Members of the UK government are seeking to close a tax loophole that currently allows online music, app, and book downloads to avoid the country’s 20% “value added tax” in favor of much lower international tax rates, reports The Guardian. If the push is successful, iTunes customers in the UK will instead be taxed at the appropriate rate for their own country. However, the new law won’t go into effect until January 1, 2015, so there’s still time for things to change....

The flat-price option would see the loathed connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) capacity charge removed from all plans, with access pricing increasing as a result. NBN is also putting forward a reworked option of its current pricing structure, with the CVC charge dropping by AU$2 to AU$6, and a melded option that removes the CVC on plans of 100Mbps down and quicker, while keeping the current AU$8 CVC charge on lower speeds....

EA studio Ghost Games officially revealed the new Need for Speed game, Need for Speed Heat, this morning. The Need for Speed Heat title was leaked yesterday ahead of the reveal as EA removed all online traces of Need for Speed games from the franchise’s official Instagram and YouTube accounts. The Need for Speed franchise has had a bit of a rough history, as of late. Ghost Games’ previous Need for Speed game, 2017’s Need for Speed: Payback, failed to majorly improve upon the forgettable 2015 Need for Speed reboot....

The world of The Dark Crystal goes back more than 30 years since the original epic movie was released in 1984. The audience was drawn to the world of Thra by the colorful, grotesque and detailed ideas of Jim Henson. That tradition continues with the new Netflix series, The Age of Resistance. There aren’t any really bad characters on the show, but there are a few that we could improve their attitudes....

If a free, full-featured vulnerability scanner is on your mind, then it’s time you know about Nessus. This article covers installation, configuring, selecting policies, starting a scan, and analyzing the reports using NESSUS Vulnerability Scanner. Nessus was founded by Renuad Deraison in 1998 to provide the Internet community with a free remote security scanner. It is one of the full-fledged vulnerability scanners that allow you to detect potential vulnerabilities in systems....

A new Alien: Covenant international poster has arrived, with humans and android characters at the forefront. Ridley Scott delivers a quasi-prequel to his original Alien film in 2012 with Prometheus - and though the movie performed well enough at the box office, for a lot of people it veered too far away from the standard Alien formula and was a bit of a disappointment. In 2017, Scott will take another shot at breathing fresh life into the Alien series with Covenant; a film that promises to return the franchise to its simpler, more survival-horror-based roots....

With a filmography composed of some of the most ambitious mainstream films of this century (so far), Christopher Nolan has cultivated a reputation for himself that few other filmmakers have nowadays. Through his work on The Dark Knight trilogy or successful blockbuster films like Inception, Nolan’s the kind of rare director in the industry right now capable of creating original, big-budget films that still manage to draw in large audiences, based purely on his name recognition....

Apple has quietly added a new data restore feature to iCloud.com, enabling users to rollback accidentally deleted documents, calendar changes and contacts. The new ‘Restore Files’, ‘Restore Contacts’ and ‘Restore Calendars’ features are hidden in iCloud.com Advanced Settings pane. Seemingly unrelated to iCloud backup, Apple shows snapshots of your recently deleted documents and lets you put them back onto iCloud Drive. This means there is now a way to recover accidentally deleted iCloud documents for the first time, because there is no equivalent to the Trash folder in iCloud....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQaN8IC_rSY&feature=youtu.be] Update: Apple’s website is now listing the Retina MacBook Pros as available in “3-4 weeks”. Apple’s updated MacBook Pro with Retina display made a huge splash at yesterday’s opening keynote for the Worldwide Developers Conference, but droves of Mac-lovers will have to wait a few weeks before they can get their eager paws on one of these divine notebooks. Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller noted the super-high resolution MacBook Pro would ship immediately while on stage at WWDC, but those taking a peak at Apple’s online store today will find a “2-3 weeks” shipping notice listed under the 15-inch Retina-optimized computers...

The next film in the X-Men franchise will be New Mutants and its working title has finally been revealed. Josh Boone has long been set to take on the task of bringing another team of mutants to the big screen, but it won’t feature many of the familiar faces from previous movies. New Mutants will see characters like Magik, Wolfsbane, Cannonball, and more make their big screen debuts, and it took a big step forward with Fox announcing it as part of the X-Men 2018 film slate....

Nearly a fortnight ago, the Paranoid Android team released the preview build of v4.5 of their ROM that included a new Android L style recents app menu. Today, the team is rolling out another build that slightly tweaks the design of the L style Recents App and fixes some of the issues reported by users. Below is the official change-log of the update: New Recents Late Preview– Improved performance a bit– Lighter shadows– Removed bottom recents label– On-The-Spot selectable style for Recents (Stock/New)– Code cleanupGeneral – 4....

Along with Android 4.4.1, Google is also rolling out an update for the Google Play Store app. Play Store updates are automatically done in the background so the user does not really know when it is generally updates. Anyways, the folks over at Android Police have managed to get their hands on the latest update to the Play Store – v4.5.10 – that brings with it quite a lot of changes....

Illustration via profile pictures on IEEE’s Facebook page The IEEE standards body that oversees the development of WiFi technology announced today a next-generation WiFi 802.22 technology designed to facilitate wireless data transfer up to 22Mbps over great distances up to 60 miles, or a hundred kilometers. The interesting thing is, the new technology is utilizing television bands without interfering with reception of existing TV broadcast stations: The technology will be great in rural areas and developing countries with vacant TV channels, IEEE says....

Netflix has ordered a coming-of-age comedy about Mindy Kaling’s life. Kaling made her first big screen appearance in 2005’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which also coincided with her first appearance on TV as Kelly in the US version of The Office. Her career as a comedic actor has grown immensely since that time, and to date she’s been nominated for six Emmys. Earlier this year, industry insiders revealed that Netflix may spend $15 billion on content in 2019....

Are you worried that each app may be a privacy risk? Are you tired of having to toggle each app to avoid granting it permission? Well, good news. For only $1.99 you can purchase an Android app and say goodbye to all of these annoying problems. Let Bouncer protect your privacy Bouncer is a simple Android app that allows users to grant temporary permissions to Android apps. Bouncer also gives you more control over permissions so you can keep apps installed and deny all permissions or grant them while you use them....

Disney’s The New Mutants release date is pushed to April 2020. Twentieth Century Fox launched their X-Men movie franchise back in 2000, but it has since expanded greatly to include not only mainline films, but spinoff franchises like the Wolverine trilogy and the Deadpool series. One such spinoff is Josh Boone’s The New Mutants, following the titular group of teenage mutants from the Marvel Comics. However, despite The New Mutants trailer debuting in late 2017, the movie has been pushed back a number of times....

A user on the MacX forum [translation] claims to have gotten his hands on a part from the upcoming iPhone 6 that features the data and audio connectors, as well as one of the device’s microphones. The source of these photos? According to the poster: Given the fact that this is from an unknown source, it would be prudent to question the veracity of any claims made regarding these images. That said, there’s also a chance the part could be real....

There’s a new Power Rangers movie in the works at Paramount, and it might be taking place in the 1990s. Jonathan Entwistle, head of Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World and I’m Not Okay With This, is in early negotiations to direct the latest reboot of the popular live-action superhero franchise, and he aims to take the series back to the past. Created by media mogul Haim Saban and first airing in 1993, the Power Rangers series has run on various channels over the course of 26 years....

A new Spider-Man: Far From Home movie poster features Peter Parker (Tom Holland) posed in front of an Iron Man mural. Tony Stark aka. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) was key to Spider-Man’s introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, discovering the Queens-based amateur hero and bringing him into the big leagues in Captain America: Civil War. Iron Man was a major presence in Spider-Man: Homecoming as well, with Tony taking on a mentor role to Peter as the younger superhero came into his own....

A new trailer has been released showing fans what the remake of Resident Evil 3 - and its popular villain, Nemesis - will look like. The Resident Evil series has grown and changed drastically since its first iteration in 1996 and has pulled influences from several different genres. Resident Evil is sometimes credited with popularizing survival horror videos games and reinvigorating the public’s obsession with zombies. It is also Capcom’s highest selling video game franchise of all time....