technologies. I do.”

But Will Smith, who was also on the panel, defended Netflix shortly after. My kids "go to the movies twice a week and they watch Netflix,” Smith said. “There’s very little cross between going to the cinema and watching what they watch on Netflix in my home."

Smith described Netflix in his home as an "absolute benefit.” Why? "[My children] get to see films they absolutely wouldn’t have seen. Netflix brings a great connectivity. There are movies that are not on a screen within 8,000 miles of them. They get to find those artists.”

Smith isn't the most unbiased party, however. Netflix reportedly shelled out more than $90 million for an upcoming Will Smith blockbuster "Bright." The movie is a cop thriller set in a world that's similar to ours in time period but contains fantasy creatures like orcs and elves.

Here's the teaser trailer, which starts out looking like a typical cop movie set in Los Angeles and then — BOOM— there's an orc carrying a shotgun: 

Additional reporting by Jason Guerrasio.

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The Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off its 2017 run on Wednesday, is an exclusive, invitation-only film festival that started in 1946.

The Cannes festival, which takes place every year on the French Riviera, has changed a lot over the years. It’s primarily about the films, but over the past few decades, it’s evolved into one of the biggest occasions for fashion, and celebrities have walked its red carpet in some iconic looks. But it wasn’t always so fashion-focused.

Business Insider talked to Getty Images' Director of Archive Bob Ahern about the progression of Cannes from film festival to one of the glamorous, star-filled occasion of the entire year, and Getty provided some images from the fest's history.

Getty Images photographers have been covering Cannes for over 20 years. Getty also has one of the world’s largest collections of archival Cannes imagery, which dates back to the very first festival in 1946. Throughout this year's Cannes Film Festival, Getty will have a team of 80 people, which includes photographers and videographers, social-media experts, picture editors, assignment editors, and technicians. 

Here are stunning photos of stars from the Cannes Film Festival over the years and how it's evolved:

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“Cannes is a challenge — it’s changed so much over the years.”

“You used to really see Cannes — the beach, the trees. There’s less of that today,” Ahern said. Nowadays, there’s more focus on the red carpet.

Ahern pointed out that this scandalous image of Simone Silver was a good example of stars becoming more candid in front of the public eye. 

In Cannes' early days, photographers had easier access to celebrities, which allowed these intimate moments to be captured by photographers.

Kevin Bacon is no stranger to nude scenes, from "Wild Things" to "Hollow Man," but he's not so comfortable with becoming the poster boy for male nudity in Hollywood.

"I think it's become something that really goes job to job," Bacon recently told Business Insider of going nude for his projects. "Does it work to see something? My problem with nudity though — I did a movie called 'Wild Things,' it was full-frontal nudity. And I didn’t have a problem with it, because it's a scene getting out of the shower and it was just that kind of movie. What I did have a problem with was the fact that when I went to promote the movie — and even to this day — that's all I talk about. So it kind of ended up being, I don’t know, just kind of boring to me as a topic of conversation."

In 2015, Bacon shot a tongue-in-cheek video for Mashable in which he advocated for more male nudity in films and television shows. Apparently, some people took Bacon's words at face value.

"It was a public service announcement saying that we needed more male nudity," Bacon said. "And the amount of people that saw it seriously blows my mind. They said, 'You said it in that thing,' and it's so clearly a joke. I mean, I'm so clearly being a smartass. It's strange."

The topic of nudity is fresh again for Bacon as he currently stars as the title character in the provocatively named new Amazon series "I Love Dick." 

Adapted from Chris Kraus’ 1997 cult feminist novel of the same name, the series from "Transparent" creator Jill Soloway follows frustrated filmmaker Chris (Kathryn Hahn), who travels with her writer husband Sylvère (Griffin Dunne) to a writing residency in Marfa, Texas. Amid a sexual dry spell with her husband, Chris becomes infatuated with Bacon's Dick, an acclaimed sculptor and the residency's benefactor.

Aside from Bacon's participation in some pretty intense sex fantasies in Chris' mind, there's a scene in the premiere episode in which the actor strips bare for a transformative dip in a pool.

"In the case of 'I Love Dick,' the last scene in the pilot, I go out and I get in the water," Bacon told us. "It's a beautiful place, a scene of kind of a baptism for the character. He's in a way starting life over again with new ideas and change and I think it's a really nice shot and it looks good and it makes a lot of sense for that thing."

So even if he thinks the attention to his nudity for roles is "strange," he doesn't seem to be ending the habit soon.

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Over 30 million people have played "Overwatch," the excellent team-based shooter from the folks behind such massive blockbusters as "World of Warcraft," "Diablo," and "StarCraft." 

The game's colorful, enormously fun, and ridiculously addictive — the perfect "one more match" game.

Part of what makes "Overwatch" so good is how accessible it is. Not only are there a couple dozen unique characters to choose from, but it's available on pretty much every major gaming platform. You can play it on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, and Mac. 

You might notice that list is missing one tremendously important console maker: Nintendo.

Even though Nintendo's Switch, seen above, is a brand-new home game console, it's not powerful enough to run "Overwatch" — a game that debuted in May 2016. What gives?

"Right now there are some technical challenges," Blizzard game director Jeff Kaplan told me in a recent interview. "The tech specs [on Switch] aren't quite there. It would be a non-trivial undertaking for us to make the game on Switch."

Indeed, the Switch isn't touted as an especially powerful console. While many games look beautiful and run smoothly on the Switch, it's still not as powerful as the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 — consoles that debuted way back in 2013. And that makes it hard for developers like Blizzard to publish games on the Switch; in so many words, "Overwatch" on the Switch would be a completely unique version of the game. It would almost certainly be less pretty, and potentially run less smoothly, due to the Switch's hardware.

That said, Kaplan noted that there's certainly interest in such a version of "Overwatch" internally at his studio. "We're huge Nintendo fans," Kaplan told me. "We would absolutely love to see the game on something like Switch, it's just not feasible currently."

What would it take to get "Overwatch" running on the Switch? The answer is almost certainly "more power," and that's a possibility in the not-so-distant future.

"These companies like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, they're so good about working with developers. And they evolve their technology over time," he said. Consoles like Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro and Microsoft's still-unreleased "Project Scorpio" Xbox One, for instance, add horsepower to the existing PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms (respectively). Nintendo's notorious for doing this as well — there are over a half-dozen versions of Nintendo's 3DS handheld, for instance. The latest versions are more powerful than the original version.

"One of Nintendo's most successful platforms is 3DS," Kaplan said. "And watch how many times they upgraded that over time. You don't want to snap judge, you want to have the conversation, because we don't know what's in the plans. We want to understand what their plans are, because just because something might not be feasible now doesn't mean that at some point in the future it might be an option for us."

So, while it's not likely that "Overwatch" will head to the Nintendo Switch at any point soon, it could very well end up on Nintendo's marquee console in a potential future iteration of the Switch — if it's more powerful.

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The final years of Michael Jackson's life have been put into a Lifetime movie, and it's not pretty.

"Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland" is based on the 2014 book "Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days," by the King of Pop's bodyguards. It looks exactly like what you would imagine a movie on the legend would be like if it got the Lifetime treatment.

We get a cheesy portrayal of Jackson, played by noted Jackson impersonator Navi, at a low point in his life as he races from paparazzi and tries to be a father to his kids at his palatial Neverland Ranch.

Lifetime has made an infamous habit of looking back on music stars' lives and scandals with unauthorized biographies. Past titles include the truly heinous "Britney Ever After" on Britney Spears and "Aaliyah: Princess of R&B" on the late Aaliyah.

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After months of production delays and showrunner Bryan Fuller's departure from the show, CBS finally gave us our first look at the new "Star Trek" reboot, "Star Trek: Discovery." The show will premiere this fall exclusively on CBS's online platform, CBS All Access.

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CBS has finally released the first full trailer for its hotly anticipated new Star Trek show, "Star Trek: Discovery."

"Ten years before Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise, there was Discovery," the opening reads, while dropping us into a desert scene with Sonequa Martin-Green and Michelle Yeoh, first officer and captain of the Discovery respectively.

Here's the ship, which appears soon after:

As Variety points out, Martin-Green seems to be a human raised by Vulcans, based on her interactions in the trailer with Spock's father Sarek, played by James Frain. "You will never learn Vulcan, your tongue is too human," Frain says in what appears to be a flashback, featuring a younger Martin-Green.

Here is Frain in character:

In another tense moment in the trailer, Yeoh says, "Starfleet doesn't fire first." Martin-Green responds, "We have to." There seems to be plenty of action and tough decisions on the Discovery.

Here's what it looks like on the bridge:

“Star Trek: Discovery” has been plagued by production delays, but is supposed to launch this fall. It is part of CBS' big push to pump up its "CBS All Access" service, which is a Netflix-like streaming service that costs $5.99 a month, or $9.99 for the ad-free version.

Here is the full trailer:

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Pandora stock is soaring on a New York Post report that satellite-radio powerhouse SiriusXM is in "active discussions" to buy the internet-radio pioneer.

The stock is up ~7.5% in trading this morning.

Pandora has endured on-an-off M&A rumors for months, as it tries to re-invent its business with the launch of an on-demand competitor to Spotify and Apple Music. That product finished its rollout last month.

Liberty Media, which controls satellite-radio powerhouse SiriusXM, has been seen as the only real buyer in town.

That means Pandora has had to endure stock swings whenever Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei talks publicly about the company — which is often.

Most recently, earlier this month, Maffei talked unenthusiastically about Pandora's KKR investment. In its quarterly earnings report, Pandora announced it had taken $150 million from private-equity firm KKR, and given KKR a seat in a boardroom shakeup. “My guess is they needed cash,” Maffei said. “I’m not sure it creates an opportunity. It speaks to the cash needs of their business.”

Maffei reportedly made an informal offer for Pandora atroughly $15a share early last year. But in March, Maffei said that Pandora was “overvalued,” and that $10 per share was something that could work. On Thursday morning, the stock was trading at around $9.60 per share.

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Chris Cornell, the frontman of the legendary grunge band Soundgarden, died Wednesday night in Detroit at 52.

A representative for Cornell confirmed the death to The Associated Press, saying it was "sudden and unexpected" and that Cornell's wife and family were shocked.

Police are investigating the death as a possible suicide, according to the AP. A police spokesperson said that while they can't release details about what led investigators to that decision, there were "basic things observed at the scene."

The police spokesman added that Cornell died at the MGM Grand Detroit hotel. The singer's wife reportedly called a family friend and asked him to check in on Cornell. The friend, according to police, forced open a hotel room door and found Cornell on the bathroom floor.

Cornell was on tour and performed with Soundgarden in Detroit on Wednesday night.

The Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office will make an official determination about the cause of death, and a statement from Cornell's representative said his family will work closely with the office to make the determination.

Cornell's singular voice helped propel Soundgarden, formed in Seattle in 1984, to fame. The band helped popularize grunge in the 1990s, alongside other bands like Pearl Jam and Nirvana. Later, Cornell also became the lead singer for the band Audioslave.

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It took me a few days to realize that the controls for "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" could be a little foreign to some new players out there (I'm just going to call it "PUBG" from here on out).

For the uninitiated, "PUBG" is a battle-royale-style game where 100 players fight against each other with a variety of weapons until only one is left standing. To make things interesting, the map shrinks over time to force players to converge.

Indeed, there are no training missions in "PUBG" to help you get used to the controls, or how to manage your inventory, or how to survive in the first place! It's all mostly left up to you to figure out. Thankfully for me, I got a bit of a head start, as the controls are pretty similar to another game I've spent hours on called "DayZ."

It's entirely possible that you might already know the majority of these tips, as many of them are fairly basic. Hopefully there are a few new ones to add your "PUBG" survival handbook.

Check it out:

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Use a marker on the map to show you where to go on your compass.

Press the right mouse button anywhere on the map (M on the keyboard) to set a marker of where you want to go. The yellow marker will be shown on your compass on the top so you don't have to keep checking the map to make sure you're heading in the right direction.

Look around with your mouse without changing your running direction.

Press and hold the left "Alt" key on your keyboard so you can look around while your character keeps running forward. 

Walk instead of running to make less noise.

Press and hold the left "Control" key on your keyboard to make your character walk instead of jog. It helps make you quieter.

"Super Mario" is an anomaly compared to most modern video games.

Not the character himself — video games are rife with cartoonish characters — but the franchise. Nintendo is a rare exception in the modern era, since it keeps its blockbuster franchises locked to its platforms. Other than that, most video games come out on most video game platforms. Games like the wildly successful "Overwatch" are so wildly successful in part because of their accessibility. If you have an Xbox One, a PlayStation 4, or a PC, you can play "Overwatch." And that means hundreds of millions of people are potential players.

That's a crucial part of why over 30 million people played it in the last year (the game launched in May 2016).

In the US, that player base is largely playing on two game consoles: the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.

Unfortunately, players on those two consoles can't actually play the game with each other online. That's not because the games are different on the two consoles, and that's not because the games control differently on the two consoles. The reason is far more banal, and it's representative of a problem at the heart of modern console gaming.

"It's a mix of technical and business reasons," game director Jeff Kaplan told me in an interview this week at a New York City event for the game's one year anniversary. "Right now, the two platforms — in particular, Xbox to PlayStation — is not an open ecosystem. They're very closed-off ecosystems, and it's very hard to cross those boundaries." 

This is a long-running issue with video games, for as long as online gaming has existed on game consoles.

Every year, a new "Call of Duty" game comes out. Every year, millions of people buy that game — many of those people buying it solely to play the game online. And those people are siloed off into console-specific online multiplayer. Your Aunt bought "Battlefield" on Xbox, but you got it on PlayStation? Too bad, friend! It's the same game, yet you can't play together. It's not technically impossible, of course. 

One game bridges the gap between Xbox and PlayStation players — it's called "Rocket League."

But "Rocket League" has some major caveats in this respect. If you're on Xbox One, you can't chat with players on PlayStation 4, nor can you team up with players on PlayStation 4. It's an imperfect compromise that players put up with, and one that "Overwatch" developer Blizzard Entertainment doesn't want to allow with its team-based online shooter. "If we were to suddenly say, 'Oh yeah, you can play cross-platform. But you can't group up with or talk to any of your friends.' I think more of our players would be like, 'This is broken, it doesn't feel right.'" 

So, what gives? Why won't Sony and Microsoft work together to make cross-platform multiplayer a reality? The reason, largely boils down to one word: Business.

Microsoft and Sony are competitors (at least when it comes to Xbox and PlayStation), and they want you to keep using their platform. Enabling cross-platform play — online gameplay between Xbox and PlayStation players — further blurs the line between the already very similar consoles. And neither company wants you to think of their console as interchangeable with the competition.  

Of course, that doesn't matter if you're the average person who wants to play a game with your friend. I certainly understand the business reasons behind this, but as a consumer I still think it's junk. And if you're the man in charge of a massively popular game like "Overwatch," it's pretty frustrating as well.

"We're very respectful, and we understand our partners and why they're not allowing it at this time," Kaplan said. But? "We'll use whatever influence we have to keep reminding them, 'Hey, this would be cool. It's something our players really want. It's something your players really want.' That seems like a win to us."

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On Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert blasted President Donald Trump once again. This time, for the president's strange theory about exercise.

“At the age of 70, Trump doesn’t have the energy of a child — in part because he doesn’t believe in exercise,” Colbert said.

According to an article in The Washington Post, Trump doesn't think exercise is good for you. The article says that Trump believes the human body is like a battery with a finite amount of energy, which becomes depleted with exercise.

“May I point out, by that logic, would mean the strongest people in the world are babies,” Colbert said.

As The Washington Post points out, speaking to a sports medicine and orthopedics specialist, exercise does deplete energy — stores of glucose, glycogen, and fats — but humans restore those by eating. And in fact exercise makes the body stronger.

“I suppose we should’ve seen his anti-exercise thing coming,” Colbert said. “After all, one of the first things Trump did was replace Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ campaign with his own: ‘Let’s Not.’”

You can watch the segment below:

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People are already getting excited about the prospects of the 2020 United States presidential election, in part because Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has teased the "real possibility" that he might run for office.

Jimmy Kimmel thought to imagine what such a race might look like on Wednesday night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

"According to a new public policy poll, if he ran for president, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson would beat Donald Trump 42% to 37%," Kimmel said. "I think an actual rock might beat Donald Trump at this point."

But, then again, Kimmel said Johnson does have some impressive credentials on his side.

"He served in the military. He's worked in the CIA. He handled natural disasters. He protects our oceans," Kimmel joked, showing the posters for "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," "Central Intelligence," "San Andreas," and "Baywatch."

Kimmel said it would be "the greatest race" for president ever. The host's team cleverly edited together some footage to show us what an election battle — or wrestling fight — between Trump and Johnson might look like.

Watch Kimmel's 2020 race between Trump and The Rock below:

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Trevor Noah criticized Fox News Channel for what he believes is inadequate coverage of the developing news surrounding President Donald Trump and his firing of FBI Director James Comey.

After critics had already accused the president of firing Comey in order to halt the federal investigation into potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, a new report surfaced that Comey wrote a memo before his firing saying that Trump had specifically requested that the FBI chief end his investigation into Michael Flynn, a member of the Trump campaign and later the national security adviser.

Under mounting pressure from lawmakers and citizens alike, the Justice Department appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as the special counsel on Wednesday to oversee the Russia investigation in light of the new allegations.

"This is by far the biggest Trump scandal... until the next one," Noah said on Wednesday's edition of Comedy Central's "Daily Show." "To not acknowledge the gravity of this Comey memo, you’d have to be willfully ignorant, aggressively ignorant. In fact, you’d have to be Fox News."

The show then played clips from Fox News in which hosts and guests avoided using the world "impeachment," suggested President Barack Obama was just as guilty of obstructing investigations, and doubted the veracity of Comey's recall of events in his memos. Noah had to weigh in on that last one.

"One of them took notes. The other one is the world's most famous liar," he said. "Forget about lying about what happens in private conversation. Trump lies about things we can see."

Noah saw an advantage in Fox News' coverage for Trump.

"They are basically his Snapchat filter," Noah said. "Whatever the reality is they always make him look better than he is."

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