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It’s no secret that the streaming music industry has become incredibly competitive over recent years with the launch of Apple Music. A new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) analyzes Spotify’s Q2 2018 performance and the role Apple Music could have… CIRP explains that at of the end of Q2, 35 percent of Spotify users in the United States are on its Premium plan, with 55 percent of those subscribers having an Individual subscription, as opposed to a Family Plan....

On February 11, a researcher took to Twitter to say they found a “potentially market-nuking” vulnerability that needed to be addressed as soon as possible. Coinbase said it received a report through HackerOne from the researcher that same day and worked quickly to patch the bug. The issue involved a specific flaw in an API for Retail Advanced Trading, and Coinbase engineers eventually were able to reproduce the bug. They disabled all new trades by placing the Retail Advanced Trading platform in cancel-only mode before validating and releasing a patch....

Since its release, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has left fans clamoring for answers. While the JJ Abrams helmed film was billed as the “final word in the story of Skywalker,” questions still remain. With the Skywalker Saga complete, fans have taken to the plethora of ancillary Star Wars media available in order to piece together the secret history behind the film and the many comic books available are a prime source of information....

Spoilers for X-Force #6 by Ben Percy, Joshua Cassara and Dustin Weaver below The X-Men’s Charles Xavier deliberately orchestrated his own death. Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men relaunch saw Charles Xavier found a new mutant nation on the living island of Krakoa. He discovered a way to synergize mutant powers and the use of Cerebro technology to resurrect the dead, allowing the X-Men to conquer death and restore every mutant who has ever died....

A new featurette for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword details star Charlie Hunnam’s intense work days on set. Up until this point, the marketing and trailers for director Guy Ritchie’s reboot have felt scattered and almost bizarre at points. Part of that is because of the unique combination that Ritchie is bringing to this new take on the story of King Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) and his sword, Excalibur, by mixing his typical, highly-edited style with sweeping action shots and CGI visuals, but part of that is also because of the film’s strange tonal balance....

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will be haunting Netflix users with a third season on January 24th 2020. While the Netflix series made its original debut fittingly on October 31st, 2018, Sabrina is not a new franchise in the slightest. Archie Comics introduced the comic book world to Sabrina all the way back in 1971 in a series called Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She also got her own sitcom with the same title in 1996....

After a brief delay last month, Google’s Backup and Sync desktop app for Mac is now available for download. With this revamped client, only one application is needed to back up files on a desktop to Google Photos and Drive. Similar to the previous Google Photos uploader, photos and videos from connected cameras and SD cards can automatically be backed up, while Drive is a more comprehensive backup solution for all local files....

While Child’s Play villain Chucky began life as a lone serial killer turned into a doll, by Seed of Chucky, he somehow had both a wife and child. The Child’s Play franchise has been a bit of a creative whirlwind at times, which is odd in a sense, as every film has been written by the same man: creator Don Mancini. Yet, while the first three Child’s Play movies are basically straightforward slasher films with a little levity here and there, Bride and Seed of Chucky are so comedic they border on outright farce....

The iPhone 5 is set to ship in China December 14 on the nation’s second and third largest carriers: China Unicom and China Telecom. However absent from the launch is China Mobile, the nation’s (and world’s) largest telecom that boasts a user base of 703 million subscribers. It’s presumed the reason why the iPhone hasn’t yet launched on China Mobile is because of the network’s specific TD-SCDMA technology that isn’t used elsewhere, however that may not be the case....

The Bachelor host Chris Harrison will most likely not officiate Modern Family star Sarah Hyland and The Bachelorette alum Wells Adam’s Wedding. He will, however, be watching from the audience. Harrison became a legally ordained minister on in June of 2012, and he’s been putting his Universal Life Church Monastery online ordination to good use since then. The first couple he married didn’t actually include stars of the show, but The Bachelor producers, Cassie Lambert and Peter Scalettar....

Update: Just a day after this report about multiple developers gaming the App Store with cloned apps, Apple has removed many of the ones that were pointed out by TechCrunch’s Romain Dillet. A new report from TechCrunch today looks into how some app developers game the App Store by submitting multiple versions of the same (or very similar) app. While it looks like these apps are breaking the App Store rules, developers of these apps defend the strategy as fair game....

When Cobra Kai launched back in 2018, fans of the original Karate Kid films were excited at the prospect of not only seeing what happened to their favorite characters 30 years after the events of the movies but also getting to see a new cast of characters learning the martial art and showing off their karate skills. Plenty of original Karate Kid characters returned to reprise their roles right from the beginning, including, of course, Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso....

What is Laravel? Laravel is an open-source widely used PHP framework. The platform was intended for the development of web application by using MVC architectural pattern. Laravel is released under the MIT license. Therefore its source code is hosted on GitHub. It is a reliable PHP framework as it follows expressive and accurate language rules. What is CodeIgniter? CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework. It is built for developers who like a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications....

I was really interested in finding out what this meant. How could a browser be without tabs? It’s like a car without wheels. So here is a review of Colibri. Availability and Installation Colibri is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. You are required to enter your email to get the link to download it. However, I did not get the link by email and decided to install it from ubuntu software center....

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is about to kick off. On Monday, June 8th, company executives will take the stage at San Francisco’s Moscone Center to provide their annual roadmap for Apple’s software, services, and devices. Traditionally, Apple has used the conference to introduce major upgrades to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system iOS, as well as the Mac operating system OS X, along with new services. Of course, 2015 will be no different....

In an odd scenario, a man in China caused an iPhone to explode after trying to get a battery replacement. According to a report from Taiwan News, a man went into a third-party retailer to get his battery replaced but wanted to check the authenticity of the battery by biting into it. This caused the battery to burst into flames. A video of the incident was captured on the store’s security cameras, which can be found here and embedded below)....

Convolutional Neural Network Architecture of a Convolutional Neural Network Components of Convnets Train CNN with TensorFlow Step 1: Upload Dataset Step 2: Input layer Step 3: Convolutional layer Step 4: Pooling layer Step 5: Second Convolutional Layer and Pooling Layer Step 6: Dense layer Step 7: Logit Layer Architecture of a Convolutional Neural Network Think about Facebook a few years ago, after you uploaded a picture to your profile, you were asked to add a name to the face on the picture manually....

One of the new watch faces introduced in watchOS 7 was the Memoji face. To be honest, it felt like an afterthought. It’s really just a digital clock with Memoji and Animoji that already existed slapped on top. Nevertheless, it’s a really fun watch face with tons of potential. In fact, there’s a rather obvious way to supercharge it. Apple hasn’t introduced any new Activity watch faces since watchOS 3 and with Fitness+ it’s clear that Apple has bigger plans for activity and health....

Zac made the point yesterday that just because the iPhone 7 is sounding like a second S-year model, that doesn’t mean that mass-market buyers – ‘normals’ – won’t be wowed by it. Apple has an enviable ability to take relatively mainstream features and make them sound magical, and a report by French site NWE seems to make one rumored feature sound more likely. While the dual-camera system slated for the larger iPhone 7 Plus is an obvious talking point, it’s also been suggested that the smaller model may get the optical image stabilisation (OIS) currently limited to the iPhone 6/6s Plus....

The original report was rather light on detail – it seems the survey didn’t ask people the reasons for their choices. That’s problematic because I suspect most people answered from their own selfish viewpoint rather than from a societal perspective … It can be tough to separate the two, as I reflected in trying to answer the same question for myself. I love the convenience of one-click ordering. I love the fact that (in the UK) Prime deliveries arrive the next day, with some stuff available same-day....