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Casio’s new $600 calculator is a work of art
Can a basic calculator with an old-school segmented LCD screen be beautiful? Casio's response to that question is its new S100X featuring a traditional Japanese hand-painted finish using sap from the lacquer tree, giving the calculator a glossy black finish with warm red highlights around the edges. It somehow looks even more luxurious than if […]
Buffy's Sarah Michelle Gellar begs fans not to read leaked reboot script
The Buffy reboot may no longer be happening, but Sarah Michelle Gellar still doesn't want fans looking for leaks.
Michael B. Jordan's favorite movie, Princess Mononoke, is an epic anime classic that's never been more relevant
Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke captures the messy spectrum of the human experience
Paramount’s $110 billion Warner Bros. gamble
Today on Decoder, let’s talk about the big Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. This deal could reshape all of media and entertainment if and when it closes. That’s still an if, which we’ll come back to — right now Paramount head David Ellison is very much acting like he’s over the finish line after outbidding Netflix, […]
MLB makes Polymarket its official prediction markets platform, giving it exclusive data access; Polymarket will restrict contracts that pose "integrity risk" (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
MLB makes Polymarket its official prediction markets platform, giving it exclusive data access; Polymarket will restrict contracts that pose “integrity risk” — On the cusp of opening day and under the cloud of a recent betting scandal, MLB reaches a licensing agreement with event-prediction platform