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Just two short months ago, Nook manufacturer Barnes & Noble was telling the world that it was moving out of the tablet business and focusing on content. Now it appears the company is scrapping that new strategy and going full-speed ahead with their original plans (memories of Netflix’s Qwikster plans are brought to mind). Although the Nook business has been hurting Barnes & Noble’s bottom line since its inception – and the revenue continues to decline – CNET is reporting that B&N president today stated the company “intends to continue to design and develop cutting-edge Nook black and white and color devices” and one new Nook will be launched before the end of the year....

Batch PDF Merger’s interface supports drag and drop, or you can load an entire folder of PDFs. Merging is simple. Just load the PDFs into the files window, adjust the order you want them to appear in, and click merge. I noticed right away there is also a split button. The split button doesn’t separate PDFs and save them as individual files to your hard drive. Instead, it splits files within Batch PDF Merger and allows you to rearrange them....

The upcoming animated Batman & Harley Quinn movie has formally found a director and writing team. Since the release of Suicide Squad last year, interest in Quinn has skyrocketed thanks to Margot Robbie’s lovably psychotic portrayal of the villain and Warner Bros. are aiming to capitalize on that buzz - by putting the character alongside the Caped Crusader in a feature-length Batman/Harley animated film. The project was first mentioned last year at the press panel for another Batman animated movie, The Killing Joke, but now further details are beginning to emerge....

The Bear Jew was one of many standout characters from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds but does Sgt. Donny Donowitz have a real-life counterpart? Inglourious Basterds was a project Quentin Tarantino spent over a decade developing, intending it to a man on a mission-style movie like The Dirty Dozen. Over the years, actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Sylvester Stallone, and Eddie Murphy were rumored for leading roles but the project languished as the director struggled to cut it down to a feature-length script....

Belkin today has announced a new USB-C 3.1 dock for MacBook and MacBook Pro users. The company touts that the Express Dock HD packs “speed, power, and efficient charging” through its 1M cable… Belkin’s new Express Dock HD includes a wide array of connectivity options for users. You get two USB-C 3.1 ports for charging your MacBook as well as another smartphone or tablet. There are also 3 USB-A ports, one HDMI connector with support for 4K video, a Gigabit ethernet port, and two 3....

The biggest name in horror, Stephen King, has inspired many beloved adaptations over his storied career and the last few years have been especially kind to his fans. From 2017’s IT reboot to this year’s well-received The Outsider adaptation on HBO, there has been a veritable onslaught of high-quality Stephen King material at audiences’ disposal. But, despite this recent renaissance, the overall history of adapting King, particularly for television, has been spotty at best....

With over 10 lakh cases confirming and over 50,000 deaths to date, the COVID-19 is already marking its domination! Silently the virus is spreading every second we can possibly count, and the streets in the entire world are driven empty. During these devastating days of the global pandemic, we are left with no choice but to stay home and keep ourselves, as well as others, away and safe from the virus....

The relationship between Batman and Catwoman is one of the most well-known and interesting dynamics in comics. The world’s greatest detective and Selina Kyle have a history full of romantic tension and ideological differences, which has been mined plenty of times for powerful story arcs over the years. In a video clip from a character model swapped version of a Batman video game, someone has reversed this connection with hilarious consequences....

AAPL shares now make up 43% of Berkshire Hathaway’s stocks, says a new analysis. Warren Buffett’s conglomerate owns $91.3B worth of Apple stock – giving it 5.5% of the company – of a total $213.6B across all 46 companies in its portfolio. That investment has paid off big-time, the conglomerate’s AAPL holdings seeing $55B in growth since the beginning of 2019 … The Motley Fool ran the numbers on Berkshire Hathaway stocks....

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Batwoman season 1, episode 8, “A Mad Tea Party.” The mid-season finale of Batwoman ended with a major character’s gruesome death as the result of Alice’s machinations. This facilitated a major shift of the show’s status quo and big changes when the show continues its story after the Crisis on Infinite Earths event. The central plot of Batwoman has focused upon the crimes of a costumed mastermind known as Alice and her Wonderland Gang, and how Kate Kane became Batwoman in order to save Gotham City from Alice and her schemes....

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic casts Maggie Gyllenhaal as the legendary singer’s mom Gladys Presley. After tackling Shakespeare with Romeo + Juliet, decadent Paris with Moulin Rouge and the Roaring Twenties with The Great Gatbsy, Luhrmann will next set his sights on an American musical icon with his biopic on Elvis. According to reports, both Harry Styles and Ansel Elgort were at one time up for the role of Presley, before Luhrmann and company finally settled on Austin Butler to handle the lead....

The concept of buying now and paying later is one that has become very popular in recent times. The convenience of being able to take home any product that you desire without paying the full price upfront is unparalleled. There are various services that assist you through this process. One such service that is inarguably the most popular is Afterpay. It works similar to taking an EMI, where you don’t have to pay the complete amount upfront....

KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the few analysts we feel credible, has his Apple numbers ready for Q1 2015. The analyst projects iPhone, iPad, and Mac shipments to be 58.2 million, 10.1 million, and 4.5 million respectively. He also estimates that Apple Watch shipments are currently at 631,000 units. Kuo believes that iPhone shipments have peaked and that Apple will see a quarter over quarter decline of 21.8 percent in Q1 and an 11....

Season 4 is Activision’s highly popular FPS shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone are here with a bang, and how! Apart from the new game modes and engaging new maps, players are too busy admiring and trying out the two new guns now available via the Battle Pass – the Fennec SMG and CR-56 Amax(Galil) AR. The CR-56 Amax Assault Rifle is available at Tier 15 in the Battle Pass and is based on the Galil Assault Rifle from the previous Call of Duty games....

Well, there is a possible thing wrong to say that a motherboard is one of the key components of a PC. It is the center point of communication where all the requests are handled. In a real sense, it is the platform where all electronic components are fixed and can communicate with each other to make the PC run smoothly. Here is The Best gaming motherboard under Rs 10,000. You might have no idea that when it comes to assembling a gaming PC, particular attention is to be paid to selecting the motherboard....

Best Open Source Web Browsers Firefox Firefox is the best alternative to Google’s Chome. Firefox is a completely free and open source browser from the Mozilla foundation. It is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac desktops. Android and IOS platforms also have support for the Firefox browser. Written in C++, JavaScript, HTML, C, and Rust, Firefox was initially created in 2002 but was launched in 2004. It gave tough competition to Internet Explorer at that time by hitting 60 million downloads within 9 months....

Baby Yoda wears Chris Evans’ iconic sweater from Knives Out in a brand new meme that’s sweeping the internet. Weeks after debuting in the first episode of Disney Plus’ highly-anticipated original series The Mandalorian, Baby Yoda continues to win over Star Wars fans from around the world. The show itself centers on a bounty hunter in the Star Wars universe, but The Child, later termed Baby Yoda by fans, was quick to steal the spotlight....

Baby Yoda fights Emperor Palpatine in a brilliant new Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith fan edit. After months of anticipation, The Mandalorian finally hit Disney+ earlier this month, and fans everywhere immediately fell in love with the show’s breakout character, a tiny alien child unofficially christened “Baby Yoda” who made a surprise first appearance in the kickoff episode (a “twist” that was immediately spoiled by Twitter). Suffice it to say, after four Mandalorian episodes Baby Yoda mania has now taken over the whole world (though official Baby Yoda merchandise sadly remains in short supply)....

Eliminated contestant on The Bachelor, Alayah Benavidez reminded Bachelor Nation fans of Hannah Brown’s resident villain, Luke Parker. After Alayah was accused of not being genuine on Monday night’s episode, Peter Weber struggled with whether or not to send her home. His inner turmoil gave some fans flashbacks to Hannah’s up and down relationship with Luke P. On Hannah’s season of The Bachelorette, Luke P. immediately stood out as the season’s frontrunner....

Jared Haibon, of The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise fame, recently responded to social media commenters who were shaming him and wife Ashley Iaconetti Haibon for the product placement on their honeymoon photos following their wedding. Getting married can be super expensive, but not all fans think that’s the case for Bachelor Nation alums. Jared and Ashley are one of the latest couples from the franchise to tie the knot. Their love was a slow burn, or rather a result of Ashley striking the match repeatedly until the romance caught fire....