This August marks the 47th anniversary of the famed Woodstock Music and Art Festival, which took place on Max Yasgur's 600-acre farm in Bethel, New York.

Every notable musician of the time, from Jimi Hendrix to Janis Joplin, played during the three-day festival. Even with 400,000 attendees, zero reports of violence were made to the police during or after the festival, and with two babies reportedly born on the premises, it certainly was a weekend of peace, love, and music.

Ahead, take a look at those who made it into the music festival's premises and became part of the renowned "Woodstock generation."

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When residents of Wallkill, New York, denied plans for Woodstock to occur near their town, farmer Max Yasgur came to the rescue, offering his land near Bethel at the price of $75,000.

Woodstock was created by the then-novice promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield, and Michael Lang. Originally, the four had hoped the festival would be a way to raise funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near Woodstock, New York.

Tickets to the event cost $6.50 a day, and festival organizers told authorities they were expecting around 50,000 people, even when 186,000 tickets had already been sold.

Since dedicating an entire episode to the presidential candidate, John Oliver hasn't let Donald Trump slide by.

And Trump's alternating comments about ISIS and President Obama are no different.

Last Wednesday, Trump called Obama the "founder of ISIS" and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton the "cofounder."

"Wow," Oliver said on Sunday's "Last Week Tonight." "I'll tell you what, I will give Trump this: At least he made sure to include Hillary as cofounder. Hashtag feminism, hashtag ISIS with her."

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday gave Trump an opportunity to take back his statement, but Trump remained steadfast. He ultimately tweeted on Friday that he was being sarcastic — only to contradict that claim while speaking at an event later that day.

"Yes, sarcasm is a bullsh-- excuse," Oliver said. "It's the douchebag's apology."

"What are you doing?! What are you doing?!" Oliver said while jumping up in his chair. "You know that riddle where there are two people: one who always lies and one who always tells the truth. Donald Trump is both of those at once."

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"The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore" has been canceled by Comedy Central, according to The New York Times.

The show's 19-month run, with host Larry Wilmore, averaged only 738,000 viewers, including seven-day delayed viewing, versus 1.35 million for "The Daily Show."

Wilmore, in a statement, said: "I'm really grateful to Comedy Central, Jon Stewart, and our fans to have had this opportunity. But I'm also saddened and surprised we won't be covering this crazy election or 'The Unblackening,' as we've coined it. And keeping it 100, I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well."

Executive produced by Jon Stewart, former host of "The Daily Show," the program "@midnight" will move temporarily to the 11:30 p.m. "Nightly Show" slot while Comedy Central looks for a replacement.

The unusual timing of the decision, 12 weeks before the election — a time when people flock to the late-night shows for commentary — comes down to contracts, according to The Times story.

Wilmore's deal, along with those of several of the show's other staff members, was to expire in a few weeks, and the network had to decide whether to renew or cancel.

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The gigantic new PlayStation 4 game "No Man's Sky" is steeped in the mystery of space. It offers 18 quintillion (18,000,000,000,000,000,000) planets, many of which are full of alien life, to explore.

And there's good incentive to explore. The further you venture into the stars, the better stuff you'll find: better starships, improvements for your space suit, and other sweet gear. 

But one player chose instead to see how far they could progress their character — their exosuit, their starship, and their multi-tool — without ever leaving their very first planet. And it turns out you can get really far without ever leaving terra firma. "How far?!" you ask?

This far:

Whoa indeed. And that's to say nothing of their ship, which went from old and busted to new hotness across 25 hours of play:

And just look at this maxed out multi-tool — the in-game mining tool and "gun" — with all these sweet attachments:

It's unclear if this is the max number of slots a player can have, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Regardless, it's an incredible achievement considering the player outright skirted the main conceit of the game (explore!). 

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It seems like Meryl Streep has given some thought about who would play her in a biopic.

While promoting her latest movie "Florence Foster Jenkins," Streep played a game with a Huffington Post reporter in which she had to say the name of a famous actor who could easily fake an odd talent.

Harrison Ford can apparently build houses, and Liam Neeson could easily scare off a bear while out camping.

The situations were outlandish and Streep struggled to come up with answers — until she was asked about who would play her in a biopic.

"Amy Schumer, of course," Streep said without hesitation.

Schumer had the reaction anyone would if the queen of acting summoned them for a biopic.

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Netflix has a lot of titles to choose from. Actually, combining its original content, movies, and TV shows, you could go on an endless binge and never crack the surface.

But narrowing it down to just movies, you can put a good dent in some classics, if you have the right guide.

Well, that’s why we’re here.

We have searched through all of the titles on the streaming giant so you don’t have to, and we put together the 100 movies on Netflix you have to watch in your lifetime. 

Now get binging!

Note: Numerous Netflix titles drop off the streaming service monthly so titles below are subject to unavailability.

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1. "13 Going on 30" (2004)

Jennifer Garner plays a 13-year-old who dreams of being 30. Yeah, we don't get it either, but it's one heck of a romantic comedy.

2. "Almost Famous" (2000)

Loosely based on writer-director Cameron Crowe's adventures as a teenager writing for Rolling Stone, "Almost Famous" follows a young man's journey into 1970s rock and falling in love along the way.

3. "Amadeus" (1984)

The incredible talent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is showcased in this stunning, Oscar-winning film.

With all the major releases having hit the big screen, the 2016 summer movie season has come to a close, and that means it's time to look back on what worked — and what didn't.

Though the lack of success by sequels was a big takeaway from this summer season, Disney was responsible for two that worked the best, "Finding Dory" and "Captain America: Civil War."

Then there were the titles that shocked us with surprising success and failure. "Cafe Society": good. "Suicide Squad": bad.

We broke down the five big winners and losers at the box office this summer:

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WINNER: 'Finding Dory'

In a summer where long-gestated sequels turned out to be box office poison for studios (more on that below), the 13-year wait for the sequel to "Finding Nemo" didn't seem to hurt Disney/Pixar.

"Finding Dory" isn't just the top earner of the summer at the domestic box office, with over $476 million— it's the top earner of the entire year (so far).

LOSER: 'Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping'

It's sad to say, but no one wanted to see the comedy group The Lonely Island make a "This Is Spinal Tap" for millennials. Andy Samberg and his partners Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone created a hilarious look at a pop star's rise and fall, but the movie is one of the biggest bombs of the summer; "Popstar" took in a minuscule $9.5 million.

Mark my words: I expect this movie to become a cult hit in the years to come, just like The Lonely Island's "Hot Rod."

WINNER: Disney

Though not every title has been a hit this summer for Disney (remember "Alice Through the Looking Glass" and "The BFG"?), the big ones performed as they should.

Along with the success of "Finding Dory," "Captain America: Civil War" took in over $407 million domestically (over $1 billion worldwide), continuing the dominance that Disney's property Marvel has over the superhero genre.

To be successful in the movie studio system, the conventional wisdom is that you have to own incredible intellectual properties that have the potential of raking in billions of dollars over multiple platforms.

But there's a studio that has been holding its own for the last two years, without the help of superhero movies and franchises. Now they're looking to branch into other mediums with the hopes of becoming the one-stop-shop for stars when they want to develop a project.

STX Entertainment laid its foundation through its movie studio, which has released a remarkable six titles since its start in 2014 (it will be ten by the time 2016 ends), but with the recent news that the company has received significant strategic investments from two major players in Hong Hong, it has suddenly become a powerful mini-major that plans to spend as much yearly in the making and marketing of its content as the big conglomerates like Disney, Sony, and Warner Bros.

If you're not familiar with the company name, you've likely come across the titles it's released. First out of the gate was the thriller "The Gift" in August of 2015, which took in over $58 million worldwide at the box office (its budget was $5 million). What's followed has been continued success in the genre realm with "The Boy" (over $64 million worldwide) but there's also been disappointments like "Hardcore Henry" ($14.3 million worldwide) and "Free State of Jones" ($20.8 million).

However, the company believes it has hit its groove with its summer release "Bad Moms," which has become its most successful release thus far with over $85 million worldwide to date and only an 18% drop in domestic box office in its third weekend.

The decision-maker on the studio side is former head of Universal Adam Fogelson, who, before being let go in 2013, green lit the projects that would go on to give the studio its record-breaking box office in 2015 (including over $1 billion worldwide grosses from "Furious 7," "Jurassic World," and "Minions").

The way Fogelson sees it, the STX model was tailor-made for what catches his eye.

"I was roughly at Universal for 15 years, and it's pretty much the only studio in town that could not rely on franchises and existing IP to drive its own slate," Fogelson told Business Insider. "So the very types of films STX was in the business to make, I knew from experience could be incredibly profitable."

STX founder Robert Simonds launched the company after a career producing memorable comedies that included the Adam Sandler classics, "The Waterboy," "The Wedding Singer," and "Happy Gilmore." Knowing that Fogelson had spent over a decade molding the releases of such unlikely hits for Universal like "American Pie," "Bring It On," "The Bourne Identity," and "The Fast and the Furious," he quickly snatched up Fogelson to run his movie studio in hopes of bringing those types of titles to STX.

In other words, the titles that big studios no longer want to make.

"The reality is in the franchise game there are only two options, meet the incredibly high bar of expectations and financial rewards or get killed," said Fogelson.

All but extinct are the star-driven movies, where a name alone can carry a title to box office glory. Taking their place are comic book characters and superheroes, however, STX hopes to fill that void in not just the feature film space, but on TV, the internet, and virtual reality.

"I hadn't anticipated the sheer demand for these mid-range movies with major stars," STX president Sophie Watts told Business Insider.

Fogelson agrees.

"The level of interest is even greater than I anticipated," he said, referring to the marquee actors and directors who want to develop projects through STX.

But not all the projects have been home runs.

Their first major TV series, "State of Affairs," was canceled by NBC after just one season. It was a project Watts said they rushed into. Then there's the release of the first-person action movie "Hardcore Henry," which the studio released on an eye-popping 3,015 screens its opening weekend only to earn $5.1 million. Fogelson said not to expect any more big gambles like that on the feature film side anymore.

"['Hardcore Henry'] did not work at all the way we thought it might, and the fact that the type of storytelling was so experimental, I certainly think we are going to be very careful going forward to make sure that we are spending our time and energy on more down-the-middle propositions."

The company is using these growing pains to refine what makes the most sense to back.

Learning from their lackluster return on adult-themed "Free State of Jones," STX recently parted ways with the musical "Gypsy," which had Barbra Streisand attached, after a financier who was in for a third of the budget dropped out. Looking to be left with a bigger stake in a long gestated project with a budget north of $50 million, the company cut ties.

On the TV side, they have 22 non-scripted shows already secured at numerous networks.

And with her background working with the likes of Paul McCartney, Elton John, and U2, Watts said a music division at the company is "inevitable."

STX's initial backing came from Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital, a good partner to have as the Chinese entertainment market is skyrocketing. Now they have doubled-down on their relationship in the region with the news late last week that STX has received significant strategic investments from Hong Kong's largest pay-TV service, PCCW, and China's leading provider of online services, Tencent Holdings.

Though no figures were disclosed, a source close to the deal told Business Insider that this gives STX a valuation of $1.5 billion.

"The deal with Tencent and PCCW should give STX the financial backing to move into these other media in a significant way," Lindsay Conner, entertainment industry lawyer and partner in the firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, told Business Insider. "The deal makes a lot of sense on both sides of the Pacific — STX gets the funding it needs for a strategic expansion, and two valuable distribution partners in China; Tencent and PCCW get an investment in a top-notch Hollywood content production team, which should soon have the capacity to distribute television and digital content in the US and elsewhere."

Going forward, STX will continue to be aggressive. Fogelson plans to release between 12-15 movies in 2017, all ranging in budgets between $20 million and $80 million.

Anticipated titles include this year's Toronto International Film Festival closing night film, "The Edge of Seventeen" (opening November 18); their first Chinese co-production, the Jackie Chan movie "The Foreigner" (along to open in November), an Adam Sandler animated movie that's in the works, and the titles they purchased at Cannes: the Aaron Sorkin-directed "Molly's Game" (which starts production soon) and the highly anticipated Martin Scorsese movie "The Irishman," which is to star Robert D Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci.

This continues Watts' mission of being a home for the biggest stars.

"I think that we live in a very changed landscape and my belief is that the world's best storytellers, the world's biggest stars, spend too much time trying to move their ideas forward in what is typically a very frustrating and inefficient system," she said. "So what keeps my up at night is building a system where in a 21st century world you can access your stars in ways that practically are very very difficult to what a traditional studio can embrace."

"If you get it right it's something that will go down in the history of the business as a major achievement," adds Fogelson. "That's pretty rare to make that kind of impact."

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Taylor Swift dominated this year's Forbes Celebrity 100 list, making $60 million more than runner-up One Direction.

But when it comes to what Americans think, Swift isn't always the top dog across the board. Ellen DeGeneres, who only placed No. 13 on Forbes' list of the highest-earning entertainers, actually comes out on top in certain categories more often than not.

SurveyMonkeysampled 2,500 adults in the US across five surveys to examine how Americans rank the top 20 celebrities from Forbes' Celebrity 100 list based on business savvy, respect, talent, contribution to society, and more.

See how LeBron James, DeGeneres, Swift, Rush Limbaugh, The Rolling Stones, and more ranked:

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Most valued: Ellen DeGeneres

Most attractive: Taylor Swift

Highest IQ: Dr. Phil

In the huge new PlayStation 4 game "No Man's Sky," you're a lone traveler exploring an endless universe full of planets, aliens, and billions of stars. Of course, if you want to explore that universe, then you're going to need a ship.

Good thing for you that "No Man's Sky" is absolutely rife with spaceships of all types. Here are some of the craziest ones we've found in our travels — in the game and on the internet:

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The ships range in size from smaller ships — like the one in the background — to gigantic space trucks. That red ship in the foreground is huge!

There are some pretty amazing midsize ships as well. This guy looks straight out of "The Last Starfighter." Look it up, kiddos!

One player on Reddit found this glorious beast in matte black. Gorgeous!

Netflix has supercharged its production of original shows and movies this year, and will produce a staggering 600 hours of original content.

This move by Netflix to keep pumping more and more money into originals will drastically change what Netflix's catalog looks like in the future, in two particular ways. The first is obvious: There will be more original content. But the second is that Netflix's catalog will explode in size, according to analysts at UBS.

This actually runs counter to recent trends in Netflix catalog size.

In March, we reported that Netflix's catalog had shrunk by 32% since 2014, as the company trimmed non-exclusive titles in favor of both originals and exclusive licensing deals. The decision to favor these kinds of deals temporarily caused Netflix's number of titles to go down. But now, that is primed to turn around as Netflix has been steadily building a strong back catalog of originals.

Here is a chart from UBS that puts it into perspective:

Here you can see how the number of hours of original content available to watch will increase substantially in the next few years. UBS estimates that Netflix's spending on licensed content will remain roughly the same moving forward, so that means Netflix's overall catalog hours will likely increase.

Here's a chart that shows that:

Here's one last chart, which shows how staggering the amount of original content Netflix will produce will likely be:

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump can't be everywhere at once.

After all, "They're not Kevin Hart," as Trevor Noah jokes.

On Monday night's episode of "The Daily Show," Noah tackled the topic of campaign surrogates, the spokespeople used to help address the media.

For Trump's camp, Noah said that it has to be the "hardest job in the world" because the surrogates have to essentially defend whatever Trump says — including outright false statements.

"Katrina Pierson [Trump's campaign spokeswoman], she took a lot of flak, and rightfully so," Noah said on the show. "But at the same time people, I really feel so bad for her and all of Donald Trump's surrogates because that has to be the hardest job in the world — even harder than being like a DJ at a bar mitzvah. Think about it, you're playing sexy music for a group of children who are grinding and you're trying to act like you're not a creep ... It's a tough job."

Using Trump's alternating comments on President Barack Obama's relationship with ISIS as an example, Noah showed how much of a headache that job can be.

"The answer is yes and no? Yeah, that's exactly what America needs in a president — a man who's so all over the place that even the people who are hired as communications specialists are now basically the shrugging emoji," Noah said.

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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The epicenter for one of the biggest media operations at the Rio Olympics is a 75,000 sq feet (6,970 sq metres) maze of windowless rooms lit by thousands of monitors that serves as the backbone of NBC's exhaustive Olympics coverage. 

Just one product of it is Michael Phelps' death stare that dominated social media the first week of the Games. NBC, a unit of Comcast Corp, was able to beam online athletes preparing in "ready rooms" at some of the Games' biggest events with newly installed cameras. 

Rio is the ninth consecutive Games for NBC, which has the U.S. Olympic rights for the next 16 years.

Viewers' habits keep changing, with more searching for Olympics news online or through social media, fragmenting the traditional prime time audience that advertisers still pay a premium for. 

The company has honed its own game plan with thousands of workers returning every Olympics. Its challenge is to meet new needs without unraveling a trusted system that has worked for so long.

"The sheer quantity of clips on mobile and tablets and the live streams add a lot of complexity," said David Mazza, NBC Sports and Olympics chief technical officer, pointing to a rack of equipment making it possible for editors in NBC's broadcast center in Stamford, Connecticut, to cut clips to be shared online.

He called the Rio operation 25 percent more complex than the broadcast from London in 2012. 

A wall diagram near him shows 132 feeds being sent back to the States, including all of the streaming video, signals for Telemundo routing back to Miami and a Golf Channel feed headed for Orlando. 

Most of the raw feed comes from the Olympic Broadcast Services, although NBC supplements the events most popular with U.S. audiences like swimming, gymnastics and athletics with its own cameras.

The U.S. television network ships its gear from one Games to the next. When the Games are over in Rio, it will pack 30 shipping containers full of TV monitors, furniture, catering supplies and the like and send it immediately to South Korea for the 2018 Winter Games.

"It took 60 days of build, will have 25 days of usage and in 20 days, it'll be dead empty," Mazza said.

Near disaster

NBC said there were a lot of close calls this year. Two-thirds of the power went out in Olympic park two weeks before the games. Then, a week before the opening ceremony, one of its four circuits transmitting the TV signal back to the United States failed. The next day, two more went down, which Mazza said was "terrifying." 

After the Games started, one of its generators died on Copacabana during the beach volleyball and NBC had to run with no backup power that night since it took several hours and a crane to get a new one. 

"We generally have four plans. Sometimes you never do plan A or B, often times you'll start with plan C and hopefully not plan D," Mazza said.  

Viewership

Overall viewership on the main NBC broadcast network is down from the Games four years ago in London. Jim Bell, NBC's Olympics executive producer, said it's not accurate to compare the primetime broadcast numbers because viewers are watching the Games online or on different cable channels at the same time.

"We all sit there and quibble, what are the metrics, what is the engagement? To pick this metric or that metric is an incomplete snapshot of what's gone on here. We're streaming it. We're monetizing it. We're winning cable. We're winning broadcast. We're dominating social," Bell said.

NBC expects its revenue-sharing deals with young media companies such as Snapchat for the Olympics to pay off and for the Olympics to boost its own long-term digital efforts.

The NBC Sports' app saw a 60 percent boost in NHL streaming after the Sochi Winter Games in 2014, according to Rick Cordella, NBC Sports Group's general manager of Digital Media. (Reporting by Liana B. Baker in Rio de Janeiro; Editing by Paul Tait)

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Amazon has greenlit a new series starring John Krasinski as Jack Ryan, the fictional CIA agent created by novelist Tom Clancy, Variety reports. 

The drama series will reportedly feature 10 hour-long episodes, in which viewers will follow Krasinski's character as he "uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication" that puts him face-to-face with "a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale," according to Variety.

Carlton Cuse, an executive producer and writer for "Lost," and Graham Roland will lead the production. "13 Hours" director Michael Bay is also on the long list of the project's executive producers. 

John Krasinski was cast as the series' lead back in April, when the show was not yet greenlit. 

This will be the sixth appearance of Clancy's Jack Ryan character on-screen, though the first five instances were all on the big screen. Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine have all previously played the character in films, dating back to Baldwin's portrayal of Ryan in 1990's "The Hunt for Red October."

No date has been set for the show's premiere at this time. 

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

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

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

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

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"The Light Between Oceans" - September 2

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

"Max Rose" - September 2

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

"Morgan" - September 2

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

Johnny Depp and his former wife Amber Heard have resolved their divorce, and Heard has dismissed her petition for a restraining order against Depp, according to TMZ.

The divorce proceedings of Depp and Heard turned violent when she filed for the restraining order, alleging Depp had abused her.

Both stars filed legal paperwork Tuesday, in which Heard withdrew her request. The domestic violence case is now dismissed and cannot be refiled, TMZ reports.

The divorce settlement has also gone through according to the site.

TMZ quotes a joint statement from Heard and Depp saying, "Our relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love."

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It looks like a "True Detective" season three may be far off, but the show's creator Nic Pizzolatto has something else cooking. 

According to Variety, Pizzolatto and Robert Downey Jr. are in talks for a reboot of "Perry Mason," the classic TV court drama that starred Raymond Burr as a defense attorney.

Details are being kept close to the vest, but Variety reports that its home would be HBO and Downey Jr., along with starring, would executive produce with his wife Susan Downey and Pizzolatto. 

Though the project has been in development as a feature at Warner Bros., if it gets picked up, it would be a series.

This would be Downey Jr.'s first time on television since he was on "Ally McBeal" in the late 1990s. 

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Microsoft just announced Xbox Wireless— a new standard that will let you use Xbox One accessories on Windows 10 computers, too.

Microsoft has already been inching towards this announcement, which finally happened Tuesday.

The new Xbox One S console ships with a refined controller that supports Bluetooth, so it can connect to PCs and Android tablets just as easily as it can to the Xbox One console itself. Plus, Microsoft offers a $20 USB adapter to wirelessly connect an Xbox One controller to Windows 10. 

Now, with Xbox Wireless, that's getting taken a step further. The Lenovo IdeaCentre Y710 Cube will be the first PC to ship with that Xbox One controller wireless adapter built right into the chassis, with more to come. Down the line, Microsoft is promising more devices with deeper integrations.

What this means for you: Starting with that Lenovo PC, and continuing on well into the future, it's increasingly likely that your next Windows 10 PC will support Xbox controllers straight out of the box. Microsoft promises that Xbox Wireless is more responsive and reliable than Bluetooth, while also supporting up to eight connected controllers.

Microsoft also promises that future third-party accessories, like the guitar controller that comes with the forthcoming "Rock Band Rivals," will support Xbox Wireless on both the PC and Xbox One. Which also lends a nice side benefit for gamers that mainly play on the Xbox One console, too.

By opening up Xbox Wireless to outside parties, it means accessory manufacturers can finally make wireless Xbox accessories. It sounds obvious, but Microsoft has long been loathe to share its wireless standard with anyone outside its own walls, meaning that most non-Microsoft controllers for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One needed unsightly wires.

Ultimately, Microsoft is doing all of this because it's trying to knock down the barriers between the Xbox One and Windows 10, bringing more games to both platforms. Given that ambition, it only makes sense to let you use the controllers you want in the place you want to use them.

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Violence is to gaming as, "I'm not here to make friends," is to reality television. Historically, the two have been inseparable.

But there are exceptions to every rule — I'd be shocked if anyone ever said, "I'm not here to make friends," on "The Great British Bake Off," for example.

Similarly, there are plenty of examples of video games that aren't about super soldiers or assassins — You just have to be willing to look around a little. This time, we've done the looking for you.

These are the 11 best games that aren't about killing stuff.

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"Broken Age"

"Broken Age" is an old-school point-and-click adventure game, kind of like "Myst" or "Monkey Island," but it has a really refreshing storybook art style and a killer voice cast: one of the main characters is played by Elijah Wood, and Jack Black makes a cameo as a hilariously overconfident tyrant.

You'll control two main characters: one is a boy who lives aboard a spaceship with his overbearing computerized parents, and the other is a girl who's trying to stop a disturbing ritual involving the sacrifices of maidens to a giant monster named Mog Chothra.

Over time, you'll start to learn more about what links these two characters, but discovering the relationship between them is something you'll have to solve yourself. You won't be let down.

Platforms: PC/Mac/Linux, PlayStation 4, Android, PlayStation Vita, iOS

"Oxenfree"

"Oxenfree" is a game unlike any other on this list: rather than rely on action and explosions to get your heart pumping, it borrows from the best of what the sci-fi horror genre has to offer.

The story centers around Alex, a young woman who travels with some friends to a sleepy tourist destination on a small island that used to house a top-secret military installation. Sounds like a recipe for a totally normal and not-at-all-creepy weekend, right?

I'm not saying for sure that there's something fishy going on at Edwards Island, but there totally is. If you're a fan of the Netflix series "Stranger Things," you need to get your hands on "Oxenfree" immediately.

Platforms: PC/Mac/Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

"Abzu"

In "Abzu," you'll spend your time exploring a vast and beautiful ocean paradise. It's one of the rare games that actually feels restorative to play, as if you just sat and relaxed by the beach for an hour.

Between the orchestral soundtrack, the abundance of gorgeous sea life, and its ability to tell a moving story entirely without words, "Abzu" should be on everyone's must-play list, regardless of whether you're specifically seeking out a game that's not about killing stuff. 

Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC

Television's executives, producers, and stars recently wrapped up the summer Television Critics Association press tour.

It's an exhausting (and exciting) pageant of the networks' best current programming and upcoming shows for hundreds of critics and reporters from all over the US (and even some international press) who flock to Los Angeles twice a year for the event.

Each day of the TCA press tour, a network's top boss kicks off the morning by facing reporters in an executive session. Depending on how their network is doing, they'll be celebrated or verbally attacked by the journalists. Then the reporters meet and greet panel after panel dedicated to said network's shows and stars.

In every press tour, certain themes and patterns from the TV world emerge. They tell us about what the industry is wrestling with and give us a snapshot of what's to come.

Here are the biggest things the industry is facing in 2016:

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The call for diversity is louder than ever.

Improving diversity in front of and behind the cameras is an ongoing discussion in the TV business. But it becomes a larger conversation when one of the networks goes against the grain.

While other networks showed off their gains in improving numbers of women and minorities on their shows, CBS was blasted for its all-white and all-male fall slate of shows.

"We need to do better, and we know it," CBS President Glenn Gellar told reporters.

Comedies are having a hard time.

With an abundance of epic, well-made dramas currently filling the TV landscape, comedies aren't finding audiences quickly enough.

Fox, for example, had a dismal time with comedies this past year. It canceled buzzy but low-rated comedies starring Rob Lowe ("Grinder") and Jon Stamos ("Grandfathered") — half of its Tuesday night comedy block— and two other new comedies.

The network's chairwoman, Dana Walden, said the problem is that comedies don't inspire urgency among its viewers.

"People are watching comedies," Walden said. "They are just not watching in a seven-day, with-urgency manner that enables us to monetize them in the current broadcast model."

NBC has been in a multiyear comedy drought and vowed in June that it would give more time to comedies so they can find an audience. Now the network is hoping things are looking up after the success of "Superstore" and its move to Thursday nights.

TV-show seasons continue to get shorter.

With so many TV shows on now and viewing habits changing, networks are examining if the traditional 22-episode season makes sense anymore.

They had already experimented with limited series, which could air while shows are on hiatus. But now they're seeing the advantages of shorter seasons for viewers who don't have the patience and time for long seasons, as well as for big stars and creative talent who don't want to be locked down for a year at a time on one project.

Cable channels have been reaping the benefits of shorter seasons for years, but now the networks are catching on with shows like ABC's "American Crime" and "Secrets and Lies," or Fox's "Wayward Pines" and "Scream Queens."