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Full press release pasted below: Kindle offers the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read. The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 630,000 books, including New Releases and 106 of 110 New York Times Best Sellers. Over 510,000 of these books are $9.99 or less, including 75 New York Times Best Sellers. Over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle....

The mother of America’s Got Talent winner Kodi Lee, Tina Lee, said she was “surprised” by the controversy surrounding the firing of judge Gabrielle Union. It’s been a rough offseason for the show, but it hasn’t impacted its most adored and revered champion. Kodi, who commanded the country’s attention like no contestant of America’s Got Talent had ever before, was a revelation. Diagnosed with autism at age 4 and born with optic nerve hypoplasia, there really was no way to describe Kodi’s performances other than with an agape mouth and eyes wide in amazement....

Lukas and dog Falco are returning to America’s Got Talent with an “emotional” performance to make up for being eliminated previously. In the quarter-finals, Lukas Pratschker and his best friend/dog, Falco, impressed the judges on the NBC show with their intense tricks. The two performed a dance to the music of Blink 182’s “All the Small Things” that had choreographed jumps and spins that left the audience on their feet when they finished....

In a statement to ZDNet, Adobe said it ended support for Magento 1 on June 30, 2020. “We continue to encourage merchants to upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Commerce for the most up-to-date security, flexibility, extensibility, and scalability,” an Adobe spokesperson said. “At a minimum, we recommend Magento Open Source merchants on Magento 1 to upgrade to the latest version of Magento Open Source (built on Magento 2), to which Adobe contributes key security updates....

Reliable leaker @L0vetodream has tweeted to say that AirTags are ‘coming soon’ – and will be available in two different sizes. Continuing the record for cryptic tweets, the initial tweet simply read ‘big one, small one, coming soon.’ This lead to a great deal of speculation as to its meaning … Some suggested Mac mini and iMac as the first two Apple Silicon Macs, while others went with the ARM Mac theory but speculated that it might be two different sizes of MacBooks....

Some people were confused about why Apple is stuffing so many announcements into one event. Having called a single event “not logical” earlier in the day, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber now agrees with our prior reports: breaking tradition, there won’t be an October event this year. After claiming a single event would be “inexplicable” earlier in the day, Gruber followed up with a small piece on his blog last night, saying that sources (“birdies”) claim Apple will only be holding one event in the fall this year, the event today....

Whether it’s a brand promotion, video, news update or even a meme, visual content rules the social media landscape. What has become so important is effectively conveying your brand on social media through images and video. In this quick-scroll world of social media, the visual face of your brand is often times the first thing your audience sees and possibly the one thing they remember. It’s hard to cut and paste an image and reuse it across all of your social networks unless you have a tool like Landscape....

American Dad! may have begun its life as Family Guy’s lower-rated, less popular cousin, but it has since grown out of any comparisons that can be drawn with its predecessor and has become an unusual beast of its own. Stan Smith was initially conceived as a staunch Bush-era conservative, while his daughter Hayley represented the liberal side of things. This ideological clash was at the center of the show. But since then, the focus has shifted to simply make the show as funny and weird as it can possibly be....

Madison Montgomery is a conflicting character in American Horror Story. Despite showing a hidden soft side, she spent most of Coven antagonizing the other witches before her second death at the hands of Kyle. In Apocalypse, Madison undergoes a redemption arc of sorts after being rescued from Hell by Michael Langdon and gives everything in the fight against the Anti-Christ to protect the coven. Madison has done some unforgivable things during her multiple lives that earned her place in retail hell....

While we await Apple’s official wireless charging case, previously announced for AirPods alongside its upcoming AirPower wireless charging mat, companies like the team behind AirPlus are betting a lot of customers will prefer a low-cost option to quickly add Qi functionality to their existing AirPods and for use with currently available Qi chargers already on the market. AirPlus is a new protective case for Apple’s AirPods that adds Qi wireless charging functionality for as low as $15....

Two AirTags patent applications have been published today, describing an extremely wide array of potential applications, from locating the nearest defibrillator to monitoring our posture – and even playing avatar-based games. Patents are often worded in the broadest possible terms, so there’s, of course, no way to know which of these ideas Apple might pursue, but there are certainly some interesting concepts in the mix … Patently Apple refers to these particularly broad patents as ‘master patents....

Algoriddim has ported its popular djay Pro software from iOS to Windows 10 for the first time. djay Pro will still be developed on iOS and the Mac using the latest platform features like Touch Bar support for example, and today’s release expands Algoriddim’s reach from iOS/watchOS, macOS, and Android to Windows. Algoriddim actually relied greatly on djay Pro for iOS to bring the professional DJ software to Windows… Remember Microsoft’s Bridge tool for iOS that launched a few years ago — djay Pro for Windows largely relied on that for turning djay Pro for iOS into a working Windows app....

Dancing With The Stars season 24 proved to be a very entertaining series of the long-running reality show, but which celebrities signed up to be contestants? Dancing With The Stars is based on the hit BBC series Strictly Come Dancing, which first aired in 2004. The premise of the show has a group of celebrities train with a dance partner each week to come with a dance routine based on a particular theme, with contestants eliminated week by week until only the winner remains....

American Gods is expected to return for season 3, despite the behind the scenes problems that plagued production on season 2. The first season of American Gods earned rave reviews for its lush and sometimes psychedelic imagery, as well as its general dream-like atmosphere and tone. Unfortunately, showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michal Green’s adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel also cost a pretty penny to make. As a result, the pair clashed with Starz over their proposed budget for season 2, which ultimately led to Fuller and Green departing the series altogether in late 2017....

Facing the collapse of its Flash empire under weight of Apple’s move to abandon the once useful multimedia standard, Adobe has taken assertive action — it has promoted a few executives to shoulder the burden. The new suits have been put in place in order to “align and strengthen the company’s focus on major customer segments and enable these customers to create, deliver and optimize digital experiences across a wide range of media and devices,” the company said....

The good news is that there’s a lot more to like about Affable than just its name. It’s only been around since 2017, but the platform has the look, feel, and functionality of fully matured enterprise software. That’s because the team is very heavy on software development talent, complemented by others with marketing expertise—and there’s a clear synergy between these two vastly different skill sets. The AI algorithms that power Affable were built from the ground up by the in-house team; they’re out crawling the social web daily and pulling in mountains of data that’s helpful to both brands and agencies....

Apple released its new AirPods today with a Wireless Charging Case, more capable H1 chip, and more. Just hours after pre-orders going live, delivery times have started to slip. When the new AirPods launched this morning, shipping times were about a week with pre-orders expected for the end of March. Now, delivery times for the new AirPods with Wireless Charging Case have slipped another week to April 2-5. The new AirPods with the standard charging case are still quoted as arriving in a week, as well as stand-alone purchases of the Wireless Charging Case for AirPods....

Plenty Of Fish is a great place for singles to be to find their significant another love partner. POF is very popular recently in the domain of online dating since the pandemic hit us. The online dating service is available both on the website as well as the app. POF currently provides services in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Spain, and Ireland, and is available in nine languages to cater to the needs of people all around the globe....

Perhaps not the best timing with the AT&T security breach (Including Rahm Emanuel’s name), but today, the Washington Post details the use of the iPad at the White House, which seems to be spreading like wildfire. The device is the hot, new White House toy, a gizmo that is popping up around Washington but seems to be particularly in vogue at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Emanuel just got his, as did senior adviser David Axelrod and deputy press secretary Bill Burton....

American Horror Story is well-known for its sleek and chic aesthetic, as well as its iconic characters and plotlines that push the boundaries of traditional horror. The show’s nine seasons have featured a plethora of characters who are easily recognized in popular culture, helped in part by dedicated costume design that tells its own story. Each season of the anthology series takes place in a world of its own, with those worlds beginning to intertwine as the series progresses....