Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Netflix’s Dracula. The ending of Netflix’s Dracula season 1 answers a burning question about the nefarious vampire and his greatest weakness after a surprise time jump to the present day. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock), Dracula loosely adapts the classic novel by Bram Stoker but also diverges from it wildly, taking the dark lord of the night in a new direction while exploring Dracula’s legend and mythology to shed new light on the Count’s character and vulnerabilities....

Apple has increasingly been encouraging app developers to switch to a subscription model, rather than a one-off purchase cost or in-app purchases to unlock features. It’s now continuing this push with a new video on its developer site … The appeal for developers is obvious: subscriptions generate the holy grail of tech businesses, recurring income. But users appear less convinced. A survey back in July found that the majority of iOS app users prefer a one-time payment to a subscription....

Update 6/30: It appears iOS 7.1.2 has resolved the issue: A state management issue existed in the handling of the telephony state while in Airplane Mode. This issue was addressed through improved state management while in Airplane Mode. A new lock screen bypass has been discovered in iOS 7 that allows anyone to skip the default authentication method. The shocking part about this bypass is that it can be done in under five seconds....

Previous reports hinted Motorola is working on a new flagship device called the Motorola Nio. The flagship is expected to be launched in Q1 2021. Now a new set of leaked Motorola Nio images have surfaced online. The leaked images show off the front and back of the device in great detail. Motorola Nio has been leaked before, and the latest image confirms a punch hole for housing a dual front camera....

Hackers only Need Phone Number to Block Your WhatsApp Account. The security researchers Luis Marquez Carpintero and Ernesto Canales Perena first discovered the flaw in the most popular messaging app. According to the researchers, the hackers first download the app on their phones and tries to log in by using the victim’s phone number. However, when they try to log in, the victim gets a two-factor authentication code that Whatsapp sends....

Sony’s going to hold a press conference in Berlin on September 4th where it’s widely believe that they’re going to announce their next flagship phone, the Xperia i1. We, the media, have been referring to this device by its codename, Honami, for several months now. What’s going to make Honami special? It’s supposed to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800, have a 5 inch 1080p screen, 2 GB of RAM, an incredibly large (for its size) 3,000 mAh battery, and then there’s the camera: 20 megapixels, optical image stabilization, massive sensor....

To be known as SC1, the new data centre will have a total planned capacity of 1MW. It also hosts the Sunshine Coast International Broadband Network (SCIBN) cable landing station, a submarine cable that connects to the 7,000km Japan-Guam-Australia South submarine cable. It will the first of a series of regional-based edge sites that will target regional hubs across Australia that have been previously uncatered for, NextDC said. “The edge is an emerging pillar of our digital infrastructure platform....

“NBN Co is targeting annual revenue and other income in FY22 of between AU$5 billion to AU$5.2 billion and EBITDA in the range of AU$3 billion to AU$3.2 billion,” the company said in a rare mention of fiscal information. Unlike in years past, it did not state net profit nor capital expenditure for the coming year. Compared to the last year’s set of figures that did, the company said it was previously expecting revenue to be AU$5....

NCIS is a CBS crime drama that has been on the air for over sixteen years. Through that time the show has seen its characters enter into a number of both platonic and romantic relationships with each other, usually starting as merely coworkers with bonds developing over time. Not all friendships have the same amount of chemistry, resulting in some of these friendships being stronger and with better chemistry than others....

Update: Looks resolved… The official Nest Mobile app for iPhone and iPad appears to have been removed from the App Store for the time being following complaints from users that the latest version of the app crashes at launch. The Nest Mobile app is used to remotely interface with the Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector from the iPhone and iPad. Nest has acknowledged the issue via Twitter with a message regarding the software bug: “We’re currently investigating an issue causing the Nest iOS app version 4....

Andy King, the sidekick-turned-superstar from Netflix’s documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened loves being a meme. It all started with a promise and ended in a catastrophe. By now many people have heard of the attempted and failed Fyre festival, which gained further popularity after the internet took a special interest in King and turned his face and words into a plethora of memes and hashtags. Released on January 18th, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened has become all the rage....

At the beginning of this month, Android 4.2.2 and Sense 5 based custom ROMs started popping up for the HTC One, thanks to a leaked RUU. Today, another Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean based RUU has leaked for the One carrying the version number 2.19.401.1. The leaked RUU is not the final update that will be available to all One users. HTC is still working on the Android 4.2.2 firmware for the handset, and is taking its own sweet time....

Schmidt was by far the wildest, most interesting, and honestly, self-serving character on New Girl. At least, at the beginning. He went above and beyond to get who and what we wanted, no matter the cost. But over time, he became incredibly likable and his many quirks went from being annoying to endearing. Even so, he was the only loftmate to frequently donate to the “douchebag jar”, as they dubbed it....

How many of those 9 million first weekend sales were for the iPhone 5s vs the iPhone 5c? There’s been a lot of speculation about how many of each device Apple is selling, and whether or not lack of availability of the gold iPhone 5s is due to low supply or simply the higher demand. Apple is staying quiet on the breakdown of 5s units vs 5c, but today we get some solid insight from Localytics after the research firm tracked over 20 million unique active iPhones since launch day on Friday....

In October of last year, Google officially unveiled the Nexus Player, the set-top box with Nexus branding and running Android TV. When it did, Google also tagged it with a $99 price tag, making it just another entry into the set-top box market with plenty of competition. Google generally keeps the prices for items within its online store the same from launch to end of life (consider the original G Watch, which was priced at $230 for an almost ridiculous amount of time), but it seems to be changing its views a little bit with the Nexus Player....

The loophole seems to be a SS7 flaw in the architecture of the signalling system which is devised to allow mobile phone roaming across telecom providers. SS7 signalling protocol was developed way back in 1975 and now in the current cellular setup it is used to perform transitional functions including, prepaid billing, SMS, local number portability among a host of other services. Flags were raised in 2014 when it was reported that a protocol vulnerability of the SS7 will allow non state actors to track the movement of cellphone users from any location across the world with a success rate of 70 percent....

There are many cool ways you can use your smartphone camera that don’t involve photos including scanning documents on the go with apps like Evernote Scannable and Google Drive. Now, Adobe, the creator of the ubiquitous PDF, has launched its own app that does that very thing – scan physical documents with your smartphone’s camera and turn them into … yep, PDFs. Adobe Scan is a safe and free way to scan your documents Dubbed “Adobe Scan,” just point your iPhone or Android’s camera at a document and the app will automatically scan it for text via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and save it as a PDF file on your Adobe Document Cloud account....

As it happens, an AtlasVPN: 3-Yr Subscription meets the above criteria easily. For a limited time, you can get a three-year subscription for just $49.99 (reg. $395). Atlas VPN keeps you safe online by blocking websites and ads that are known to host malicious content such as phishing, virus-distributing sites and other malware. A private DNS will ensure your privacy remains intact because you can access the internet from multiple IP addresses simultaneously....

Two new character names from Disney and Lucasfilm’s Untitled Young Han Solo Movie may have been revealed, despite the fact that right now, Star Wars fans everywhere are still busy counting down the days until Star Wars: Episode VIII -The Last Jedi is released in theaters later this year, following the release of The Last Jedi teaser trailer at Star Wars Celebration Orlando. After all, just a few months after The Last Jedi is released, Disney and Lucasfilm will also be unveiling the second in their three officially-announced standalone anthology movies, with directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord taking their crack at bringing the smuggler pilot of the Millennium Falcon back to the big screen again....

The new iPad Air hits an all-time low price, refurb HomePod is yours at $194, and Apple’s mid-2018 MacBook Pro is on sale. Hit the jump for the rest of today’s best deals in this edition of 9to5Toys Lunch Break. New iPad Air drops to all-time low prices HomePod deal delivers Siri, more for $194 HomePod deals are becoming harder to find these days since Apple officially dropped the price to $299....