Today, Amazon's Comixology app announced Comixology Unlimited— an all-you-can-eat buffet of digital comic books for $5.99 per month, so you can binge Netflix-style. 

At launch, the Comixology Unlimited plan includes the first volumes of popular titles like "The Walking Dead," "Attack on Titan," "Saga," and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8," among many others.

There's even a 30-day free trial, so you can try it on your phone or web browser.

A Comixology spokesperson tells Business Insider that this is all about helping readers find an entry point into the medium, with a focus on partnering with publishers to fill the service up with first volumes and introductory storylines.

"CU is about giving the new reader the very best entry point," says Comixology's Chip Mosher. "We’ll be cycling through content periodically."

That means that while it's unlikely that Comixology Unlimited will get the whole run of "The Walking Dead," it'll constantly be refreshed with new hotness. The goal, it seems, is to provide a cheap way to give readers a taste of the next big thing in comics, and then reel them in to pay for the next books in the series.

No matter how you slice it, this is a big huge deal. The first volume of "The Walking Dead," just for example, costs $9.99 on its own from the Comixology store. Getting it for $5.99 a month, plus access to all of those other great comics, is an incredible value. 

Participating comic book publishers include Image, Dark Horse Comics, and Fantagraphics, all big names in the world of independent comic books. 

Absent from the list of participating publishers are Marvel and DC Comics, the two biggest names in comic books: Marvel has its own, separate Digital Unlimited app for $10/month; DC has yet to launch this kind of binge-reading plan.

Still, while big-name superheroes like Spider-Man and Batman aren't included in this plan, Comixology Unlimited includes access to lots of independent titles that are more than worth your time.

Just off the top of my head, "Locke and Key," "Lumberjanes," and "The Wicked and the Divine" are all incredible, and they're all included in the plan. 

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Warning: Spoilers ahead if you have not watched Sunday's "Game of Thrones" episode.

In the May 22 episode of HBO's Game of Thrones, we finally learned the heartbreaking origin of Hodor's, uh, economy of language, as revealed through a Bran Stark warg vision.

We also had our brains completely blended by a gnarly time-travel scenario: Bran was physically in the present yet traveled to the past, all while controlling Hodor in the present and past, turning past Hodor into present Hodor.

To help put our broken minds back together — and figure out what the heck went down with Bran and Hodor in that tree — Tech Insider spoke to Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at Caltech who studies time.

"Bran is in two places at one time, or rather, two times at the same time," Carroll said.

Game of Time Travels

From the Three-Eyed Raven's heart tree, Bran sees Winterfell decades before current events. There he witnesses Hodor's childhood self, who's still known as Wylis.

But as a horde of wights led by White Walkers descend upon their compromised hideout in the present, Bran's powers create a bridge between the two time periods.

"He's in the past with young Hodor, and somehow there's a connection made between the young Hodor and Hodor in the present moment," Carroll explained. "And with the fear of zombies catching them and running away, somehow that all gets transmitted to the younger Hodor, so young Hodor goes into a seizure."

Whoa. Hodor, Hodor.

"Young Hodor is getting an impression of holding the door and that's giving him a seizure, and henceforth he can only say 'Hodor,'" Carroll said. "He goes on to serve the Starks, later becoming the very person sending that mental impression to his younger self."

So did Bran change the course of history in Westeros?

"The short way of saying this is, he didn't change the past, he affected the past," Carroll said. "There's only one past, and only one Hodor that had that seizure."

An even shorter way to sum this up, which brings us great comfort in writing: This episode also confused a theoretical physicist who studies time. "It's complete and utter craziness," Carroll said.

Luckily, he took some time to walk us through it all.

No paradox here

Time travel goes against some pretty basic notions we humans have about time and our place in it — namely, cause and effect.

"Interestingly, once you allow time travel into your universe, rather than saying everything that happens has as source," Carroll explained, "you're asking that everything is consistent, and that everything is actually information circling around in time without a source."

This is known as a consistent causal loop. People in later times come back to alter the events of the past, but this is consistent with how these events later play out, creating that future that sends back the time travelers.

Contrast that with an inconsistent causal loop, which occurs in Back to the Future. Marty and Doc's meddling in the past changes the course of history, causing some time travel-induced family photo editing. Unlike a consistent loop, this — along with the classic "become your own ancestor" trope — is a time-travel paradox.

And what does Bran's time-bridging communication say about free will? As we saw in this recent episode, Hodor never had a choice. What about Bran, though, whose actions led to the altering of the timeline?

"[Bran] has free will in the sense that, if you don't know what's going to happen, you have a choice," Carroll said. "But after it happened, no one has free will."

In other words, Bran had a choice until he made it.

"From a physicist perspective, you have free will to the extent that you can make choices," he added. "But in the sense that those choices need to be consistent, you do not."

So as gut-wrenching as it was to watch, Wylis was always going to become Hodor. He unwillingly sacrificed both his mind as a child and his body as an adult to save Bran — all because the time-bending Bran Stark chose to set that choiceless time loop in motion.

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A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that Bill Cosby will stand trial for a 2004 incident where a woman claims the 78-year-old comedian drugged and sexually assaulted her.

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Adele has come a long way for a 28-year-old.

The "Hello" singer is reportedly set to sign a recording deal with Sony Music worth $130 million, which would be both the largest record deal for a British artist and the largest amount for a woman, beating Whitney Houston and Madonna.

Adele's previous contract with independent label XL expired with her last album, "25," which broke just about every sales record it could. So it's no surprise Sony scooped her up. It will get exclusive rights to release her music going forward.

She might be big but she's not the biggest. Check out the most valuable record deals ever:

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10. Prince — $100 million (1992)

The Purple One took in more than Michael Jackson or Madonna in his deal with Warner Bros., which came after his hugely successful "Batman" soundtrack for the company. But the brilliant late musician frequently battled with his label for control of his music and identity.

9. Whitney Houston — $100 million (2001)

Houston signed the biggest deal in the history of label Arista at the time, with a multi-album contract. Sadly, this would be the start of a downward spiral for the artist, who managed to release only three more albums before she died in 2012.

8. Madonna — $120 million (2012)

Similar to its deal with Jay Z, Live Nation in its "360 deal" paid for not just Madonna's future albums — which continue to sell — but also for rights to promoting her high-ticket world tours.

For his compilation album, “Pure McCartney,” former Beatle Paul McCartney will star in a six-part virtual reality documentary.

Titled “Pure McCartney VR,” it’s produced by startup Jaunt and gives the viewer an immersive experience of being inside McCarthy’s home as he recounts memories and anecdotes related to various tracks from the album.

The first two episodes are below. They will be followed by "My Valentine" parts 1 and 2 (debuting May 31 and June 7), "Mull of Kintyre" (June 10), and "Early Days" (June 14).

Jaunt previously worked with McCartney for a VR shoot of his 2014 concert in San Francisco's Candlestick Park.

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Netflix designers and engineers have been known to create some unique innovations during the company's biannual hack days, where experimentation is encouraged. In the past, employees have managed to get Netflix running on a 1950's TV and designed a 3D animation of the Earth with real-time global activity playback.

Netflix's latest hack day was no different. This time around, engineers created a virtual video store called the "Netflix Zone" that can be explored from within a virtual reality headset. Netflix tested it out using the HTC Vive headset, allowing viewers to browse and make movie selections in a small virtual video rental store that looks like a Netflix-branded Blockbuster.

A throwback to the VHS tapes and DVDs that Netflix and other streaming services have essentially replaced, viewers can select a VHS tape from the video store shelves in packaging that matches Netflix's original programming — and thanks to the HTC Vive's hand controllers, you can actually reach out and grab them off the shelves.

When a viewer holds up his or her desired selection, movie screens drop from the ceiling and emerge from the walls for an alternative viewing experience.

While the innovations that come out of Netflix hack days are entertaining, Netflix employees acknowledged in a blog post Tuesday that the majority of them are unlikely to ever become part of the Netflix product. Instead, they note that they're "posting them here publicly to simply share the spirit of the event and our culture of innovation."

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Susan Krakower bagged groceries in Queens, New York as a kid before moving to Los Angeles and working in TV trying to learn everything she could possibly know about creating a show.

Those efforts paid off. She created CNBC's first smash hit, 'Mad Money with Jim Cramer' in the 1990s, and then created the 'Fast Money' franchise on CNBC.

And now Julia Roberts has basically played her in a movie.

The movie is called Money Monster. It stars George Clooney as Lee Gates — a fast-talking, Wall Street TV personality who suddenly finds himself in a hostage situation when a viewer who lost his entire savings on one stock enters his TV studio during a live broadcast and holds him at gunpoint.

Roberts plays Gates' producer, Patty Fenn. She steadily guides him from the control room as he wears a explosive vest his attacker had on hand.

"It's crazy to the extent that it infiltrated our culture — a show on a cable network that I created," Krakower said when Business Insider sat down with her earlier this month.

(Note: She had yet to see the movie, and was not consulted on its direction.)

"It's [the hostage situation] not the kind of thing that executives at networks have not thought about ... because it could happen. If your defenses are down for some reason it could happen."

Gates is painted as a charlatan at first (don't worry there's a twist). His captor, Kyle Budwell, invested all of his money in an investment firm called Ibis, in part, because Gates hyped it hard on "Money Monster." Turns out there was shady stuff going on at the company that Gates is forced to uncover under duress, and on live TV.

"It's crazy, but it's a great compliment," Krakower said. "When I got to CNBC... I had come from LA and developing shows, and it was the first time on a network that I was able to create for a news division. And not with an anchor and prompter. I thought: 'Let's create something authentic, with a mission that is to make money.'"

The yelling, the rolled up sleeves, the trader speak, the props, the sounds — everything that is associated with 'Mad Money,' was part of Krakower's vision for a show that made you stop and watch when you were scrolling threw the channels.

"Kudos and thank you always to Jeff Zucker," Krakower told Business Insider. "At the time I created the show there was no leadership at CNBC."

Zucker, at the time, was the head of the whole NBC network. After she pitched the idea he sent her an email Krakower used carry in her wallet. It said:  "Congratulations to you, I believe you found CNBC's first hit."

Of course, the movie is darker than that and touches on the main criticism of financial TV. What is the line between education and entertainment?

On that point Krakower pulls no punches. 

"But those people who lost money also made money when the market recovered," she says, "and the whole thesis of capitalism is to have your money work for you. And my thing is everyone's gotta be working, even your money."

She continued:"There are many shows that get it wrong, and many shows that get it right."

"If you look there are disclaimers on these shows. You have to do what's right for you. Do you have $100,000 to play with or $100 to play with?"

Krakower left CNBC in 2014 and is currently keeping it real as head of the media arm of investment firm SkyBridge Capital.

There she produces Wall Street Week, which airs on Fox Business News.

"Working side by side with Krakower... for the last six years I would say that Susan would remain as cool and collected as Julia did under stress," said Wall Street Week co-host and former CNBC personality Gary Kaminsky.

"But I also think she might've come out of the control room and knocked out the intruder with a fist too."

Krakower says she wouldn't have been in the control room. She used to stand behind the camera motioning at Cramer with as much animation as he motioned to the audience.

That's more her style.

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It's safe to say that Spotify's Discover Weekly is a bonafide success.

Spotify users have streamed 5 billion songs from their Discover Weekly playlists to date, the company announced on Wednesday. And 40 million of Spotify's over 100 million users have tried Discover Weekly at least once since it was made available last July. 

If you've never tried Discover Weekly, think of it as a modern day mixtape that's personalized for every single Spotify user. The algorithmically-powered playlist is updated once a week with songs Spotify thinks you'll want to hear based on your listening habits.

Here are some interesting stats on how people use Discover Weekly that Spotify shared with Tech Insider:

• Over half of Discover Weekly users listen each week, and over half of those people listen to at least 10 tracks.
• The most popular age demographic for Discover Weekly listeners is late 20s to early 30s. 
• The most popular genres of music in Discover Weekly are electronic pop, indie pop, and "Indietronica."
• Peak streaming for Discover Weekly occurs between 8 and 9 a.m. in the United States and at 5 p.m. in Spotify's home country of Sweden.
• Over 8,000 artists on Spotify are getting more than half of their listening through Discover Weekly alone. That suggests Discover Weekly is surfacing many lesser-known artists people wouldn't have discovered otherwise.

What's next for Discover Weekly

There are two common requests for Discover Weekly that Spotify has been hearing about from its users. The first is the ability to save an entire week's Discover Weekly playlist to one's Spotify library. The second feature request has been the ability to give feedback on tracks one doesn't like in his or her Discover Weekly playlist.

While lead Spotify engineer Ed Newett wouldn't confirm any new features coming to Discover Weekly, he did tell TI that “those are things that we’re looking at in the very near future.”

Newett said that his team has been working on scaling Spotify's infrastructure to allow for the possibility of updating Discover Weekly more than once a week and offering more personalized playlists based on the same technology. "Now we’re at a position where that’s possible," he said.

He suggested that the same model Discover Weekly uses to surface music you may like could be used to show you new music releases every week, like a personalized Billboard Hot 100 Chart. 

“This is pretty much just the beginning," he said. "We’re looking at other types of personalized playlists we can put out there."

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Jay Z and Beyoncé prefer to confront rumors via their music, and that's exactly how Jay has responded to his wife's latest album seemingly about his infidelity.

A month after Beyoncé released the "visual album" "Lemonade," with its coded references to late-night cheating and "Becky with the good hair," Jay Z has a verse about it in a new remix of Fat Joe's "All the Way Up." The track came out Wednesday after making its debut at Yankee Stadium.

You can read the full lyrics over at Genius, but here's the relevant part of his verse:

You know you made it when the fact
Your marriage made it is worth millions
Lemonade is a popular drink and it still is
Survival of the littest

Jay saying his marriage "made it" confirms what most people got from the closing tracks of "Lemonade," which are about healing the wounds in a marriage and staying together.

But his lyrics aren't just a sly nod to his wife's project, but also to the well-known line by Guru on Gang Starr's 1992 classic "DWYCK":

Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is
I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis

Humorously, as Genius points out, Guru was "wasted" the night he recorded that line, and seems to have improvised it on the spot. DJ Premier said, "He was just all over the place. We were like, 'His verse is the weakest.' And now when you hear it, everybody loves it!"

You can listen to the new "All the Way Up" remix with Jay Z on Tidal only.

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Anne Hathaway and James Corden didn't hold back in a heated rap battle on Tuesday's "The Late Late Show."

Whether it's in the Oscars or Comedy Central's "Lip Sync Battle," Hathaway has proven herself to be a worthy opponent. Corden surely knew he had to bring it if he were to invite her to take part in a rap-battling segment called "Drop the Mic."

And Corden did. He blasted her movie "Get Smart" for being a flop, dissed her awful British accent in "One Day," doubted she'd ever be asked to host the Oscars again, and attacked her in the Catwoman role.

"Now it's her turn to act a little scary," he rapped, "'cause the only Catwoman I acknowledge is Halle Berry."

Hathaway also pulled no punches in response. She said it was hard to come up with anything to rap, because "no one's heard" of him. Ouch. She also called his ratings "incredibly weak," and wondered if he ever wore a suit that fits.

"Blimey guvnah, did my accent make you sick?" she responded. "Are you also allergic to wearing suits that fit? Or did you grow a couple sizes since you got dressed? You look like a KFC bucket with a lot of extra breasts."

Yes, it's amazing.

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The gangster comedy "Get Shorty" will be the latest movie to get the TV show treatment. 

The adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel that starred John Travolta, Danny DeVito, Gene Hackman, and Rene Russo was a big hit when it came out in 1995. The premise of tough-guy gangsters up against Hollywood wanna-be tough guys had a great mix of comedy, drama, and romance.

Now cable channel Epix thinks it can take those elements to make a great TV series. 

Executive produced by Davey Holmes ("Shameless," "In Treatment"), the show will follow Miles Daly, former muscle for a Nevada crime family, who moves out to Hollywood to become a movie producer. 

A little different spin on Leonard's story, which followed Miami mobster Chili Palmer as he goes to LA to collect a debt and sticks around to sell a movie script.

"Get Shorty" has a lifetime gross of over $115 million and spawned the sequel "Be Cool."

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Warning: spoilers ahead for Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones," "The Door."

Yes, "Game of Thrones" fans are still feeling the effects of Sunday's big death. And for that, the show's executive producers have issued an apology.

But perhaps not the one you'd imagine.

Cocreators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff issued their "first ever" apology for the Hodor death scene via video on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Tuesday.

"We'd like to apologize for Sunday's episode," Weiss began.

"Not for Killing Hodor. We kill a lot of main characters," Benioff said. "We're sorry for all the idiots who from now on will be shouting 'Hodor' every time they go through a door."

Weiss added, "That's our bad."

On Sunday's episode, Hodor (Kristian Nairn) died while holding wights behind a door as Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) and Meera Reed (Ellie Kendrick) escaped to safety. The scene revealed that Hodor got his name and sole spoken word from the incident in which he mashed "hold the door" into Hodor.

After joking that they've taken out 739 main characters, the producers said they've gotten really good at the murdering thing. In fact, they offered up their expertise to annoyed fans.

"We can kill people in real life, too," Benioff said.

There's even an unexpected twist at the end of the video.

Watch the apology below:

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Candace Payne, or "Chewbacca Mom," is the most watched person on Facebook Live. The video that featured her contagious laugh and joy flowing from behind a plastic Chewbacca mask has earned her star treatment. 

She met James Cordon and J.J. Abrams, appeared on Good Morning America, and as of Tuesday afternoon, she visited Facebook and met Mark Zuckerberg.

In a post on his account Tuesday, Zuckerberg explained that he invited Payne to Facebook's headquarters and had a surprise for her. The pictures from the visit reveal that the surprise was Chewbacca himself — or at least, an actor wearing a Chewbacca costume.

The two hung out for a bit and strolled around the Palo Alto campus. They rode bikes.

And of course, they took a picture in front of the sign at HQ. 

Payne also went live again, this time with the team that created Facebook Live. This video got over one million views at the time of this post, unlike her first video which has currently been watched over 145 million times.

 "These people behind me are the ones that developed Facebook Live, alright now I'm seeing all the love, but here's the deal, you rarely get to see that there's actual people here that do an incredible job at what they do," said Payne. "What's happening now wouldn't even be possible without those people."

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Millions of Americans watch "Shark Tank" each week because it's a reality show that has genuinely real stakes, with entrepreneurs pitching their companies to a panel of investors who can potentially change their lives.

The series has been huge for the personal brands of each of the six investors and has yielded investments that have made them millions of dollars, but they need to spend as little time as possible in the Los Angeles studio because their businesses are still their primary responsibilities.

To compromise, the show's producers have worked out a schedule that allows an entire season of about 30 episodes to be shot over 17 days. The current, seventh season was split into a session early last summer and then early last fall. Each day on set lasts 12 hours, beginning at 6 a.m. or 7 a.m., and shooting is done in three-day splits separated by an off-day.

In his new book "You Don't Have to be a Shark," investor Robert Herjavec reveals that each of these three days has a distinct atmosphere, and the day an entrepreneur pitches to them on affects their chances of getting a deal — as well as how the Sharks interact with each other.

Day 1

"The first day is generally a good one," Herjavec writes. "We reacquaint ourselves with each other and get a buzz from routine preparations, trading gossip, catching up on each other's careers, and talking with crew members in the studio.

Herjavec notes that the nature of the show requires their full attention, and that at the start of each three-day cycle they are rewiring their brains to forget about whatever is happening back at their companies or even their personal lives.

To help get into this mindset, the Sharks deliberately play up their personas, Herjavec explains. "For the first few hours of day one Kevin [O'Leary] snarls a little more, Mark [Cuban] is pushier, Lori [Greiner] sharpens her TV smarts, Barbara [Corcoran] plays her strict den mother role with greater relish, and Daymond [John] seems to rise even farther above it all," he writes. "I tend to smile more easily, finding it all entertaining and refreshing."

So, depending on which of the Sharks connects to an entrepreneur's pitch, either with enthusiasm or distaste, landing a Day 1 spot can result in a slightly exaggerated reception.

Day 2

"Day two is inevitably the best," Herjavec says. The Sharks aren't distracted by what's happening back at their office and they're not concerned about hamming it up. They're acutely focused on making good deals.

"Those twelve-hour studio sessions have become our reality, and nothing intrudes on our assessment of the pitches (and the people making them)," he writes.

Day 3

Day three presents the biggest challenge to entrepreneurs because it's the least enjoyable for the Sharks.

As the day progresses, Herjavec says, "it becomes difficult to keep our minds off whatever we hope or fear is happening back at the office. It also becomes trickier to overlook little annoyances that were easy to shrug off a day or two earlier, when they might have earned a smile or a joke tossed between us for a laugh."

The investors start to itch to get back to their companies, and they're more likely to think about how cold, hungry, and miserable they are in the studio, Herjavec says. The producers enjoy the third day, he argues, because the ways the Sharks either attack an entrepreneur giving a weak pitch or attack each other over a deal when they're in this mood makes for great television.

That's what happened in Season 6, for example, when Herjavec yelled at Greiner and John for giving a "handout" to an entrepreneur he determined they felt sorry for, before storming off the set, with similarly disgusted Cuban and O'Leary not far behind him.

"Three days don't represent just the maximum number of days we can stay away from our businesses; it's the maximum number of days we can do our jobs as Sharks and still remain functional," Herjavec writes. "Not to mention amiable and courteous with each other."

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Ellen DeGeneres revealed one of "Saturday Night Live" star Leslie Jones' long-held secrets during a discussion about her past odd jobs on Wednesday's "Ellen."

"You were a telemarketer for Scientology?" DeGeneres asked Jones, who was joined by her "Ghostbusters" costars Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, and Melissa McCarthy on the show.

"Uh, yeah, they still kinda don't know I'm not a Scientologist," Jones said. "Thanks for blowing my cover, Ellen!"

The secret's out. It would seem logical that if someone is selling a customer on Scientology, that someone should be a member of the organization. But that was a minor detail for Jones, who explained how she fooled the interviewer.

"I lived in Glendale. I needed to pay the rent, and it was a very easy interview. I just acted crazy," she explained as the host and her costars laughed. 

Jones then looked into the camera and said, "I'm sorry Scientologists for revealing things."

McKinnon smartly moved away from Jones.

"I'm not part of this," the costar said.

No one can blame Jones. Former Scientologists have accused the organization of retaliating against them for revealing information about the organization to the public.

Watch the video below:

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Whenever you were born, there was a song you couldn't get away from.

We don't think about it much, but the music playing around us as we grow up is ingrained with us for life. Whether it's Elvis Presley's '50s hits, baby-boomer classics like The Beatles' "Hey Jude," or George Michael in the '80s — an artist who more or less defined radio in that decade — for their respective generations, and usually more, they'll always be around.

While standards and novelty songs were common reaching back to radio's early peak, rock and then hip-hop slowly encroached, to the point that they're now basically in everything we hear, even if not directly. Though a throwback crooner like Pharrell's "Happy" can still pass muster.

Billboard has been tracking the top song of each year in its annual charts since 1946. Business Insider compiled each hit below so you can see, and hear, what was the soundtrack of your birth year.

Check out what made it to the top of each year below:

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2015: Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, "Uptown Funk!"

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2014: Pharrell Williams, "Happy"

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2013: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz, "Thrift Shop"

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Gawker Media was handed a loss on Wednesday as a judge in Florida denied Gawker's motion for a new trial, which means the $140 million in damages awarded to Hulk Hogan will not be reduced.

Anna Phillips for the Tampa Bay Times was the first to report the news.

Gawker can appeal this latest ruling to Florida's Second District Court of Appeals, where it is confident it will succeed, reports Capital New York.

Gawker Media, a New York-based online news site, was hoping that a Florida court would reduce a jury verdict handed down earlier this year in which Terry Bollea — aka pro wrestler Hulk Hogan — won an invasion-of-privacy suit against Gawker that awarded him $140 million.

But during a court hearing, state court judge Pamela Campbell rejected a motion by Gakwer to reverse or reduce the verdict.

Wednesday's development means that Gawker may be required to post a $50 million bond under Florida law.

Hulk Hogan sued Gawker over a news article in 2012 written by editor A.J. Daulerio that included a clip of Hulk Hogan having sex as well as a lengthy written description.

On Tuesday, several reports alleged that Silicon Valley investor and billionaire Peter Thiel is secretly funding Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker.

Gawker will appeal.

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One of the greatest animated movies of all time, Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" is getting the live-action treatment.

The new version is coming out in 2017, and people are pretty excited about it. 

How excited? A teaser trailer of the movie went online Monday and, as of Wednesday, has over 9 million views.

Along with telling a timeless love story, Disney's original gave audiences unforgettable characters when it opened in 1991.

Here are the new, flesh-and-blood stars who will be playing your favorites from the animated version.

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Emma Watson as Belle.

The star from the "Harry Potter" movies will be playing the lead role of the young girl who falls in love with the Beast.

Dan Stevens as Beast.

Known for his roles in "Downton Abbey" and the horror-thriller hit "The Guest," he will play the prince who is turned into the Beast.

Ewan McGregor as Lumière.

Before we see the star in the sequel to "Trainspotting" and "Fargo" season three, he'll play the Beast's loyal maître d'.

Could the once-promising anthology franchise "True Detective" recapture its former glory? Its network may not care to find out.

According to The Hollywood Reporter's sources inside HBO, the pay network is leaning toward passing on a third season of the series. 

That doesn't mean its relationship with the show's creator, Nic Pizzolatto, would end. After all, HBO just extended his production and development deal through 2018 late last year.

THR's insiders say that a new project from Pizzolatto is more likely. 

While the show was celebrated in its first season, which won an Emmy for director Cary Fukunaga, Pizzolatto used different actors and directors for the second season. Unlike Fukunaga's season with stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, season two got mixed reviews from fans and critics. HBO brass had to defend the season as some critics delivered harsh reviews. 

Business Insider's Joshua Rivera, for example, wrote that "'True Detective' is simply not a good show" in a review of the second season. THR's critic, Tim Goodman, said "the show was terrible on almost all fronts."

Regardless, then-programming president Michael Lombardo said he would do a third season. Since then, HBO has done some shifting. The network has seen a string of drama flops and it recently replaced Lombardo in his position with its head of comedy, Casey Bloys.

As most newly hired bosses tend to do, Bloys will probably want to throw out his predecessor's failures and start fresh.

Currently, HBO's only drama gem, "Game of Thrones," is renewed through its seventh season, low-rated "Vinyl" is set for a second season, and "The Leftovers" is set for a third and final season. A highly-anticipated series adaptation of the sci-fi movie "Westworld," meanwhile, has been delayed.

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Xbox's answer to streaming devices like Apple TV and Roku may be on its way.

This answer, according to report, may actually come packaged in two separate devices:

1. The first is a smaller Chromecast-like "stick" that plugs directly into a TV, allowing users to stream movies and shows directly from the Windows store.
2. The second device is rumored to be a beefier streaming box, like Apple TV, which might be able to run more demanding Windows apps in addition to the functionality offered by the streaming stick.

According to the rumor, which was originally reported on "The Sams Report," it's likely that these devices will also be able to communicate with the Xbox One, Microsoft's major video game console. For computers running Windows 10, it's already possible to stream games wirelessly to other computers on the same Wi-Fi network, but these "Xbox TV" devices will probably allow for games to be streamed to other TVs in the house as well.

Microsoft has been moving towards a world in which all of its hardware devices run on one single operating system, much like how many Apple devices already function — a unified ecosystem, if you will. The Xbox One's most recent design overhaul brought it much closer in line with Windows 10, both aesthetically and functionally, so these new devices will likely slide right into that ecosystem.

This report on Xbox's new streaming devices comes on the same day that gaming site Kotaku is reporting that there will be two new versions of the Xbox One coming out soon.

If these (now four) new devices are indeed coming out later this year, we'll likely hear more about them in June at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the year's biggest video game conference.

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