YouTube? Netflix? That stuff's old hat at this point. It's almost hard to remember a time when watching a movie meant having to go to a store.

To say nothing of long downloads!

Bizarrely, there's no Netflix for video games — there's no easy streaming service that lets you play whatever game you want, immediately, without download. There is, however, one limited contender from Sony: PlayStation Now. It enables you to play "over 400" PlayStation 3 games over the internet, no download required.

That means great stuff like "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves" and "Journey" and, well, it's a lot of games.

And now PlayStation Now is on your computer!

That image above is a bit deceptive — that's a MacBook. PlayStation Now unfortunately isn't heading to the Mac just yet. It's PC only for now. It'll arrive in Europe "soon," with North America getting access "shortly thereafter," according to Sony.

That said, the PlayStation 4 gamepad (the "DualShock 4") is going to start working with your PC or Mac. And that means you can stream games from your PlayStation 4 to your Mac. How's that? Simple.

You may have also noticed a black USB stick in the MacBook above? Good eye. That's the new $25 device that makes the PlayStation 4 gamepad work with your PC or Mac. It arrives this September.

Of course, if you'd rather not buy the stick, you can always just plug your PS4 gamepad into your computer via USB. Check out the full library of PlayStation Now games right here.

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Videos in your Facebook News Feed may soon autoplay with the sound on, a big change that might not sit well with some users.

The change, which is currently being tested with "a small percentage of people on mobile in Australia," was first reported by Mashable and confirmed by Facebook to Business Insider.

“We're running a small test in News Feed where people can choose whether they want to watch videos with sound on from the start," a Facebook spokesperson said. "For people in this test who do not want sound to play, they can switch it off in Settings or directly on the video itself.”

All Facebook videos autoplay by default when you scroll past them, but you normally have to tap into them for sound to play. With this change, sound plays the moment a video starts as you scroll.

Facebook is treading cautiously, as a noisy News Feed could prove irksome to many users. 

But Facebook says that 50% of videos watched on its network are already played with the sound on and that this test is to determine if that experience is best for everyone.

Since Facebook made videos autoplay with the sound off by default, many publishers have started adding subtitles to their videos. Facebook even has a tool for advertisers that automatically adds subtitles. Sound being enabled by default in the News Feed would make those subtitles obsolete.

Facebook doesn't want publishers rushing to ditch subtitles just yet. The company routinely tests changes like these with a small subset of its users and never rolls them out broadly. A spokesperson said that publishers and advertisers on Facebook needn't jump to change how they edit videos for this test.

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Frank Ocean released his long-awaited album "Blonde" on Apple Music over the weekend, and critics are already lauding the breezy, innovative pop album as one of the year's best works.  

While "Blonde" is also reportedly on track to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, Ocean's fans are still delving into the other media the singer has released since last Friday — including a 45-minute "visual album" and a 366-page magazine that was given out at pop-up stores in different cities.

The eclectic zine features a mix of art, photography, and written pieces, including a rambling, downright ridiculous free-verse poem from Kanye West about his love-hate relationship with McDonald's. 

As Genius points out, though, one of the best hidden surprises in the magazine is a list of Ocean's favorite songs.

The extensive, genre-bending playlist of 50 songs jumps from icons like Jimi Hendrix, Prince, and The Beatles to modern-day greats like James Blake and D'Angelo. Like "Blonde," Ocean's playlist is captivating, enigmatic, and awesome.

Listen to Frank Ocean's favorite songs of all time below: 

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Jimi Hendrix — "Crosstown Traffic"

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Frank Sinatra — "How Insensitive"

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Simon & Garfunkel — "Scarborough Fair"

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Jennifer Lawrence is the highest-paid actress in the world for a second straight year.

According to Forbes' annual top 10 list, the Oscar winner banked $46 million before taxes over 12 months. 

Though that is $13 million more than the actress who landed in second place, Melissa McCarthy ($33 million), it's actually $6 million less than what Lawrence made last year. 

The bulk of her earnings this year, according to Forbes, come from the profits she earned from the final "Hunger Games" movie "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2" (which took in $653.4 million worldwide) and her upfront fee from her sci-fi movie "Passengers," which opens in December of this year.

Following Lawrence and McCarthy on the list are: Scarlett Johansson at No. 3 ($25 million), Jennifer Aniston at No. 4 ($21 million), and Chinese actress Fan Bingbing is No. 5 ($17 million).

McCarthy had the biggest increase in earnings, up $10 million from 2015. And Charlize Theron made the list with $16.5 million to land in sixth place, the first time she's been on the list since 2013.

See the full list of the world's highest-paid actresses below:

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10. Deepika Padukone: $10 million

9. Mila Kunis: $11 million

8. Julia Roberts: $12 million

Rapper-actor Ice Cube has made it known that he's got one more "Friday" left in him.

But he wants to "do it right."

The writer and star behind the classic 1995 comedy and its two sequels, "Next Friday" (2000) and "Friday After Next" (2002), announced on Twitter on Monday that he's talked to the studio that has made the films, New Line Cinema.

Now the ball is in its court to make "Last Friday" — so long as the movie's given the care that it deserves.

The first "Friday" launched the career of Chris Tucker and made over $28.2 million worldwide on a $3.5 million budget as audiences loved the story of two friends (played by Cube and Tucker) who spend a Friday trying to get money they owe a drug dealer. "Next Friday" did better with $59.8 million worldwide. "Friday After Next" sunk with a $33.5 million worldwide gross.

They made Ice Cube one of the biggest musician-turned-actor stars ever, so it's not surprising that he might want to return to the franchise.

"Friday" has had the best shelf life of the three, a big reason being that Tucker left the franchise after the first one. But if Cube can get Tucker back, then that could generate enough interest to make it a viable property once more for New Line.

There are no details yet on what "Last Friday" would be about.

Business Insider reached out to New Line for comment, but did not receive an immediate response.

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As we say goodbye to a summer-movie season full of slumps, it's time to get into the more serious fall titles that will bring powerful performances and, perhaps, some Oscar gold. 

This fall includes anticipated movies like the all-star cast in the reboot of "The Magnificent Seven," Oliver Stone's "Snowden," and Tom Hanks playing the Miracle on the Hudson pilot in the Clint Eastwood movie "Sully."

There are also smaller films that should have your attention like the Sundance hit "The Birth of a Nation" and the powerful "The Light Between Oceans."

Here are 26 movies coming out in the coming months that you should not miss.

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"The Light Between Oceans" - September 2

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander prove they are two of the top actors working today as they play a couple whose lives crumble after rescuing a baby adrift in a rowboat. Based on the M.L. Stedman novel of the same name, the movie is a visually stunning look at sacrifice. 

"Max Rose" - September 2

This is Jerry Lewis' first leading movie role since Martin Scorsese's "The King of Comedy" in the 80s. The now-90-year-old legend delivers an emotionally charged dramatic performance as a jazz musician who struggles with the death of his wife and the possibility that she was unfaithful to him. 

"Morgan" - September 2

In this thriller Kate Mara ("Fantastic Four") plays a risk-management consultant who has to determine whether to terminate an artificial being who was created in a lab.

Microsoft is planning a new, mega-upgraded Xbox console for the 2017 holiday season, code named "Project Scorpio," with the promise that it will play all of the existing Xbox One games on the market.

But fulfilling that promise may be more complicated than we thought, judging from a new job posting originally spotted by perennial Microsoft tipster WalkingCat on Twitter. And it gives us a big hint into just how different this Project Scorpio will be.

That posting, for a senior software engineer on the Microsoft Xbox Compatibility team, starts with the following description:

"We are the Xbox Compatibility team. Our mission is to bring the 360 game catalog to the Xbox One, and Xbox One catalog to Project Scorpio."

The reference to the Xbox 360 makes sense here: Select games from the last-generation Xbox 360 video game console are playable on the current Xbox One, thanks to special software called an emulator. The emulator essentially tricks the Xbox One into thinking it's an Xbox 360, making it possible to play those games.

This job posting hints that it will take some similar trickery to get Project Scorpio to play the current generation of Xbox One games. This indicates that whatever else Project Scorpio offers, it has the potential to be radically different from the existing Xbox One, at least in terms of the hardware it sports under the hood.

Assuming Microsoft holds to its promise that all Xbox One games will be playable on Project Scorpio, you as the player won't notice much of a difference. But emulation adds a layer of technical complexity that makes it difficult to get old games running on new hardware — that's why not every Xbox 360 game can run, or run smoothly, on the Xbox One.

Microsoft is pitching Project Scorpio as a "monster" of a game console, bringing a lot more graphical power to the table that promises to far outstrip the Sony PlayStation 4 while simultaneously bringing the Xbox One games library into the future. It's just looking as if it could be a difficult balancing act for Microsoft.

Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment at the time of publication.

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Have you recently received an emailed bill for a Netflix account you don't remember paying for? Then you might be being scammed — but not how you think.

This Is Money reports that criminals have started sending fraudulent emails out to potential victims, purporting to be from Apple. The emails look legitimate, and pretend to be receipt for purchases made on the target's iTunes or App Store account — sometimes including a subscription to Netflix.

The victim freaks out, assuming that someone has managed to gain access to their account and is using it to pay for Netflix, and clicks the "refund" or "manage subscriptions" link in the email.

This then takes them to a website masquerading as the Apple website, which prompts them to enter their account and credit card details for the "refund" to go through.

And just like that, the victim is tricked into handing over their bank details to the scammers.

The scam isn't just limited to fake Netflix subscriptions. Albums from iTunes have been seen used too — and theoretically, the scam could work with any kind of online shop. A fake Amazon email might claim someone used your account to buy a piano, or a fraudulent eBay email might pretend you've bought a car.

To avoid being stung, always check the email address sending a suspicious email — and because the email sender can be spoofed, always make sure any links it wants you to click are to legitimate versions of the company's website. If in doubt, navigate to it independently via your browser, rather than relying on the links provided in a suspect message.

"The iTunes Store will never ask you to provide personal information or sensitive account information (such as passwords or credit card numbers) via email," Apple says.

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"No Man's Sky" is a game all about feeling good vibes while exploring beautiful, algorithmically-generated planets, but it's tough to feel good vibes when the game doesn't work.

Thankfully, it sounds like the PlayStation 4 version of the game is getting a pretty significant update soon.

The big update won't be adding any new content to the game, but it will fix one major issue according the game's developer Hello Games:

"No Man's Sky" on PS4 crashes more than any game should, whether it's from warping to a new system, flying from one planet to another, or seemingly at random while doing nothing. The game seems to be processing a lot of information at once, so it's understandable, but still a bummer.

But it sounds like most of those issues will be fixed this week, so that's great! I haven't played it in several days because I got kind of bored with it, but I'll definitely hop back in once the crashing is fixed.

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Music streaming service Spotify needs to renegotiate its contracts with record companies, and it needs to get it done before it goes public on the stock market, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Spotify is expected to go public in the second half of 2017, according to Bloomberg. That puts a lot of pressure on the company to prove that its business model is a good investment.

At the same time, Spotify needs to renegotiate its deals with record companies. The Wall Street Journal says it has just been operating on short-term contracts, but it needs to put in place long-term agreements on how much of its revenue goes to rightsholders.

Music Business Worldwide reported earlier this week that two out of three contracts with major record companies had expired, and it was just working with temporary month-by-month contracts.

Right now Spotify reportedly pays around 55% of its revenue to record companies. Spotify naturally wants to reduce that figure, but record companies want it to go up. That's going to be something that will have to be worked out between them before the company goes public.

Another issue in the negotiations will be Spotify's free tier. Unlike Apple Music and Tidal, you can use Spotify for free with its ad-supported tier. Record companies don't like free music streaming (and Taylor Swift certainly doesn't), and they'd love for Spotify to either close its free streaming tier or let certain albums be available for paid plans only.

It's been rumoured since 2015 that Spotify could allow record companies to release albums on the paid tier-only. The company has largely resisted until now, only allowing a few, isolated experiments — but it could be a sticking point in negotiations for its new contracts.

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Jennifer Lawrence was just named Forbes' highest-paid actress for the second year in a row.

At just 26, Lawrence raked in $46 million in the past year alone.

But the Oscar-winning "Hunger Games" star has come a long way since her first roles in "Monk" and "Garden Party" and humble beginnings in Louisville, Kentucky. 

Let's look back at her meteoric rise from farm girl to Hollywood's top earner.

Additional reporting by Melia Robinson.

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Lawrence was born August 15, 1990 — the first girl to be born on her dad's side of the family in 50 years.

Source: Rolling Stone

She grew up on a horse farm in Louisville, Kentucky, where her parents raised unbroken stallions because they were cheaper.

Sources: Rolling Stone, "The Late Show with David Letterman"

Her family didn't believe in "seeking medical treatment." She was hit by a car at 18 months and deformed her tailbone after being thrown from a horse. Neither incident warranted a trip to the doctor's office.

Sources: "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "Late Show with David Letterman"

The time people spent watching YouTube in their living rooms more than doubled in 2015, and the company wants to push that even further with a new redesign of its app.

Over the past few years, YouTube’s living room app, which works on devices like smart TVs or streaming players, has gone through several design iterations. The point of those shake-ups has always been to get people to stay longer and come back more often, Sarah Ali, who heads up living room products for YouTube, tells Business Insider.

In the living room, YouTube is competing in the “lean back” arena, against foes like Netflix and Hulu instead of Facebook or Snapchat. And it means YouTube has to focus on different things. Perfecting the browsing experience is of utmost importance in the living room. No one is coming to YouTube from links, as is often the case on mobile. You are simply sitting down on a couch, opening the app, and trying to find something to watch.

Striking a balance between giving the user control and not making the interface overly complicated it tough, so it’s no wonder the app’s design has, since 2011, bounced from menu-laden to flat design to some happy medium of the two.

In its current iteration, the carousel spotlights categories like “recommended,” “trending,” and “news” at the top. These you might expect, but the app also showcases categories that speak more directly to the living room experience.

People simply watch differently in the living room than they do on the phone, Ali says. Categories like “travel,” “cartoons,” “fitness,” and “sports” are hits. And everything election-related has been big.

If you think about it, it makes sense. You are much more likely to put on a free fitness video in your living room, and work out, than you are to watch it on your phone. And cartoons are probably being watched by families together. These are fundamentally different from the YouTube videos you would watch on your phone.

The future of TV

That brings us to the question of whether YouTube’s living room app is, in any way, a competitor to traditional TV.

Ali says she personally doesn’t subscribe to a traditional cable package, but rather, she uses a few streaming services like Netflix and YouTube. She doesn’t feel like she misses out because she can get clips from the TV shows, such as John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight," on her TV via YouTube.

YouTube isn’t likely to kill cable TV any time soon, even in conjunction with other streaming services. But here’s a statistic YouTube provided: “In the US, over half of 18-49 year-old YouTube users surveyed say they have watched YouTube videos on their television.” That’s a big chunk of people who are at least willing to try it, given YouTube’s massive user base.

And if you can grab news clips, sports clips, and clips from your favorite late-night show, that could fill in some areas that are missing in a cord-cutter diet that includes services like Netflix, Hulu, and HBO for full episodes.

YouTube’s living room efforts might not replace cable, but perhaps they can smooth the way for people moving in the direction of cord-cutting.

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For 18 years, Renee Zellweger worked as an actress in Hollywood every year, often with multiple high-profile projects in one year — especially after making a name for herself in 1996's "Jerry Maguire."

Then in 2010, the machine powered down. Zellweger's IMDb credits were left without the need to be updated — until this year.

After a six-year hiatus, Zellweger is making her return to Hollywood in the third installment of her beloved "Bridget Jones" franchise that hits theaters September 16. Another film, "Same Kind of Different As Me," is due out in February 2017.

"I wanted to grow," Zellweger explained to The Hollywood Reporter of taking a break. "If you don't explore other things, you wake up 20 years later and you're still that same person who only learns anything when she goes out to research a character. You need to grow!"

During that time, Zellweger told THR that she lived "under the radar" and steered clear of gossip written about her. Instead, she spent time in Connecticut, the Hamptons, and then in Santa Barbara, and enrolled in a screenwriting course at UCLA. THR reports that she even wrote a TV pilot with one of her professors that she pitched to Lifetime — though the network decided to pass.

"Writing is something that has always been part of my life," she told THR. "I'm tapping into it because it makes me happy. There are so many women now who are answering their creative calling — writing, producing, directing. I have a lot of girlfriends who would like to produce material that matters in some way."

Read the full interview on The Hollywood Reporter.

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Fans will have to hold on to the thrill of victory over the Boltons from the season-six finale for quite a while, according to one of its biggest stars.

Kit Harington, whose character Jon Snow also achieved the biggest victory of the season — one over death — is bracing fans for an even darker seventh season. Just in case "Game of Thrones" wasn't dark enough.

"I think it's going to get very bleak before if there is a happy ending," Harington told The Hollywood Reporter.

He stressed, however, that he hasn't seen any scripts for the upcoming season.

"If there's any sort of win or heroic moment for Jon and everyone else, I think it's going to get very dark before it gets better," he continued. "I think what we might see this season is those White Walkers and that Army of the Dead really come into force. So that's going to be exciting to see. I don't know what it means. I think with the whole 'winter is finally here' business, it means everyone is going to have a really bad time."

Winter's arrival is clearly going to play a large role in the show's final two seasons. Already the show has pushed production in order to shoot in colder weather. In turn, that will delay season six's shorter seven-episode run to a late summer/fall premiere. 

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Comedian Leslie Jones is the latest celebrity to be the victim of an internet hack.

According to TMZ, the "Ghostbusters" star's website, JustLeslie.com, was hacked Wednesday morning, and on the site hackers released online images of Jones' driver's license and passport, including the personal information on them, as well as nude photos of her.

The hacker also posted a video of Harambe, the gorilla who was killed in an Ohio zoo earlier this year.

Jones' site is currently down.

Jones, who is also on "Saturday Night Live," has been the victim of internet bullying this summer, which led to her temporarily leaving Twitter in July.

Business Insider reached out to Jones' rep for comment but did not receive an immediate response.

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Each year, new and talented young actors rise to the top of the competitive world of Hollywood.

Some of these fresh faces will land coveted roles, turn studio projects into box-office hits, and even go on to garner award nominations and wins for their performances.

While some young stars — Jennifer Lawrence (26), Daniel Radcliffe (27), and Margot Robbie (26), who was on Business Insider's list last year— have already solidified their Hollywood stardom, others are on the verge of achieving it.

Let's take a look at 30 of the hottest rising Hollywood stars under the age of 30:

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Alicia Vikander, 27, is a Swedish actress who received acclaim for her roles in the 2015 films "Ex-Machina" and "The Danish Girl," and she won the best supporting actress Oscar for the latter. She recently starred in the new "Jason Bourne" film and is set to play the lead roles in 2017's "Tulip Fever" and 2018's "Tomb Raider" (taking the Lara Croft mantle from Angelina Jolie).

John Boyega, 24, played the lead role of Finn in "Stars Wars: The Force Awakens." He will reprise his role in 2017's "Star Wars: Episode VIII" and will star in Kathryn Bigelow's currently untitled, upcoming film about the Detroit Riots.

Cara Delevingne, 24, starred as Enchantress in 2016's "Suicide Squad." The English model and actress will star alongside Vikander in 2017's "Tulip Fever" and will play a lead role in the upcoming sci-fi film "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets."

George Carlin was always pushing the envelope.

The late comedian became a legend for doing standup that was filled with things most wouldn't say out loud, but as it turns out he actually censored himself after doing an anti-police bit the day before the 9/11 attacks. 

Feeling the material was too much following the horrific events of 9/11, he shelved it up to his death in 2008, according to Rolling Stone. 

Now the album, "I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die," is being released September 1 on SiriusXM.

Here's an example of why Carlin decided not to release the material. This bit, titled "Rats & Squealers," is Carlin explaining why you should never trust a cop. Following Black Lives Matter and the recent police shootings, it proves once again that Carlin's material truly is timeless.

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Around 125 million people are actively using Steam, the world's largest video-game service. It's not made by Nintendo, Sony's PlayStation, or Microsoft's Xbox. It's not from Apple or Google.

Steam is operated by a small, private company in Bellevue, Washington, that prides itself on having a "flat" employee structure: no bosses, no assigned teams. All the desks are on wheels so that employees can easily move their work area to other departments.

The company is Valve Corp., and it's a juggernaut in the world of computer gaming.

Beyond operating Steam:

• Valve makes a high-end VR headset. It's called the Vive, and it was made in partnership with electronics maker HTC. When you put on the Vive, you can directly interact with SteamVR — a virtual-reality version of the already enormously popular Steam service.
• The company makes several of the world's most popular games. Two major eSports games — "Dota 2" and "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" — lead the charge, with "Team Fortress 2" not far behind, to say nothing of classics like the "Portal" and "Half-Life" series. Some of these games are free, with elaborate in-game purchase storefronts.
• For every game sold on Steam, Valve takes a cut. The industry average is 30%. With 125 million-plus active users and the world's largest gaming library, that's a serious source of revenue.

That's before we talk about the eSports championship that Valve runs for "Dota 2" — the winning team took home over $9 million from the over $20 million prize pool — or the games it sells on consoles like the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

It's hard to imagine a competitor to Steam — to Valve, really. Many worthy opponents have tried, but none have succeeded.

And now, a new contender is entering the ring: Facebook.

The company announced on August 18 that it's making an "all-new PC gaming platform." A Facebook rep confirmed to Business Insider that the "platform" in question is a standalone PC application — like Steam — for accessing PC games.

Presumably that will include a storefront, some form of chat/friends list, and maybe even game broadcasting. Not only is this stuff standard at this point — even on game consoles — but it's all stuff that Facebook already has: Messenger and Live solve the latter two needs, and Facebook continues to operate a digital storefront on the web.

It makes a lot of sense for Facebook to create something like Steam. Consider this:

• Facebook also has a VR headset, the Oculus Rift. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly stated that he believes that VR and, eventually, augmented reality (AR) are the next major computing platforms.
• Facebook is already going after game streaming with Facebook Live. The company announced a partnership with Valve competitor Blizzard Entertainment in June.
• Facebook already operates a game store on the web, so the company has experience with that business. It's the only part of Facebook's business that's in decline, actually.

With 1.65 billion users around the globe and many more billions of dollars to spend, Facebook brings considerable heft to the fight. Of that user number, Facebook says that 650 million are "either playing games on Facebook or with Facebook." If Facebook can convert even a quarter of that number, then it'll be in good shape against Steam.

But that's a big if. We know next to nothing about what Facebook's "all-new PC gaming platform" looks like.

Between Facebook Messenger, Facebook Live, and Facebook's social network, the foundation is there for a strong gaming platform. But that foundation won't be enough. Facebook needs a major lineup of games, an intuitive-to-use service, and some serious stamina to break Steam's iron grip on the PC gaming world. Even with all that, many Steam users won't want to use a service that doesn't include their existing Steam game library.

So, what's Facebook got to convert those folks?

Leo Olebe, Facebook's director of games partnerships, offered a tease at what could be the answer: "The idea that Facebook can be a place where people share the games that they love is, in my mind, a pretty compelling thing."

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If you're looking at the movies coming out and you're not into a horror flick ("Don't Breathe"), a Jason Statham vehicle ("Mechanic: Resurrection"), or a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date ("Southside With You"), then let me suggest the best movie I saw all summer.

"Hell or High Water," currently in theaters, is a modern-day Western that not only pays off with great writing and acting, but also has one of the best motives for a bank heist I've ever seen.

Chris Pine and Ben Foster play brothers who devise a clever bank-robbing scheme to help save the family farm. On their trail is a Texas Ranger (Jeff Bridges) who is days away from retirement. But instead of phoning it in, he dives headfirst with his partner (Gil Birmingham) to track them down.

Yes, it sounds like dozens of Westerns or heist movies you've seen, but what sets this one apart is its refusal to fall into clichés that are rampant in both genres.

First, there are the lead creatives behind the movie: director David Mackenzie, who already wowed audiences with his prison drama, "Starred Up," a few years back, and writer Taylor Sheridan, coming off his incredible debut script for "Sicario." (The screenplay for "Hell or High Water" is an original work, in case you're also exhausted by franchises.)

From the opening scene (a beautiful, long, single take of the brothers cruising by the first bank they are to rob) to the ingenious way the brothers launder the money so it won't be traced (I won't give it away, but I have never see this hustle done in a movie), "Hell or High Water" just has a feel of originality and anticipation for how things will turn out that you don't get often these days — especially in the dog days of summer.

And then there's the acting. You already know that Foster is going to bring his A-game, and Bridges, when given the right material, can still knock it out of the park.

But it's the performance by Pine that really is eye-opening. As the soft-spoken Toby, Pine delivers the best performance of his career.

What sealed it for me was the movie's ending. The subtle work between Pine and Bridges in the final scene is more powerful than any shootout can deliver. (The last line of the movie gave me chills.)

The setting of the movie also lingers. The West Texas we see, a barren landscape that's filled with signs of poverty, explains the brothers' motivation. And that Old West feel is evident when later in the movie, as the community is fed up with the robberies, the region's open-carry law is put on display as many citizens fire handguns and rifles to ward off the brothers.

The best part, though, is simply that "Hell or High Water" is now playing nationwide — so if you need something different from the constant superhero movies and lousy sequels, this is the movie for you.

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If you've watched "Silicon Valley," you're probably wondering: Is "rest and vest" a real thing?

In season three, the sweet and utterly useless Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti learns he's been promoted at the Google-inspired tech giant Hooli, but is unassigned to any project teams.

Confused, he joins a group of other unassigned employees squandering the days left in their contracts on the company roof.

There's a lot of this going on.

Turns out "rest and vest" is real.

When a startup is acquired by a major company, the founders are sometimes relegated to do nothing. They run out their contracts wandering campus while their equity vests. It's unclear how accurate the show's depiction is, as debated on Quora and Reddit.

Actor Josh Brener, who plays Big Head on "Silicon Valley," has no doubt there are tech workers living out his character's storyline. The proof is on his phone.

"Since the show has been on, I've actually had a number of people — including today at Google X — I've had people send me pictures of themselves on a roof, kicking back doing nothing, with the hashtag 'unassigned' or 'rest and vest,'" Brener told Business Insider. "It's something that really happens, and apparently, somewhat often."

It's likely those Googlers in particular are just joking, but it's no less funny.

There is, at least, good news for Big Head's career future. It looks like season four of "Silicon Valley" will follow his and Erlich Bachman's escapades as they take control of Pied Piper.

"We're all secret Big Heads, you know?" Brener said. "As hard as we work, we're all pretty sure that inside there's just sort of, like, a dummy who wants to drink soda."

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