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Mark Zuckerberg shared this video of his 'crazy virtual reality' where 'you can experience anything' (FB)

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There's no question the next big thing that's coming to entertain you is virtual reality.

But when you see people with those bizarre looking masks on, VR looks like it's an isolating experience: like you'll be hanging out with imaginary friends in your own little world all alone:

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hoped to dispel that lonely notion during a presentation in California on Thursday. That's when he showed off the latest version of Facebook's next generation VR headset, Oculus Rift.

The presentation was all about how you can use Rift to hang out with real, but far away, people exploring fantasy VR worlds together. Or, if you prefer, you can play card games with them, or have work meetings.

When you enter the VR world, those real people look like cartoons (at least for now), but if you can overlook that, you can see how Facebook has focused on things like facial expressions and gestures.

Zuckerberg posted a five-minute video of the presentation to his Facebook page explaining:

"Here's the crazy virtual reality demo I did live on stage at Oculus Connect today. The idea is that virtual reality puts people first. It's all about who you're with. Once you're in there, you can do anything you want together -- travel to Mars, play games, fight with swords, watch movies or teleport home to see your family. You have an environment where you can experience anything."

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Netflix CEO: Movie theaters are 'strangling the movie business' (NFLX)

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reed hastings netflix new yorker tech festNetflix CEO Reed Hastings thinks the state of film is a "real tragedy" and that movie theaters are "strangling the movie business," he said at The New Yorker's TechFest on Friday.

Netflix has long faced off against the giants of the movie theater business, who have largely refused to show Netflix's original films in theaters because of Netflix's commitment to making them available to stream on the same day they appear on the big screen.

That could be changing — but only a little bit.

Netflix recently came to a deal with iPic Entertainment, a luxury theater company, to screen 10 of its films as they become available online. Ted Sarandos, Netflix's head of content, characterized this as a “substantial” portion of Netflix’s original movies for the year, according to The Wall Street Journal. That's good news for Netflix, but the company's relationship with the powers that be in the movie industry has been generally ice cold.

On Friday, Hastings came down hard on these theater owners, saying there had been no innovation in the movie theater business in recent years, even as TV has been shaped by the rise of cable and internet networks. "Money" and "innovation" has flooded to the TV industry, Hastings said. Not so with film.

The movie theater business has seen flatline revenue, Hastings said. Part of the problem is that small movies, such as many Netflix has snagged from places like Sundance, would be better distributed both at home and in theaters.

That's a convenient position for Netflix to take, but Hastings said the movie studios feel the same way. Each movie studio would like to "break the oligopoly" of the theaters, but "they don't know how," he continued. If they collude to face the theaters, it's anti-trust, but if they are the ones to take the first step, their films will get killed. That means they just go along with the status quo.

"It's a bad dynamic," Hastings said.

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David Letterman: Donald Trump is a 'damaged human,' and I would have 'gone right after him'

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If David Letterman could have held on for another year in late night, he would've had a really good time taking on Donald Trump.

In previous years, Letterman enjoyed having Trump on his show. They went toe-to-toe several times. In fact, Hillary Clinton uses a clip from a 2012 "Late Show" interview — in which Letterman called out Trump for having his Macy's clothing line made in Asia — in one of her campaign commercials (watch it below).

"Nobody took him seriously, and people loved him when he would come on the show," Letterman, 69, said in a new interview with The New York Times. "I would make fun of his hair, I would call him a slumlord, I would make fun of his ties. And he could just take a punch like nothing. He was the perfect guest."

But that was before he became a serious contender for the American presidency. Letterman has ceased to find the real-estate mogul so funny in that capacity. Letterman said he had been shocked by Trump's comments about immigrants and by the time Trump mocked a reporter with a disability.

"If this was somebody else — if this was a member of your family or a next-door neighbor, a guy at work — you would immediately distance yourself from that person," the retired late-night host said. "And that's what I thought would happen. Because if you can do that in a national forum, that says to me that you are a damaged human being. If you can do that, and not apologize, you're a person to be shunned."

When asked about Jimmy Fallon's recent interview with Trump on "The Tonight Show" that observers criticized for its lack of tough questions, Letterman said he would definitely have been harder on the Republican nominee.

"If I had a show, I would have gone right after him," Letterman, who is promoting his involvement in the National Geographic Channel series "Years of Living Dangerously," told The Times.

"I would have said something like, 'Hey, nice to see you. Now, let me ask you: What gives you the right to make fun of a human who is less fortunate, physically, than you are?'" he continued. "And maybe that's where it would have ended. Because I don't know anything about politics. I don't know anything about trade agreements. I don't know anything about China devaluing the yuan. But if you see somebody who's not behaving like any other human you've known, that means something. They need an appointment with a psychiatrist. They need a diagnosis and they need a prescription."

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19 famous movies that have been banned around the world

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If you ever question the power of cinema, all you need to do is check out the movies that have been banned in different areas of the world over the past 100-plus years to reaffirm the grip the medium has on people.

Whether it be for political reasons ("The Great Dictator," "Zoolander"), religious reasons ("The Last Temptation of Christ"), or just because of the use of specific colors ("The Simpsons Movie"), all kinds of movies have been blocked from being shown based on some perceived offense.

Here are 19 well-known movies that have been banned:

 

 

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"The Battle of Algiers"

A landmark faux-documentary about the Algerian War in the late 1950s and early 1960s against the French government in North Africa, the movie was banned in France for six years due to its pro-Algerian message.  



"Battleship Potemkin"

This classic 1925 silent movie dramatizing the mutiny of a Russian battleship in 1905 led to it being banned in Nazi Germany and numerous other countries at the time of its release due to fears that it would cause a Marxist revolution. Now it's taught in film courses everywhere.



"A Clockwork Orange"

Stanley Kubrick's classic movie about an ultraviolent teen went so far in showing horrific antics, including house invasion and rape, that numerous countries banned the film for decades. In fact, in the United Kingdom it was withdrawn from theaters because Kubrick and his family were receiving death threats. The film didn't play again in the UK until the director's death in 1999. 



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Stephen Colbert hilariously spoofs Donald Trump's wall with a famous Mexican actor

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Stephen Colbert spoofed Donald Trump's proposed wall between Mexico and the US by introducing one Hispanic man who's really behind the proposal.

"Naturally, the wall isn't particularly popular in Mexico or with fans of dignity," Colbert said on Thursday's "Late Show." "We did find one Hispanic person who's a big supporter of the wall. Please welcome live via satellite from the border, Martin Hernandez, everybody!"

In the sketch, Golden Globe-winning "Mozart in the Jungle" star Gael Garcia Bernal (who is himself Mexican) plays Martin, wearing a hard hat and yellow vest.

"I love the wall. I will take any opportunity to talk about the wall," Bernal's Hernandez said. "The wall is the simplest, most elegant solution for keeping people out of a country. Way more practical than, say, a flaming moat full of crocodiles, or trained swarms of bees to check the passports."

But all is not what it seems. When Colbert expresses surprise over his guest's excitement about the wall, it becomes abundantly clear that Hernandez isn't a Mexican citizen. He's Canadian.

He protested, "Just because someone's Hispanic, they can't be Canadian? Come on, man. Have you ever heard of the host of 'Jeopardy!' Alejandro Trebek?"

"Hernandez" then reveals that he's actually at the border between the US and Alberta, Canada, and hopes the wall will keep away all those Americans threatening to move to Canada if Trump wins the presidency.

"You’ll take our jobs, and steal our women. You keep your filthy American hands off Celine Dion! My heart will go on, not yours," he exclaims.

Watch the sketch below:

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Netflix CEO: 'It doesn't look good' for Netflix in China (NFLX)

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Things are not looking good for Netflix in China, CEO Reed Hasting said at The New Yorker's TechFest on Friday.

In January, Netflix announced a gargantuan expansion into 130 new countries on a single day, bringing it to every major market in the world — except China.

Many expected Netflix's entrance into China would be a matter of months, not years, as companies like Disney had already done well in the country.

That has not turned out to be the case, and on Friday, Hastings was candid about how hazy Netflix's China ambitions are.

"We are not sure," he said. "It doesn't look good," he followed. Hastings cited two cautionary tales: Disney and Apple. Both these companies are "very good" at working with China, Hastings said, and both saw their movie services shut down a few months ago.

"We are really focused on the rest of the world," Hastings said. "There is so much opportunity for us ... That's what we are focused on."

Translation: Don't expect Neflix in China any time soon. 

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'The Daily Show' brutally rips Fox News Chinatown segment people are calling racist

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On Thursday night, "The Daily Show" ripped into a segment done by "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday that many have deemed racist. 

Monday's episode of "The O'Reilly Factor" included a segment in which Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters went to New York City's Chinatown to ask residents what they thought of the first debate between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. China was mentioned 12 times in the debate.

"Let me get this straight," "Daily Show" correspondent Ronny Chieng said. "They say China in the debate so you go to Chinatown? In New York? So when they mention Mexico do you send someone to Taco Bell? Chinatown is nothing like China!"

Many have called Watters' segment racist, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, as the piece is filled with stereotypes, including Watters asking one resident if he knows karate and another if it's the year of the dragon. The package also includes footage of Mr. Miyagi from "The Karate Kid."

"How was that on the news?" Chieng said. "And if you're going to be racist at least get your stereotypes right, you ignorant sack of s--t. Karate isn't Chinese, it's Japanese!"

Chieng then went to Chinatown on his own and talked to residents, some in Chinese and others in English, and got some insight on the election.

In the wake of the controversy over the segment, Watters tweeted this response:

Watch "The Daily Show" segment below:

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Here's how many people are watching 'Luke Cage' compared to other Netflix shows

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"Marvel's Luke Cage" opened well for Netflix, but not well enough to have caused a weekend outage on the streaming platform.

"Luke Cage" executive producer Cheo Hodari Coker would love to claim Saturday's Netflix blackout was caused by "Luke Cage" bingers, but that's highly unlikely as there are four other shows that rate higher than "Luke Cage" and didn't crash the service.

In its premiere date, September 30, and the five days after, "Luke Cage" has been watched by an estimated 3.52 million adults under the age of 50, according to SymphonyAM, whose app listens to sounds from users' televisions and takes that data to extrapolate viewership.

Those numbers place the newest Marvel show in fifth place after Netflix's original series "Fuller House," the fourth season of "Orange Is the New Black," season two of "Marvel's Daredevil," and "Stranger Things," based on their respective premiere dates and following five-day viewership. 

Among Netflix's Marvel series, "Luke Cage" does beat "Jessica Jones," which is in eighth place.

The next Marvel series for Netflix, "Marvel's Iron Fist," premieres March 17, 2017.

Here are the top 20 Netflix original programs, according to SymphonyAM:

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People believed Amanda Knox was capable of murder because of her 'crazy eyes'

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If there's one thing Netflix's Amanda Knox documentary has caused viewers to re-evaluate in her infamous murder trials, it's how she was judged for her behavior and appearance at the time.

The "Amanda Knox" filmmakers Brian McGinn and Rod Blackhurst appeared on Netflix's "Chelsea" on Friday and discussed what they found were the hardest things for Knox to overcome during the trials.

In "Amanda Knox," Knox herself mentions how impactful her eyes were on people's judgment of her. Host Chelsea Handler referred to them as "crazy eyes."

"People can see in her what they wanted to see," Blackhurst said. "If she didn't have a certain level of emotion, it meant 'X.' And if she had too much emotion, it meant 'Y.' But we see that, too, happening in our presidential election, right, with the way people look at Hillary Clinton. So this is not just the way people react with true-crime stories or tragedies. It's happening everywhere right now. They want to find something that reinforces what they believe and what they want to see in somebody."

In the documentary, Knox addressed the judgment of her based on her eyes:

"You're trying to find the answer in my eyes when the answer is right over there [referring to the lack of DNA evidence placing her in the victim's room]. You're looking at me, why? These are my eyes. They're not objective evidence."

The filmmakers also felt Knox's gender contributed greatly to the judging of her guilt. Knox was observed to be cold and was seen kissing her boyfriend and later co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, by police on the day of the murder. They found those behaviors to be inappropriate in that tragic situation.

"People have such an ingrained idea of how women should behave," McGinn said. "And every culture all over the world has a different idea of what that is. So what we found is this is one example of this way that patriarchal societies all decide how women should behave and judge people."

Last year, Italy's equivalent to the US Supreme Court upheld Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito's exonerations for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in their Italian home on November 1, 2007. Knox is now living back in the US.

Watch Handler's interview with the "Amanda Knox" filmmakers below:

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William Shatner rejected guest role on 'The Big Bang Theory': 'Find something that's better'

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Even the No. 1 show on TV can't have everything — or everyone — it wants.

"The Big Bang Theory" tried to get "Star Trek" icon William Shatner to appear in a guest role on the show, but the actor who played Captain James T. Kirk said he turned the series down.

"I've had several conversations with the creators, and what they wanted me to do didn't seem to be exactly right, so I said, Find something that's better,'" Shatner, recently told Digital Spy. "They may have taken umbrage at that, I'm not sure."

The massively popular CBS comedy has been able to snag many of the stars from the "Star Trek" franchise over its 10 seasons on-air for guest-starring roles, including Leonard Nimoy, Brent Spiner, Levar Burton, George Takei, and Wil Wheaton.

But Shatner wasn't pleased with the writing around his prospective guest turn on the show.

"They wanted me to play myself a little obliquely," the 85-year-old actor said. "And they said it would work out, but I needed more assurance on that."

But hope is not all gone. Shatner told the website he's still open to appearing on "The Big Bang Theory" if the script meets his standards.

CBS did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

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Famed science-fiction author Neal Stephenson is running a creative studio for secretive startup Magic Leap

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Secretive startup Magic Leap, which is developing a new headset technology that integrates computer graphics into the real world, is ready to move into its new office in Seattle that will also house a team of creators led by famed science fiction author Neal Stephenson.

Magic Leap, with Stephenson's help, is currently recruiting additional producers and talent for a content studio based in Seattle, multiple sources tell Business Insider.

Magic Leap recently finished a year-long construction process to outfit a historic building in Seattle with the facilities the company needs. In the meantime, the company was working out of temporary offices, including a trailer previously spotted by Geekwire outside the office

The Seattle office is where the company's chief science officer and co-founder, Brian Schowengerdt, is based, and where Magic Leap does some technical research work. 

But the location is also where Stephenson will be creating content, or "experiences," for Magic Leap's still-unannounced product. Stephenson, whose library of work includes acclaimed novels like "Snow Crash," was hired by Magic Leap in 2014 to be the company's "Chief Futurist." 

We're hearing that Stephenson's projects have "a consistent theme" with the interactive projects that he has done in the past. One key employee at his previous game studio, Subutai, now works as a design producer at Magic Leap in Seattle. 

In 2012, Stephenson raised over $500,000 on Kickstarter for "Clang," a sword fighting PC video game based around custom motion controllers that ultimately never shipped. 

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And Stephenson was recruited to Magic Leap with a sword: Orcrist, a fictional sword described in JRR Tolkien's "The Hobbit." 

"It’s not every day that someone turns up at your house bearing a mythic sword, and so I did what anyone who has read a lot of fantasy novels would: I let them in and gave them beer. True to form, they invited me on a quest and asked me to sign a contract (well, an NDA actually)," Stephenson wrote about his recruitment on the Magic Leap blog

In the past few months, several employees have joined Magic Leap at its Seattle location, according to a review of LinkedIn profiles, including people who used to work for Microsoft, Valve, and Amazon.

CLANG tech demo screenshot_swordsSeattle is not the only place where Magic Leap is developing content for its secretive headset. The company also has content projects based in Florida, New Zealand, Los Angeles, and Dallas, Texas as well, a source tells Business Insider.

The multiple locations are to help recruiting, so that talent doesn't necessarily have to move to nearby the company's Florida headquarters. 

A Magic Leap spokesperson declined to comment on Stephenson's current projects.

Magic Leap has raised $1.39 billion from some of technology's biggest investors including Alibaba, Google, Andreessen Horowitz, and KPCB. 

Have you tried Magic Leap? We'd love to hear about your experience. Email the author at kleswing@businessinsider.com. Anonymity guaranteed. 

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J.K. Rowling just gave us 4 major clues about the 'Harry Potter' spinoff movies

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J.K. Rowling, has a new short story out on Pottermore that tells us about the early years of The Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA), the governing body for witches and wizards in the United States.

It's the third Rowling story about magic in North America, following an overarching history of magic over six centuries and a detailed backstory on Ilvermorny, the North American wizarding school.

It's also the last story we'll get before the release of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" on November 18, a movie written by Rowling about the adventures of a wizard named Newt Scamander in 1920s New York.

What does Rowling's new story tell us about the movie? Here's what we learned:

Newt Scamander will be breaking the law — a wizard befriending a "No-Maj" is illegal in America

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Throughout its history, MACUSA has been all about keeping wizards and witches away from No-Majs (American English for "Muggle"). The government's first home base was in the Appalachian Mountains, far from most No-Majs, and didn't move to the cities until the wizarding population there grew. MACUSA also took no official position in the Revolutionary War.

And in 1790, MACUSA passed Rappaport’s Law, one of the most significant laws in its history. It totally segregated magical folk and No-Majs, making even intermarriage and friendship with No-Majs illegal. The law remained intact in the 1920s, during Scamander's arrival in New York.

So the overriding tension of "Fantastic Beasts" seems to be about hiding the magical world from the No-Maj communityNewt Scamander, a British wizard played by Eddie Redmayne, will not be making that easy after he befriends a No-Maj in his quest to find the magical creatures that escaped from his suitcase.

Serious breaches of MACUSA law in America are punishable by death

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Scamander, given his earlier expulsion from Hogwarts, is prone to getting into trouble. Based on the latest trailer, it looks like Scamander unleashed a few magical animals in New York, and American magical law enforcement has to crack down on them before they cause too much havoc.

Rowling's backstory tells us just how severe Scamander's punishment could be. Unlike other countries, the magical government and the non-magical government in America simply haven't collaborated historically. If Scamander unleashed magical animals in America's biggest city that would reveal the magical world to No-Majs, it's a huge deal.

How big a deal? Rowling explains, "Whereas British witches and wizards were sent to Azkaban [for committing a serious crime], the worst criminals in America were executed."

Things are not looking good for Scamander.

Newt Scamander will be running from one of the best aurors in the country

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Percival Graves (Colin Farrell), the head auror or magical law enforcement officer of MACUSA during Scamander's time there, was a descendant of Gondulphus Graves, one of the first dozen aurors in the United States. Those original twelve wizards are revered for risking their lives to protect the magical community and tracking down dangerous Scourers, basically helping establish a legal order for American wizardry.

"The descendants of these witches and wizards have been given particular respect in the US ever since," Rowling writes. 

So Scamander is dealing with someone serious with a reputation to lose — it's likely Graves will be passionate about catching Scamander before he accidentally exposes the magical community with his creatures. Who knows to what lengths he'll go?

Scamander will also be battling against people who want to expose (and wipe out) the magical community

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MACUSA's first challenge after it was inaugurated was to rid the continent of Scourers, "corrupt wizards who had hunted their fellow magical beings for personal gain." They were kind of like wizard bounty hunters that trafficked in other wizards, and sentenced some of them to death while serving as judges in the Salem Witch Trials. Because of the Scourers, North America was a dangerous place for wizards.

MACUSA largely succeeded in its goal, but several Scourers eluded justice, hiding within the No-Maj community. "The vengeful Scourers, cast out from their people, passed on to their descendants an absolute conviction that magic was real, and the belief that witches and wizards ought to be exterminated wherever they were found," Rowling writes. Scourer descendants who buy into that philosophy are on the lookout for magic, and occasionally threaten to reveal magic to the world.

In "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," we know that two characters, Mary Lou Barebone and her son Credence, are members of the Second Salemers, a No-Maj group that wants to destroy witches and wizards. Sounds like they're descendants of Scourers, and could throw a major wrench into the plot, especially if Scamander's actions are threatening to expose the magical world at large.

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" hits theaters November 18.

 

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Millionaire entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel shares the trait she looks for in every job candidate

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Skinnygirl founder and author Bethenny Frankel likes to hire a different kind of "yes person."

No, she doesn't want employees who will just tell her what she wants to hear. She wants people who, despite any hurdles and challenges, are confident that they can get things done and make it happen.

As a result, Frankel specifically looks for proactive people whenever she interviews job candidates.

"I usually like to work with people who are on it and go an extra mile and just are problem solvers and say, 'I've got this, we can figure it out,'" Frankel told Business Insider.

To determine whether they fit the bill, she doesn't focus on résumés, and there's no one question she always asks. Instead, she uses the interview to chat with the candidate to get a better sense of whether they are a "'just do it' type of person."

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Tons of people lie about being all caught up on TV shows, according to Hulu

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mindy kalingPeople frequently lie about having watched a particular TV show, and men are much bigger culprits than women, according to new research by Hulu.

Hulu surveyed about 1,000 TV-watching Americans, aged 18-49, and 46% admitted to lying about having watched a TV show.

That's a lot already, but among men, the number was much higher. A whopping 62% of men said they’d lied, whereas only 32% of women said the same.

Millennials also lied slightly more often than the general population, at 55% overall.

So why are people lying?

“We are humans,” Hulu CMO Jenny Wall told Business Insider, laughing. People don’t want to feel left out when their friends are gabbing about the latest show, so they just go along with it. “I’ve lied about watching ‘Breaking Bad,'” Wall admitted.

Wall explained that the Hulu team was discussing this phenomenon among themselves, and decided to look into the data and find out if it was true for TV watchers at large. And it certainly was. 44% of the liars even said they’d fibbed in the past week.

And Wall thinks this practice will only grow if TV continues to ramp up at an insane pace. It’s simply not possible to keep up with the 409 (!) scripted shows that came out in 2015. So people will turn to a little white lie to feel like they're still part of the cultural conversation.

Here is a clip of Hulu star Mindy Kaling Hulu thinks expresses how this type of lying would go down in everyday life:

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'Shark Tank' is losing a lot of viewers — here's how the stars think it can turn around

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"Shark Tank" has found itself in choppy waters with ratings.

The business-deal reality show returned for its eighth season on September 23 and it's averaging 5 million viewers, 15% less than last season, according to Nielsen ratings.

Things gets worse when you look at how it's doing among adults under the age of 50, the demographic advertisers want most. Currently, it's averaging a 1.1 rating. That's a huge 23% less than last season.

What could be causing "Shark Tank's" ratings decline? 

Star Robert Herjavec thinks there's a level of overexposure at play.

"After eight seasons, the challenge for us is the show’s always on the air now," he recently told Business Insider while promoting his new project, "Small Business Revolution." "And so it’s hard to have a new premiere when CNBC is playing it 88 times a day, 24 hours every single day. And so I think what we find is that the ratings tend to open a little soft and then build throughout the season."

There are signs that fans are realizing new episodes are airing on ABC. The second week saw a tiny bump in the total audience, but stayed flat among the 18- to 49-year-old crowd.

"We’re trying all kinds of things," Herjavec said. "We had six sharks this year, which is impossible to get a word in. We changed seats sometimes. I actually sat next to Mark and Kevin for a while. But it’s really the pitchers. It’s the ingenuity of the businesses. After eight seasons, I’m seeing businesses that are more exciting than ever before."

What else could the show do to bring back viewers? Business Insider asked a few more of the hosts during a recent "Shark Tank" event at New York City's Paley Center for Media.

shark tank ratings 2Original female shark and real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran says the show has moved time slots so many times that it finds its audience and then loses them again after moving to another time slot. Over the years, "Shark Tank" has aired primarily on Friday nights at 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. But there have been new episodes that have aired on different days.

"They didn't know when we were on," Corcoran told Business Insider. "So [the show is] getting the confidence of the network to let it grow in its spot, let it stay still for just a little bit."

Apparel entrepreneur Daymond John feels the answer lies in adapting to new types of social media.

"It's always a challenge to bring live viewers over," John told us. "Ratings fluctuate and we do have a great amount who DVR it, so we do have a lot of people who come back to it. But Mark Cuban said to us five years ago that we should tweet live as the show goes on. And we were the first cast to tweet live. But as you know, when the show first started there wasn't anything like Snapchat or InstaStory, so we need to constantly evolve. We're always racking our brains on how to increase making this a better experience. It's the same with operating my business. We have to learn about the best ways to convert social media and use them together. It's a constant learning experience."

Silicon Valley billionaire Chris Sacca, who has signed on to appear on more episodes of "Shark Tank's" eighth season, didn't even have a television until he first joined the show last season. That combined with his tech background, it's easy to understand why Sacca has an idea that goes a step beyond social media into interactivity with the show.

"I think this industry has to be very aware of where its audience is and how interactive its audience wants its shows to be," he told Business Insider. "I think some of the shows that have big audiences have shown some interactive way for the audience to participate. There's something inherently live about it. It feels like a shared experience."

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Here's who else was in that video of Donald Trump saying inappropriate remarks about women

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A shocking recording of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women in 2005 emerged on Friday, according to The Washington Post.

The person he was talking to: Billy Bush.

Bush is a host of Access Hollywood, and also hosts the third hour of "The Today Show" on NBC.

In the video, Trump talks about how you can "grab" women "by the p----" because "when you're a star they let you do it."

George H.W. Bush is Billy Bush's uncle, and his father is the former president's younger brother. That makes former president George W. Bush his cousin.

Google Trends peaked with searches for Bush's name right after the video broke:

the world's wondering the same thing @jeremyburke lol

In the video, Bush and Trump were on a bus heading to the "Days of Our Lives" set where the businessman guest-starred on the soap opera.

"Sheesh your girl's hot as s---, in the purple," Bush said to Trump on the bus. "Yes! The Donald has scored."

Arianne ZuckerThe "woman in purple" the men were crassly talking about is Arianne Zucker, who played Nicole Walker on "Days of Our Lives" from 1998-2016. She wasn't on the bus with them, so it doesn't appear like she could have known what they had been saying about her before she escorted them inside for the taping.

"I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her," Trump says as the sound of a Tic Tac canister rattles before he exits the bus. "You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet."

Trump had married his third wife, Melania, in January 2005. The tape is from September of that year.

The Republican presidential candidate apologized for his comments in a statement on Friday.

"This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago," Trump said. "Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course — not even close. I apologize if anyone was offended."

Bush released a statement as well, apologizing and saying he was "embarrassed and ashamed." The host deleted his Twitter account after the video surfaced.

"I was younger, less mature, and acted foolishly in playing along," his statement read.

The AP reported the 2005 appearance was Trump's soap opera debut.

"(Trump) intimately knows drama from his many business ventures to his weekly boardrooms on The Apprentice," Sheraton Kalouria, senior vice president of NBC Daytime at the time (who is now the chief marketing officer at Sony Pictures Television), said in a statement before Trump's episode aired. "Little does he know that the drama on 'Days of Our Lives'is often more intense!"

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People are going nuts over a rap song from Netflix's hit 'Luke Cage'

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Luke CageWarning: Spoilers ahead if you haven't watched the fifth episode of "Marvel's Luke Cage."

"Marvel's Luke Cage" is giving one song a huge lift.

Jidenna's empowering rap song "Long Live the Chief" has experienced a more than 2,000% jump in streaming on Spotify compared to just a week ago.

The song is featured on the Netflix show's soundtrack and appears during its fifth episode, titled "Just to Get a Rep."

Jidenna himself performs the anthemic rap song while the show's nightclub, Harlem's Paradise, is empty. Show villain Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes (Mahershala Ali) watches the performance from the second floor.

Meanwhile, the song continues during scenes of Luke Cage (Mike Colter) searching through the rubble that used to be his apartment building and Claire (Rosario Dawson) chasing down a man who stole her purse.

"Long Live the Chief" was released last year and will also appear on Jidenna's debut album of the same name to be released this fall.

Listen to the song on Spotify here:

Watch Jidenna's performance on "Luke Cage" below:

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The NFL just blamed its horrible ratings on people's interest in Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

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The NFL is blaming its horrible TV ratings on the election, according to a leaked memo to team owners obtained by the Wall Street Journal.

Every single one of the NFL’s primetime offerings (Sunday, Monday, and Thursday Night Football) is down double-digits, according to Sports Illustrated. Overall, NFL viewership is down 11% this year.

The NFL wrote that the drop in primetime was likely because of "unprecedented interest in the Presidential election." The letter went on to reference the 2000 election as another period of time when NFL ratings went down.

The NFL is not the only one to make the connection. In an interview with Sports Business Daily, Mike Mulvihill, a senior VP at Fox Sports, said the current season reminded him of fall of 2000, a year which included the race between Al Gore and George W. Bush. 2000 was the only year during the decade 2000-2010 where the NFL saw a downtick overall, Sports Illustrated notes.

One thing the NFL said was not affecting ratings was fan backlash against players protesting police brutality by not standing during the national anthem. “In fact, our own data shows that the perception of the NFL and its players is actually up in 2016,” the NFL wrote.

Alternative theories

There are a few other theories on what might be affecting ratings this year, however, that have nothing to do with Donald Trump.

In a meeting with analysts at Pacific Crest, CBS, one of the NFL's TV partners, cited three reasons:

  • Small sample sizes (there haven’t been enough games yet)
  • Injuries
  • Unfavorable matchups (for instance, NBC's last “Sunday Night Football” had a Steelers-Chiefs matchup that was down 26% from last year, but last year's game was Saints-Cowboys, and the Cowboys are the NFL’s biggest TV draw)

Lastly, there is a far more troubling explanation: people are losing gradually losing interest in live sports, and big TV "spectacles" in general.

NBC had a disastrous TV showing at the Olympics, which saw a sharp viewership dip for the first time since 2000. NBC's Olympics primetime broadcast was down 15% versus 2012. The damage was even greater among younger people. Among 18- to 49-year-olds, there was a 25% drop for the bulk of the games, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.  

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