With its authentic look at all things 1980s, the new Netflix series "GLOW" has become our latest binge obsession. And then there's its incredible soundtrack.

Following the creation of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling promotion, which really became a hit TV show in the late 1980s, the Netflix comedy starring Alison Brie and breakout star Betty Glipin pays homage to the era with loud outfits, teased hair, and some of the best music of the era.

Here we highlight the 15 best songs from the show:

Warning: Minor spoilers revealed if you haven't seen the entire first season.

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1. "The Warrior" by Patty Smyth

The first episode of the show kicks off with this classic anthem.

Listen to the song.

2. "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" by Journey

When Debbie (Egan) finally learns that Ruth (Brie) has been sleeping with her husband, Mark (Rich Sommer), she confronts her at the wrestling gym. With both ladies in the ring, G.L.O.W. director Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron) has a vision of what could be. Cue this classic Journey song.

Listen to the song.

3. "Stir It Up" by Patti LaBelle

The song in the first episode's end credits is a track best known for being on the "Beverly Hills Cop" soundtrack, which, at the time the show is set in, would have been a huge hit on the radio.

Listen to the song.

Though Vin Diesel has been the face and biggest cheerleader of the "Fast and the Furious" franchise since returning to the "family" with 2009's "Fast & Furious," fellow franchise star Michelle Rodriguez has now made it clear that her recent comment about possibly leaving if future "Fast" movies don't "show some love to the women" wasn't directed towards Diesel.

In a video posted on Diesel's Instagram, Rodriguez spoke to her longtime costar and clarified her comments.

“Vin, for many years you’ve been the biggest supporter of strong women,” Rodriguez said in the video. “I’ve always appreciated that about you throughout the years… Just know that if I ever post anything, that it’s not you I’m talking to.”

Diesel, who is also a producer on the "Fast" movies, responded by kissing Rodriguez on the forehead and saying, "Of course it's not me."

The caption in the Instagram post read: “Proud of Our saga… but we must try to reach higher each time. The challenge is what makes it fun and exciting. It’s also why this saga has reached the level that it has… you have been the best fans in film history and we are forever grateful… Dom and Letty,” the end referring to Diesel and Rodriguez's character names in the franchise.

The day after Rodriguez posted on Instagram last week that "I hope they decide to show some love to the women of the franchise on the next one. Or I just might have to say goodbye to a loved franchise," Business Insider spoke to "The Fast and the Furious" director F. Gary Gray, who responded to her comment.

"I thought there was a strong representation of women in the movie when you bring on what I thought was one of the strongest antagonists in Charlize Theron. And then you have Helen Mirren, who has a cameo that's strong," Gray told Business Insider. "I can't speak for Michelle, she has a very specific point of view and I can't take anything away from that, but I would like to think that with 'The Fate of the Furious' specifically, I can't speak to the other films, I thought the combination of female characters was pretty strong."

Watch Rodriguez's comments to Diesel below:

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"Hawaii Five-0" stars Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park have left the CBS show after the network refused to pay them as much as their white co-stars, Variety reports.

Sources told the outlet that Kim and Park were seeking salaries equal to stars Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan, but they were unable to reach a deal with the show's producer, CBS Television Studios. 

CBS's final offer to the two actors was reportedly "10-15% lower" than the salaries of their two white co-stars.

A spokesperson for the network told Variety in a statement: "We are so appreciative of Daniel and Grace’s enormous talents, professional excellence and the aloha spirit they brought to each and every one of our 168 episodes. They’ve helped us build an exciting new Hawaii Five-0, and we wish them all the best and much success in their next chapters. Mahalo and a hui hou." 

The CBS reboot of a police procedural drama premiered in 2010, and Kim and Park starred alongside O'Loughlin and Caan for seven seasons. 

Kim and Park's characters, Chin Ho Kelly and Kono Kalakaua, will not appear in the show's eighth season. 

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The common assumption in the tech world is that old media platforms are dying a slow death. As smart devices become more and more ubiquitous, the need for traditional platforms like linear cable TV seems to only lessen with each passing year.

But while there’s no denying the changes new technologies have brought, it might be unwise to discount just how influential those older platforms remain. For instance, radio, not smartphones or PCs, reaches more Americans each week than any other media platform, according to a recent Nielsen report charted for us by Statista.

Roughly 228 million adults in the US listened to some form of radio at least once a week in the fourth quarter of 2016, the report said. That's good for 93% of the US adult population, and the figure is growing. TV had the second-farthest reach at 89%, followed by smartphones at 83%. The PC and tablet were well behind, at 50% and 37%, respectively.

Note that all of this is about reach— when it comes to actual usage, American adults still spend way more time watching TV than anything else. And it’s worth noting that the smartphone’s reach grew nearly 10% year-over-year.

But the enduring usage of the radio seems to suggest that the rise of on-demand streaming doesn’t have to mean the death of older audio technologies. Since the bulk of this radio usage is coming from people in cars, it also suggests the “death of car ownership” narrative may still be a bit premature.

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The United States has inspired some of the greatest — and most patriotic — movies in our Netflix queues.

To celebrate the Fourth of July, we rounded up the 25 movies that will stir your nostalgia for the land of the free and the home of the brave.

When you're done grilling hot dogs and watching the fireworks on Tuesday, here's what to watch.

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"All The President's Men" (1976): Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein investigate the Nixon administration's Watergate scandal for The Washington Post.

Starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.

"Remember The Titans" (2000): A forcibly integrated football team becomes a unifying symbol for their community as the players and coaches learn to lean on each other.

Starring Denzel Washington and Will Patton.

"1776" (1972): Benjamin Franklin and John Adams peer-pressure Thomas Jefferson — in song and dance — to write the Declaration of Independence days before the Fourth.

Starring William Daniels.

President Trump tweeted out an edited version of a 2007 video of him body slamming and punching WWE CEO Vince McMahon. In the edited video Trump tweeted, an image of the CNN logo was superimposed on McMahon's face to make it appear as though Trump was pummeling the news network.

Last year, "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success" author Michael D'Antonio stopped by Business Insider to discuss his book on the life of the president-elect. We asked D'Antonio to talk about Trump's decades-spanning relationship with World Wrestling Entertainment and the company's CEO Vince McMahon. 

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At "Con of Thrones" this past weekend, "Game of Thrones" sound designer Patricia Fairfield revealed some information that may make a lot of "Game of Thrones" fans very happy.

Fairfield revealed on a conference panel Saturday that the "Game of Thrones" creators are considering making each episode of the final season feature-film length.

David Chen, one of the hosts and producers of the "Game of Thrones" recap podcast "A Cast of Kings," tweeted about Fairfield's remarks while attending the panel.

We already know that the penultimate season finale will be a record-breaking 81 minutes long, but it seems as if the creators may be looking to continue the trend going into the final season too.  There's a lot that the creators could do with the extra time each week, and now that "Game of Thrones" has outrun the books (which the plot of the show has been primarily based off of thus far) there's really no way of knowing where the creators could be taking the show.

All we know is that one feature length episode a week gives "Game of Thrones" creators a lot of time to kill off our favorite characters (those who are still alive anyway). Season 7 of "Game of Thrones" premieres July 16. 

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The Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, held every Fourth of July at Coney Island in Brooklyn, is like the World Cup of competitive eating.

Last year, American Joey Chestnut not only claimed the championship title for the ninth time, but set a new record by finishing 70 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes.

It's become normal to expect competitors from around the world to eat such ungodly amounts of processed meat and their doughy rolls at rapid speed.

But it wasn't until a 23-year-old from Japan named Takeru Kobayashi entered the scene in 2001 and ate 50 hot dogs and buns that anyone believed this was possible. Before Kobayashi, the record was just 25 and 1/8 eaten in 12 minutes.

In a 2014 episode of the podcast "Freakonomics Radio," host Stephen Dubner interviewed Kobayashi and got insight into his goal-setting and motivation that's applicable far beyond such an extreme contest.

As Dubner put it, "He redefined the problem he was trying to solve."

"Here's what the other competitive eaters were asking themselves: How could I fit more hot dogs in my stomach?" Dubner said. "Kobi asked a different question: How can I make one hot dog easier to eat?"

When Kobayashi was in college in Japan, a friend of his enrolled him in a competitive eating contest on a lark, but Kobayashi decided he'd give it his all. He paced himself better than his competitors and won.

Realizing that it was his psychology more than the size of his stomach that allowed him to win, he made a giant leap and decided he would be the greatest competitive eater in the world, and would one day be crowned at Coney Island.

"The key to me was that I had to change the mentality that it was a sport — it wasn't having a meal," he told Dubner. Kobayashi said he noticed previous competitors in the hot dog eating contest ate as if a friend had dared them to eat a bunch of food, whereas he saw an opportunity to dissect the physical action of eating and optimize it for speed and efficiency.

Kobi began intensely experimenting with different techniques for sausage (American-style hot dogs weren't available in Japan) and bun consumption. It was during this time he crafted the game-changing bun dip, where he dipped the hot dog bun in a cup of water to break down its starch, squeeze out the excess water, and toss it into his mouth as a ball. It wasn't appetizing (or visually appealing), but it worked.

That year, he more than doubled the existing championship record with the 50 hot dogs he ate in 12 minutes. He would win six years in a row before Chestnut dethroned him as the dominant force on the Coney Island circuit in 2007.

What was even more remarkable is that the same people who previously averaged around 25 hot dogs were now pushing themselves to 40 or 50.

Some mimicked Kobayashi's approach, but more importantly, he had redefined the limit itself. As Dubner noted, Kobayashi had broken a 40-year artificial barrier.

"I think people have to have a reason to rethink what could be wrong," Kobayashi said. "I think the thing about human beings is that they make a limit in their mind of what their potential is, and they decide that, 'Well, I've been told this or this is what society tells me' — they've just been made to believe something."

Kobayashi told Dubner that he found his days on the competitive eating circuit to be more profound than most would think.

"If every human being actually threw away those thoughts and they actually did use that method of thinking for everything, the potential of human beings, I think, is really great," he told Dubner.

You can listen to the full podcast episode below.

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Each year, one album taps into the hearts and ears of the public on its way to topping the Billboard year-end album chart.

Times have changed, though. In the 2010s, pop stars like Adele and Taylor Swift have dominated the charts, while in the 1950s and early 1960s, musical soundtracks and Broadway cast recordings tended to top the list. 

Billboard has been tracking the top album of the year since 1956. From 1992 onward, total album sales were recorded by Nielsen SoundScan. Before 1992, the top album chart was "based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking" and was "not a tally of actual sales."

Business Insider compiled all the best-selling albums and their respective notable singles, dating back to 1956, so you can see, and hear, which album was the soundtrack to your birth year (so long as you're between the ages of 1 and 61).

Check out which album made it to the top each year:

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2016: Drake — "Views"

Copies sold: 4,140,000

Notable singles:"Hotline Bling,""One Dance"

2015: Adele — "25"

Copies sold:8,008,000

Notable singles:"Hello,""When We Were Young"

2014: Taylor Swift — "1989"

Copies sold: 3,661,000

Notable singles:"Shake It Off,""Blank Space,""Bad Blood"

2017 is already halfway gone. Have you had enough time to watch the literal hundreds of television shows that exist now? Probably not. But some of them are well-worth your time.

If the first half of the year is any indication, we have a lot of great stuff to look forward to, including the seventh season of "Game of Thrones."

With excellent writing, direction, style, and performances that stand out among the overwhelming amount of TV shows around today, this is the best of 2017 so far — from mid-seasons to new seasons to entirely new series.

Here are the best TV shows of 2017 (so far), ranked:

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17. “Riverdale”

If you're into glossy, cheesy teen drama that doesn't require much thinking, where the teens are played by adults well into their 20s, The CW's "Riverdale" is one of the best since The CW's "Gossip Girl." The characters are based on the Archie comics (Archie, Betty, Veronica, and many more) but in a modern setting. The show explores the darkness and weirdness of this small town that is so much more than it seems. 

Where to watch: Netflix

Best episodes: "Chapter 1: The River's Edge," "Chapter 7: In a Lonely Place," "Chapter 12: Anatomy of a Murder"

16. “Pretty Little Liars“

"Pretty Little Liars" was never great TV, but it's addicting TV. In June, the cell phone-friendly teen drama-mystery ended its seven season run on Freeform (formerly ABC Family). The final season and the final episodes threw in a lot of twists including an evil British twin, surprise weddings, and surprise pregnancies.  

Where to watch: Hulu

Best episodes: "Playtime," "Choose or Lose," "Till Death Do Us Part"

15. "The Americans"

As the show nears its end, "The Americans" focuses more on the the Jennings family in season five. Season six, due next year, will be the final season of the FX drama. With incredible performances (as always) from Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Noah Emmerich, Holly Taylor, Frank Langella, and Margo Martindale, the Cold War drama stays fresh. Even though we know how the Cold War ends, we have no idea what that will mean for the Jennings family and those around them, and season five, though a little slow at times, did an excellent job setting up our what could happen with these characters. 

Where to watch: iTunes, Amazon Video

Best episodes: "Amber Waves," "Darkroom," "The Soviet Division"

Emilia Clarke, famous for her role as the silver-haired mother of dragons, Daenerys Targaryen, on "Game of Thrones," will be done with the series after its eighth and final season. 

"I mean, I have no doubt there'll be prequels and sequels and who knows what else," she told Rolling Stone in a recent interview. "But I am doing one more season. And then that'll be it."

However, there's no need to mourn the loss of Clarke just yet; the seventh season of "Game of Thrones" is just about to premiere, and the final season of "Game of Thrones" has yet to be filmed. Clarke has also been cast in the much anticipated Han Solo prequel that is currently shooting —  so rest assured we will be seeing a lot of her over the next couple of years. 

Clarke has also stated that she's not sure how she'll feel once "Game of Thrones" has ended.

"There's going to be a shake-up of my identity, I think," Clarke said about the series coming to an end. "And I feel like I'm only going to understand what the last seven years has been when we stop."

Perhaps, once Clarke has taken a break from filming "Game of Thrones" after working on the series for over 7 years, she'll be up for reprising her role as Khaleesi. If they can bring Jon Snow back from the dead, surely they can think of a way to bring back the mother of dragons, should Clarke be interested.

Season 7 of "Game of Thrones" premieres July 16.

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The Apple TV 4 is one of the best ways to add streaming video and apps to your TV. 

As opposed to older Apple TV models, the latest version can install apps and is a fairly sophisticated computer that hooks up to your TV. Apple calls it "the future of television."

You can tell if you have the latest Apple TV by looking at the remote: the new version's remote has a touchpad and six buttons. Apple calls it the Siri Remote, and it even has a microphone, so you can ask Siri to queue up the next show or find something to watch. 

However, with all those new powers comes new complexity. There's also a brand-new touch-sensitive remote control to master. And, as it turns out, your Apple TV has a lot of hidden Easter eggs buried in its new interface.

Here are the best Apple TV tricks and shortcuts for power users:

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Want to rewind to catch what someone just said? The easiest way to do it is by tapping the corners of the remote's touch surface.

Siri can also perform a quick rewind so you don't miss important plot points. Simply ask it, "what did he just say?"

The remote that came in the box isn't the only remote that works with the Apple TV. You can add a universal infrared remote, like the one that controls your cable box. If you upgraded from an older Apple TV, those remotes work too.

Here's how you do it. Go to Settings > Remotes and Devices. Choose Learn Remote. Follow the directions on screen to assign buttons on your old remote to control the Apple TV. 

Passing the halfway point of the year, we leave behind surprise hits at the movies like "Get Out," record-breakers like "Wonder Woman," but also a lot of bombs, like "The Mummy" and "Transformers: The Last Knight."

After "Spider-Man: Homecoming" hits theaters this Friday, the next six months brings with it blockbusters and the start of award season hype for other upcoming films.

From "Dunkirk" to "Thor: Ragnarok" (and we can't forget "Star Wars: The Last Jedi"), here are 30 movies you should be excited to go see by the end of the year:

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"War For the Planet of the Apes" - July 14

The latest movie in the acclaimed reboot of the "Planet of the Apes" franchise is its most audacious yet. Showcasing incredible battle sequences and top-of-the-line motion-capture graphics, if you're seeking a more mature summer movie, this is it.

"Dunkirk" - July 21

Christopher Nolan's lush look at the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II promises to be as unique as anything the famed director has done. It will also feature the talents of Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, and Kenneth Branagh.

"Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" - July 21

It's the movie Luc Besson ("The Fifth Element") has been dreaming of making his entire life. Based on the famed French comic book, Dane DeHaan ("A Cure for Wellness") and Cara Delevingne ("Suicide Squad") play special agents assigned to saving the universe. Expect Besson's fun character play and lots of strange creatures.

Remember "GoldenEye 007"? Of course you do.

It was one of the most popular games on the Nintendo 64, which many of us grew up with.

But it came out 20 years ago, and the game's visuals don't look quite as stunning as they once did. So one intrepid student artist decided to give the game a makeover, taking "GoldenEye's" iconic "Facility" level and turning it into the gorgeous level you'll see if you head with us below.

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"Facility" was one of "GoldenEye's" most memorable single-player campaign levels, and could also be played in multiplayer mode.

But it never looked this good. These scenes are the work of 3D modeling student Jude Wilson at Sheffield Hallam University. Jude actually just graduated with a Masters in game design! Congrats Jude!

For context, this how the level looked in the original game, which debuted in 1997:

The US will celebrate its Independence Day from Great Britain on Tuesday. 

America's initial split from the British crown, which was codified in the Declaration of Independence, took a lot of political will and negotiation by the members of the Continental Congress, since many states were not open to the split at first. 

But it was the Continental Army, and the militias that took up arms in support, that would go on to win the war — not to mention a little help from the French Navy.

In honor of their service, here is a list of some of the best military movies to watch on the 4th of July.

Jeremy Bender contributed to an earlier version of this post.

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"The Patriot" (2000)

"The Patriot" tells the fictional tale of a colonial father who gets swept up in the American Revolution.

Haunted by his exploits during the French and Indian Wars, and initially unwilling to serve, he eventually goes on to form and lead a militia against the British. 

"Top Gun" (1986)

Starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, "Top Gun" follows Cruise as he attends the Top Gun aviation school. An aggressive but extremely competent pilot, Cruise competes throughout his training to become the best pilot in training. The film was selected in 2015 by the Library of Congress for preservation due to its cultural significance.

"The Longest Day" (1962)

"The Longest Day" tells the story of heroism and loss that marked the Allies' successful completion of the Normandy Landings on D-Day during World War II.

The film stands out due to its attention to detail, as it employed many Axis and Allied D-Day participants as advisers for how to depict the D-Day landings in the movie.

Owning a big apartment in New York City is great, but having a mansion in the Hamptons is a privilege only the 1% of the 1% can enjoy.

And there may be no more exclusive place to own an East End home than Southampton's Meadow Lane, which Forbes once dubbed "Billionaire Lane."

Take a look at some of the most exclusive properties and their billionaire owners, below:

Megan Willett contributed reporting to an earlier version of this story.

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Meadow Lane is one of the most expensive addresses in the country, and no wonder — it runs along a coveted beachfront strip in one of the most exclusive towns in the Hamptons. The millionaires and billionaires who live there all reside within throwing distance on the same stretch of road.

Source: Forbes

They also live within easy access of the Southampton Heliport, useful to anyone who travels from Manhattan to the Hamptons by helicopter.

Source: Forbes

In mid-2014, the Hamptons home where Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson holed up in "Something's Gotta Give" sold for $41 million to hotel mogul Jimmy Tisch of Loews Corp. The 8,000-square-foot mansion has 11 bedrooms.

Source: New York Daily News

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Jay-Z dropped 4:44, his 13th studio album, at midnight on June 30. Though the album has only been out for a few days, the release strategy behind 4:44 provides insight into the business of music streaming, as well as a glimpse of Jay-Z’s thinking for capitalizing in this space through his own streaming platform Tidal:

• Tidal exclusive, with stipulations. Predictably, 4:44 was released exclusively on Tidal — but with certain restrictions. The album was only available to Tidal subscribers who had signed up before June 26. The only new subscribers who could stream the album after its launch were those who are also customers of Sprint, which invested $200 million in Tidal for a 33% stake in January. 
• Boosting listens on the airwaves. Beyond Tidal, 4:44 was getting extensive radio play via iHeartRadio. The full album was broadcast on numerous iHeartRadio stations in the Urban, Rhythm, and Pop categories, as well as through the company's "The Beat" streaming channel online — helping to extend the reach of Jay-Z’s new album to listeners nationwide.
• Temporary free downloads for all. On Sunday, the album was momentarily available to non-Tidal subscribers to download for free. All people had to do was go to a designated Tidal URL and enter the voucher code “SPRINT" along with their email address to get a download link. This free download offer was available worldwide until it suddenly went offline before the end of the night.  
• Spread the word via social media. Elliott Wilson, editorial director of culture, content, and hip hop at Tidal, first divulged the free album download page via his Instagram, while the voucher code circulated on Reddit. The rest of the internet — music blogs and publications, Facebook, Twitter, and others — predictably lit up on the announcement of free 4:44 downloads, and the news spread like wildfire. 
• Building up a customer database. The thinking behind making Jay-Z’s 4:44 available for free for a limited time probably went as follows: people were unlikely to sign up for Tidal if they hadn’t already within the 48 hours after 4:44 dropped. Instead of giving people a reason to pirate the album, Tidal made it free — and in the process built a database of emails that they could then use for marketing purposes later on.  
• Windowed release cycle elsewhere. Billboard reported that 4:44 will soon be added to Apple Music and iTunes following a one-week window of exclusivity on Tidal. There's quiet speculation that the album will be made available on other platforms as well, including Spotify. Interestingly, 4:44 debuted on Tidal before any plans for CDs were finalized, reflecting the current state of the music industry.  
• Music streaming wars are starting. There are legions of people worldwide that have yet to join music streaming services. Spotify had 50 million paying subscribers as of March 2017 and over 140 million active users worldwide as of June; Apple Music is slowly closing the gap, with 27 million paid subs last month. But to put this in perspective, Facebook has over 182 million daily users in the North America alone.

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The man behind Netflix's new video game-derived "Castlevania" show apparently has another video game adaptation in the works: "Assassin's Creed."

"Assassin's Creed" is a third-person action series from French publisher Ubisoft, and is already both a blockbuster game franchise with near-annual releases, and a Michael Fassbender-helmed movie (to say nothing of comics and other forms of media the series has expanded into).

Now it seems that Adi Shankar, known most recently for being the director behind Netflix's "Castlevania" show, will give the series his own spin. Shankar's previous projects include several movies ("The Grey," "Dredd," and "Machine Gun Preacher"); the "Castlevania" adaptation is his first show for Netflix. 

Shankar revealed the project, and his involvement, in a Facebook post over the weekend:

"I'm happy to let you guys know that I've selected my next project! I played the first edition of Assassin's Creed the year I moved to Los Angeles to pursue my dream. At that moment I knew absolutely no one in the industry and could never have imagined that one day Ubisoft would ask me to take the world of 'Assassin's Creed' and create an original story set in it as an anime series. If anyone tells you not to follow your passion in life they are wrong."

It sounds like the project is still in early days, but we can glean a few tidbits from Shankar's statement.

First and foremost: This isn't a show based on any of the (many) games in the series. Though characters from those games might appear in the show, it seems unlikely that, say, Ezio Auditore is the main character.

It also seems unlikely that the show will be set in any of the main time periods of past games — those have included everything from the Revolutionary War-era Northeastern United States to Ptolemaic Egypt. Since the core of the franchise exists outside of any particular time period, the new show can technically be set whenever it wants.

The one other piece of information we can glean from Shankar's Facebook post is the nature of the show: It's an "anime series." It's not clear if this means it's drawn in the style of traditional Japanese anime, or if it's being produced with Japanese anime creators — we've asked Shankar for more info and haven't heard back as of publishing.

What we do know, however, is that Shankar's "Castlevania" series is animated, and it's got a particularly distinct art style:

It's not clear if the project is another Netflix production, or if it's solely a collaboration between Shankar and Ubisoft. 

There is no release date, name, or additional information about the "Assassin's Creed" show, though we expect to hear more soon — after all, a new "Assassin's Creed" game is only a few months away.

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Apple released a news aggregator app called Apple News in 2015, and nearly two years later, Apple News may be gaining substantial traction.

Comscore ranks it as the 15th biggest app by audience reach across both iOS and Android, with 47 million monthly users, reports Ad Age. In January 2016, Apple online services boss Eddy Cue said that the app had 40 million monthly users. It's available in the United States, the UK, and Australia. 

It's reportedly a big traffic driver for some publications. But so far, there hasn't been a good way for publications to draw revenue from their readers on Apple News.

Publishers can run ad campaigns in Apple News, and there are ways to publish sponsored content as well, but it's been a clunky and time-consuming process. To solve this problem, Apple may be planning to allow publishers to use their own ad campaign technology in Apple News, such as Google's DoubleClick, Ad Age reported on Wednesday.

If publishers could use their own ad technology, that would make it easier for them to make money off of their readers in the Apple News app. 

Other plans Apple may have for its news aggregator include micropayments, according to the report. Apple News loosely competes with Facebook's Instant Articles and Google's AMP, neither of which allow publishers to use their own ad technology. 

Among the big tech companies, Apple is the most vocal about its distaste for online advertising. Apple is including a content blocker in its latest version of its browser, Safari, and CEO Tim Cook has frequently emphasized that Apple makes its money when a consumer buys its products, instead of providing services at low-cost and making money by targeting ads, like Google and Facebook do. 

"I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information," Cook said in 2015. "They’re gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that’s wrong. And it’s not the kind of company that Apple wants to be."

That would seem at odds with Apple letting publishers choose which tracking technology they want to use. But publishers won't invest in Apple News unless they see a way to make money, and Apple needs publishers to entice users to come back day after day. 

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It's common practice for high-end condo buildings to tout all kinds of amenities to attract buyers. But 443 Greenwich, a luxury building in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York, claims to have an entirely different perk: it's apparently "paparazzi-proof." 

While the building's management can't comment on the identity of its residents, it has been reported that the building's "paparazzi-proof" architectural features — such as its lower-level parking and interior courtyard garden — have proved attractive to clients who value their privacy.

Recently, actor Jake Gyllenhaal is said to have purchased a $8.63 million three-bedroom unit in the building, joining rumored neighbors like actress Rebel Wilson, singer Harry Styles, and Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel. Other big names like Jennifer Lawrence, Ryan Reynolds, and Blake Lively have reportedly also bought property there. Earlier this year, actor Mike Myers purchased a $14.65 million loft in the building, but just a week later, he put it back on the market. It later sold for $14 million.

As for the eight penthouses, one is still available for $55 million. Prices for the available lofts range from $3.9 million to $14.5 million.

Ahead, take a look inside one of the building's gorgeous four-bedroom condos.  

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Built in 1882, the 443 Greenwich building was originally a book bindery. Today, it's a landmarked building with 53 residential condominiums, including eight penthouses.

Calling itself "paparazzi-proof," the building's privacy has been a big draw for celebrity buyers. Actress Rebel Wilson is said to have recently purchased a two-bedroom unit for $2.95 million.

Source: WWD

One of the building's major privacy-geared benefits is its lower-level lobby and parking space, guarded by wrought-iron gates. The building has on-site valet parking.