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This awesome montage shows all the movie scenes Quentin Tarantino has stolen from

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Director Quentin Tarantino is a thief, and he'll be the first to tell you so.

“I steal from every single movie ever made,” Tarantino once said in an interview with Empire magazine. “If my work has anything, it’s that I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together.”

In movies from “ Reservoir Dogs ” to “ Django Unchained, ” Tarantino has borrowed from classic and unknown films alike, replicating and reinterpreting his source materials with an unabashed brilliance.

"8 1/2" (1963) and "Pulp Fiction" (1994)

pulp fiction fellini gifIn a famous scene from Tarantino's classic "Pulp Fiction," Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) reenact a dance scene from another classic, Federico Fellini's “8 1/2.”

"The Flintstones" (1960-1966) and "Pulp Fiction" (1994)

flinstones pulp gifJust before the dance scene, Tarantino references "The Flintstones" when he has Mia tell Vega not to "be a square"— though Mia inexplicably makes a rectangle with her fingers instead.

"City of the Living Dead" (1980) and "Kill Bill Vol. 1" (2003)

Kill Bill gif 2In this scene from "Kill Bill Vol. 1," Tarantino copies a stunning bloody-eye sequence from the 1980 Italian horror film "City of the Living Dead."

"Black Sunday" (1977) and "Kill Bill Vol. 1" (2003)

kill bill black sunday gifAnd in another memorable and violent sequence from the Uma Thurman-led film, he completely rips off the split-screen style of the trailer for the 1977 thriller "Black Sunday."

"Gone with the Wind" (1939) and "Django Unchained" (2012)Gone with thewinddjango gif"Django Unchained," Tarantino's acclaimed western that's set partly in the slavery-era South, features an unlikely visual influence from the title sequence of the 1939 historical romance "Gone with the Wind."

"A Professional Gun" (1968) and "Django Unchained" (2012)

Leo dicaprio gifAnd in a climactic scene from the same film, Tarantino reimagines the 1968 spaghetti western "A Professional Gun" when he has Christoph Waltz's Dr. Schultz kill the menacing slave owner Calvin Candie (played by Leonardo DiCaprio).

Spanning the filmmaker's entire career, a montage video from editor Jacob T. Swinney compiles these scenes and many other notable copycat moments from Tarantino's catalog.

Watch the full video below:

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23 places you should visit in 2015

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mount fujiEven though it's halfway through 2015, there is plenty of time left to book an amazing trip this year. 

We looked at major developments, cultural trends, and global festivals to find the hottest places to travel around the world in 2015.

From the Philippines to Peru, here are the best places to travel this year.   

Japan will continue to be a bargain destination for travelers.

Tourism in Japan has taken a hit since the 2011 tsunami hit the country's coast and ricocheted into a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Since then, the Japanese government has cleaned up the countryside and launched a massive public-relations campaign encouraging tourists to come visit. Pair that with a sharp decline in the value of the Japanese currencyand you get a country that's ripe for tourism.

Traditionally one of the most expensive countries in the world, Japan is quickly becoming a bargain destination that's luring in travelers looking for a deal.  More than 16 million visitors traveled to Japan last year, with more expected this year. Most tourists are heading to Tokyo, which is also busy preparing for the 2020 summer Olympics, but there are plenty of incredible attractions all over the country.



Lima, Peru, will maintain its status as the foodie capital of South America.

Lima, Peru has been slowly building its reputation as a city for foodies, cementing its status most recently when the Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants Awards gave the coveted top spot to the city's Central restaurant. (The restaurant also ranked at No. 4 on the venerable list of the World's Best Restaurants.) In total, eight of 50 restaurants on the prestigious list were in Lima.

The Peruvian city is home to everything from Michelin-starred restaurants to hole-in-the-wall cevicherias that will continue to draw in foodies from around the world.



"Frozen" fans will continue to flock to Norway to seek out Elsa and Anna's fictional Arendelle.

"Frozen" became the highest-grossing animated film of all timeand with its increased merchandising and announcement of a sequel, the "Frozen" craze will only continue to grow. Set in Arendelle, a fictional kingdom in Norway, "Frozen" shows a gorgeous landscape of lakes, waterfalls, mountains, and fjords. Fans of the animated film are now seeking out real-life Arendelle in Norway. The country has seen a huge growth in tourism since the release of the film, with tour operators reporting a 40% increase in sales.

Bergen, a city on the west coast, was the inspiration for the film. Voss is also popular with fans for its nearby fjords, glaciers, rivers, and lakes. With its small fishing villages and breathtaking cliffs, the Lofoten Islands will also attract Frozen fans. 



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'Jurassic World' just had the biggest Friday in box office history

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"Jurassic World" continues to over-perform at the box office.

The film opened Thursday at 7 p.m. and broke Universal's all-time "Thursday night preview" debut record with $18.5 million

Friday's numbers are in and, combined with Thursday's grosses, "Jurassic World" nabbed a gargantuan $82.3 opening day.

That number is the third-biggest debut of all time behind "Avengers: Age of Ultron" ($84 million) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" ($91 million).

Forbes' Scott Mendelson reports that if you take away the late-night Thursday numbers, the film actually grossed $64.1 million on Friday alone, which is the biggest "pure" opening day of all time, surpassing the recent "Furious 7" ($52 million) and both "Avengers" films ($63 million and $57 million respectively). 

"Jurassic World" is now on track to have one of the, if not the, biggest opening weekends of all time and could gross over $200 million domestically. Early tracking had the film earning about $125 million this weekend.

It was also huge internationally, grossing another $60 million across 66 territories, which is a record number. Taking foreign box office into account, "Jurassic World" has already earned $212.8 million all in since Wednesday. 

The film cost $150 million to produce and was directed by Colin Trevorrow, whose only previous feature-length directorial credit was the small independent film "Safety Not Guaranteed." 

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We spoke with PornHub on how they plan to pioneer the world's first sex tape in space

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It's finally begun: The largest pornography site on the Internet, PornHub, has announced plans to film the first sex tape in space.

On June 10, PornHub announced their latest project to the world by launching an Indiegogo campaign to raise the estimated $3.4 million it'll cost to make the tape. They raised over $10,000 within the first day.

Jokes aside, sex in space may turn out to be a pretty important scientific endeavor. It could play a key role, for example, in helping us get to other planets outside of our solar system that might take hundreds of years, and subsequently multiple generations, to reach.

Judging from PornHub's Vimeo preview of what they plan to do, however, there will be little to no scientific investigations involved in this first attempt to record sex in space. According to comments from Eva Lovia, the woman to star in the film if it gets enough funding, one of the most important goals of the project will be learning what it's like to orgasm in space.

Regardless, the entire team of PornHub staff — which would include Lovia and her potential male counterpart, Johnny Sins — will have to rely on scientists. PornHub explained to us how they plan to get this project off of the ground over email.

Here's what PornHub had to say about the project:

Business Insider: How did you come up with your goal of $3.4 million?

PornHub: Much of the allocation of funds took place over a number of months and tons of research. We had to scale out our intended funding goal based on various components and figures that we compiled over said research period, which is why you see the pie chart breakdown on the campaign page. It takes into account cost of the flight, insurance, crew (production/flight), donator perks, equipment retrofitting and outfitting, etc. Lots of moving parts here, but we think we were able to accurately break it all down in a way that makes sense to our users and donators.

BUSINESS INSIDER: If you achieve your funding goal, when (exact date if possible) do you plan to send Eva Lovia and Johnny Sins into space?

PH: We don't have an exact date, but upon meeting our funding goal, yes we fully expect to be sending them into space. We're tentatively scheduled to do so at this point in late 2016 based on our roughest estimates.

BI: If you achieve your funding goal, who (NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, the European Space Agency, or the Russian Federal Space Agency) will send your brave porn stars into space?

PH: We're actually currently in talks with a number of companies, but because of the nature of our endeavor, we aren't really able to disclose the details of those talks just yet for fear that that would risk unnecessary fallout from the aforementioned parties.

BI: Where do you plan to film this epic space episode? The International Space Station? A private spacecraft?

PH: The production of the video will begin inside the ship when the space craft takes flight. Filming will commence upon takeoff and as the ship climbs in altitude, so too will the lovemaking. However, we are currently contemplating having a short amount of pre-production hours allocated for preparation and some quick rehearsal prior to lift off to take place on the ground at the hub of whichever consumer flight company we end up going with.

Essentially, the way we'll be timing actual filming while the act is taking place is that as soon as the ship reaches its maximum altitude there will be weightlessness (zero gravity) for at least a few minutes. Our actors will be having sex and climaxing within that time frame – ideally, of course. Thankfully we have a very experienced production crew and directorial team to help make the money shot happen in a way that looks dynamic and revolutionary for viewers.

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SEAL Team 6 uses tomahawks created by ‘Last of the Mohicans’ weapons master

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Over the weekend, The New York Times wrote an in-depth look at the history of SEAL Team 6, the Navy’s secretive unit that is best known for killing Osama bin Laden.

In a piece filled with insight from former members on the controversial assaults done by the team, one eye-opening portion revealed that sometimes Team 6's choice of weapon during nights raids are “primeval tomahawks.”

And not just any tomahawk, but ones created by renowned North Carolina knife maker Daniel Winkler.

Winkler is known best for his Native-American designs, which led to filmmakers of the 1992 drama “The Last of the Mohicans,” set during the French and Indian War in the 1750s, to call on Winkler to create realistic tomahawks and knives for the film.

last of the mohicans tomahawkWinkler notes that along with making rubber versions for the film’s action sequences, he and his team also created “actual functioning knives and tomahawks” that the actors did carry.

Winkler was also brought on as a consultant for “Zero Dark Thirty,” Kathryn Bigelow’s 2012 Best Picture nominated film looks at the decade-long hunt for bin Laden, including his death at the hands of SEAL Team 6.

ZERO DARK THIRTY seal team 6In the New York Times story, members of Team 6’s Red Squadron, which brandishes a logo of crossed tomahawks below the face of a Native American warrior, received a hatchet made by Winkler after their first year on the team.

Former members tell the paper that some on the team “carried the hatchets on missions, and at least one killed an enemy fighter with the weapon.”

Though the story points out that SEAL operators reject the use of tomahawks because they are “too bulky to take into combat and not as effective as firearms,” former Team 6 member Dom Raso told the Times that during his time with the unit he saw the hatchets used “for breaching, getting into doors, manipulating small locks, hand-to-hand combat and other things.” He tells the paper he did see hatchet kills.

According to the story, Winkler said many of the tomahawks were paid for by private donors.

Business Insider reached out to Winker for insight on the weapons he provided SEAL Team 6, but he said he could not “discuss my involvement with any of the US Special Operations community.”

However, he did grant us permission to include pictures of tomahawks that he sells on his site.

Here’s a look at some of Winkler’s custom-designed works:

Titled the WK II Stealth Axe, it's described on the site as a "close quarters axe." 

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WK II Winkler/Sayoc RnD Hawks was made with the goal to "exceed the standards of what a tomahawk could be — a practical application tool of exceptional craftsmanship."

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WK II Hammer Combat Axe is "the same as those carried by elite SOF (Special Operations Forces) operators."

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WK II Combat Axe is another favorite of the SOF community specialized for "breaching/combat."

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The velociraptors in the 'Jurassic Park' movies are nothing like their real-life counterparts

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One of the most memorable and frightening dinosaurs introduced in  the "Jurassic Park" series is the Velociraptor. They may not be as gigantic as the T. rex, but the intimidating raptors have appeared in each of the three films so far. 

We'll see them again on screen in "Jurassic World," which hits theaters June 12. 

However, you may not realize the ferocious beasts we've become acquainted with onscreen are much different than what popular culture might lead you to believe.

Jurassic Park VelociraptorWhile they are portrayed as vicious, cunning reptile-like hunters in the movies, in reality, they were much smaller, less intelligent, and resembled a bird more than a reptile.

"It's the size of a big turkey or a small wolf," Dr. John Hutchinson, an evolutionary biomechanist and professor at the Royal Veterinary College in London, explained to Business Insider. "The evidence of their brain is that it's no smarter than a pretty dumb bird like an Emu or something like that."

The real Velociraptor was also feathered, a discovery which wasn't made until after "Jurassic Park" was released in 1993. 

"We know that for sure because we found specimens that have the insertion points for feathers on their arms." Dr. Mark Norell, current Chairman of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, told Business Insider.

Here's a sketch of what an actual Velociraptor may have looked like by artist Luis V. Rey. This depiction has even made it into a museum in America.

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Michael Crichton, who wrote the book which "Jurassic Park" is based on, and director Steven Spielberg were both aware of the Velociraptor's less than intimidating size back when the movie was being developed in the early '90s.

The Velociraptor we see on screen ended up based off of another dinosaur, Deinonychus. This is partially because Crichton based his novel on Gregory Paul's "Predatory Dinosaurs," which "labeled the Velociraptor as a Deinonychus subspecies." 

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Spielberg could have changed it to the more accurate term, but most Paleontologists think he probably kept it that way because "Velociraptor" sounded a lot cooler than "Deinonychus."

"[Velociraptor] is a much sexier, better-sounding name." Norell said. "For somebody to be talking about that Deinonychus because even Deinoychus, amongst the professional community, people pronounce it different ways, you know? I mean, it just flows off the tongue a lot easier."

When asked the same question, Dr. Hutchinson also described the Velociraptor name as "sexier."

While the scientific name isn't that catchy, Deinoychus does translate to "Terrible Claw" -- and the Velociraptors in the "Jurassic Park" franchise have some pretty mean ones. 

The film's Velociraptors were a bit bigger than Deinonychus.Funny enough, just two years before the debut of "Jurassic Park," a new dinosaur was discovered called the Utahraptor which is nearly identical to the Velociraptors seen onscreen. Utahraptor

"Jurassic World" will bring back basically the same Velociraptors as before. However, they still won't have any feathers, and it appears from the trailers that they won't change much in size, either. This makes them consistent with the original film, but not so much with modern science.

Jurassic World VelociraptorOne thing that may be different, though, is that the Velociraptors here could be a lot friendlier then they have been in the past. One trailer shows Chris Pratt's character training the raptors as he talks about "a relationship based on respect."

But maybe it wasn't their behavior that needed changing.

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While it is hard to determine exactly how they behaved, there is some evidence to show real Velociraptors were indeed vicious fighters.

One famous fossil found in Mongolia preserves a Velociraptor mid-fight with a Protoceratops.

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"I wouldn't wanna tangle with one," Hutchinson said.

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These 20 stars from blockbuster movies were replaced in the sequels — here's why

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When it comes to building franchises, Hollywood tries desperately to stay consistent. If the first movie is a hit, studios will try their hardest to keep the same directors and actors on board as long as possible.

But there are instances in which change is necessary. Sometimes for the betterment of a movie, but sometimes they leave viewers scratching their heads.

From "Batman" to The National Lampoon "Vacation" franchise, check out the most notable recastings in movie history.

In 1980's "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" we see the Emperor for the first time as he speaks to Darth Vader via holograph. The Emperor was actually played by Elaine Baker, then wife of special makeup effects legend Rick Baker. The voice was done by New Zealand actor Clive Revill.



For the next film in the saga, "Return of the Jedi," George Lucas recast the role with Scottish actor Ian McDiarmid, who not only went on to play the Emperor in the prequels, but was placed into the "Empire" scene when Lucas updated the films in the early 2000s.



Though Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for his performance as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs" (and would play the part two more times), he wasn't the first to star as the good doctor.



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'Jurassic World' just had the second-largest box-office weekend of all time with over $200 million

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After a record-breaking Friday at the box office, "Jurassic World" blew all analyst expectations this weekend.

The fourth film in the "Jurassic Park" franchise brought in an estimated $204.6 million, according to BoxOffice.com.

 
If the estimate holds, that gives "Jurassic World" the second-largest opening at the box-office ever

The previous record, set by 2012's "The Avengers," is $207.4 million.

Earlier this summer, it was thought "Avengers: Age of Ultron" would come close to beating that record, but it came short with a weekend gross of $191.3 million.

Worldwide, the film has already made over $511 million.

"Jurassic World" was a big risk from Universal.

The film has been in the works for a decade, mired by script rewrites and multiple delays.

Co-financed by Universal and Legendary, "Jurassic World" cost an estimated $150 million.

Until Friday, box-office estimates for the film ranged from $100 million to around $130 million. That quickly changed after box-office numbers for late Thursday showings and Friday delivered the largest "pure" opening of all time.

"Jurassic World" pretty much solidifies its star Chris Pratt as box-office gold.

This is Pratt's third film in the past year to become a break-out hit after "The LEGO Movie" ($468 million), in which he voiced the lead, and Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" ($774 million).

"Jurassic" isn't just a big hit in the US either.

In China, the film has made $100.8 million

Right now, "Jurassic World" is well on its way to being the second billion-dollar hit for Universal after "Furious 7" earlier this year.

Don't be surprised to hear of a sequel soon in the works.

The movie definitely leaves room for one, and Pratt confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that he's signed on for a sequel.

SEE ALSO: "Jurassic World" completely ignores these important discoveries scientists made about dinosaurs

AND: Why it took 10 years to bring "Jurassic World" to theaters

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All the critics bashing Jay Z's music app are completely wrong

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I had to see what all the fuss was about.

Back in March, Jay Z's big streaming music service launched. He calls it "Tidal."

Jay Z spent $56 million to buy Aspiro, the Swedish company behind the WiMP and Tidal streaming sites. Since then, he and his team have made it their own.

But the PR battle for Tidal has been real, with haters coming out of the woodwork to bash the music service, including well known musicians like 50 Cent and Death Cab for Cutie, among others.

Enough. It was time for me to find out for myself. I downloaded the app, buried my Spotify icon deep within my iPhone, and got to work.

Here's the first thing you see when you open the app. This is honestly the most useless part for me. It mostly focuses on exclusive content and I've noticed an aim towards hip-hop (despite Jason Aldean being featured here). That goes against my personal tastes, but maybe it appeals to you.



While that's not super helpful, the rest of this app is fantastic. Here's the sidebar you see inside the app which is, in my opinion, much more useful than Spotify's sidebar. It's especially easier here to navigate to the songs you save offline and get to specific genres of music.



There is a lot of focus on curated playlists here which is a great feature for Tidal to have. As you can see they split playlists up into categories based on where you might be or what you might be doing. It's a clean, fun interface.



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How unknown British actress Emilia Clarke became a breakout star on 'Game of Thrones'

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Just a few short years ago, unknown British actress Emilia Clarke had just two filming credits on her résumé: walk-on roles in a soap opera and a made-for-TV movie.

Now the "Mother of Dragons" reportedly earns north of $7 million per season in "Game of Thrones," the most watched show in HBO history. Season five comes to a close on Sunday.

July 1, Clarke reprises the role of Sarah Connor in "Terminator Genisys."

Born in the fall of 1986, Emilia Clarke grew up in the picturesque county of Buckinghamshire, in the south of England.

Source: Marie Claire



At boarding school, she coxed, or steered, the boys' eight-rower boat. That is, until she steered the team down the wrong tunnel and got them disqualified at a Henley regatta.

Source: The Guardian



A girlie-girl, she developed an early obsession with Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady." She would often say, "I swear on Chanel," when she wanted to be taken seriously.

Source: Harpers Bazaar



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'Jurassic World' is the first movie ever to crack $500 million in its opening weekend

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"Jurassic World" had a huge opening weekend at the box office, and it only continues to get bigger.

The film, which debuted to an estimated $204.6 million in North America, opened to $307.2 million overseas, bringing its worldwide opening weekend to $511.8 million.

That figure not only makes it Universal's largest box-office opening ever, but also the largest worldwide opening for a movie ever and the only to crack $500 million in its first weekend. The 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2' is second all-time at $483 million.

Universal's last big film, April's "Furious 7," opened to $147 million. The sequel has made over $1.5 billion worldwide.

Starring Chris Pratt ("Guardians of the Galaxy"), "Jurassic World" is well on its way to becoming Universal's next billion-dollar movie of 2015.

Here are some of the box-office totals around the world for "Jurassic World" via BoxOffice.com:

China: $100.8 million
UK/Ireland: $29.6 million
Mexico: $16.2 million
South Korea: $14.4 million
France: $12.5 million
Germany: $11 million
Russia: $9.4 million
India: $7.1 million
Spain: $7 million
Brazil: $6.3 million
Malaysia: $5.7 million
Italy: $5.3 million
Philippines: $5.3 million

SEE ALSO: 12 things you probably didn't know about the original "Jurassic Park"

AND: Why it took 10 years to bring "Jurassic World" to theaters

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Microsoft just blew everyone's minds with another incredible demonstration of its holographic headset (MSFT)

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Microsoft just showed off its futuristic augmented reality headset at its E3 press conference on Monday. And it was pretty spectacular.

Microsoft invited Lydia Winters from Mojang, the creator of Minecraft, to demonstrate how gaming works with the Hololens. For those unfamiliar, Minecraft is pretty similar to Legos, but applied to a virtual world: You can create entire worlds and create little blocky players to explore those worlds and collect stuff. You can also visit other people's worlds. Though it sounds simple, this game is actually incredibly deep, and it's attracted millions of people from all ages around the world.

During its E3 demo, Microsoft rigged up a camera to the Hololens so the audience could see what the player sees through the headgera. Microsoft brought a presenter from the HoloLens team to play with Winters' character in Minecraft. Using the Hololens, he can see entire worlds right on this table, even though onlookers would see an empty table.

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You can "scroll" around your world just by pinching and dragging. 

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You can speak commands so the HoloLens can zoom in — but if you lean in with just your face, you can also look inside structures. This elicited a big "wow" from the E3 audience.

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When you tell your Hololens to "follow player," you'll zoom in on where they are to see what they're up to. Here's Winters' player, as viewed through the Hololens.

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But of course, you can always zoom out. And all the views are stunning: You can walk around the table and the 3D light structure will stay intact, as if it were really sitting on your table.

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And again, seeing your vast Minecraft world is as simple as pinching and dragging. It's scrolling for the new generation.

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One really cool feature: With the Hololens, you can grab the entire world and lift it up to see what's underneath. You'll often find plenty of lava, but also some good loot.

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And with the Hololens, if you're trying to direct another player to your location, you can drop one of these large pins so the other player can easily find it.

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With that marker, Winters was able to get her character to the location, drop a ton of TNT, and with the help of the Hololens — a simple vocal cue for a "lightning strike" — the TNT ignited, revealing the previously hidden depths below.

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Though Microsoft only showed off one specific application for the Hololens, which isn't expected to ship to the public for at least another year or more, it was great to see how Hololens can bring your plain old surfaces in your house to life. The company offered no further details on the Hololens' pricing or shipping, but we're looking forward to seeing how other games will work with this futuristic computing device, which has the potential to revolutionize personal computing as we know it.

SEE ALSO: Facebook and Microsoft just announced a monumental deal in virtual reality

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The 'Game of Thrones' finale is already smashing its own piracy record

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The season five finale of "Game of Thrones," entitled "Mother's Mercy," marked a dark turning point for the show, with conversation about the episode's pivotal moments have dominated social media

And while "Jurassic World" was breaking records of its own this weekend, "Game of Thrones" broke one as well, just not necessarily the one that HBO wanted.

According to Torrent Freak by way of BGR, the season five finale set a new piracy record.

Torrent Freak reports that during the first eight hours following the episode's initial airing on Sunday, June 14 at 9 p.m. EST, the episode had already been downloaded "upwards of 1.5 million times." They predict that this number will exceed 10 million in the days to come. 

“Never before have we seen this many downloads in such a short period of time, and last year it took half a day to reach the same number,” Torrent Freak said. “Based on this figure, the download count is expected to increase to more than 10 million during the days to come.”

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The finale is also on track to break the record for most concurrent downloads for users sharing a single file. The show will be breaking its own record, as it is currently held by last year's season four finale. That number is 250,000 people.

The season five finale was already up to 224,000, so it won't be much longer before that record is shattered.

"Game of Thrones" has long faced issues with piracy, something that they used to brag about. Now, the network is starting to crack down on piracy following an incident earlier this year in which four new episodes were leaked early.

Meanwhile, the launch of HBO NOW, a streaming service that doesn't require a cable subscription, has yet to curtail piracy.

SEE ALSO: What the devastating 'Game of Thrones' finale means for next season

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30 awesome photos from this weekend's Bonnaroo music festival

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Monday morning, thousands of people left the sleepy farm town of Manchester, Tennessee after the four day music and arts festival known as Bonnaroo.

This year's festival  the 13th installment of Bonnaroo  featured some 200 live performances as well as numerous surprise guests, celebrity cameos, and unlikely collaborations. 

From Jon Hamm and Zach Galifianakis singing an 80's power ballad to Chance the Rapper preforming an homage to the Notorious B.I.G., here are some of the must see photos from these weekends Roo'.

Jon Hamm and Zach Galifianakis crashed the stage to sing "We Are the World" during late-night Superjam on Saturday.



66-year old Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin preformed with The Sensational Space Shifters on the main stage.



Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons sang his heart out.



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The drug dealer who inspired one of the toughest characters in 'Orange Is the New Black’ has a shockingly cutesy Instagram

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Cleary Wolters, the real-life Alex Vause from Netflix's "Orange is the New Black," is now on Instagram and her pictures look nothing like what you'd expect from a former international drug dealer. 

Wolters is currently promoting a book about her own experience in prison, entitled, "Out of Orange."

She uses her Instagram account for a mix of book promotion, selfies, her daily cups of coffee, and many, many pictures of her cats. 

 

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Though she is active across several social media platforms, Wolters has not garnered the same fan following that other OITNB cast-members and writers have achieved.

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The ex-con author joined Instagram in May under the name @clearywolters. As of today, her account has 281 followers. Laura Prepon, the actress who plays her onscreen alter ego Alex Vause, boasts 1.2 million Instagram followers.

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While promoting her book, she's caught up with a few members of the cast and shared the pics on Instagram.  

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She even posted this photo with the real-life Piper Kerman, whose memoir, "Orange is the New Black," inspired the Netflix series.

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Wolters admits that "Orange is the New Black" creator Jenji Kohan took some creative liberties when casting Laura Prepon to portray her on the show, as Wolters and Prepon don't exactly look alike. 

"I love seeing myself as, like, a tall, gorgeous seductress," Wolters told People Magazine. 

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Wolters has also been candid about her relationship with Kerman, and how different it is from what's presented on Netflix.

"We did not have sex in prison," Wolters told Vanity Fair. "Not even a little bit."

In fact, the pair actually only spent five weeks together during Wolters' six-year sentence. 

Today, Wolters and Kerman are "on good terms," Wolters told the Huffington Post.  

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There is one thing in the series that is spot on. Vause's signature black frames are just like the pair of glasses that Wolters sports in real life. 

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 You can follow Wolters on Instagram here.  

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Netflix just launched its newly designed website — and it gets rid of one of its most annoying features (NFLX)

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Netflix is officially launching the new design for its streaming website on Monday, and the new layout makes the browsing experience a lot more enjoyable.

For starters, Netflix is getting rid of its carousel browsing, dropping the slow-moving side scrolling in favor for a click-based browsing system that speeds up the experience and makes it a lot less frustrating to explore. Instead watching titles crawl on by, clicking the arrow will refresh the entire row.

If you've forgotten what that carousel-style browsing looks like, here's a reminder.

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With the old design, clicking on a Netflix title caused the episode to immediately start loading while it displayed some summary information. And, if you wanted to explore the title further or select a specific episode you needed to hover your mouse over the title without clicking — which was usually hit or miss.

With the new design, clicking on a title won't immediately cause your movie or TV show to start playing — instead you'll be given the option to read about the show.

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If you click the arrow, the title will now expand to let you explore other episodes in the series, read a plot overview, check out related titles, and view information on the cast.

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While Netflix began rolling out the new interface to a small number of subscribers during the past few months, the new interface is now available to a larger number of users — but Netflix says everyone should see the new design in the next two weeks.

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The paleontologist who worked on 'Jurassic World' is trying to create a real dinosaur within 5 to 10 years

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Yes, this is for real.

No, there isn't dinosaur DNA trapped in amber, waiting to be replicated and cloned.

But that's not the only way to make a dino, said Jack Horner, the paleontologist who worked on "Jurassic World" (and the rest of the "Jurassic Park" films), and he wants to make it happen.

How did we get to this point, where Horner — one of the main inspirations for Michael Crichton's "Jurassic Park" character Alan Grant— thinks we can make a live dinosaur within five to 10 years?

"It all started with 'Jurassic Park,'" Horner told Business Insider in an interview.

In 1993, the same year the first movie came out, he and then-graduate student Mary Schweitzer, who has continued to make some amazing discoveries in the field of paleontology, tried to extract DNA from dinosaur bones.

They failed. DNA basically starts coming apart as soon as a cell dies, says Horner, and no one has ever found intact dinosaur DNA — he doesn't think it's possible. "If you did the thing they did in 'Jurassic Park,'" says Horner (referring to the story's solution of filling in dino DNA gaps with frog DNA), "you'd basically have a frog."

About 20 years of genetics research later, however, Horner has another plan — and it relies on the fact that we have a more effective way to get "dinosaur" DNA.

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Going back in time

We have creatures on the planet that are the direct descendants of dinosaurs: birds. And if you ask a paleontologist, birds are dinosaurs, specifically avian dinosaurs.

They might not look like dinosaurs, but birds have feathers, just like dinosaurs, including the ferocious velociraptor. Over time, their descendants' snouts turned into beaks, they stopped growing tails, and wings further evolved into modern bird wings.

But birds didn't necessarily lose the genes that code for tails or arms or snouts — instead, those same traits most likely exist in their genetic code, inactive, while the newer genes for wings, tail feathers, and beaks are expressed.

Horner thinks that we can suppress these new genes and express the atavistic, throwback dinosaurian genes instead. And his plan is to do this first with a well-researched bird that we're all familiar with, a chicken, giving us... a "chickenosaurus," as he described in a TED talk, or a "dino-chicken."

Picture it: a small, feathered creature, with a tail that helps it balance, small arms with claws, and a toothy snout, instead of a beak.

Remember, real velociraptors were just the size of a large turkey.

Horner has talked about pet dinosaurs for a while. Publishers of his book, "How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever" came out in 2009, originally planned to release it around the same time as "Jurassic Park 4."

Basically, Horner says, he's trying to discover the genetic pathways that turned birds into the modern creatures we know, so we can turn back the clock on a chicken's evolutionary history.

And as wild as this may sound, Horner's not the only one doing this type of work. A pair of Harvard and Yale scientists recently announced they'd found a way to turn chicken beaks back into dinosaur snouts. Skeptics think building a dino snout won't be so easy, and will involve as-yet undiscovered genetics. But the researchers counter that their work shows just how fast the science in this field is developing.

Horner says we can look at the beak study as a "proof of concept" that this reverse engineering process is feasible.

That Harvard-Yale team is working on the beak. In 2014, another group reported in PLOS Biology they'd figured out how dinosaur arms fused into wings. Horner is working on the tail. And he thinks that with the right funding, we can reverse-engineer and grow a dinosaur in five to ten years.

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Creating something new

If researchers reverse-engineer a bird, they'd have some sort of dinosaur, though it would still be a new species — the process by which modern birds evolved happened over tens of millions of years, and the few changes we're talking about here probably wouldn't represent an exact creature that existed 65 million years ago.

And dinosaurs that weren't of the avian variety still wouldn't be represented. We have no modern descendant of a stegosaurus or a brontosaurus (newly restored to real dino status).

But the rapidly changing world of genetics could open up the possibility for creating animals just like, say, a triceratops.

Horner says that if we were interested, we could genetically engineer creatures like these, or like anything else we can figure out a genetic code for, even if it never existed in nature. Once we figure out the genes that create a trait, those genes could potentially be incorporated into an animal. We've already done this. Researchers used the genes from jellyfish to make rabbits that glow in the dark, and other researchers made mice with transparent skin. Once we know the code for a trait, we could use that to make a creature.

Horner uses a unicorn as an example — we'd just need to add genes for a horn. "We could probably get to a unicorn before we get to a dino-chicken," he says.

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So why do it?

Though some of this might sound like it's totally out there, there are practical applications. If Horner's team figures out how to make a tail grow, that might unlock the ability to better understand the growth of vertebrae and neural tissue, with fascinating medical implications.

He also thinks "if we can make a dino-chicken, it's pretty cool." It might help get kids interested in genetics at a young age — what kid doesn't love dinosaurs?

Plus, Horner points out that we've been genetically modifying the genes of animals for thousands of years. We've just called it "breeding."

"People made chihuahuas out of wolves, for God's sake," he says.

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These two men face the enormous responsibility of rescuing a multimillion-dollar franchise from a year of disaster (UBI)

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Two French-Canadian men in their mid-to-late 30s are nervously scrambling in a swank New York City hotel room, still reeling from a game console crash during a live demo. The game froze, hard, while being played.

"This is still pre-Alpha," one says in the jargon-infused vernacular of game development-speak. That means "the game is still far from done," in terms of development completion. It's not entirely unusual for this to happen during game demos.

Still, is he reassuring himself, or the two Business Insider reporters sitting in front of him? Maybe both. His name is Marc-Alexis Côté, and he's in charge of the next multimillion dollar entry in the colossal "Assassin's Creed" franchise. He is visibly nervous. His already large task is even larger after last year's iteration of the game was a huge dissapointment.

Maybe you've heard of "Assassin's Creed?"

In the "AC" games, you're an assassin – surprise! – who explores historical cities, hunts foes, and lives important historical events. In "Assassin's Creed 3," you live through and influence the American Revolution. In "Assassin's Creed 2," you live through and influence Renaissance Italy. 

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Each entry in the franchise costs tens of millions of dollars to produce, and more tens of millions to then advertise.

Like the "Transformers" and "Star Wars" film franchises, video game franchises like "Call of Duty" and "Assassin's Creed" are big bets in need of big payouts. Companies like Activision ("Call of Duty") and Ubisoft ("Assassin's Creed") front the millions of dollars needed to create the games, they structure annual release schedules to maximize on potential return, and then hope for the best.

In the modern world, with more ways than ever to spend our precious time, one stinker in an annualized franchise can have much bigger business consequences than in the past.

Last year's "Assassin's Creed Unity" is that stinker.

Beyond issues raised by critics about its quality, the game had huge technical problems. Here's one of the more terrifying ones:

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In case you're wondering, it's extremely rare for game character faces to disappear, leaving ghastly floating eyeballs, teeth, and exposed muscle orb. That is not normal.

While glitches like the one above were certainly hilarious, they're also representative of the base-level problems in last year's game. Those problems resulted in critics dogging the game; "Unity" dropped over 10 points from the previous year's "Assassin's Creed" entry in Metacritic.

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Public perception of the game was no doubt hurt by the its cold reception from critics: sales of "Assassin's Creed Unity" were down compared to the previous year's game, from 10 million in 2013 for "Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag" to 10 million in 2014 across two entirely different games ("Assassin's Creed Unity" and "Assassin's Creed Rogue"). 

With all that in mind, this year's "Assassin's Creed: Syndicate" has a lot of lost ground to make up. The game's creative director Marc-Alexis Côté and senior producer François Pelland made their first attempts in overtures to media last week.

Back in the swanky New York City hotel room, Côté and Pelland showed the game running on PlayStation 4 – an example, they said, of how their approach is different from past efforts. It runs on the console you've got in your house right now! Faces and all! (For context, many games are first shown in slide presentations or as concept trailers.) It was a measure of the developers' confidence to debut the game to press in playable form.

At least it was a measure of confidence before the game crashed.

"Assassin's Creed: Syndicate""That's why we brought two [game consoles]," Côté said with a nervous laugh. This is a man with tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of employees resting on his shoulders. It was clear that he wasn't happy about the crash.

This, he said, is part of why his team's focus on the latest "AC" game is on accomplishable goals: a single game mode (no multiplayer or co-op play, just a single-player campaign), a single game (unlike two last year in "Unity" and "Rogue"), and  versions for only three platforms (Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC). 

More importantly than any of that? "Let's have the game done and let's polish the hell out of [it]," Pelland said. That's game developer-speak for, "Get the game done long before release and round off all the rough edges." Still, it's unclear how meaningful that is compared to previous years. When pushed on that difference, the two men immediately went on the defensive.

"We don't want to comment too much about last year's [game] going forward," Côté said. He may not want to, but he has to if he wants to earn back loyal fans and casual buyers alike. Ubisoft still has plenty of time to try: "Assassin's Creed: Syndicate" launches on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC this holiday.

Whether this year's "Assassin's Creed" will help Ubisoft regain the ground it lost in last year's failed "AC" entry remains to be seen. If nothing else, it is different: a new setting, new main characters (two this time), and a new development team making it.

Head right here for more on what makes "Assassin's Creed: Syndicate" different from previous games in the series.

And here's the first video of the game in action:

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