Having already conquered social media, and pushing into everything from virtual reality to free internet in low-income regions, Facebook is moving into a new area: video games.

Okay, yes, Facebook has already tried its hand — and succeeded, at least in the past — at video games. "Farmville," anyone?

What Facebook announced on Thursday, though, is something deeper than what it tried in the past: an "all-new PC gaming platform." Which, uh, what's that?

If you ask us, it sounds a lot like the enormously popular Steam — a PC gaming service run by Valve Software that boasts nearly 200 million active users.

Steam is, by far, the largest video game platform in the world. It's much bigger than the combined audience of PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

A Facebook rep confirmed to us that the company is making a standalone application (like Steam) to this end. Unfortunately, that's where hard details end: There's no release date, no announced games or publisher partnerships, and no confirmation of what the app will do. 

By comparison, Steam is much more than just a game store; it also acts as a messaging platform, as a service for selling in-game items to other players, and a variety of other things. 

Steam is also, more or less, totally unchallenged.

Game publisher EA (of the "Madden NFL" series, among other things) has a competitor in its Origins service, albeit one that's not very big. And Ubisoft, publisher of the "Assassin's Creed" series, has its UPlay service, which is also notoriously small.

And then there's the Apple App Store, which only competes with Steam on Apple's platforms — Steam dominates primarily on PC, where Apple's store doesn't exist.

Facebook's made previous moves into gaming with products you already use. Facebook Live, the live video service on Facebook, is a major competitor to Amazon's Twitch game streaming service. And yes, of course, there are games you can play on Facebook (although you probably don't). And that's to say nothing of the game-focused Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.

The company is clearly setting its sights on the bigger picture of video games as a medium. This is another step in that direction, but there's still a long way to go before Facebook convinces gamers to give it a shot.

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Justin Bieber recently rented a Hawaiian property called Water Falling Estate for two weeks at a rate of $10,000 a night, TMZ reports.

The estate, which sold for $5.7 million at an auction in 2014, boasts "a 450-seat tennis/basketball stadium, a 250 million-gallon Olympic infinity pool with a high dive and two-story water slide," and a helicopter landing pad, according to The Hawaii Tribune Herald.

The mansion stands on a cliff overlooking several waterfalls and the Pacific Ocean, and its listing on Concierge Auctions reveals some spectacular photos of the property. It can also be rented on Home Away.

Check out the opulent vacation home Bieber stayed in:

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The 9.44-acre property stands atop a cliff on Hawaii's Hamakua Coast.

Source: Concierge Auctions

The estate was once a macadamia nut plantation, but now it boasts an Olympic-size pool, a multipurpose athletic court ...

Source: Concierge Auctions

... a helicopter pad on the mansion's roof ...

Moments into Monalisa Johnson's stint at Clark County Jail, in Jeffersonville, Indiana, one thing immediately stuck out to her. 

It was one of the filthiest places she had ever been.

"I'd never seen anything like it," Johnson told Business Insider. "There was mold growing, gnats flying up out of drains. Black mold, green mold, every kind of thing you can think of was growing around the showers and in the toilets and the sinks."

Johnson was a participant on the documentary series "60 Days In," whose second season premieres Thursday on A&E. The show follows eight volunteers who go undercover as inmates for two months in order to expose problems within the system.

The participants — none of whom have criminal records — were booked under false names and fake charges during their stays. Corrections officers were not made aware of the undercover program until filming was complete. 

Upon arrival, Monalisa questioned whether the bunk beds in the women's pod or her jail-issued sleeping mat had ever been cleaned.

"That was like some stuff that you would see in a foreign country," she told the cameras in one episode. "I would have never expected American jails to look like that from the inside."

It was clear the conditions took a psychological toll on her fellow inmates, according to Johnson.

"When you're de-cluttered and things are clean, you tend to focus better and accomplish more," she said. "When they come in there and see it that way, they automatically just drop to a sense of hopelessness. Even if they know they're going to get out, it still feels likes a hopeless environment."

About 30% of US jail inmates and 23% of state prisoners show symptoms of major depression, according to a 2006 Justice Department report. Several participants from the show's first season said they felt depressed during their time in jail, thanks in part to the drab surroundings, lack of daily structure, and stomach-turning food.

"What I learned the most was that those are humans that are inside of there," Johnson. "They deserve to have human rights ... and their rights are being violated."

The season premiere of "60 Days In" airs Thursday on A&E at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.

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Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton confirmed on Thursday that he will leave the company following its $135 million sale to Univision.

Univision will also shut down Gawker Media's flagship site, Gawker.com, though it will continue to run the other properties.

Here is the letter that Nick Denton sent to Gawker staffers, obtained by Politico:

"I am relieved that, with the approval today of the agreement with Univision, that we have found the best possible harbor for Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Jezebel and Deadspin, and our talented writers and other staff. They will be joining The Onion, ClickHole and other beloved web properties in Fusion Media Group, the digital operation of Univision. Isaac Lee and the team at Fusion are fellow spirits, as committed to real journalism and an open future as they are to digital media expansion.

"Sadly, neither I nor Gawker.com, the buccaneering flagship of the group I built with my colleagues, are coming along for this next stage. Desirable though the other properties are, we have not been able to find a single media company or investor willing also to take on Gawker.com. The campaign being mounted against its editorial ethos and former writers has made it too risky. I can understand the caution.

"Even if the appeals court overturns this spring's Florida jury verdict, Peter Thiel has already achieved many of his objectives. I will move on to other projects, working to make the web a forum for the open exchange of ideas and information, but out of the news and gossip business. Gawker.com may, like Spy Magazine in its day, have a second act. For the moment, however, it will be mothballed, until the smoke clears and a new owner can be found. The archives will remain, but Monday's posts will be the last of this iteration.

"I am proud of what we have achieved at Gawker Media Group, both in our work and our business, never more so than in these last few months.

"Our bloggers — and the alumni now dispersed through the media from the New Yorker to the New York Times — have introduced a new style of journalism, sometimes enthusiastic, sometimes snarky, but always authentic. We connect with a skeptical and media-savvy generation by giving them the real story, the version that journalists used to keep to themselves.

"Without outside capital, we bootstrapped a profitable digital media operation. With only the talent and energy of our writers and other staff, we have drawn one of the most influential audiences in digital media: our stories connect with 100m people a month around the world. In 2016's dance of media consolidation, the company has found a partner that understands our appeal and character; not all will have that luck.

"As for Gawker.com, founded in 2003 and mothballed in 2016, it will live on in legend. As the short-lived killer android is told in Blade Runner: 'The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly.'"

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There are 151 Pokémon in "Pokémon Go." The game contains the entire first run of Pokémon, which originally debuted in the mid-'90s.

You cannot, however, catch them all. At least not yet.

That original list of 151 includes three "legendary" Pokémon — Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres — who definitely aren't in the game yet. It also includes Ditto, Mew, and Mewtwo, who definitely aren't in the game yet. And some Pokémon on that list are exclusive to certain territories (Tauros to North America, Mr. Mime to Western Europe, etc). 

Here's what we know: The in-game encyclopedia of Pokémon, the Pokédex, increases in size as you discover Pokémon (as seen above).

The in-game list is identical to this official list of Pokémon in the online Pokédex, not just in number, but in order.

One of our staff video producers has a Dragonair (#148). None of us has ever seen a Mr. Mime (#122), but our executive editor has a Tauros (one of the region-specific ones, supposedly tied to North America). No one has found Ditto (#132) anywhere in the world.

All of which is to say: Expect the entire lineup of 151 original Pokémon to be capturable at some point. Currently, it looks like each region tops out at 142. Without further ado, here's every Pokémon you can currently find in "Pokémon Go."

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1. Bulbasaur — NOTE: We've included the descriptions for each Pokémon from the official Pokédex. Enjoy!

"Bulbasaur can be seen napping in bright sunlight. There is a seed on its back. By soaking up the sun's rays, the seed grows progressively larger."

2. Ivysaur

"There is a bud on this Pokémon's back. To support its weight, Ivysaur's legs and trunk grow thick and strong. If it starts spending more time lying in the sunlight, it's a sign that the bud will bloom into a large flower soon."

3. Venusaur

"There is a large flower on Venusaur's back. The flower is said to take on vivid colors if it gets plenty of nutrition and sunlight. The flower's aroma soothes the emotions of people."

Even the most addicted "Pokémon Go" players crave tips and tricks to help them cheat and level up.

And no, we don't mean the creative kind of cheating, like strapping your phone to your dog or a drone until the eggs you've collected hatch.

The problem is, there's a ton of misinformation out there that might be steering you off course as you desperately try to reach level 30.

No, your friend's friend didn't catch a Legendary Pokémon. And no, there is no mathematical calculation to determine what those footprints mean in your Nearby menu. Sorry! We wish there was just as much as you do. 

The game does, however, have a plethora of secrets hiding just beneath the surface. We've gathered the best cheats and hidden features and put them right here! Happy hunting.

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Start with Pikachu!

There's a simple trick to getting Pikachu right at the start of the game: disobedience! As my colleague Tim Mulkerin wrote, "You have to initially rebel against Professor Willow and refuse to pick a Pokémon when he asks you to. Instead of picking one of the three Pokémon he offers, keep walking until Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur disappear from the map.

The trio of Pokémon will pop up again on your map when you get far enough away from them, and you have to continue to ignore them four times.

The fifth time they respawn on your map, they'll have Pikachu with them! Pick Pikachu instead of one of the original trio, and voila! He's yours." BOOM!

Keep getting the same Pokémon? Keep them! Evolve them! Level up your Trainer!

The most important thing you can do in "Pokémon Go" is level up your Trainer. The higher the level you are, the better Pokémon you'll find. They'll have higher CP and HP, and thus they'll be more capable of going to gyms and winning in battle without you having to power them up. 

So, how do you get there quickly? Be recycling your duplicates. Pokémon like Rattata and Pidgey and Weedle — Pokémon that you run into frequently, that cost very few candy to evolve. Evolving Pokémon gives you a fat payout of 500 XP. You see where I'm going with this?

Every time you collect a Pidgey or a Weedle or whatever else, you get a few candy. When you evolve them, you can then transfer them to Professor Willow for a bonus candy, thus enabling further evolution. 

Here's a bunch more info!

Maximize on your Lucky Eggs and Incense to help with Trainer leveling!

Consider this: If you get 500 XP for evolving Pokémon, and Lucky Eggs double your XP for 30 minutes, you'll get 1000 XP for every Pokémon you evolve in that time period. 

So maybe save those oft-found Pokémon for a special 30 minutes of evolution frenzy? If you're feeling up to it, perhaps add an Incense use to your Lucky Egg time. For every new Pokémon found that you've never found before, you get 500 XP (which then gets doubled). You can see how this could turn into an XP windfall very quickly.

In general, using Lucky Eggs and Incense together is a pretty solid idea to maximize on the use of both. Here's a bunch more info!

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has been on an incredible run of late as he inches closer to becoming the most bankable action star on the planet.

Franchises like "Fast and the Furious" and "San Andreas" are the latest hits that have brought his lifetime worldwide box-office gross to over $5.9 billion, and coming up he's got "Baywatch" and "Jumanji."

He's also stepping into the superhero world in the near future as he's signed on to be Doc Savage.

That's not to mention his other endeavors like a YouTube channel, a production company, and endorsement deals.

Johnson raked in $64.5 million in the past year, putting him at No. 19 on Forbes' list of the 100 highest-earning celebrities.

With season two of his HBO series "Ballers" premiering on Sunday, here we look back on the incredible career of "The Rock" from WWE superstar to box-office champ.

Frank Pallotta and Mallory Schlossberg contributed to an earlier version of this story.

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Before he was "The Rock," Dwayne Johnson was born on May 2, 1972, in Hayward, California.

Source: Biography

Wrestling is in Johnson's blood. His father, Rocky "Soul Man" Johnson, was a member of the first African-American tag-team champions, and his grandfather Peter Maivia was one of the first Samoan wrestlers.

Source: YouTube

Johnson didn't go straight to wrestling. His first sport was football. After starring in high school, he played in college for the Miami Hurricanes. Over his tenure at the school, Johnson started just once but appeared in 39 games and had 77 tackles, and he was a part of the 1991 national championship team.

Source: ESPN

While Frank Ocean fans wait for his next long-awaited LP "Boys Don't Cry," he's given them something else.

The R&B artist has released a visual album via his livestream at boysdontcry.co, called "Endless."

As Rolling Stone reports, "Endless" is separate from "Boys Don't Cry," which is expected to premiere this weekend via Apple Music, after several delays.

"'Endless' features features violins, double basses, violas, and cellos from London Contemporary Orchestra, which was conducted by Robert Ames," according to Rolling Stone.

Ocean's "Channel Orange" became a sensation for Frank Ocean back in 2012, when he was largely known through his connection to the group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All. His latest studio album has been one of the most anticipated in years.

If you subscribe to Apple Music, you can watch "Endless" here.

Here's the full tracklist for "Endless":

1. "Device Control"
2. "Alabama"
3. "U-N-I-T-Y"
4. "Commes Des Garcons"
5. "Wither"
6. "In Here Somewhere"
7. "At Your Best (You Are Love)"
8. "Mine"
9. Ambience 001: "In a Certain Way"
10. Ambience 002: "Honeybaby"
11. "Hublots"
12. "Slide on Me"

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It's hard to take notice of every side character who wanders into a movie. It would ruin the experience if you did.

So it's pretty easy to miss certain stars. But you never know, that random nurse in two minutes of a film could become the first black woman to win an Emmy for best lead actress.

Or the random guy killed in a slasher movie could become the "Sexiest Man Alive."

Or maybe they lucked out and landed a significant role in their first film and even scored an Oscar nomination, or, in another case, an Oscar win.

From Kerry Washington to Jennifer Lawrence, George Clooney to Cuba Gooding Jr., see some of your favorite A-list actors in their first credited role in a feature film:

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George Clooney: 'Grizzly II: The Concert' (1983)

The "Ocean's Eleven" star did not have the most auspicious start. "Grizzly II" was the sequel to the 1976 film about a giant, man-eating bear.

The film, which also features a young Charlie Sheen, was never released but features Clooney in a nameless role that has him camping out with a lover before being mauled by the monster. It's a scene worth watching.

Clooney's released-film debut came in 1987's "Return to Horror High." He seemed to have an affection for horror films.

Johnny Depp: 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (1984)

Poor Glen. Depp's film debut and first role ever saw him mutilated by Freddy Krueger in his bed while he was wearing a belly shirt.

Watch the unsettling death and thank the heavens Depp evolved into better — though equally strange — roles.

Leonardo DiCaprio: 'Critters 3' (1991)

There's apparently a trend of ultrafamous male actors starting in horror films.

In "Critters 3," DiCaprio plays Josh, who has a memorable scene as he watches the critters kill his stepdad.

DiCaprio actually joined the TV show "Growing Pains" in the same year, and it's obvious TV fared better for him at the time.

Thursday was the final episode of "The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore," after it was announced on Monday that Comedy Central was canceling the show, and Wilmore spent it with his correspondents looking back on their favorite moments.

But the highlight was when former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart came on to give Wilmore a farewell.

An executive producer on the show, Stewart gave some touching remarks on what the show, which focused on issues of race, and Wilmore provided for television.

"You started a conversation that was not on television when you began," Stewart told Wilmore. "What you don't realize is you walk out of this room and that conversation doesn't end."

Wilmore was a correspondent on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" before hosting "The Nightly Show," which replaced "The Colbert Report." "The Nightly Show" ran for two seasons.

Watch Stewart's remarks:

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Amber Heard is giving her entire $7 million divorce settlement from Johnny Depp to charity, the actress said in a statement on Thursday, according to Variety.

The actress will be giving half to the American Civil Liberties Union, "with a particular focus to stop violence against women," and the other half will go to the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, where Heard has volunteered for the last 10 years.

Heard and Depp were in the midst of a public divorce when Heard alleged that Depp physically assaulted her and requested a restraining order. The two settled the domestic violence case on Tuesday.

“As described in the restraining order and divorce settlement, money played no role for me personally and never has, except to the extent that I could donate it to charity and, in doing so, hopefully help those less able to defend themselves,” Heard stated in her statement.

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NBC’s Olympics nightmare has all but come true: Prime-time viewership for Rio is down 17% from the London Games in 2012.

At a conference in June, NBC CEO Steve Burke explained what would constitute an Olympics "nightmare," Bloomberg reports. "We wake up someday and the ratings are down 20%," he said. "If that happens, my prediction would be that millennials had been in a Facebook bubble or a Snapchat bubble and the Olympics have come, and they didn't know it."

That nightmare is basically here, as the Olympics saw a sharp viewership dip for the first time since 2000. Among 18- to 49-year-olds, the damage is even greater than 20%, sitting at a 25% drop-off, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.

That's bad news for NBC, which paid $12 billion to lock up the rights to the Olympics through 2032.

There is, however, a slight silver lining.

About 24% more people have streamed the Rio Olympics through NBC's app and website than streamed the London Games over the same period. NBC told Bloomberg that 78 million unique users had streamed the games through Tuesday. And NBC has actually been able to charge 50% higher ad rates for internet ads than for those on TV because of the younger audience, NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus told Bloomberg.

But that good news should be put into harsh perspective: 98% of people still watch the Olympics on TV, the medium that has seen its audience plummet.

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"No Man's Sky," the new space-exploration game for PlayStation 4 and PC, has the biggest in-game world ever created.

In total, there are 18 quintillion planets you can visit — that's 18 with 18 zeroes.

Since exploration and discovery are such key elements of the game, players are taking to social media to share pictures of their favorite findings, like sci-fi pioneers of alien worlds. Sometimes, those findings are puzzling and bizarre, but many players are just excited to share gorgeous images that stopped them dead in their tracks when they first stumbled across them.

Here are the best of the best, curated from the "No Man's Sky" subreddit.

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Sometimes, the most beautiful planets are those that look like Earth, but are just a little off.

But finding a world that's completely alien in every way is really exciting. Especially when it results in an awesome picture, like this.

In addition to a variety of visual styles for each planet, they each have different climates. The Reddit user who uploaded this image said, "I died trying to capture this absolute hellscape." Worth it.

With the biggest summer releases behind us, we're in that strange time in the movie year until the fall releases vying harder for awards come out.

So that brings us to the release of "Ben-Hur" this weekend, the last real attempt at a blockbuster this summer.

It's the latest retelling of the classic Lew Wallace novel best known from the 1959 Oscar-winning film version starring Charlton Heston.

The Heston version will remain the one to watch, at least according to critics who have seen the new "Ben-Hur." It currently has only a 29% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes.

The $100 million-budget Paramount release is projected to make no more than $15 million its opening weekend — a dismal return on what the studio put in, though it's still hoping religious viewers boost box-office numbers.

We've seen the movie, and though it has extremely strong action sequences, its two-hour running time leads to an epic with little story. It's inevitably forgettable.

Below are the major problems critics have with the movie.

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It has a bland TV movie feel.

One of the big parts of the "Ben-Hur" story is the relationship between Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) and his Roman adoptive brother, Messala Severus (Toby Kebbell). Though this version delves deep into their love for one another that turns to hate, it doesn't have the cinematic feel of the Heston version.

Variety calls it "an epic that feels like a miniseries served up in bits and pieces."  

It's waaaaay too long.

Paramount certainly gave us an epic, with a two-hour running time. But the movie doesn't deliver on making those two hours enjoyable.

"Director Timur Bekmambetov ('Wanted,' 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter') hasn't a clue how to stage a normal dramatic scene in which emotions gradually build and nuances shade characterization," The Hollywood Reporter said.

The Jesus subplot is very heavy-handed.

Though the story of "Ben-Hur" is set during the life of Jesus, the latest version of the movie decided to delve deeper into that more than any of the other movie adaptations. This "Ben-Hur" has the strongest religious slant of them all, and was produced by Mark Burnett, who also worked on "Son of God."

But the shift to Jesus in the third act is so out of place you forget what the story's focus is.

"To pull that off in an affecting way requires more than the dramatic ploy of Jesus popping up to offer teachings about peace and coexistence," AM New York said.

"Every time the Brazilian heartthrob Rodrigo Santoro appears as Jesus and quietly recites verses from the New Testament, it’s as if he’s wandered in from another movie. And not a good movie," The Chicago Sun-Times wrote.

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Facebook announced that it's currently developing a PC gaming platform in partnership with Unity Technologies, the maker of the popular game development framework (game engine) Unity.

The new gaming platform will likely expand expand upon the three-month old Facebook Games Arcade, as noted by TechCrunch. In the long run, this gaming platform could end up being a center piece in Facebook's plan to establish itself as a key player in the video gaming industry.

Unity is used to create all kinds of game experiences on desktop and mobile operating systems, including games in 2D, 3D, VR and AR for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android and, now, Facebook. Integrating Unity facilitates the process for third party developers to publish games onto Facebook, whereas before developers had to work with Facebook's more complex and idiosyncratic gaming software development kit (SDK).

Meanwhile, game developers will be doubly enticed to reach and earn money off some of the 650 million users who play Facebook-connected games every month. In 2015, Facebook paid $2.5 billion to game developers on its platform. 

Facebook wants to establish itself as an eminent platform for developing, buying and playing games.  The company basically wants to encourage the next Pokémon Go or League of Legends to originate on its own platform. If Facebook succeeds in building out its gaming platform as a substantive hub for developing, buying, and playing games, then it will be able to tackle the video gaming space simultaneously on three crucial fronts: 

• Game play and sales. Facebook’s new platform is being likened to Steam, the leading desktop gaming marketplace owned by Valve with over 125 million accounts and 4500 games. Facebook is also tackling the iOS and Android in the mobile gaming space, and will hope to lure game developers and gamers away from these rival platforms. In the long-run, Facebook is likely aiming to compete against game consoles like Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox too. Basically, Facebook is competing against any platform offering environments to play and sell video games. 
• Hardware sales (VR). Gaming will be the gateway driving early adoption for virtual reality (VR) technologies, and having a strong gaming platform is crucial as these two spaces enmesh. Facebook's gaming platform plays directly into this, given that Unity is already a partner for developing games for the Oculus headset. It is Facebook’s ambitions to dominate the VR hardware market will drive it in ever closer competition with traditional game manufacturers, like Sony, who have begun to offer consoles, games, and VR headsets as a single bundle.
• ESports coverage. In May, Facebook and the gaming company Activision agreed to deliver live broadcasts of Activision’s eSports tournaments on Facebook. This was followed up with a partnership with Activision subsidiary Blizzard in June to let regular gamers stream directly through Facebook Live. Being active in eSports will help Facebook collect revenue in broadcast distribution, sponsorship, and advertising. Altogether, eSports revenue is expected to reach $463 million, a 43% increase from 2015, and surpass $1 billion in revenue by 2019.

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Do you like "Blade Runner?" You do, right? It's so good — a sci-fi classic! And it's in a class of entertainment — the tech-Noir sci-fi thriller — that's woefully underrepresented.

A new video game, however, helps to fill that void: "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided." 

First things first: That's pronounced "day-us ex." It's Latin, and usually part of the phrase " Deus Ex Machina" (pronounced "mah-keen-uh"). That phrase translates to "god out of the machine" — a plot device that suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, fixes a major problem. Interpret that as you will with this game title.

More importantly, the game is gorgeous. Have a look!

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In "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided," you play as Adam Jensen. He's a man with a bunch of sweet robotic augmentations. He basically has superpowers.

Adam's a member of a secret INTERPOL task force, and also maybe a member of an underground hacker collective? It's complicated.

Regardless, he lives in Prague. Future Prague, that is.

There has been much grumbling on the internet about Netflix's recent price hike, which will raise the monthly fee either $1 or $2 on over 22 million US accounts.

Netflix, in fact, blamed its poor subscriber growth on this chatter. No one likes a price hike, CEO Reed Hastings explained.

But for most people, Netflix is still a way better value per-hour than cable TV: a three-times better deal, according to one measure. And the standard plan is only $9.99 per month. Still, it can be hard to gauge exactly how much value you are getting out of your Netflix subscription.

Luckily Netflix provides a tool that can help: your viewing history. It's buried under a few menus, but it's easy enough to navigate to.

Here's how you access it.

First, you go to your main dropdown menu:

Then you go to "Your Account":

Then to "Viewing Activity":

This will give you a list of all the titles you've watched on Netflix, along with the date you watched them:

Scrolling through this, it becomes fairly simple to understand how much you are watching Netflix, and the value that your watching has given you.

As an added benefit you can remove a title from your viewing history using the "X." You can use this to signal to Netflix that you don't want that title to be taken into account when it recommends things to you.

When I personally did a review of my own Netflix watching, after receiving the email explaining my price would go up by $2 per month, I concluded that I got way more value than $9.99 out of my Netflix subscription. You might feel the same — or it might be time to call it quits.

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Moviegoing has been one of America's favorite ways to kill time for about a century now, and box-office earnings have been a reliable predictor of what we love and, sometimes, continue to love.

Using lists of the highest-grossing films by year from IMDb, Box Office Mojo, and The Numbers, Business Insider has compiled a chronology of the biggest box-office hits every year since 1930*.

We adjusted global box-office receipts for inflation through 2016 using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator. We've also included critic ratings from Metacritic (on a scale of 1 to 100) and fan ratings from IMDb (on a scale of 1 to 10) for each film where available.

However, we used 1975 as the cutoff for global box office because worldwide figures before then were spotty and inconsistent. For films prior to 1975, we've provided adjusted and unadjusted domestic box office instead.

Several franchises are represented — "Star Wars," "Terminator," "Harry Potter" — as are Academy Award winners and classics like "The Sound of Music" and "Rocky."

Read on to find out the highest-grossing movie released the year you were born:

*Note: A couple years in the 1930s are missing due to lack of information. Movies before 1930 were not included due to unreliable box-office data.

This post has been updated and expanded from its original version.

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2015: "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens"

Adjusted gross: $2.07 billion

Unadjusted gross: $2.07 billion

Critic rating: 81

Fan rating: 8.3

Plot summary: "Three decades after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, a new threat arises. The First Order attempts to rule the galaxy and only a ragtag group of heroes can stop them, along with the help of the Resistance." 

2014: "Transformers: Age of Extinction"

Adjusted gross: $1.12 billion

Unadjusted gross: $1.1 billion

Critic rating: 32

Fan rating: 5.7

Plot summary: "Autobots must escape sight from a bounty hunter who has taken control of the human serendipity: Unexpectedly, Optimus Prime and his remaining gang turn to a mechanic, his daughter, and her back street racing boyfriend for help."

2013: "Frozen"

Adjusted gross: $1.31 billion

Unadjusted gross: $1.28 billion

Critic rating: 74

Fan rating: 7.6

Plot summary: "When the newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister, Anna, teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition."

When news hit the internet in June that the makers of "Idiocracy" were going to make anti-Donald Trump ads featuring the movie's most memorable character, fictional US President Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Terry Crews), people got excited.

That's only natural: Camacho is the center of the bizarre future in which everyone has gotten dumber, including our leaders, and fans loved the idea of applying the character to the current presidential election.

But Mike Judge, director of "Idiocracy" and creator of HBO hit "Silicon Valley," told The Daily Beast that the ads aren't going to happen.

"It was announced that they were anti-Trump, and I would've preferred to make them and then have the people decide. Terry Crews had wanted to just make some funny Camacho ads, and Etan [Cohen] and I had written a few that I thought were pretty funny, and it just fell apart," said Judge, who cowrote the film's screenplay with Cohen.

Apparently, Judge was hoping to put the ads out there quietly and "let them go viral," but it didn't work out that way.

"Doing something satirical like that is better if you just don't say, 'Here we come with the anti-Trump ads!' Also, when Terry heard that announcement he wasn't happy about it," he said.

This mirrors what Crews told us about why the ads weren't going to happen when we talked to him in July:

"Etan Cohen went out and said we were making anti-Trump ads, but we weren't. I'm not anti-Trump, I'm not anti-Hillary [Clinton]. I'm not pro anybody."

Judge also added that it wasn't looking good at Fox, which owns the rights to "Idiocracy." He thinks that the network was stopping the OK to use anything "Idiocracy"-related for the ads.

"That's the other thing. I think there was a roadblock there, too," Judge said of Fox's involvement. "I just heard that they were put on the shelf, so it looks like they're not going to happen."

You can now file this under "too good to be true."

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It's a question that has befuddled parents since George Lucas made the "Star Wars" prequels.

Do you introduce your kids to "Star Wars" with "Episode I: The Phantom Menace," technically the beginning of the story? Or do you start the way the franchise began in 1977, with "Episode IV: A New Hope?"

We put the question to Natalie Portman, who along with starring in the prequels as Queen Padmé Amidala (aka Luke and Leia's mom) also has a five-year-old son.

She admits she has not shown her son any "Star Wars" movies yet, but she knows how she'll introduce the saga to him.

"I talked about this with a friend of mine," she told Business Insider recently while doing press for her new movie "A Tale of Love and Darkness." "I feel you have to start with 'IV' because then all of the revelations — like Darth Vader's the father — are surprises."

It's a very good point. If you start with "Episode I," by the time you get to that pivotal scene in "Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" when Vader tells Luke he's his father, it's going to be less of a shock.

"Episode I" is tamer, however.

"The thing is 'I' is very much for kids," Portman said. "But I think for the story you have to start with 'IV.'"

There you have it. The queen has spoken.

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