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If you're a Netflix subscriber in the U.S., you likely have your gaze fixed on either J.Lo and Brett Goldstein's new romantic comedy, Office Romance (which Goldstein wrote for Jenny from the Block) or the new season of Tina Fey's dramady series The Four Seasons. But there's also a good chance that you've been waiting for some great new documentaries to appear on the streaming service, and that's where I come in.

People buy 3D printers for all sorts of reasons. I recently saw someone cite their NERF dart blaster hobby as the catalyst for their printer purchase. The more I dug into the scene, the more I realized that 3D printing and NERF are a match made in heaven.

There was a time when you could get by with a few minor tweaks to the default settings, or even some lightweight de-bloating script when setting up a fresh Windows system. That time was before Windows 11. The vanilla version of Windows 11 is practically unusable for me, and it takes a whole rigmarole to make it usable. This is how I customize my Windows installation.

Printers are pretty old tech made for a job that's already losing relevance in many contexts. They really don't need to do anything other than connect to the devices we want to print from. So, imagine my surprise when I fired up my router logs one boring Sunday and saw my office inkjet chatting away to a bunch of servers I never asked it to talk to. As suspicious as it seems, this is apparently what printers do now: constantly send data back to the mothership. Pretty cool, I suppose. Or is it?

Gone are the days when we would willingly put Instagram filters on our photos because we thought they looked good. Now, your photos are still being edited, even if you're not the one doing it. Most people don't even know what a real photo taken on a smartphone (with zero processing) would look like. Thankfully, I've found an app that lets me snap away with no processing — and I'm shocked by the results.

When you want to do something in Home Assistant, it can often be a time-consuming process. You can spend a long time configuring devices, building dashboards, or making repairs. Wouldn't it be good if there were some shortcuts you could take to make things a little easier?

If you have kids, you know the drill—one school run, one snack in the backseat, and suddenly your car looks like the floor of a movie theater. Cookie crumbs in the seat creases, potato chip pieces ground into the carpet, mystery debris lurking in every crevice.

Given that Live Nation is a monopoly (according to a federal jury, anyway), getting a concert ticket for a decent price has been difficult in recent years. And artists are starting to get creative. Take Madonna, who last night streamed a pop-up performance on the ubiquitous gay hookup app, Grindr.

Madonna announced the surprise show on the app, and a half hour later took over Times Square. She debuted some tracks from her upcoming album, Confessions II, and performed some songs from the OG Confessions on a Dance Floor. Despite the short notice, Times Square filled up with fans. A Grindr bus was also there, naturally.

SEE ALSO: The great Grindr glossary: all terms and acronyms explained

"The LGBTQ+ community has been with me from the beginning. We've inspired, challenged and stood by each other during both dark and joyful times," Madonna stated in a press release shared with Mashable. "Partnering with Grindr feels like a celebration of that connection – safety in numbers."

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It's not the only collaboration the singer has done with Grindr. Last week, an interview with Madonna and several others — including Bob the Drag Queen and playwright Jeremy O. Harris — went live on Grindr's YouTube channel. During the discussion, Madonna discussed what it means to be a "mother" (in the slang sense of the word), and reiterated that the queer community has been her ride-or-die since the beginning of her career.

The concert will also be uploaded to Grindr's YouTube channel the week of June 8. Happy Pride!

Regardless of the operating system you're on, you'll notice that they all open applications inside these boxes we call windows. These windows pop up in unpredictable positions on the desktop, and they're not always the same size either. This is one of those things you just accept without ever questioning it. At least, I never did. But there's a better system for these windows. One which helps you stay focused on your work and operate your computer faster. Welcome to the wonderful world of tiling window managers.

Got a few spare hours this weekend? Instead of relying on paper habit trackers that never survive a full week, forgetting when your car is due for maintenance, or juggling handwritten grocery lists, you can turn Excel into a set of simple tools that actually solve everyday problems. These three beginner-friendly projects show just how powerful spreadsheets can be when you move beyond basic data entry.

There’s no arguing that smartphone battery life has improved by leaps and bounds since the early days. Go back just a decade, and most phones needed to be recharged several times a day. Now phones will generally get you through a day, from your morning commute to your evening return home. But what if that’s not enough?

Just got your hands on an ESP32? Don’t dive into a complex first build; start slow with something simple. These projects will introduce you to basics like flashing your microcontroller, adding components with a breadboard, and simple coding.

Nvidia is keen to tout the RTX Spark as a fast all-round "superchip," but the centerpiece isn't the computational power. Rather, it's the very notion of building a consumer PC and its interface around AI agents that complete tasks across apps.

Check out the first piloted hydrogen-powered helicopter flight, a major milestone toward sustainable aviation.

The Excel ribbon often forces you through multiple menus just to highlight important data. Hidden inside the Format Cells dialog is a syntax system that replaces several common formatting tasks like color-coding, icon sets, number scaling, and zero formatting control.

Cleaning massive, disorganized spreadsheets or parsing through thousands of lines of raw server logs is annoying. You can do it yourself, make a program to do it, or you can just give it to Claude and ask it to fix your problems. Claude has a built-in execution canvas that handles smaller tasks. It's a sandboxed processing environment that lives right inside your chat window, so you can drop in files and use plain language to make the fixes you need. This is one of the ways Claude works better than usual.

TL;DR: Amazon has the Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution—Perfect Order Booster Bundle available from just $48 through marketplace sellers. The Amazon-shipped listing with slightly faster delivery is also at $49.89, though you can get as low as $39.95 from Walmart and TCGplayer.

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Still the most affordable recent expansion in the Pokémon TCG, you can now grab the Perfect Order Booster Bundle even below market price — depending on your preferences for retailers. 

As of June 5, the Pokémon TCG’s Perfect Order Booster Bundle is available at Amazon for $48, with the lowest-priced listing coming from The Ardor Group and including free shipping. 

For a slightly speedier turnaround, you can pay $49.89 for the listing shipped from Amazon and sold by Collector’s Treasures — with delivery currently listed for June 10. 

Either one gets you six booster packs from Perfect Order, each with 10 trading cards each, but it is a far more budget-friendly way of jumping into the expansion than investing in a much more expensive Booster Display Box. 

Still, you have the chance to pull some valuable chase cards — including Mega Zygarde ex, with Mega Clefable ex, Mega Starmie ex, and Meowth ex. However, these are also available to buy individually on TCGplayer. 

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However, you can save even more by purchasing from one of the other big sites in the trading card market. 

TCGplayer has listings starting at $40.34 shipped, while Walmart shows a current listing at $39.95, sold by Realgoodeal and fulfilled by Walmart. The latter makes it even lower than TCGplayer’s market value price of $40.13. 

To save more on recent expansions, though, you can grab the Pokémon TCG’s Chaos Rising Booster Bundle for under $50. You can even grab the Chaos Rising Elite Trainer Box for under $100.

Although currently not available on Amazon, the Pokémon TCG’s newly announced Pitch Black expansion — Booster Packs, ETBs, Display Boxes, and Booster Bundles — is available to preorder at TCGplayer.

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Samsung's most popular phones are big, almost to the point that they're too big to comfortably operate. If you've been using Android for quite some time now, you're surely familiar with the one-handed mode that comes on phones from the Galaxy to the Pixel. However, I recently discovered a similar yet mostly unknown Samsung Galaxy feature that changed the way I use my phone.

If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, would you rather listen to "Sunny Day" or "Rubber Duckie"?

Would you rather be able to fly or turn invisible?

These are some of the questions Sesame Street's Grover and Elmo answered when they stopped by Mashable's Say More studio to visit with Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko. With their distinct laughs and hilarious banter, Grover and Elmo covered a number of "Would You Rather" topics that taught us a little bit more about the classic Sesame Street icons.

After watching, drop your own answers in the comments. We'd love to hear them!

For more from Grover and Elmo and the whole Sesame Street family, check out new Sesame Street episodes are available on Netflix and PBS Kids June 8.

Building a smart home costs a fraction of what it once did, and there are plenty of opportunities to save some money along the way. I’ve always believed that there are some devices that are worth spending more on, whether that’s for safety, performance, or to save you hassle in the long term.