Los Angeles police arrested Chris Brown on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after an hours-long standoff with police, the Associated Press reported.

The singer emerged from his home Tuesday afternoon after police served a search warrant, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Police earlier retrieved a gun and other weapons and drugs from Chris Brown's Los Angeles home, TMZ reported.

Brown has reportedly been under investigation since a woman called the police and claimed that he threatened her with a gun inside his home early Tuesday morning.

According to TMZ, the woman was one of several house guests in Brown's home. She reportedly had an argument with the singer before, she alleges, Brown pulled a gun on her.

The LAPD had been outside Brown's home since 3 a.m. and were waiting for him to surrender. The police reportedly obtained Brown's aforementioned weapons and drugs when the singer threw the items out of his window in a duffel bag.

"Right now, robbery and Homicide division is currently wrapping up their search warrant and Mr. Chris Brown will be transported by robbery and homicide detectives where he will be booked with ADW, assault with a deadly weapon," Reuters reported Lieutenant Chris Ramirez of the Los Angeles Police Department said outside Brown's home after the arrest.

A Fox News affiliate in Los Angeles was live-streaming video of the scene outside Brown's home:

Brown responded to the incident in several videos on social media, in which he has variously claimed his innocence, ranted against the police and the media's portrayal of him, and promoted his music.

Warning: The videos below contain language that is not suitable for work.

"I just wake up, all these mother f***ing helicopter-chopters is around. Police out there at the gate. ... What the f*** else y'all want from me, bro? I stay out of the way; take care of my daughter; do work," Brown said in the first video. "Somebody makes up a f***ed up allegation about me, and oh yeah, the whole f***ing SWAT team. ... I'm innocent."

"I ain't did s***, I ain't gonna do s***," Brown said in the second video. "When you get the warrant, or whatever you need to do, you can walk right up in here and you ain't gonna see nothin'. You idiots."

"What I do care about is y'all defacing my name as a person with my character and integrity. I am a father; I am one of the best entertainers out here,'" Brown said in the third video. "I'm up at 6, it's 7-something in the morning talking this s*** for something I didn't do. How would you feel?"

Brown has also been involved in several other incidents, including assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. Last year, he finished his six years of probation, community service and domestic violence classes for that felony assault conviction.

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Since launching in 2012, Anghami has established itself as the leading music streaming platforms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), amassing more than 24 million users, including 5 million monthly active users (MAU), in territories extending from Morocco to Lebanon to Kuwait.

Anghami has built a sturdy business upon two pillars of revenue, according to the company's CEO and co-founder Eddy Maroun, consisting of:

• Paid subscriptions. The majority of Anghami’s revenues (65%) come from paid subscribers, which are growing at an impressive 300% yearly rate driven by consumers' rising awareness of the app in tandem with increased smartphone penetration and the greater availability of payment methods in the region.
• Ad-supported free tier. Anghami’s ad business makes up 35% of total revenues, and is growing 200% YoY on the back of deals with big-spending companies like Pepsi, P&G and Unilever. Anghami’s ratio of subscription-to-advertising revenue is quite high relative to similar on-demand music streaming players, like Spotify.

The healthy balance between subscriber and ad-supported revenue relieves pressure on the need for immediate free-to-paid conversions. This allows Anghami to sustain long conversion funnels, while simultaneously building consumer habit for its platform. Anghami’s success in MENA is driven by several factors:

• A broad-based international and local catalog. Anghami has more than 17 million songs in its catalog, featuring extensive exclusive Arabic music. Similar to streaming platforms like Apple Music and Tidal, Anghami has made artist exclusives a center piece of its strategy. The company has exclusive rights from Rotana, the Arab world's largest record label with more than 100 artists. As a result, exclusive artist debuts on Anghami have become part and parcel of the music industry's release plan in MENA. This localized offering is one of Anghami's main strengths against regional rivals, like Deezer, because it authentically appeals to the cultural affinities of the market. 
• Being mobile-first, and cross-device compatible. Anghami first launched as a mobile app and remains mobile to the core, with more than 95% of its consumption occurring on smartphones. The service is also available on desktop and on interfaces like Chromecast, Apple TV, Sonos and more. Compatibility across devices facilitates usage in different contexts, ensuring that Anghami can reach consumers no matter the device that they are on. This also presents advertisers with opportunities to run cross-platform campaigns.
• Anghami has robust set of innovative features. The app has bilingual functionality in English and Arabic across all of its features, including Search, Video, Lyrics, Radio and Mixes. It also includes a tab with curated playlists, as well as a personalization machine that algorithmically recommends music to users. For premium users, Anghami also has an innovative feature whereby users swipe on the album cover of the track they're listening to access the music video.
• Strong partnerships throughout MENA. The region’s largest media and TV network, MBC Group, is an Anghami shareholder. MBC supports Anghami with invaluable media exposure and exclusive video content, including clips of the international entertainment that it produces for TV, such as Idol, The Voice and X-Factor. Additionally, Anghami is partnered with more than 15 telecom networks in the region. Telecoms act as payment gateways to process subscriber fees, performing an essential function in a region where credit card penetration is low and mistrusted. At the same time, these telecoms act as ecosystems to attract customers to Anghami, incentivizing users with free data packets specifically for Anghami streaming.

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Netflix's smash hit "Stranger Things" has been renewed for season two, according to Variety. 

The new season will be 9 episodes long and will come out in 2017. The Duffer brothers, who created the show, will return to write the new season. Sources told Variety that work on season two has "already been underway for quite some time."

14.4 million watched "Stranger Things" in its first 35 days, according to ratings startup SymphonyAM. The show is a supernatural sci-fi thriller that draws heavily from '80s movies and TV. It's a nostalgia play, done to perfection.

It currently has a 95% Rotten Tomatoes critic rating, a 96% audience rating, and it has sent the internet abuzz since it was released in mid-July. Analysts from Pacific Crest even take it as evidence that Netflix's system for producing shows is working the way it's supposed to.

But it almost didn't happen. In fact, co-creator Matt Duffer told Rolling Stone that "Stranger Things" had been rejected 15 to 20 times by different networks before Netflix.

Now it's one of Netflix's biggest hits, and is getting a second season.

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Chris Brown has been released from jail after posting a $250,000 bail, according to The Wrap. He was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

The R&B singer was in custody at the Los Angeles County jail until 11 p.m. Tuesday, following an hours-long standoff with police at his Los Angeles mansion that began 3 a.m. the same day. 

Following Brown's release, the singer's attorney, Mark Geragos, tweeted Wednesday morning that the allegations against his client are "demonstrably false."

A woman alleged that Brown threatened her with a gun. Police showed up to Brown's home Tuesday, where he was holed inside, and reportedly retrieved weapons and drugs that the singer threw outside in a duffel bag.

Brown is expected to appear in court on September 20, according to People.

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Jessica Alba will be a star on Apple's upcoming reality show "Planet of the Apps" and some techies are furious about the decision. The news broke Tuesday in Variety that Alba will be involved in the show along with other celebrities like will.i.am and Gwyneth Paltrow.

TechCrunch's Romain Dillet summed up the Silicon Valley outrage in the tech world's blog of record:

But I don’t think any of these hosts are qualified to talk about design, engineering or even growth strategy when it comes to releasing a new app on the App Store. They’re no Whitney Wolfe, Evan Spiegel, Anne Wojcicki, Kevin Systrom, Julia Hartz, Dennis Crowley, Emily Weiss or Pavel Durov.

"Planet of the Apps," which will premiere in 2017, is designed as a mix of "Shark Tank" and "The Voice," where developers compete to come up with a killer app. A judge picks the most promising ideas and the developers are coached by a mentor like Paltrow or Alba.

But here's what Dillet doesn't understand. "Planet of the Apps" isn't going to be a show for techies and TechCrunch readers. It's for the average television viewer. Apple isn't trying to turn itself into a content studio (yet). It's making shows to entice more people to buy more digital stuff from Apple. And hiring a bunch of famous people to play the role of tech mentor to some nobodies hoping to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is an enticing concept in a world obsessed with the spectacle of reality TV.

It doesn't matter that the stars of the show have relatively little experience making apps. They're famous.

Techies will scoff, but there's a good chance plenty of people outside the Silicon Valley mind-bubble will eat it up. If Apple's lucky, they'll get more people downloading more apps.

That's also why Apple is making its own version of "Carpool Karaoke" from "The Late Late Show." It's not because James Corden is a talented singer and musician. (He's not.) It's because those videos of him driving around town singing with Michelle Obama or Lin Manuel Miranda or Brittney Spears immediately turn into viral hits.

And oh yeah, Apple happens to have the biggest digital music store with iTunes and a rapidly growing paid streaming service with Apple Music it would love for you to pay $10 per month for.

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Stephen Colbert dedicated Tuesday's "Werd" segment to Donald Trump and the candidate's recent "softening" on his immigration stance.

The Republican presidential candidate is expected to explain his refurbished stance on immigration in a speech on Wednesday.

"He has to give this speech sooner or later," the "Late Show" host said, "because immigration has been the one thing everyone thought they knew about Donald Trump to, and I'm quoting his supporters here: 'Huh?'"

A cornerstone of Trump's campaign has been his extreme plan to rid the US of all illegal immigrants. It has included deporting undocumented immigrant families, building a wall on the Mexican border, and blocking Muslims from entering the country. But now it isn't clear whether he's sticking to that plan.

"From the very beginning, Trump's campaign has been based on two things: He's based it on 'build the wall,' and 'deport them all,'" Colbert said. "That worked great in the primaries, but just look at any recent poll. The thing is in recent polls, Trump's numbers have shrunk. His attacks on Mexicans and Muslims are clearly hurting him with moderate voters."

In a clip from a town-hall meeting with Sean Hannity, Trump said that his stance on immigration could use a "softening," which he has since tried to walk back. The show played a clip of Trump telling CNN's Anderson Cooper that it's actually a "hardening."

Meanwhile, per the "Werd" style, Colbert offered some amusing asides and alternate explanations for Trump's shifting talk.

For Colbert, the GOP presidential candidate's flip-flopping on his immigration rhetoric to suit his audience isn't a surprise.

“Whatever you believe, Trump agrees with you. So I don’t know why he’s not getting 100 percent of the vote,” Colbert concluded. "So to win this election, Trump is going to have to take every position on every issue."

Watch the "Werd" segment below:

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Warner Bros. may not be near done with Harry Potter.

Along with releasing "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," the prequel film in the blockbuster franchise based on J.K. Rowling's novels, in November, The Daily News is reporting that the studio is thinking about making more "Happy Potter" movies.

According to a "well-placed Hollywood source," Warner Bros. is secretly trying to get the movie rights to the London stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," which looks at Potter's life as an overworked father 19 years after the events of the last novel, "Deathly Hallows." Warner Bros. reportedly wants to get the "Cursed Child" movie on screens as soon as 2020.

The source says actor Daniel Radcliffe, who played Potter in the movies, is the only choice to take on the adult role. However, the actor has made it clear that he wants to keep a distance for the time being from the character that made him an instant star.

"[Radcliffe] has made it clear that his mind is certainly not focused on returning to the role anytime soon — and that could be until he hits 40," the source told The Daily News. 

The Daily News also reports that Warner Bros. may focus on a storyline centered on Potter's son, even launching a trilogy around him, which could free up Radcliffe's time more.

But a Warner Bros. spokesperson told Business Insider: "'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' is a stage play, with no plans for there to be a film.”

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Instagram has added the ability to zoom in on photos and videos.

Pinch to zoom will be available via an iPhone app update on Wednesday. Support for the Android app will be added in the "coming weeks."

Here's a video showing pinch to zoom in action:

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Jimmy Kimmel used a wacky shirt to demonstrate what it may be like for Republican voters who are feeling buyer's remorse over Donald Trump.

In a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 52% of Republican voters say they wish another candidate had been chosen for the Republican presidential campaign. To illustrate what that may feel like, Kimmel compared Trump's nomination to buying a particularly over-the-top shirt.

"You look around, you see all these shirts — plain patterns, regular shirts, maybe a shirt with pinstripes — they look okay, but not exciting," the host said on Tuesday's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" "But then, tucked in the middle of all the plain shirts, you see this totally awesome shirt. It’s bold, it’s different, it doesn’t play by the other shirts’ rules. You think about what a killer you’d feel like going out with this shirt on, so you buy it."

Likewise, Trump's brazen comments, big ideas, and political-outsider status excited a great deal of voters, who seemed disenchanted with the status quo. But there comes a point when one realizes that different doesn't always mean better.

"And then you get home and you go into your closet or wherever, and you try the shirt on, and you look at yourself in the mirror," Kimmel continued. "And then, your wife walks in and says..."

The host's wife, Molly McNearney (who's also the show's co-head writer), then appeared onstage and said,  “What the hell are you wearing?”

This is where Kimmel's analogy takes a dark turn.

“And then you realize you look like a tool with a big capital T,” Kimmel said. “But fortunately, the store you bought from has a great return policy. Oh wait, no it doesn’t, this is the shirt you’re stuck with for four years.”

What a twist.

Watch Kimmel play out the analogy below:

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If you go to a GameStop, Best Buy, or your local Walmart, this is the PlayStation 4 you'll find there for sale:

That's the only PlayStation 4 that exists. Or at least that's what we thought until last week, when a slimmer, round-edged PlayStation 4 started popping up in online gaming forums. This is the so-called PlayStation 4 Slim:

Make no mistake: This is the real deal.

Sony hasn't officially announced it, nor has the company even responded to request for comment. But it's very much real, and expected to get an official debut on September 7 — Sony's holding a "PlayStation Meeting" press event (which Business Insider is attending).

So, how do we know it's real?

A few days after this one popped up from a Twitter user named "shortmaneighty2," Eurogamer went to his house and filmed it in operation. The European gaming publication sent Richard Leadbetter, the site's longtime hardware guru. Here's an image from that video:

We can't embed the video for a bizarre reason: it was taken down by Eurogamer the same day that it went up. "Upon taking legal advice, we have removed the video previously referenced in this article," an update reads.

Publications tend not to un-publish content. It's a moral and ethical red line in journalism — even if something is factually incorrect, it should be updated to reflect the facts and the changes (so the logic goes).

When Gizmodo paid for a lost iPhone 4 prototype and started publishing stories about it, late Apple CEO Steve Jobs notoriously called then Editor-in-Chief Brian Lam to ask for it back. Jobs allegedly made legal threats, and Lam said he'd go to jail over it if need be. 

When Rolling Stone got a major story about a college rape case wrong, the magazine did un-publish it — and replaced it with lengthy examinations of what it got wrong, how it went wrong, and what's going to change as a result.

When reached for comment, Eurogamer publisher Oli Welsh said, "There's no statement on the removal of the video beyond the update in the piece." 

Meanwhile, the PlayStation 4 Slim continues to sell on UK classifieds site Gumtree. There have been multiple listings since the original one popped up.

The pictures you see above are all of the same PlayStation 4 Slim, from a 33-year-old man in Manchester, England, who happened upon it. He asked not to be identified by name.

When we spoke over Twitter Direct Message, he told BI that he, "Needed a new PS4, as my original PS4's HDMI broke [the plug from console to TV]." When he went looking on his local classifieds, he found a curious new console that looked an awful lot like a PS4, but not one that he'd ever seen before. "I had been saving for months for a Neo [the more powerful PS4 that's also in the works], so I used the money for the Slim," he said. 

He said he hasn't been contacted by Sony, even though he's been publishing images of the console in use on his Twitter account— though neither Sony nor Eurogamer would comment, it seems likely that a legal threat was made against the video Eurogamer published. 

But wait, things get even stranger.

Yet another PlayStation 4 Slim was purchased and subsequently unboxed on video by a UK freelance journalist named Laura Kate Dale. She even outright reviewed the console (and likes it!).

Her video is still up:

In her review, she starts with a fascinating disclaimer — it's worth reading in full:

"Before we start this review, we must acknowledge the elephant in the room: the PlayStation 4 Slim has not yet been officially announced by Sony, nor is it meant to be on sale at this point. Our review unit originated from a retail store manager who sold the unit on eBay. The retail store manager claims that while they broke street date, they did not steal the stock. I believe the public interest angle of reporting on this piece of hardware should be protected under UK journalistic protections. It is in the public interest to know about a piece of upcoming technology that can be verified to exist, even if that confirmation did not come from the manufacturer itself.

I do not own the unit reviewed here, nor is it any longer in my possession.

Basically, please do not sue me Sony. I am just doing my job as a journalist. Issuing takedown notices when many other outlets have reported on the existence of the new model does nothing to hide its existence and only serves to harm the state of journalism within our industry."

Thus far, the video hasn't been taken down using YouTube's standard DMCA takedown system, nor has Dale been contacted by Sony. "After 18 hours live, it's fairly safe to say my PS4 Slim unboxing and review are not getting pulled by Sony," she wrote on Twitter.

So, how is it that a major multinational hardware manufacturer like Sony accidentally loses several unannounced PlayStation 4 Slim consoles? And how do they end up in the hands of the public?

According to the sellers we spoke with in the UK (there are still several listings as of publishing), it's a simple measure of sending out the console to retail stores ahead of launch. Every seller we spoke with described the same thing: Either they own a retail store or know someone who does, and that store got the PlayStation 4 Slim in ahead of an imminent launch. From there, it's just a question of breaking what is called "street date" — when a product that's been shipped to a store is allowed to go on sale. 

Which is to say: It's extremely likely that Sony is going to announce the PlayStation 4 Slim on September 7 and say, "It's on sale right now!" 

Although, of course, the truth is that it's on sale as of last week.

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Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "No Man's Sky." Obviously.

When I meet new people and tell them I write about video games for a living, they immediately bring up one of two things: Pokémon Go or "No Man's Sky." They're the two games that seem to have captured the imaginations of those who otherwise don't follow the gaming industry that closely.

The idea of exploring a vast and nearly infinite number of planets is undoubtedly an exciting premise for a video game, but there's one other thing that's kept people interested in "No Man's Sky" — the mystery of exactly what's at the center of the universe. In just about every bit of marketing for "No Man's Sky," completing this journey is touted as the ultimate goal of the game.

Well, for those of you who are curious about it but don't have the hours to pour in, here's exactly what happens when you get there.

You enter a new galaxy and basically start over from scratch.

I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but it turns out the center of the universe is a bit anticlimactic.

Essentially, once you zip your way from planet to planet and get close to the center — which takes a ton of travel time, harvesting of materials, crafting of upgraded ship parts, etc. — you'll have the option to warp to the galaxy's center.

When you do so, you'll watch a cutscene that lasts about three minutes, complete with a triumphant choir and an increasingly energetic drum beat, showing you rapidly zooming through space, seemingly away from the center.

Eventually, you discover that you've entered a new region of space, called the "Hilbert Dimension." You'll find yourself on the surface of a new planet, surrounded by your now completely broken equipment, in a nearly identical way to how the game begins.

And that's pretty much it.

Wait, so what was the point?

Understandably, a lot of people are pretty upset at this ending. They feel let down, as if they were misled to think that something profound about the nature of the game's world would be revealed, only to essentially have their game reset.

Are they right to feel misled? Yes and no.

Throughout the game, you'll come across characters as a part of a series of quests who remind you to continue journeying to the center of the universe. In this way, the goal of reaching the universe's center is more than just marketing hype separate from the game itself.

Certainly, the journey to the center of the universe was touted as having some kind of solid answer, but anyone who's played "No Man's Sky" for an extended amount of time will tell you that playing it with a concrete goal in mind is a surefire way to get frustrated. Instead, the joy of playing "No Man's Sky" comes from the process of discovery. It's a series of slow, patient journeys rather than sprint to a finish line. In a way, the game's ending just re-inforces that point even more.

So, if the mystery of what's at the heart of the universe is the only reason you're playing, the ending will probably be a disappointment. But don't fret too much. Take this spoiler as a pass to continue exploring as slowly and lackadaisically as you want!

Basically, don't rush to the center of the universe, because there's not really much there.

YouTuber ShoSho uploaded a full video of what happens when you reach the universe's center, which we've embedded below.

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"Stranger Things" producer-director Shawn Levy couldn't be prouder of the fact that audiences have become obsessed with the Netflix show just as it is.

But when he talked to Business Insider on Tuesday, he revealed how an important moment in the finale of the first season almost didn't happen — and without it, we'd be going into the just-announced season two with different implications.

At the close of chapter eight, "The Upside Down," police chief Jim Hopper (David Harbour) brings food from his station's Christmas party and leaves it in a box in the woods, along with a few Eggos. The short but crucial moment indicates that Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), the girl with psychokinetic abilities that saved the town from a monster and who has since vanished, could still be alive.

But according to Levy, in the original script, Hopper does not leave Eggos.

"It was just going to be some food from the party," Levy told Business Insider. "['Stranger Things' creators-directors] The Duffers and I were talking about the scene over dinner one night and together we hatched this idea of leaving the Eggos specifically just to hint who he might be leaving the food for, or the hope of who he would be leaving the food for. That was one of 50 decisions that you stumble into and they become defining moments."

It would certainly be less clear what Hopper was doing if the Eggos weren't included.

Netflix announced Wednesday that there will be a second season of "Stranger Things" comprised of nine episodes.

Levy would not reveal to Business Insider whether Eleven will be back. Though the Duffer brothers have said in numerous interviews that they want to continue the story with the main kids, they were vague with Entertainment Weekly about the fate of Eleven.

"“We don’t know about Eleven,” Ross Duffer said. “We leave that up in the air.”

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Bill Nye is returning to television with a talk show on Netflix: "Bill Nye Saves the World."

It's set to debut in spring 2017.

According to a press release on Wednesday, the show will "tackle a topic from a scientific point of view, dispel myths, and refute anti-scientific claims that may be espoused by politicians, religious leaders, or titans of industry."

"Since the start of the 'Science Guy' show, I've been on a mission to change the world by getting people everywhere excited about the fundamental ideas in science," Nye said in a statement.

"Today, I'm excited to be working with Netflix on a new show, where we'll discuss the complex scientific issues facing us today, with episodes on vaccinations, genetically modified foods, and climate change. With the right science and good writing, we'll do our best to enlighten and entertain our audience. And, perhaps we'll change the world a little."

Nye is best known for hosting "Bill Nye the Science Guy" from 1993 to 1998 on PBS. He was credited with finding new, fun ways to teach viewers about science and how it applies to their daily lives.

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It seems as though Airbnb is trying out something new for its celebrity guests: subletting for free.

According to a report from TMZ, the San Francisco-based home rental startup is providing a multimillion-dollar penthouse through October for two celebrity guests: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. The home usually costs guests $10,000 per night, but TMZ reports that Airbnb is picking up the tab. 

It's not clear what Airbnb is getting out of the deal, but previous reports said that Kim Kardashian will likely post on social media about the apartment throughout her time there. She has already posted on Instagram about the place and tagged Airbnb.

Boasting a rooftop pool, five bedrooms, six bathrooms, and a home gym, the penthouse is reportedly on the market for $24.5 million. The "insane" penthouse is listed by real estate agent Andrew Azoulay, but reportedly is owned by hedge funder Harsh Padia. In September 2015, the penthouse was on the market for an asking price of $30 million. 

Take a tour of the 7,000-square-foot home. 

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The rooftop offers views of the Hudson River and the New York City skyline.

It has its own private pool.

There's plenty of seating, including a dining table that seats eight.

Netflix has announced that its hit series "Stranger Things" is returning for a second season in 2017. But fans still have a lot of open questions about where the plot will go.

So who's coming back? What new thrills do show creators Matt and Ross Duffer have in store for us? And are we returning to the Upside Down?

The brothers have thrown out some hints.

Here's everything we know so far about season two.

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Season two will pick up a year later.

Though the Duffers thought about starting the story a full decade after the events of season one, they decided to stay close to what we saw unfold.

"There’s still things that are unresolved," Ross Duffer told Entertainment Weekly. 

Most of the main characters are returning.

Rejoice, people who loved "Stranger Things" for the same reason they loved "The Goonies"! The gang is back.

You can expect Will (Noah Schnapp), Mike (Finn Wolhard), Dustin (Gaten Matazarro), Joyce (Winona Ryder), Hopper (David Harbour), and many more from season one to return.

But it's still murky if Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) will reunite with the other kids.

“We don’t know about Eleven,” Ross Duffer told EW. “We leave that up in the air.” 

There will also be four new characters.

Though the Duffers are staying mum on any specifics, EW reports that one episode in season two is titled "The Lost Brother," which might be an introduction to one of the new characters. 

“There’s going to be a lot of new and interesting dynamics that we didn’t see in season one,” Matt Duffer told The Wrap.

YouTube's No. 1 star, Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg, was suspended from Twitter on Wednesday afternoon.

It appears that the cause was a tweet, which Kjellberg calls a "joke," regarding him and another Twitter user joining ISIS. Twitter isn't saying — a representative told Business Insider, "We don't comment on individual accounts for privacy and security reasons."

His account was reinstated soon after this piece was published.

To understand the joke, we've gotta step back and explain that — before being suspended from Twitter — the account was first "unverified." You know, that little blue check mark that signifies you're talking to the real deal?

That thing disappeared. That's when Kjellberg — PewDiePie — made this joke: "Me and @Jack_Septic_Eye have joined isis. Which is why we both got unverified."

Let's step back once again!

Kjellberg has since released a video, "WHY I GOT UNVERIFIED." In it, he says that he got frustrated with the concept of Twitter's verification system and unverified his own account.

Subsequently, a fake Twitter account — @SkyNeiws (which isn't verified), a fake duplicate of the real @SkyNews (which is verified) — took advantage of his de-verification to link him to ISIS.

That tweet did happen — it's right here:

And that's when he made the joke. It makes more sense now, right? Even if it's still not a great idea to joke about that kind of thing when you have millions of followers who might not understand the bizarre context of such a joke?

When you click the link in the tweet above, it leads to a totally unrelated story on Sky News. The fake Sky News account has just over 400 followers, and no blue-verification check mark. And, no, as far as we can tell, Kjellberg has not joined ISIS.

Here's the full video:

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FX's brazen, sexually charged relationship comedy "You're the Worst" is entering its third season on Wednesday at the height of its popularity.

Although the show debuted in 2014, it's exploded in the past year. In 2016, the comedy was nominated for 10 awards, including nominations from the Television Critics Association and the Critics' Choice Television Awards. That increased attention has been very noticeable to those involved with the show, too.

"Social media-wise the 'You’re the Worst' page didn’t really have many hits. Now we know the names of fans because they contact us every day," star Chris Geere told Business Insider recently. "They’re called 'Worsties.' So we now have the Worsties, who are our wonderful family. And also everyone at FX, who once upon a time were the scary headmasters who we didn’t want to talk to because we didn’t want to lose our jobs, are now friends... They support our storylines and us as individuals."

In many ways, "You're the Worst" is the kind of comedy that could only exist on a cable channel like FX. But its growing popularity after two seasons can also be a lesson to the big broadcast networks, which have begun to realize that comedy audiences are far tougher to capture than they used to be, and shows probably need more than just a few episodes or even a season to find them.

"We would’ve been dropped by halfway through the season probably. It wouldn’t even go on there," Geere said of the chances for "You're the Worst" on broadcast TV.

On "You're the Worst," Chris Geere plays Jimmy, a narcissistic writer who's dating iconoclastic music PR girl Gretchen (Aya Cash). They're able to work through their romantic relationship, but only after some requisite fireworks and begrudging compromise. Jimmy and Gretchen's world of drugs, house parties, bars, and sex is a surprisingly unvarnished look at the reality common to many single 20- and 30-something Americans.

"I think the most comforting thing we can ever gauge from watching TV is empathy," Geere said. "People want to know that others are as f---ed up as we are. And so for us to portray people who are so messed up — as Gretchen says in one of the episodes, 'wear our stains on the outside.' Whereas a lot of people, myself included at times, sublimate too much, we keep everything inside. We don't want to share and these people are like, 'Nope, this is my s---, deal with it.'"

Season three picks up just after Jimmy expresses his love for Gretchen, which seems to mark a new chapter for the couple.

"I think the L-word has changed everything for them because they’re now having to be responsible for things they never wanted to or never had to do," Geere said. "They’ve become a family. It’s just two of them at the moment, but they’re a family. You got to think of the other before you think of yourself, and these two don’t do that."

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Leon Cooperman is done with Netflix for now.

The hedge fund legend told CNBC on Wednesday that the video-streaming company is no longer in his portfolio for "no particular reasons."

"I think ultimately Netflix is going to work, but I think somebody buys the company at a nice premium," Cooperman, who founded Omega Advisors, said.

"Netflix is an acquisition candidate for somebody," he said.

Netflix's most recent quarterly results showed that the company is struggling to grow domestic and international subscriptions as it prepares to load its catalog with even more original content.

"Another idea came in, I didn't want to raise my exposure, so I sold and went to something else," Cooperman said, without getting into details on Netflix's business.

He said that he also dumped his stake in Citigroup and expects that banks will make more money if interest rates start to rise.

One company that Cooperman likes is payments processor First Data. The stock trades at about half of the S&P 500's forward price-to-earnings ratio of 18x, and is cheap compared to the competition, he said. It gained 3.5% in trading.

More broadly speaking, Cooperman said that he is about 65% exposed to stocks, below his norm of about 85% to 90%.

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Warning: spoilers below if you haven't watched "Stranger Things."

Eleven, or Elle, is the catalyst for everything that happens in "Stranger Things" season one. And at the end of the season, as we anxiously await season two of the Netflix hit, we still don't know what's up with her.

The girl with psychokinetic abilities and a shaved head wanders into the lives of the kids in "Stranger Things" when their friend, 12-year-old Will Byers, goes missing. Soon we find out that she's escaped the Hawkins Laboratory where scientists experimented on her and where she entered the Upside Down.

The Upside Down, of course, is the dimension that contains the monster that trapped Will there.

Eleven is the key to getting back Will Byers and defeating the monster, as she does — or seems to do — in the season finale. But she disappears along with the monster.

So what's going to happen to Eleven?

One would imagine we'll see her again in season two, given the sledgehammer-subtle hint provided near the end of the finale, when police chief Hopper leaves some tenderly wrapped Eggos in the snow, presumably for an Elle who's caught in some other world.

And we know fans are desperate to hang out with Eleven again. "Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul even asked to adopt her.

But those facts don't add up to a clear return of the character. In fact, Elle's future on "Stranger Things" is murky at best.

“We don’t know about Eleven,” one of the Duffer broters who created the show, Ross, told Entertainment Weekly in a new interview. “We leave that up in the air.” 

Eleven really did seem gone when she vanished along with that monster, and fans even theorize the two are deeply connected. If the monster is dead, what if Eleven is, too? Could Hopper's Eggos have been simply a sentimental gesture for the deceased? (Though he doesn't really seem like the type.)

Or, what if neither the monster nor Eleven is dead, but rather both are doing battle in some other world — and the other kids have to get there to right things again? That holds a lot of possibility for a second season.

We still think there's a good shot at more Eleven based on fan passion alone, but we'll have to wait and see how the Duffers handle her uncertain future. Hopefully it's with as much care and sincerity as they've brought to the show so far.

We don't want to say goodbye to Eleven, but we definitely don't want another season of "Stranger Things" that jumps the shark — in the Upside Down, or anywhere else.

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Movie trailers are often a bit formulaic. In fact, since many of them are edited so predictably, it seems even a computer can put one together. 

For the film "Morgan," which is due out in theaters on September 2, IBM's Watson made the first movie trailer ever edited by artificial intelligence.

To make the film, an IBM blog post explains, Watson analyzed the trailers of over 100 horror and thriller film trailers to understand what sounds, scenes, and emotions to incorporate. The system looked at musical scores, the emotions in certain scenes (indicated by people's faces, color grading, and the objects shown), and the traditional order and composition of scenes in movie trailers.

After that, the system chose the best 10 moments for a trailer to include. Because the machine couldn't edit the film directly, the team brought in an in-house filmmaker to stitch it together. IBM says that cut the time and labor involved in the trailer- making process down from 10-30 days to 24 hours.

Appropriately, the film, which is distributed by FOX and directed by Luke Scott (Ridley Scott's son), is about an artificial human. The being ends up learning and developing too quickly for her own good and lashes out against the researchers who kept her in captivity, creating a moral quandary. 

If Watson's forays into music, Game of Thrones analysis, and cooking have been any indication, the supercomputer seems to be this decade's Renaissance man. And with this movie trailer under its belt, the AI has another feather in its cap.

Watch the trailer for the film below.

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