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If you're a fan of made up holidays, today's a day worth celebrating. June 5 is officially National Donut Day — something everyone can get behind — which means you can enjoy free or discounted donuts at restaurants and retailers across the nation.

The holiday was created by The Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the women who served up donuts and other treats to soldiers during World War I. It's celebrated annually on the first Friday in June.

If you're looking to participate in the sweet celebration of delicious pastries today, there are some very tempting deals from chains you know and love. We've rounded up some of the best freebies and discounts we could find below. Cheers.

National Donut Day deals and freebiesDunkin'

Dunkin' customers can enjoy a free donut with the purchase of any beverage for National Donut Day for the 16th year in a row.

Krispy Kreme

It wouldn't be Donut Day without an offer from Krispy Kreme. Customers can get a free donut of their choice in stores on June 5 (with select specialty and limited-time donuts excluded). No purchase necessary. The offer is limited to one donut per person, so don't be greedy! Krispy Kreme is also offering $2 Original Glazed Dozens when customers purchase any regularly priced dozen.

7-Eleven

7-Eleven 7Rewards and Speedy Rewards members can score classic glazed donuts for just 50 cents a pop at participating 7-Eleven, Speedway, and Stripes stores nationwide. Grab as many as you want — there's no limit.

Shipley Donuts

Customers can enjoy a free Shipley Donut Signature Glazed Donut with any purchase not just on June 5, but every Friday in June.

Voodoo Doughnut

When you sign up for the Voodoo Doughnut Fan Club, you can redeem a free donut on National Donut Day. Note that the offer is not available at Universal CityWalk or airport locations.

Tim Hortons

Tim Hortons U.S. locations are giving out free donuts with the purchase of any beverage through June 7. Customers can redeem the offer once every day through June 7 with the Tims app.

Parlor Doughnuts

Parlor Doughnuts is celebrating National Donut Day by giving customers free French Toast Layered Donuts, topped with maple glaze, cinnamon sugar, and an icing drizzle, with any in-store purchase at participating locations on June 5. The offer is only valid while supplies last, so go sooner rather than later.

Sheetz

Customers can score one free donut with any food or beverage purchase of $5 or more at Sheetz from June 5 through June 9. The offer can be redeemed only once in the Sheetz app, while supplies last.

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.

With Secretary of State Marco Rubio getting a grilling over Donald Trump's apparent mid-day napping habits, Seth Meyers decided to dig into the issue himself on Late Night.

"If there's one thing we know about Trump it's that he's a keen judge of character, he's alway paying close attention to the habits and qualities of the people around him," says Meyers over footage of Trump with his eyes closed in the Oval Office. "We've all seen him in meetings, razor sharp, laser-focussed, locking eyes with everyone around him, carefully scrutinising every word and every gesture, taking the true measure of the men and the soon-to-be-fired women who make up his administration and sure, to you it looks like he's asleep, but everyone looks like they're sleeping when you're so woke."

Cue five minutes of detailed analysis on the president's sleeping habits.

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I'm primarily a Windows user, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. But like a lot of people, I had a few perfectly good Windows machines that couldn't officially upgrade to Windows 11 despite having no obvious performance problems. They weren't broken, slow, or useless. They had just fallen on the wrong side of Microsoft's requirements.

SAVE OVER $100: As of June 5, the Sony ULT Wear headphones in black are discounted to $144.95 at Amazon. This is $105.04 off their list price of $249.99.

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Sony's ULT Wear headphones are a pair we have a lot of love for. Landing on our list of the best noise-canceling headphones, they've actually earned the spot as our favorite pick for bass lovers. If they sound right up your alley, you don't actually have to wait until Prime Day to score a good deal, as they're currently on sale at Amazon.

The black pair of Sony ULT Wear headphones has dropped to $144.95 at Amazon, a discount of just over $100 from their full price of $249.99. They're not the only color on sale, though. For a few dollars extra at $148, you can also save on the off-white pair, if you prefer those.

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If big bass is a high priority for you in headphones, the Sony ULT Wear can deliver. Mashable's Miller Kern noted in her original review that the "booming sound makes other (decidedly good) headphones sound flat, and the option to punch the bass up two levels is something I didn’t even know I needed in a pair of headphones."

She does mention that the "design is not as sleek as other headphones I’ve worn or seen, but that’s a fair tradeoff for amazing sound and a more affordable price." They'll last you quite a while through any long journeys you have planned as well, as they offer up to 30 hours of battery life.

Why not treat yourself to a pair of new headphones this summer? Save big on the Sony ULT Wear headphones at Amazon.

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Netflix really does like to wave something shiny and new in your face, doesn't it? This week, it's J.Lo falling for Roy Kent in Office Romance, plus the new additions of the Rocky, Creed, and Karate Kid franchises, all landing on the same day. These are all great for movie night, but less so when you're looking for something you can sink your teeth into for an entire weekend, or more.