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An enquiry has been opened in the UK into whether streaming music services like Spotify and Apple Music pay artists a fair royalty. Apple Music pays more than both Spotify and YouTube on a per-stream basis, but artists say that the amount they receive from all streaming services is just a small percentage of a tiny sum … BBC News reports. At the extreme end of the scale, violinist Tamsin Little tweeted earlier this year that she received just £12....

Players of video game developer Bungie’s first-person shooter Destiny are undoubtedly well aware by now of the studios’ disappointing plans for DLC content in 2016, namely that there will be series special events and microtransactions released over the course of year two instead of meaty story content and expansions. Whether you’re a fan of such past live happenings such as last month’s Sparrow Racing League or the the Festival of the Lost Halloween-themed event from last October, players invested in The Taken King have had plenty of time to assess the merits of the mythic science fiction title going forward over the course of what has comprised year two thus far....

The first Detective Pikachu trailer gives fans their long-awaited look at live-action Pokémon, but it also makes effective use of a classic pop song. Recently becoming the highest-grossing media franchise of all-time, the Pokémon brand has enjoyed a bit of a resurgence the past couple of years. Of course, the mobile game Pokémon Go became a sensation back in 2016, and shortly after that, the Detective Pikachu movie started to fall into place....

Today we are going to talk about attacking these portals to gain access to the administrative panel using a password brute-forcing technique called Dictionary attack. A password is a secret word or string of characters used for authentication to prove a particular user’s identity, or access approval to gain entry to a resource (example: an access code is a type of password), which should be kept secret from those not allowed access....

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Here are all the details on the new series from Lucasfilm per Disney’s press release: The new series is set to air on Disney Plus starting in 2021. “Giving new and existing fans the final chapter of ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ has been our honor at Disney+, and we are overjoyed by the global response to this landmark series,” said Agnes Chu, senior vice president, Content, Disney+....

Disney seems to be steadily moving through its back catalog, adapting many of its well-loved classics into live-action movies, with varying degrees of success. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland received mixed reviews, but performed well at the box-office. Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie in the title role, a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story from the bad fairy’s point of view, also received mixed reviews but, like Alice, it fared well enough at the box office to be given a sequel (which will arrive in due course)....

DNS Basics Resource records and the Zone file DNS Lookup and Reverse DNS Lookup Understanding Wildcard Entries DNS Zone transfer DNS Bruteforcing 1) DNS basics DNS converts human-readable domain names into IP addresses. This is because domain names are much easier to remember than IP addresses. This process may take place through a local cache or through a zone file that is present on the server. A zone file is a file on the server that contains entries for different Resource Records (RR)....

According to a new report from Digitimes, Apple is targeting 2024 for the mass production of the Apple Car. Digitimes says Apple is in conversations with Japanese and Asian suppliers, including visits to Toyota, LG Electronics and SK Group. The Apple Car project has taken a circuitous route through the rumor mill. After a flurry of development around 2015, Apple scaled back the project in 2017 to focus on the underlying autonomous driving technology....

Take Plann ambassador Jenna Kutcher for example, who has a firm handle on her best-performing color palette as you can see here: Hidden in the results tab among the other advanced analytics tools, the best performing color palette feature will intuitively track and report your best-performing colors for several key timeframes. You can view your best performing color palette data for the last: 7-day view 30-day view 3 months or LIFETIME...

Disney CEO Bob Iger has stated he doubts the multi-billion dollar company will continue filming in Georgia if the state’s new abortion law takes effect. Over the past decade or so, Georgia’s reputation as a filmmaking state has grown considerably thanks to a tax break incentive for productions filming in-state. In fact, according to the Los Angeles film office, more movies were made in the Peach State in 2016 than in California....

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s journey to the big screen hasn’t been the smoothest. For the past seven months the first Star Wars spin-off, which charts how the Rebellion stole the Death Star plans from the Empire before the original movie, has been plagued by reports of drastic reshoots and difficulties in the edit suite, with conflicting accounts swirling around. The latest story around it, however, is decidedly more charged....

From 9to5Google: Android Wear is great, but if you’re an iOS user, it looks like the Apple Watch is going to be your only option for a while. Google has yet to make any of Android Wear’s functionality compatible with Apple’s operating system, and it doesn’t look like they plan to do so any time soon. But that’s not stopping one developer, Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh, from hacking Android Wear to at least support notifications from iOS devices....

Apple’s eBay refurbished items store looks like it is closed for business (via Daily-Deals). All items were taken offline Saturday evening, and the store remains empty as of early Monday morning. We reported in November that a representative of eBay told us Apple was running the store, possibly through intermediaries. An eBay spokesperson declined to refute the information at the time. An Apple spokesperson also declined to comment. The store gained added attention because of the requirement that tax only be paid immediately in a few states, as well as PayPal payment options, and that it sometimes offered prices lower than the official Apple Store on Apple refurbished items....

Primary Key vs Unique key What is Primary Key? A primary key constrain is a column or group of columns in a table that uniquely identifies every row in that table. The Primary key can’t be a duplicate, meaning the same value can’t appear more than once in the table. A table can have only one primary key. Primary key can be defined at the column or the table level....

I disable this annoying feature right away in Windows Vista through the current version (Windows 8.1) — I just don’t need the animation effect showing me a window opening. It might seem subtle, but when its disabled, I find that the OS seems much more responsive and snappier. Disable Windows Animation in Vista and Windows 7 Click Start and type: advanced system settings into the search field and hit Enter....

Is Disney actually to blame for the poor box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story? Behind-the-scenes drama at Lucasfilm led to the film’s budget ballooning to more than $250 million - actually making this anthology film more expensive than Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In spite of that massive budget, though, the movie has been the first box office failure in the Star Wars franchise. Solo is expected to finish its box office run in the red by more than $50 million....

Walt Disney Pictures has thus far largely enjoyed great critical and commercial success alike with the live-action re-imaginings of its animated classics - so it should come as no surprise that the Mouse House isn’t going to let up on the practice anytime soon. Disney is reported to have several such remakes/re-imaginings in the works right now, but there are two in particular with firm theatrical release dates: Beauty and the Beast from director Bill Condon (Dreamgirls), arriving in March of 2017, and Mulan: a film that has landed a Fall 2018 release date....

According to a press release by Mozilla, the manufacturers that will build the first smartphones featuring the new OS are ZTE — the company building affordable Android tablets, and TCL Communication Technology (using the Alcatel One Touch brand). Only these two manufacturers are mentioned, other manufacturers may jump on board if things go in the right direction. The devices will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors and will be available in Brazil through Telefonica’s brand, Vivo....

What is Primary Key? A primary key constrain is a column or group of columns that uniquely identifies every row in the table of the relational database management system. It cannot be a duplicate, meaning the same value should not appear more than once in the table. A table can not have more than one primary key. Primary key can be defined at the column or the table level. If you create a composite primary key, it should be defined at the table level....

The official Disney YouTube channel released a video with the best Disney references in The Simpsons. In 2019, Disney bought 21st Century Fox, acquiring the rights of the iconic animated series. All the 30 seasons of The Simpsons have been exclusively available on Disney+ since the launch of the streaming platform. The acquisition, however, sparked some controversies among fans. Disney+ chose to display the show only in the most recent 16:9 ratio, rather than the original 4:3 format....