"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert's thoughts are still on this week's presidential debate and especially Donald Trump's excuses for his poor performance.

"Everybody's trying to spin this thing their own way," Colbert said during the opening monologue on Wednesday's show. "Donald Trump says all the polls show he won and the polls say Hillary [Clinton] won. It's kinda like a 'he said, reality said.'"

Despite his belief that he won, Trump said he was "holding back" and "didn't want to do anything to embarrass her."

"And it's true, he didn't do anything to embarrass her," Colbert responded, with an emphasis on the word "her."

This brought Colbert to the subject of Trump trying to come off as "a gentleman" all the time.

"He holds doors for women, gives them a seat on the bus, does no debate preparation," the host said. "You might call it the addled ramblings of a delusional demagogue, Trump calls it chivalry.”

Trump has a solid record of degrading women. Most recently, Clinton scored a big point in the debate when she brought up his mistreatment of Alicia Machado, a former Miss Universe, for her weight.

"That kind of brutal honesty takes courage," Colbert concluded, "because Trump weighs 236 pounds, which at his height is technically obese."

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On November 1, 2007, in Perugia, Italy, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher was found murdered in the bedroom of an apartment she was sharing with two Italian women and a 20-year-old American exchange student named Amanda Knox. Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, said they realized something was wrong when they discovered Kercher's door was locked, drops of blood in the bathroom, and a broken bedroom window. They proceeded to call the police.

What followed is a sensational story that tabloid journalists went crazy over, and which ended with Knox spending four years in an Italian prison following the murder, for which she was convicted, until she was ultimately acquitted.

Five years after being freed from prison because of DNA contamination and a year after Italy's highest court exonerated her, a new documentary, "Amanda Knox," delivers the definitive tell-all of the events.

To be released by Netflix on September 30, the movie had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and received rave reviews for its in-depth investigation of every aspect of the Knox saga told by many of the main players, including Knox.

Directors Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn, like most people in the world, couldn't get over how much media made the case a sensation. By 2011, when they started work on the movie, the Knox story dominated headlines once again when she was freed from prison.

"I think that for us we were a little bit confused by why it was so big and also how something that starts as an undeniable tragedy and a terrible act of violence becomes a piece of front-page news and that then becomes entertainment," McGinn told Business Insider at TIFF. "So we thought it would be interesting in looking at how that happens and to try to get really deep inside to the roots of what really causes that kind of story."

"There were so many headlines, and so many stories, and yet people didn't seem to have any further clarity," Blackhurst added.

What "Amanda Knox" reveals is how crucial mistakes in the handling of the crime scene and a false confession by Knox led to complete dysfunction in the case. But it also shows how journalists became obsessed with Knox.

Footage of her kissing Sollecito and showing little remorse for what happened to her roommate by the time news cameras arrived at the crime scene started the narrative. In the weeks and months to follow, Knox was branded as sex-crazed, and as the investigation continued, the theory was that Kercher was a victim in some deviant crime of passion involving Knox and Sollecito.

Though before this film, Knox had done the big TV interviews and a book once back in the US, Blackhurst and McGinn still felt Knox hadn't opened up and given her side of the story, and neither had Sollecito, nor the lead investigator of the murder, Italian detective Giuliano Mignini.

"All of them felt this narrative the media put out there was not representative of who they were and we wanted to understand from a human point of view what it would feel like to have that applied to you and what it felt like to be caught up in these events and circumstances," Blackhurst said.

So the filmmakers began trying to get access to everyone who was involved. But they made it clear that they would not move on the film until their subjects were comfortable.

"We met Amanda and Raffaele when they were acquitted in 2011, but it wasn't until 2013 that she decided, on her own, that she was ready to talk," Blackhurst said. "That was always very important to us to say we're not going to come and dine and dash, we're not trying to steal something out of your mouth and leak it on Twitter as quickly as possible. We want to put in the time to understand you as people."

They shot Knox for the first time in 2014. Once she signed on, Raffaele, Mignini, and others including Nick Pisa, who broke many of the stories about the case for the Daily Mail, also agreed to talk.

But then there was explaining to an audience what likely happened to Kercher, and that meant diving into DNA evidence and deciding how to deliver the information as simply as possible.

The filmmakers used graphics to point out that Knox was never in the room where Kercher died, according to the DNA present in the room. They also showed that DNA evidence linking Knox to the knife thought to be used as the murder weapon was inconclusive.

"Initially we thought the graphics would be more complex," McGinn said, "but what we realized quickly was the only way to keep it a human story and feel empathy for the people involved was to put it in more layman's terms."

Along with the graphics, McGinn and Blackhurst got the DNA experts from the trial to be in the movie. They had never previously done an interview about this case.

The filmmakers are most proud of bringing much-needed context to the moments that were only captured in small news bites around the world when the case was happening.

In "Amanda Knox," we get never-before-heard audio recordings of Amanda and her mother speaking in prison, and some added clarity to the footage everyone remembers of Knox kissing Sollecito outside the murder scene. The documentary explains through interviews with Knox and Sollecito that it was not what it seemed.

"You can feel what it felt like for those people to be caught up at that time," Blackhurst said of the movie. "You're able to give context to this one little bit because you now can see and hear from them."

"Amanda Knox" will be available on Netflix September 30.

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Palmer Luckey, the millionaire brain behind Facebook's $2 billion bet on virtual reality, is in a bad place.

In one week, he's gone from being the enigmatic, shockingly young head of a company that Facebook acquired for billions of dollars to being the "Wizard of Oz"-type man behind the curtain who's financing an alt-right political group with roots in a white supremacist subreddit.

How does the guy with the VR goggles on the cover of Time magazine go from beloved to suspicious in one step?

What happened to Palmer Luckey?

Luckey's latest problems started last Friday, September 22, with a report from The Daily Beast. In the report, Luckey admitted to reporters Gideon Resnick and Ben Collins that he had given $10,000 to a group named Nimble America.

The group is focused on bringing politically charged memes from the internet into reality. What type of memes? This kind:

Nimble America is against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and its plan to combat her and elect Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is to use internet memes in real life.

As a member of Nimble America said on Reddit: "We've proven that shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real."

So what? you might be asking. This guy wants to support whoever he wants for president. Absolutely. Agreed, friend!

The issue isn't whom Luckey supports for president, but the origins of the group Nimble America: a subreddit called "/r/The_Donald" that's directly associated with the growing alt-right movement. And the alt-right movement is associated with white nationalism, anti-Semitism, conspiracy theorists, and Gamergate supporters, for starters.

On top of that, The Daily Beast reported that Luckey said he used the name NimbleRichMan on Reddit. NimbleRichMan posted stuff like this, which has since been deleted:

"We know Hillary Clinton is corrupt, a warmonger, a freedom-stripper. Not the good kind you see dancing in bikinis on Independence Day, the bad kind that strips freedom from citizens and grants it to donors. Hillary Rodham Clinton is not just bought and paid for. Everyone around her is, too. The elite of the country know it. They don't care. They know she is the candidate that will do what they want."

Luckey now denies having written that.

This is from the apology posted on Luckey's Facebook page late on Friday, the same day that The Daily Beast article was published:

"I did not write the 'NimbleRichMan' posts, nor did I delete the account."

But Luckey initially confirmed to The Daily Beast (in emails that are publicly available) that he was the man in charge of the NimbleRichMan account.

Vice clarified with The Daily Beast that Luckey did at one point say he wrote Reddit posts as NimbleRichMan, and Vice published images of the emails between Resnick and Luckey.

Collins even posted images on Twitter of one such exchange with Luckey:

There's a third, very narrow possibility: Perhaps both of the writers of The Daily Beast piece are lying, fabricating emails between themselves and Luckey, and then sharing those fabrications with Vice.

It's also extremely unlikely, and Luckey hasn't made that claim.

In his apology, Luckey also said:

"I contributed $10,000 to Nimble America because I thought the organization had fresh ideas on how to communicate with young voters through the use of several billboards. I am a Libertarian who has publicly supported Ron Paul and Gary Johnson in the past, and I plan on voting for Gary in this election as well."

That stands in direct contrast to the views espoused by NimbleRichMan on Reddit. Again, Luckey is, of course, free to support whichever presidential candidate he wants.

But if he is indeed NimbleRichMan, he's seemingly lying about his views, and that's upsetting fans.

And this is where the issue of Luckey donating a relatively small sum of his millions to a political group becomes a liability for his employer, Facebook.

What's the problem?

The product most closely associated with Luckey is the Oculus Rift, pictured above on Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. And the lifeblood of the Rift is twofold: people buying the headset (consumers) and people making stuff for the headset (game developers, mostly).

It's an expensive headset ($600) that requires an expensive computer to power it. The headset's high price combined with a high barrier to entry make the Rift a hard sell for a lot of people.

So the kind of person buying a Rift right now is considered an "early adopter." That's the kind of person who knows who Luckey is. The kind of person who posts in the Oculus subreddit.

A person like the Reddit user spiezer, who wrote on September 24:

"If we set aside our individual political dispositions and view the situation as it is, it's pretty clear that this is pretty messy. It's not close to over and the chaos brewing in the VR and tech community will not end until there is better closure.

"Palmer, believe it or not, is one of the main faces of Oculus. This is not a good showing for the company. Especially in the eyes of the general public, let alone the enthusiasts.

"At the end of the day, this isn't about his supporting Trump. It's about his way of doing so. He's a public figure. This isn't a situation you can just ignore or regard as having a minute amount of importance. He's a VR visionary and people looked up to him."

The big problem is that Luckey quite possibly lied directly to this important community.

And fans aren't the only ones who are upset.

What are developers saying?

The bigger problem for Luckey's company, Oculus VR, which Facebook owns, is the potential fallout from the news.

As famed indie developer Rami Ismail of Vlambeer put it:

Ismail's joking, but the point he's making is dead-on: The HTC Vive, one of the Rift's main competitors, is already competing for developers. It wouldn't be so hard for those developers to focus on the Vive or Sony's PlayStation VR (which launches this October) over Facebook's Rift.

And some developers are publicly stating that they'll do as much, like "SuperHyperCube" development studio Polytron:

In interviews with BuzzFeed News, a handful of Facebook's Launch Pad fellows, who create VR projects based on Oculus Rift, expressed a variety of concerns.

"The mood is surprise, shock, dismay, and disappointment," one said. "A number of people are creating documentaries to address social issues, and they are questioning whether Oculus is the right platform."

What happens next?

Maybe nothing!

Luckey continues to be employed by Facebook — a rep confirmed to Business Insider on September 23 — and he's said nothing publicly since issuing his apology. Facebook declined to comment otherwise, pointing to Luckey's apology as the official statement. Luckey didn't respond to repeated requests for comment.

His colleagues at Oculus, however, are saying some things. Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe, for instance, said this on his public Facebook account:

"I want to respond to the recent press stories involving Palmer. I know that Palmer is deeply sorry for the impact this situation is having on the company, our partners and the industry.

"Everyone at Oculus is free to support the issues or causes that matter to them, whether or not we agree with those views. It is important to remember that Palmer acted independently in a personal capacity, and was in no way representing the company."

The head content officer at Oculus, Jason Rubin, took to Twitter.

"I wanted to give @PalmerLuckey a chance to respond before I posted. ... Knowing Palmer, I take him at his word," he wrote on September 23. "30 years in the game business, I would not work in a place that I thought condoned or spread hate. Nor would I remain silent if I saw it. I believe games and VR have the potential to bring people together. My view is unwavering. We can make the world a better place."

It's still unclear if any of this will have a material effect on Facebook's VR business, or if Luckey will remain an employee. We'll presumably find out more at Oculus VR's annual Oculus Connect event, which takes place October 5-7 in California.

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Spotify has added Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos to its board of directors, Recode reports. Sarandos’ appointment will boost Spotify’s video content ambitions, to differentiate itself from rival music streaming services like Apple Music and Tidal, and from more pure-play audio platforms like SoundCloud and Pandora. More broadly, the appointment is a sign of strengthening ties between Spotify and Netflix as they look to combat digital titans – especially Apple – in their respective content arenas. 

Sarandos is a powerful figure in the entertainment industry. He oversees Netflix's content negotiations and spearheads its original programming efforts. His addition to Netflix's board accomplishes several goals:

• Diversifying Spotify beyond a music-only content platform. Spotify is committed to building out its video content, to provide a broader experience for users. It started showing clips from Comedy Central, ESPN, the BBC, and Vice and rolled out video streaming on its mobile app in 2016, with 12 original shows coming later this year. Video plays into Spotify users’ video consumption patterns too. They dedicate an average of 1.17 hours to online TV per day, almost 30 minutes above the average internet user, according to GlobalWebIndex.
• Helping Spotify capitalize on video ads in the lead up to IPO. In 2015, paid subscriptions made up 30% of Spotify’s total user base yet accounted for almost 90% of revenue. Spotify is therefore looking to squeeze more revenue from non-paying users, to establish two robust revenue streams. Video can help with this by unlocking valuable ad dollars. Ad spending on original programming has more than doubled since 2014 according to the IAB, and PwC estimates video ad spend will grow at a 19% CAGR to over $10 billion by 2020. 
• Leveraging video to ward off rival music streaming services. Apple is ramping up its original programming, which is centered around its Apple Music streaming service. The company has a number of exclusive shows in the works, including six-part mini-series produced by Dr. Dre, a documentary about the Cash Money Records label, the Planet of the Apps reality show, and standalone Carpool Karaoke episodes. Providing its a catalog of compelling programming keep Spotify competitive amidst challenges from Apple. 
• Asserting Netflix’s solidity and that it’s not looking to sell. Rumors surfaced earlier this month that Netflix was an acquisition target. Some even speculated that Apple would move for an acquisition, which would go towards making a compelling Apple TV product. This was probably unlikely to happen anyway, but the Netflix-Spotify boardroom tie-up will help extinguish such speculation for the imminent future. 
• Building Netflix and Spotify’s bond to create a powerful force. Ted Sarandos is the second Netflix executive to join Spotify's board after Barry McCarthy, Netflix's former chief financial officer. In 2015, a year after joining Netflix's board, McCarthy transitioned to become the company's CFO. Stronger ties, collaboration and teamwork between Spotify and Netflix will help both companies compete more forcefully in the music and video content spaces in digital media. 

Margaret Boland, research analyst for BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled a detailed report on subscription video on-demand services that examines how the growth of SVOD is coming at the expense of the pay-TV industry. The report analyzes the state of the pay-TV industry and maps out which demographics are more likely to stop buying traditional TV packages.

The report also discusses the user base, original content offerings, and subscription models of the major subscription streaming services available today, including Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Video. Finally, it looks at how traditional pay-TV companies and premium channels like HBO and Showtime are addressing the shift to digital viewing, as well as the implications of their response for advertisers.

• Those abandoning pay-TV packages fall into three main groups: cord-nevers, cord-cutters, and cord-shavers. Whereas video streaming services have found favor with younger viewers in particular, an increasing portion of older subscribers also are leaving behind their pay-TV packages. Still, younger viewers watch four times as much video content online than older viewers.
• Netflix is the largest SVOD service and will continue to dominate the industry with an impressive original content lineup and aggressive expansion plans.
• Amazon is trying to compete with Netflix by investing significant resources in original content.
• Hulu is the third-largest SVOD service, but the only one to offer ad-supported membership tiers. Hulu has been the slowest to roll out original and exclusive content, but it has inked numerous deals in the past year to boost its content library.
• Pay-TV companies are responding to the rise of SVOD services by offering subscribers "skinny bundles" and their own streaming services.

In full, the report:

• Illustrates the fall of the traditional TV package and the rise of broadband only cable subscriptions.
• Lays out the different types of viewers that are leaving behind pay-TV: cord-cutters, cord-shavers, and cord-nevers.
• Examines the leading SVOD services including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and premium channel offerings from HBO and Showtime.
• Explains the various ways that pay-TV companies are responding to the rise of SVOD services, notably skinny bundles and standalone streaming services.
• Considers what the migration to SVOD services means to marketers.

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Hollywood can be a deceiving place.

From the outside, you'd think that someone with major exposure would also be raking in the dough.

But it's not until you look at their checkbook that you really get an idea of what they're actually earning.

The Hollywood Reporter has released the top salaries of 2016, and from movie star (yes, it's The Rock), to show runner, to craft services, they have revealed who is actually making top dollar in their field.

Check out who are the biggest earners below: 

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Movie Star: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Salary: $19 million

2016 project: "Jumanji"

Director: Christopher Nolan

Salary: $20 million

2016 project: "Dunkirk"

Nolan will also earn 20% box-office gross of "Dunkirk."

Producer: Scott Rudin

Salary: $2.5 million upfront, plus a percentage of box office.

One of the world's best video game consoles just turned 20 years old.

On September 29, 1996, a little console called the Nintendo 64 was released in the U.S., forever altering the way we think about video games. 

Whether you loved it for your first glimpses at 3D gaming in "Super Mario 64" or your first experience with four-player competitive gaming in "GoldenEye 007," almost everyone has a fond memory of playing this iconic console.

Here are the top 20 games that graced the Nintendo 64:

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20. "Pilotwings 64"

"Pilotwings 64" was a surprisingly robust flight simulator that re-defined the way we thought about navigating 3D space in a video game.

Throughout the game, you could unlock different vehicles, including a hang-glider and a jet pack, offering different ways for you to navigate the game's different environments.

Release date: September 29, 1996

19. "Blast Corps"

"Blast Corps" is a Nintendo 64 classic developed by game developer "Rare" in the late '90s. This action-puzzle game gave you control over a wide variety of vehicles, allowing you to dramatically crash through buildings, bridging gaps, and wreaking havoc.

Whether or not you hate its twangy country music-inspired soundtrack, "Blast Corps" stands as one of the best Nintendo 64 games ever.

Release date: March 24, 1997

18. "Jet Force Gemini"

"Jet Force Gemini" was one of the pioneers of the third-person shooter genre, and for its time, it's really quite impressive! This stylish sci-fi game developed by Rare looks chunky and silly, but the sound of bullets whizzing by as you run-and-gun still sound incredible.

Release date: October 11, 1999

Did you know there are free games released every month on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One? It's true!

If you pay $60 annually for an Xbox Live Gold membership, you get a handful of free games every single month. The program works very similarly to Sony's PlayStation Plus program, with one significant difference: Every single game offered through Games with Gold is compatible with Xbox One.

Even if you don't own an Xbox 360, you can still download free Xbox 360 titles every month directly onto your Xbox One. And they work on the Xbox One! Voila!

Here are all the games available this October.

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"Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings"

Though I can't personally speak to its quality, gaming site Polygon seems to be a big fan of "Super Mega Baseball" — it was named their Sports Game of the Year in 2014.

It seems to have the rigor of a hardcore baseball simulator, but with a goofy, cartoony skin stretched over it.

At any rate, now's a perfect time to give this game a shot, because its developer, Metalhead, is coming out with a sequel next year.

Platforms: Xbox One

Availability: October 1 to October 31

"The Escapists"

Trying to make the prison industrial complex a humorous, light video game experience is no easy task, but "The Escapists" certainly makes a valiant effort.

It's an open world, strategy/puzzle game in which you play a prisoner plotting their escape. You can buy contraband from other prisoners, finding and trading items to help in your plot, all while hiding the evidence from everyone else so they can't blow your cover.

Platforms: Xbox One

Availability: October 16 to November 15

"MX vs ATV Reflex"

This driving game's most interesting feature is that it has dynamic terrain that gets damaged and scarred throughout the race as vehicles drive over it.

"MX vs ATV Reflex" received positive-ish reviews upon its release in 2009, so you can probably skip it unless you really have a hankering for some off-road action.

Platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox One

Availability: October 1 to October 15

Vice President Joe Biden is clearly disgusted by Donald Trump's statements at Monday night's presidential debate regarding taxes.

During the debate, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, wondered aloud what Trump could be hiding by not submitting his tax returns. When she suggested that maybe he didn't pay taxes, the GOP nominee interjected by saying, "That makes me smart." US taxes, of course, are integral to keeping the government, service agencies, and federal benefits running.

"Does he play us for suckers?" Biden said during an appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Thursday.

"Think about it," Biden continued. "Can you think of any president you've studied, read about, or knew who would say anything like that? Name me one president who would do that. It angers me, quite frankly."

Biden explained his anger by using an example of a family in which the father and mother are both working for $50,000 each, taking care of their kids, and paying 15% of their income in taxes.

"I can't imagine why somebody would say that, like that 'makes me smart,'" Biden said. "My dad had an expression for real. When someone would say, 'Joe, I pay too much in taxes,' he'd say, 'Look, it's a small price to pay to live in this country.' I mean, just pay your fair share for God's sake."

Watch the interview below:

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Have you been assuming "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" or "Avatar" must be the biggest movie ever?

You'd be surprised. When adjusted for inflation to even the playing field, the top-earning films at the US box office include many old classics, from overall winner "Gone with the Wind" to a couple Steven Spielberg favorites and a Disney animation. Oh, and the original "Star Wars."

Check out the biggest blockbusters at the box office in the chart above, which uses data from Box Office Mojo.

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YouTube superstar Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg just announced his next video game development project.

This time around, he'll be teaming up with Armin Ibrisagic, one of the designers behind the wonderfully weird "Goat Simulator," to make multiple games on smartphones and PC.

PewDiePie, who currently has over 48 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, will offer "creative input" on these as-of-yet unspecified projects. But given the irreverent and crude sense of humor of both PewDiePie and "Goat Simulator," the goal is to make goofy, weird games.

"Comedy is huge in entertainment, but it still feels in its infancy in the games industry," said Ibrisagic, according to The Verge. "Felix and I would like to work on changing that."

It might surprise you to learn that this isn't PewDiePie's first foray into the game development world — he previously worked on "Legend of the Brofist," a "Super Mario"-style retro sidescroller featuring YouTube stars, and "Tuber Simulator," a newly released mobile game that puts players in the shoes of a budding YouTuber with PewDiePie as their mentor.

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Ellen DeGeneres is a pro at giving seriously good life advice, according to Skinnygirl founder, author, and entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel.

"Ellen DeGeneres said to me, 'You will keep repeating the same mistakes until you actually learn the lesson,' which I think is true," Frankel recently told Business Insider.

DeGeneres also advised her to avoid stressing over what fans and haters think or say.

"Don't get caught up in how much people love you and also don't get sucked down by how much people hate you," Frankel says.

She also shared the worst piece of career advice she ever received — and the important lesson she learned from it.

Frankel says early on, when she first told "a man who was very successful in the liquor business" about the Skinnygirl brand, he essentially told her to give up.

"He said, 'Cut your losses, it's so hard to do well in the liquor business, and there's no such thing.' He told me that it wasn't going to be a success."

Frankel said this taught her to never assume anyone is smarter than you.

"It doesn't mean to rise up and act like you are smarter than them; it just means to do your homework and be able to trust your gut and believe in your passion," she says.

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Daniel Radcliffe revealed in a recent interview with Metro UK that he had interest in playing the title role in Marvel's upcoming franchise reboot, "Spider-Man: Homecoming."  

"I would've been a good Spider-Man, but the boat has sailed on that," Radcliffe said. "And I'm very happy to watch Tom Holland do it. He's fantastic."

The 27-year-old actor expressed his love for superhero movies and even stated that he'd be down to act in a new franchise — though not one similar in length to his decade-long role in the "Harry Potter" films.

"I'm not sure if I'd sign up for something that was another seven or eight films or ten years," Radcliffe said. "But a shorter franchise, yeah."

Radcliffe was promoting the UK release of his acclaimed new film "Swiss Army Man," in which he plays a magical, talking corpse. 

Meanwhile, "Spider-Man: Homecoming" is set for release on July 7, 2017. 

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This holiday, Nintendo's selling a miniature version of its classic Nintendo Entertainment System.

It is, frankly speaking, adorable.

On the flipside, Sony's releasing a cutting edge virtual reality headset in PlayStation VR for the PlayStation 4. It's a $400 headset that enables high-end virtual reality games and experiences right in your living room, and it's all powered by the PlayStation 4 you already own. 

What you might not know about this headset, though, is that it comes with its own miniaturized game console. The "PlayStation VR Processor Unit" acts as a middleman between the headset and the PS4 console itself. 

It's also, basically, a miniature PlayStation 4. Just look at this cute little guy:

It's even got a similar design aesthetic, dividing line and all:

The idea is that you take the wires extending off the PlayStation VR headset and plug them into the front of the Processor Unit, which then connects to the PlayStation 4 itself.

Notably, you'll need an extra wall plug for the Processor Unit — here's a look at it from the back:

Not only does the Processor Unit act as a go-between (so the VR headset's wires are running behind your PlayStation 4), but it enables what Sony's calling "social screen" functionality. Silly name aside, the idea is simple: Whatever the VR user is seeing in their headset is replicated on the TV. This can also be used in other ways, where players use the TV in one way while the VR headset user experiences something else. 

Here's a look at the entire PlayStation VR package that arrives on October 13 for $400:

There's also a demo disc that comes with the headset, which has 18 different games and experiences to try. Check out a full unboxing of the headset right here:

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Like many in the US, filmmaker Craig Atkinson was glued to the news coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. But Atkinson was unsettled by what he saw during the manhunt for the bombers.

"I was shocked by the way that the police were approaching the community," Atkinson told Business Insider, recalling SWAT teams searching homes without warrants. "It was like fear had got the best of us."

Atkinson's father was a police officer in Oak Park, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit, for 29 years and became a member of its SWAT team when it was formed in 1989. His memories as a child are filled with playing the hostage as his dad's SWAT team conducted training drills and, when he got to his teens, playing an armed assailant.

With a unique eye to the evolution of SWAT over his life, Atkinson saw in the Boston Marathon bombing a disturbing reality in the militarization of the police in the US.

"It was such a departure from the way that I felt my dad's SWAT team approached the community," he said.

So Atkinson decided to investigate it in his directorial feature debut, "Do Not Resist."

Atkinson teamed with producer Laura Hartrick to make a gripping documentary (which won the best documentary grand jury award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival) that examines how police departments across the US are using government grants to beef up with military equipment to fight terrorism. But for small towns that do not face the same kind of threats as Boston or New York, the equipment is used mostly by SWAT teams to serve search warrants and assist in crowd control.

Starting in 2013, Atkinson traveled the country to investigate the militarization phenomenon. He visited a SWAT competition in Florida; got a ride-along on a new MRAP, a vehicle designed to withstand IEDs, that the police department of Wisconsin's Juneau County (murders in 2014, zero) just received; and sat in on a city-council meeting in Concord, New Hampshire, (murders since 2004: two) for the approval of a BearCat, or ballistic engineered armored response counter attack truck, for its police department.

But the movie changed when 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by the police in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.

"Before Ferguson, we had 80 hours of footage to educate people," Atkinson said. "That was no longer needed because the Ferguson story showed it."

Atkinson and Hartrick raced to Ferguson and captured incredible footage of the protests that occurred there following Brown's death (Atkinson is best known for his cinematography work on films by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady like "Detropia" and "Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You," for which he had an additional cinematographer/camera operator credit). With officers seen in riot gear, some shooting tear gas from atop BearCats, Atkinson believes the movie paints a clearer picture of the Ferguson police department's actions than cable-news coverage did at the time.

"Most news outlets there had to go file stories at 10 or 11 o'clock at night," Atkinson said. "But we had the luxury to just wait it out until the end, and there were a lot of exchanges between the police and the community in those hours when no one was looking that changes the entire dynamic of what was being reported."

Atkinson shows SWAT teams following crowds back into their neighborhoods and deploying tear gas after the city-imposed curfew. Officers can be seen facing off with citizens who are standing on their own front lawns.

But with his general knowledge of SWAT procedure, Atkinson also noticed what seemed like a lack of training by the Ferguson police.

"They would shoot the tear gas towards the crowds but also on the sides of them, so they had nowhere to go but towards the police," Atkinson said.

In the haze of tear gas, Atkinson captured on film one female protester saying to anyone who would listen: "They need to stop giving these boys these toys because they don't know how to handle them."

"Do Not Resist" also explores the future of policing, featuring conversations with people behind aerial surveillance and face recognition, both of which are being used in some US police departments. Then there's the work of Richard Berk, a professor who is developing an algorithm that seems taken out of "Minority Report," as it predicts at a person's birth whether the person will become a criminal.

But the section of the movie that is likely to remain with most viewers long after watching are the words of the top trainer of military law enforcement in the country, Dave Grossman.

Atkinson was allowed to film Grossman's class, which was full of SWAT commanders from across the country, and what is revealed is a chilling presentation in which Grossman tells the men such things as "we are at war and you're the frontline troops in this war" and "the best sex you've had in your life" is when you come back home alive from the job.

"I just wanted to show the American people who their officers are being trained by," Atkinson said, "and I want Dave Grossman to have to explain himself to why this is the most effective way to police our streets in this era. I think we have outgrown that philosophy and we need to evolve it to accommodate what our society is actually asking us. Let's go back to a protect-and-serve model."

Business Insider contacted Grossman, and though he said he had not seen the movie, he had seen the trailer, which he is in, and thought it to be "horrendously irresponsible."

"It's got a quote of me saying, 'We are at war and you're the frontline troops in this war,' but in the context of Ferguson. That was the context they created," Grossman said. "I was talking about this land and 9/11 attacks and what's coming down the road as far as terrorist attacks. In time of war, law enforcement is essentially troops on American soil. I think that there's 9/11-scale attacks coming. What they may do is attack schools, day cares, and school buses, and what I was telling my cops is when that happens there is no elite delta force that's going to show up to save your kids — you're it."

When asked whether he was worried that his teachings might get misconstrued and that SWAT members might bring his thinking to situations like that in Ferguson in 2014 or in Charlotte this month instead of a terrorist act, Grossman said: "I don't teach tactical — I teach the mental side of the game."

Grossman also dislikes the term "militarization of police." He describes things like MRAPs and BearCats as "tools" that the police "are using to stay alive."

"My presentation is always evolving, always talking about the latest science, the latest physiology, the latest case studies," Grossman said. "It is truly the most successful military law-enforcement training. Are all of these police chiefs that come to my training, are they all insane? These [filmmakers] set out to do something horrendously irresponsible. It's part of the whole war-on-cops left-wing mantra, and it is enormously harmful to business."

In a response to the above remarks by Grossman, Atkinson sent an email saying: "The righteous violence that Dave Grossman instructs officers to deploy may be effective when fighting ISIS, but while the police are preparing for the next 9/11 attack, they are engaged in 63 million police-citizen interactions a year. It is irresponsible to think that you can teach the 'mental side of the game' while not considering the broad application in which this mentality is deployed. I think it's important to note that Jeronimo Yanez, the officer who reflexively shot and killed Philando Castile as he reached for his wallet during a routine traffic stop, had previously undergone Grossman's Bulletproof Warrior training."

Atkinson also noted that Sheriff Laurie Smith of California's Santa Clara County canceled a Grossman training session out of concern that the class made officers more likely to use deadly force when it's not necessary.

"Do Not Resist" opens at the New York theater Film Forum on Friday and will be available for streaming later in the year. Here is the complete list of screening locations.

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Lady Gaga is officially set to perform at the 2017 Super Bowl halftime show. 

Gaga's performance at the event had been rumored earlier this month, but the singer took to Twitter Friday morning to confirm that she'll be the headlining act. 

The 2016 Super Bowl halftime show saw Beyoncé, Coldplay, and Bruno Mars perform a medley of their respective hits. At this point, it appears as though Gaga will have no such accompaniment. 

It's likely that her performance will feature material from her upcoming album "Joanne," which is set for release on October 21.

Next year's Super Bowl will take place on February 5 at the NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.  

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Chelsea Handler found a hilarious way around Ann Coulter's last-minute interview cancellation by using a "body double" and the conservative pundit's own words on Friday's episode of Netflix's "Chelsea."

"Since I'm always accused on not representing both sides in this election, I went out on a limb and booked one of the most vocal Trump supporters in the country, Ann Coulter," Handler said. "And guess what she did. She called in sick right before the show today. Oh no, I'm sorry, she emailed in sick."

Handler, who takes her job hosting Netflix's first talk show seriously, said she was up at 5 a.m. reading Coulter's new book, "In Trump We Trust," which the host referred to as a "piece of garbage."

"The show must go on," Handler declared. "So to give you an idea of how our interview would've gone, please welcome Ann Coulter's body double."

In comes comedian and "The Mindy Project" actress Fortune Feimster, who aside from the blonde wig bears very little resemblance to Coulter.

The best part of what transpires is that Handler asked Feimster questions about Coulter's take on different issues, and in response, Feimster actually reads from Coulter's book.

For example, Handler asks Feimster what Coulter's take is on women's right to vote.

In response, Feimster reads aloud from the book, "'It would be a much better country if women did not vote. And it's simply a fact.' You heard me. Oh, oh, deal with it."

OK, so Feimster does include her own embellishments, but Coulter can't claim she wasn't represented.

Watch the hilarious interview below:

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Greg Rucka, one of the writers of DC Comics' newly launched "Wonder Woman: Rebirth" series, says the heroine is a lesbian.

Clearly, there have been many, many theories through the years surrounding the the world's most popular female superhero, her Amazonian roots, and her sexuality. Now, Rucka is confirming that that Diana Prince, aka Wonder Woman, has had sexual and romantic relationships with women.

"It’s supposed to be paradise," Rucka told Comicosity.com of Wonder Woman's secluded Amazon island home. "You’re supposed to be able to live happily. You’re supposed to be able — in a context where one can live happily, and part of what an individual needs for that happiness is to have a partner — to have a fulfilling, romantic and sexual relationship. And the only options are women."

Of course, it's not as cut and dry as simply calling Wonder Woman a lesbian, the writer explained. While on the island, we would call her a lesbian, but they wouldn't categorize it as so. He prefers to refer to the character as "queer."

"An Amazon doesn’t look at another Amazon and say, 'You’re gay.' They don’t. The concept doesn’t exist," he said. "Now, are we saying Diana has been in love and had relationships with other women? As [comic book artist Nicola Scott] and I approach it, the answer is obviously yes."

For this new iteration of Wonder Woman, Rucka strays from previous versions of her story to say that she didn't leave her home because she fell in love with Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman's primary love interest.

"She doesn’t leave because of Steve," Rucka said. "She leaves because she wants to see the world and somebody must go and do this thing. And she has resolved it must be her to make this sacrifice."

Though she'd be categorized as lesbian thus far in the comics, Rucka doesn't count out a future romantic relationship with Steve Trevor.

This new take on Wonder Woman's sexuality drops as DC preps its new Wonder Woman movie franchise for a June 2017 launch.

Read the entire interview with Greg Rucka over at Comicosity.

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Now that new music comes out every Friday — though not always on every streaming service — it can be hard to know where to find the next great song.

To help you out, Business Insider compiles this rundown of the best new music you can stream right now.

This week, Bon Iver and ambient producer Tycho released outstanding new albums, and indie supergroup LIV debuted its first single.

Check out this week's best new songs:

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Tycho — "Horizon"

Tycho's new album "Epoch" adds another mesmerizing, ambient project to producer Scott Hansen's catalog. The upbeat highlight "Horizon" stands among his best tracks. 

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LIV — "Wings of Love"

Lykke Li, Miike Snow, and Peter Bjorn & John — three great indie acts from Sweden — have joined forces as LIV. The supergroup's first single, "Wings of Love," echoes the harmonic registers of peak Fleetwood Mac. 

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Francis and the Lights — "Comeback"

Following previous high-profile collaborations with Drake, Chance the Rapper, and Frank Ocean, Francis Starlite has come into his own on "Farewell, Starlite!," his debut studio album. The highlight track "Comeback" combines a piano-led, glitch beat with strong melodies. 

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At over 40 million sold, the PlayStation 4 is the most popular game console in the world.

Sony's betting big on that popularity this holiday with the release of a new, slimmer version of the PlayStation 4, and a more powerful version of the PlayStation 4 (the "Pro").

And that's not all! There's also the $400 PlayStation VR headset that arrives on October 13:

With just a few weeks until launch, Sony's showing off the headset in a new unboxing.

Excluding all the cables in the package, you only need a few things to get started with PlayStation VR:

• The PlayStation VR headset.
• The Processor Unit: a small box that looks like a small PS4, which acts as a middleman between the headset and the PS4 console.
• A small set of stereo earbuds (for use with the VR headset, optionally).
• The 18-game demo disc that comes with every headset.

In the "Core" package, which costs $400, there is no PlayStation Camera. As the PlayStation Camera is required to use the PlayStation VR headset with PlayStation 4, you can either buy one separately or get a $500 bundle.

You might also notice there are no motion controllers in the contents above — those are the PlayStation Move controllers, and they're also sold separately. If you buy the $500 bundle, you get a PlayStation Camera and two PlayStation Move controllers.

Perhaps you already have PlayStation Move controllers leftover from the PlayStation 3, or you scooped some up in anticipation of PS VR? Maybe you've got a PS Camera too? The Core bundle, being shown here, is for you.

PlayStation VR arrives on October 13 — check out the full unboxing right here:

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Tech billionaire and "Shark Tank" guest investor Chris Sacca isn't impressed with Donald Trump's business record.

"It's a sad state, this election right now," Sacca told Business Insider during a "Shark Tank" event at New York City's Paley Center for Media earlier this week. "I do not think, for whatever fluster comes out of his mouth, I don't think Trump is a successful business person. I think he's a fake."

Unlike his fellow "Shark Tank" investor and tech mogul, Mark Cuban, who at first supported Trump's presidential run on the virtues of his business acumen before changing his mind, Sacca feels he and others in Silicon Valley have very little in common with the real estate mogul.

"[Trump] stands for the opposite of a lot of what we stand for," Sacca told us. "Silicon Valley is the ultimate meritocracy. It's the ultimate expression of the American dream of social mobility. If you bust your ass, and you're smart, and you hustle, and you take some risks, there's a really good chance you can make it in this business. And you can make it big."

"Silicon Valley is not a place where your dad leaves you tens of millions of dollars or loans you tens of millions more," he continued. "It's not place where you can not pay taxes, hide behind bankruptcy after bankruptcy. It's not a place that tolerates taking advantage of employees and threatening to sue them if they want to get paid in full."

Sacca — who, through his venture capital fund Lowercase Capital, was an early investor in companies such as Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Kickstarter – has been thinking a lot about the virtues of the Silicon Valley tech business (and not just in relation to Trump). In fact, he said that's the reason why he has signed on for more episodes of "Shark Tank," which airs Fridays at 9 p.m. on ABC.

"'Shark Tank' actually brought me back to my very first days where it was just a couple of guys or gals working on a fun idea, written a few lines of code, maybe had a few users," he said. "The conversation wasn't about the big bucks. It was just about how do we make this thing better. Can we help each other do that? I really miss that. I realize that despite the success of our business, the passion had sort of fallen out of it for me. And 'Shark Tank' brought me back to why I care about this."

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