Rising pop princess Ariana Grande can sing.

Grande, who is best known for her songs "Break free," "Bang bang," and "Problem," joined Jimmy Fallon on "The Tonight Show" Tuesday evening.

The pair played a game, "Wheel of Musical Impressions." Grande's first task was to give an impression of Britney Spears singing "Mary had a little lamb."

She nailed it, of course.

But the best performance was her next spin, after which she had to sing "The wheels on the bus" like Christina Aguilera.

After a jaw-dropping minute-long performance, Fallon told her he wanted to buy the single and wasn't sure they should continue playing the game because nothing could top it. "We should stop the show right now," Fallon said, giving her a standing ovation.

Even Christina Aguilera liked the impersonation. She tweeted at Grande on Wednesday:

Here she goes. The Christina bit begins at the 2:14 mark:

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Two days after announcing their apps at the Apple store in Soho, the Kardashians and Jenners are still crushing the download charts — and beginning to rake in cash.

The new apps allow fans even greater access to the world of the Kardashians and Jenners beyond their existing presence on seemingly every social media network around, and it charges users a mere $2.99 a month. Of course, as BuzzFeed's Katie Notopoulos pointed out, that’s an insane $142.53 per year if you sign up for all four apps.

But that doesn't seem to be deterring people. Alaxic Smith, CEO of communly.com, got ahold of subscriber numbers, according to TMZ. A total of 891,340 people reportedly signed up for the four sites within the first 24 hours. If those numbers are indeed correct, that would mean that the entire family of apps is on pace to rake in $32 million per year.

And most of it is coming from Kylie. Here's how the sisters each made out: 74% Kylie, 11% Khloé, 9% Kim, and 6% Kendall, according to TMZ.

At least in the app world, 18-year-old Kylie Jenner is the undisputed queen of the family.

According to the app analytics company App Annie, Kylie Jenner's new app is number one on the charts, beating out Facebook's Messenger app, Facebook, Instagram, and even Snapchat.

Khloé Kardashian's app is currently at the No. 12 spot as of Wednesday morning — not as high as Kylie, but that's still ahead of Spotify, Pinterest, and Google Maps.

More importantly, both are beating Kim, whose new app is currently sitting at 11 (though she already has her own powerhouse of an app, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, a game which raked in $1.6 million in its first five days on the market, and has since been downloaded 22.8 million times, generating $43 million in revenue from its June launch through the end of September.)

Kendall is bringing up the rear (Kourtney's app hasn't been released yet), at the 17 spot, which is still better than Uber and Twitter. 

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There's no doubt that "Everest," based on a true story, is a bleak, harrowing experience, but something gets lost in translation.

The film follows twenty-plus individuals, portrayed by the likes of Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Hawkes and "House of Cards" star Michael Kelly, as they prepare to summit Mt. Everest. 

The climbers range from experts and Sherpas to uninitiated amateurs paying tens of thousands of dollars for the opportunity, and their journey is every bit as arduous and deadly as it sounds.

It centers on the real-life infamous 1996 Everest disaster of which there are many first-hand accounts. The film features John Krakauer, who wrote probably the most most well-known take on the events "Into Thin Air," but the screenplay is actually based on Beck Weathers' “Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest” and an article written by Peter Wilkinson titled "The Death Zone." And therein lies the problem.

While watching the film, it becomes clear that it's very much an amalgam of source material rather than one, through narrative. 

"Everest" is so overstuffed with characters that at times it's impossible to tell who is who. It doesn't help that everyone on screen looks the same (so many beards), and they're all covered head-to-toe in climbing gear, which makes it all the more confusing. 

There's simply not enough time in a 2 hour film to explore the back stories and get to know all of these people. This makes it hard for the audience to become completely invested, which is disappointing considering this story is so ripe for it.

The screenplay does hone in on the familial lives of a couple key players and really tugs at the heartstrings, but these moments come off as disingenuous when spliced into a narrative otherwise entirely set on the mountain.

It's bizarre to see the filmmakers pick-and-choose which characters they deem worthy of caring about, and the writers may have been better off consolidating multiple real-life figures into one fictionalized person instead of several. 

Visually, the film is quite stunning. It was shot in the mountains of Italy as well as the actual base of Everest in Nepal, and the sly use of CG combined with the location shooting gives the mountain a seriously imposing presence. Anytime the camera pans down during an intense traverse, it's hard to not feel the sheer terror deep in your bones.

The performances are also quite good, with Jason Clarke and Josh Brolin getting the meatier roles and really delivering. Besides one female climber, the women on screen (including A-listers Keira Knightley and Robin Wright) are relegated to waiting by the phone for bad news. These sequences are quite manipulative, but will certainly have plenty of moviegoers reaching for some Kleenex, which is their intention. 

"Everest" is a completely serviceable film, but it falls short of being the must-see experience it could have been. The great performances make it easy viewing, as does the larger-than-life imagery, but the film is ultimately too busy trying to give its enormous cast ample screen-time to emotionally resonate. A film this steeped in human tragedy should be easier to connect with.

Watch the trailer below. 

Everest opens in theaters nationwide Friday, September 18th.

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A new video has surfaced that shows some kayakers paddling among a pod of humpback whales when one of the animals emerges from the water and into the air, landing right on top of them.

The video was captured by Larry Plants, a passenger on an early-morning whale-watching tour led by Sanctuary Cruises just outside Moss Landing harbor in Monterey Bay, California.

The cruise stopped to watch a large group of humpbacks feeding and playing around, and some kayakers were in the midst of them. The whales were coming up right next to the kayakers, when suddenly, one of the whales breached right on top of two kayakers (luckily, they survived, apparently unscathed).

The video caption reads, "It's all fun and games until someone gets jumped on. The next thing we knew, this thing launched right on top of these two kayakers. That was heavy."

Humpback whales come to the California coast to feed. They are typically about 40 to 50 feet long and weigh nearly 40 tons, or as much as several school buses.

Scientists aren't sure why whales breach, or lunge, out of the water. Some theories suggest they may be trying to shake off parasites, communicate with each other, or have a look around. Or, they could just be doing it for fun.

It probably wasn't that much fun for those kayakers, though.

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I recently returned from Burning Man and of all the things I saw, one of the most interesting is how groups of people work together to form "camps" — the communities in which they live during the week-long festival.

While some "turn-key" fancy camps have a full staff cooking and cleaning for them, most festival-goers sign up for a week of chores to help their camp function as a community. 

Check out the daily duties of what it takes to make a camp function...

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Here's what an aerial view of Burning Man looks like. The structures on the ground are all organized into "camps."

Camps are where people stay during the week-long festival. They can be home to anywhere from 2 people to hundreds of people.

Some fancy "turn-key" camps come complete with a private chef, open bar, nice bathrooms, even chandeliers...

Check out a fancy camp here.

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Rapper Fetty Wap burst onto the scene in 2015 with tons of hit songs including what many would call the song of the year: Trap Queen.

But as people got acquainted with Wap, one question kept arising: What happened to his eye? He's never been shy about the subject — he's actually been very vocal. So vocal in fact that he made his eye the main point of his recent album cover.

Wap lost his eye to glaucoma, a condition he was born with at six months old. He later had reconstructive surgery and wore a prosthetic eye for many years, but eventually took it out because he "didn't want to look like everyone else."

Now he's inspiring others to do it, too.

Last week, young Jayden Vaden faced the world, and also left his prosthetic eye behind. Jayden, like Wap, was diagnosed with a disease that caused him to lose his eye when he was very young.

His mom, Brenda Vaden, in a heartfelt Facebook post said it was all thanks to Wap.

"This young rapper unknowingly gave Jayden something we weren’t able to give him-the confidence to be different- and I am grateful to him," said Vaden. "Thanks to Fetty Wap for saying F the world this is me, and for helping make our baby boy just a little more remarkable than he already is."

Vaden said she'd be buying an album as a small thanks to Wap for changing Jaden's life forever.

Read Vaden's emotional post in full below.

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Ethan Embry admitted something to Business Insider when we talked to the actor at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this week — he hasn't always been a fan of "Can't Hardly Wait."

"If we did this interview two or three years ago, and you brought up the movie, my reaction would have been 'Uuuggggghhhh," Embry told BI.

But things have changed.

At TIFF to promote his new movie, the horror “The Devil’s Candy,” the 37-year-old actor admits he’s finally come to terms that his role in the late 1990s teen comedy is one many know him from.

“I now enjoy the celebration of it,” Embry told BI. “It was just work, but I so remember fighting really hard for the role. I feel lucky that I have it as a piece of my past.”

“Can’t Hardly Wait” follows a night in the lives of a group of recent high school graduates as they all coverage at a year-end party. One of the main threads is awkward loner Preston Meyers (Embry) who spends most of the evening trying to profess his love to the school hottie Amanda Beckett (Jennifer Love Hewitt) by attempting to give her a letter her wrote.

The movie was a disappointment at the box office its opening weekend, coming in fourth. It’s lifetime gross is only $25.6 million. 

But over the years thanks to home video and constantly playing on paid-cable channels, the film built a cult status that has followed the actors in the film to this day.

Embry said he finally began to acknowledge the movie being a major milestone in his career when he thought of the bigger picture.

“I can appreciate it more now,” he said. “Who the f--k doesn’t want, when they are nearing middle age, to look back on their youth in a celebratory way? So it’s really a nice gift that has been given to me.”

Though Hewitt took to Twitter earlier in the year trying to get momentum for a sequel to “Can’t Hardly Wait” off the ground (Embry since then has said a sequel is only “hypothetical”), it doesn’t seem like Embry has time to worry about it.

Along with “The Devil’s Candy” he’s in pre production on another horror and will be seen next year in the Netflix series “Grace and Frankie,” starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.

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Stevie Wonder just showed up on stage at the main keynote speech of Dreamforce, Salesforce's big annual user conference.

He's giving a live performance of some of the biggest hits, including "You're the Sunshine of My Life" and "Signed Sealed Delivered."

In fact, while singing "You're the Sunshine of My Life," Wonder slightly changed the lyrics to "Dreamforce is the sunshine of my life," bringing some cheers from the crowd.

Dreamforce is known for having star musicians as guests. This year, Foo Fighters, The Killers, and John Legend are performing at the after party.

Wonder's appearance wasn't expected, but Benioff tweeted his appearance at the last minute:

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You can own the exact shoes Daniel Craig will be wearing as James Bond in "Spectre."

Once again, the Bond costume department has teamed up with legendary English shoemaker Crockett & Jones to outfit the MI6 agent in classic English footwear. Throughout the movie Bond will wear six different pairs of shoes, ranging from a suede brogue to a combat-style boot.

Here are all the shoes and what they retail for:

Camberley in black calf — £460 ($713)

Alex in black calf— £400 ($620)

Northcote in black wax calf— £430 ($667)

Norwich in black calf— £390 ($605)

Radnor in black calf— £460 ($713)

Swansea in dark brown suede— £345 ($535)

Though Crockett and Jones is pricey, it's one of the most highly regarded shoemakers in the world. After all, Bond only buys the best.

The company also supplied several models for Bond's last outing, "Skyfall," including the Alex.

The shoes will be available by special order and at Crockett & Jones shops in London, Birmingham, New York, Paris, and Brussels.

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Internet users of all ages are spending more time than ever watching TV online, spelling trouble for traditional pay-TV services that have been slow to react to the rising trend, according to a new study from GlobalWebIndex. As pay-TV subscriptions have continued to fall, an increasing number of video streaming services have popped up in the past few years to attract viewers who are shifting to online services to watch TV. While the services are often marketed to younger consumers who are more apt to be "cord-cutters" (those who once paid for a TV subscription but now do not) or "cord-nevers" (those who have never paid for a TV subscription), the study reveals that the shift to online TV-viewing is catching on across all age groups.

Below are some key points from the study:

• Unsurprisingly, younger internet users spend the most time watching TV online. Internet users between the ages of 16-24 spend 1.1 hours per day watching TV online — almost four times as much time as users ages 55-64. 
• Older viewers spend the least amount of time watching TV online. Viewers ages 55-64 only spend a quarter of an hour watching TV online, which is only a slight increase from 2012 and the slowest growth of all age brackets over the past three years. 
• It's worth noting that linear TV is not dead yet. And viewers still spend a significant amount a time watching programming through their pay-TV packages. Overall, the study finds that the average internet user spends about 2.5 hours per day watching linear TV, compared to 0.74 hours watching online TV.

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Prerna Gupta thinks she knows why most attempts to bring fiction to our phones have, more or less, failed.

She says they were usually overdesigned, and tried to create some gorgeous interface that took advantage of what pixels could do. They were beautifully useless and didn’t focus on what phones could actually bring to fiction: data.

Gupta’s new app, Hooked, aims to solve that problem with stories that are told in bite-sized chunks and built for your phone.

Hooked has just closed a funding round of $1.2 million with investors like 500 Startups, Greylock, Foundation Capital, and Gil Penchina — a raise which brings its total funding to $1.9 million.

Gupta is an industry veteran whose app-building startup in the amateur music space, Khu.sh, sold to competitor Smule in 2011. She and her husband, who are business partners, are now trying to bring a developer’s perspective to literature in the same way they brought it to music.

After the pair sold Khu.sh, they decided to take a break from Silicon Valley, and embarked on writing a science fiction fantasy trilogy together. The series, which is unfinished, takes place in a dystopian Silicon Valley 100 years in the future, when the world has split harshly into have and have-nots.

As they were writing, Gupta began to think about the business of fiction, and how books were distributed and monetized. She felt there had been little innovation in the market, even with the inventions of gadgets like tablets and e-readers.

Phones, especially, struck her as a wasted opportunity. And the market she became focused on was the “young adult” one.

“Most young adult novels are 50,000 to 100,000 words long, and reading them on your phone is definitely not a native experience,” she says.

To Gupta, it wasn’t just the size of the screen that was wrong. It was the entire way we use phones. “More than size it's about behavior, the way we live our lives,” she says. “Traditional books need continuity. When you’re on your phone, you only have 5-10 minute chunks and it’s hard to get into the flow.” And no matter how big a phone screen gets, it won’t fix that.

That’s when Gupta hit upon the idea of stories told in small messages, primarily in dialogue. She took her inspiration from classic novels like "Dracula," which is written entirely in letters. At launch, the way stories appear on Hooked is in text (or multimedia) messages told between two characters.

This type of storytelling has another advantage, one that Gupta thinks is a key to Hooked’s success. Breaking down stories into text messages means they are easy to analyze. You can look at your audience and see exactly where your story begins to lose people. Then you can fix it.

With Hooked, Gupta wants to bring the ideas that have been floating around the tech world into the fiction one. You get a beta product out there, and collect user data. You observe your readers' behavior. You see what they like and what they don't.

And then you refine your story to make it better.

Of course this ethos comes with its own set of questions about art versus commerce, and whether an author should let the audience dictate his or her plot — or change a sad ending to a happy one. Gupta acknowledges this, but doesn’t let it discourage her from trying to build something that might put authors in better touch with their audiences. There are tradeoffs, but in her opi non, not overwhelming ones.

To create content for the app launch, Gupta reached out to the top MFA programs (Master of Fine Arts) in fiction around the country. She put out the word she was going to pay authors for fiction and, not unsurprisingly, her inbox was flooded.

Hooked currently has 200 stories, but Gupta wants to get that up to 1,000 by the end of the year.

Many of the stories are from genres like thrillers, or mysteries — ones that lend themselves to cliff hangers. But Hooked also includes romance, science fiction, and comedy, which are popular with young adult audiences.

Right now, the app is running on a “freemium” model, where users can read a certain number of messages a day before they have to wait (or upgrade).

Gupta sees her biggest competitor as Wattpad, a mobile-focused social platform that sees thousands of free stories uploaded every day. What she says sets Hooked apart is that it is focused more on creating the optimal user experience for a particular story, rather than aspiring to be a sprawling social network.

And that is what is at the heart Hooked: the idea that fiction on the phone is a form that is still undecided, the idea that no one has quite got it right.

Starting today, Hooked will play its hand.

Check Hooked out for yourself at the App Store.

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The 40th Toronto International Film Festival is currently underway, and it seems all of the A-list stars are taking over the town. 

From Johnny Depp and Matt Damon to Kristen Stewart and Sandra Bullock, tons of celebrities are north of the border to premiere their new films.

See who is already getting Oscar buzz and who's dominating the red carpet.

Let's go stargazing.

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TIFF takes place in September for 10 days and premieres many of the movies that will contend at year-end award shows like the Golden Globes and Academy Awards.

Because of that, the stars come out in full force. And where they go, so do the photographers.

Jake Gyllenhaal kicked off the festival with his new movie "Demolition."

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The new Kardashian and Jenner apps have been taking over the App Store like a rampaging army, with Kylie Jenner's app rocketing to the No. 1 spot.

Both the Kardashians and Jenners also released their own personal websites to go along with their new apps, but a security flaw has reportedly exposed the personal information of all the first 891,240 users, according to TechCrunch. The information includes first and last names, as well as email addresses.

A developer named Alaxic Smith discovered the security bug by poking around on the Kardashian and Jenner websites (associated with the apps), according to Fortune. He found an unsecure part of the site, which contained partial login information for all app users.

“Initially, I thought that this was some page filled with dummy data, but as I started to look closer, I realized it wasn’t,” he wrote on Medium. (The post has since been taken down.) “I now had access to the first names, last names, and email addresses of the 663,270 people who signed up for Kylie Jenner’s website.” He also found he could create or destroy users' photos and videos, he wrote.

Smith then confirmed that all the sisters' sites, which were made by Whalerock Industries, had the same flaw. The company has since addressed the problem and issued this statement to TechCrunch:

Shortly after launch we were alerted that there was an open Api. It was promptly closed. Our logs indicate that the author of the blog post was able to access only a limited set of names and email addresses. Our logs further indicate no one else had access and that no passwords nor payment data of any kind was exposed. Our highest priority is the security of our customers’ data.

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The surgeon widely blamed for the death of Kanye West's mother wants to clear his name.

Donda West died in 2007 at age 58 soon after she received a cosmetic procedure from Dr. Jan Adams.

Adams has received tons of criticism over the years, and his practice eventually went out of business after West's death. But he has always said he did nothing wrong — that West died from complications not directly related to surgical procedures.

In a recent interview with "Inside Edition," Adams again said he was not at all responsible, but rather was set up as a fall guy for West's death. He also said he thought the death could have been easily prevented.

"This lady shouldn't be dead," Adams said.

Adams told "Inside Edition" that after West had surgery, he suggested she stay in the medical facility under its care. But West wanted to stay with her nephew,Stephan Scoggins, Kanye's cousin who is also a nurse. During the interview, Adams read notes he made from 2007 detailing the incident.

"Her caregivers gave her 20 Vicodin tabs in less than 20 hours," he said reading the notes. Adams believes the overload in pills caused West to choke to death. He said she was left on her back unattended.

"All he had to do was sit her up," Adams said of Scoggins, who he said wasn't watching her.

"What's Donda West's problem? Her nurse wasn't there," he added. "Her nurse was gone to a baby shower rather than taking care of his aunt."

According to Adams, when West was left alone she went into cardiac arrest.

Adams also challenged Kanye to tell what he knew. "The truth when you bury it just grows bigger," he said. Kanye has always personally taken the burden of his mother's death very hard.

At the 2008 Grammy Awards he put on this emotional performance of "Hey Mama" just months after his mother died:

Earlier this year he told E! Online that "If I had never moved to LA, she'd be alive," but he said he would cry if he talked about it. Kanye has never went public with what he knows of the situation, but he has expressed his thoughts through hismusic.

Business Insider has reached out to Kanye for comment.

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"Black Mass" plays like a really good cover of a classic.

The film isn't trying to be anything more than another entry in the gangster crime canon, a drug-lord biopic at that, and it succeeds.

The film tells the story of infamous Boston criminal James "Whitey" Bulger.

Johnny Depp, in his best role in years, is the head of the Irish-American Winter Hill Gang that rose to dominate the Boston underworld from 1975 to 1995 by leveraging a long-term "alliance" with the FBI to further control territory and take the action beyond state lines.

It's a familiar story with all its executions, double-crossing, and deep-seeded corruption, but it is livened up by a fantastic ensemble cast and a script that isn't too concerned with abiding by conventions.

"Black Mass" is a performance movie through and through. While Depp's exaggerated transformation into the character reeks of a make-up-and-wig performance on surface level, there's more to it than that. Depp is genuinely great here, and he actually gives it his all for the first time in years.

His performance is understated and fairly low-key. His presence on-screen is commanding — a few scenes are so chilling that you will still be thinking about them hours later. He's a terrifying force who can turn excessively violent on a dime, and nobody in his crosshairs is safe.

The supporting cast is just as worthy of praise. Joel Edgerton in particular is terrific as an FBI agent caught between doing his job and maintaining his childhood kinship, and Corey Stoll's brief but memorable turn as a federal prosecutor is a joy to watch as well. Peter Sarsgaard and Kevin Bacon are also flawless in their roles as a coke-fueled Miami hustler and an FBI manager, respectively.

"Black Mass" does work against type and takes steps to ensure it doesn't fall too firmly into overly familiar territory. While it can't escape comparisons to "The Departed" or [insert any other gangster film here], it never falls victim to the common biopic problem of trying to cram too much of Bulger's rise and fall into the story.

Its composition, while seemingly haphazard, streamlines the important details so you never truly feel its two-hour running time.

Still, it's far from perfect. The flashback structure — a cheap and overused narrative device — gives the filmmakers some breathing room, but it also compromises the flow of the narrative. There's no getting around the fact that the jumps in time are jarring both tonally and thematically, but they are forgivable in context as the scenes that follow are always compelling.

"Black Mass" may not fully live up to the genre staples, but it is a solid true-crime flick elevated by its collection of unforgettable performances.

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A Norway-based digital artist who goes by the pseudonym ThatNordicGuy is growing a following for his composites of celebrity portraits, spotted on PetaPixel.

ThatNordicGuy, who asked for Tech Insider not to use his full name, loves to take different celebrities faces and morph them into one superhuman, gorgeous person. 

He said it can take hours to some portraits and days to do others.

To make his morphed photos, ThatNordicGuy primarily uses the program Sqirlz Morph— a free software that merges images together — before cleaning the image up in Photoshop.

To see some of ThatNordicGuy’s coolest morphed portraits, keep scrolling and check out his page on DeviantArt or follow him on Reddit.

One of ThatNordicGuy's most seamless composites was of superstars Taylor Swift and Emma Watson.

Here's Chris Pratt and Harrison Ford. He may have been inspired by the rumors that Chris Pratt would star in the future "Indiana Jones" movies.

Though he likes to mix up the celebrities he uses, ThatNordicGuy does have some favorites. He loves to meld "Game of Thrones" actress Natalie Dormer (who plays Margaery Tyrell in the series) and actress Emma Watson with other celebrities. Here they're morphed together.

Thursday's Republican presidential debate will go down as CNN's highest-rated program ever.

According to early numbers, the GOP debate scored a 4.7 household rating. That amounts to nearly 20 million viewers for the 3-hour event, according to TheWrap.

That's still about four million less viewers than the highly rated firstc GOP debate brought in to Fox News in August.

The official numbers will be reported on Thursday afternoon. Previously, CNN’s all-time high was the 8 million viewers who watched Barack Obama debate Hillary Clinton in ’08, reported Deadline.

CNN's three hour debate had created much buzz before it aired, because Republican candidate Donald Trump dared the news network to donate its proceeds to charity. CNN didn't respond to Trump's request.

The 3-hour debate included the ability for Trump's many opponents to address the the statements he has made about them over the course of his campaign so far.

The next Republican debate will air Wednesday, October 28 on CNBC.

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Actress Sela Ward and her husband, venture capitalist Howard Sherman, are packing up their belongings and heading to New York.

They're leaving behind a massive Bel-Air estate, which recently went on the market for $39.995 million, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Originally built in the 1940s, much of the home has been rebuilt with reclaimed wood from Louisiana and Mississippi, where Ward grew up.

Among the 8-acre property's notable features are a 30-seat movie theater, outdoor kitchen, and mini golf course.  

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The home sits on a huge lot with more than eight acres of land. The main house itself has about 12,000 square feet of space.

The couple initially chose the property for all of the outdoor space it offered for their two children. "I really wanted them to be outside more than not," Ward told the WSJ.

Wide paths lead around the property.

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Since "Shark Tank" debuted in 2009, we've seen hundreds of entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to a panel of celebrity investors.

While each Shark may have their own method for evaluating whether a company is worth an investment, they all agree on the fundamentals of a great pitch.

In the best pitches, entrepreneurs sell themselves as much as the product and are prepared to answer any question. The pitches are concise and exciting, and make investors afraid they'll miss out on a major money-making opportunity if they don't make a deal.

A great pitch is far from a guarantee of success, but it's one of the first hurdles to becoming the next hit company out of "Shark Tank." In anticipation of the seventh season's premiere on Sept. 25, we've rounded up the best pitches in the show's history.

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Beatbox Beverages, Season 6

Beatbox Beverages cofounders Brad Schultz, Aimy Steadman, and Justin Fenchel entered the tank looking for $250,000 for 10% of their neon-colored, boxed fruit wine company.

After working through the details of how the three built their business, Mark Cuban decided the drink had the potential for viral growth among younger drinkers beyond the company's native Texas and offered $600,000 for a third of the company. Fenchel was grateful for the offer but said they hadn't prepared to give up so much of their company. Cuban asked for a counter. Without skipping a beat, Fenchel asked for $1 million in exchange for a third of the company. They shook hands on the deal.

One of the most common reasons why entrepreneurs miss out on a deal on the show is when they become indecisive or anxious. The Beatbox Beverages team trusted each other and had prepared well enough that nothing caught them off guard, and they ended up with an investment that's uncharacteristically large for the show.

EmazingLights, Season 6

Extravagant pitches filled with performances and props can make for great television, but often are used to hide deficiencies in a company. In the case of EmazingLights, however, a giant cartoon headpiece and a light show was used to demonstrate the company's unusual product, gloves with LED lights in the fingertips that have become increasingly popular at raves.

Founder and CEO Brian Lim's pitch showed the importance of self-promotion when wooing investors. He was able to convince them that the $7 million in annual revenue he'd achieved for his four-year-old company was due to his focus, passion, and long-term vision to crush the competition.

"You are probably one of the, if not the best entrepreneur we've had here," Robert Herjavec told him.

Lim made a deal with Cuban and Daymond John, with Cuban giving $650,000 for 5% and John taking licensing rights and a 20% commission.

Bantam Bagels, Season 6

Husband-and-wife team Nick and Elyse Oleksak left high-paying Wall Street jobs to pursue the excitement of building their own business. They launched stuffed bagel company Bantam Bagels in 2013 and entered the tank looking to turn a New York City outlet into a national business.

Their pitch was noteworthy for having clearly outlined how the company's been successful thus far, what its deficiencies are, and how an investor's guidance and capital can overcome the weaknesses and turn it into a big success. They created the necessary "fear of missing out."

Lori Greiner, who built her career as the "Queen of QVC," saw the perfect opening for another home shopping hit. She got 25% of the company in exchange for a $275,000 investment.

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