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Kicked off HBO Max, Elmo and friends find a new home
Get ready for episodes of Sesame Street sponsored by the letter “N,” as Netflix has stepped in to stream the no-longer-homeless children’s show. The makers of Sesame Street made the announcement Monday morning, noting on X that “all new Sesame Street episodes” will soon be streaming on Netflix. The news comes roughly six months after Max—soon to (once again) be HBO Max—chose not to renew its deal with Sesame Workshop for new Sesame Street episodes. Max still has a deal for streaming older Sesame Street episodes, which will remain on the streamer until 2027, according to Deadline. Besides appearing on Netflix, all the new episodes for Sesame Street season 56 will air day-and-date on PBS stations as well as the PBS Kids app, a change from the Max days when Sesame Street fans had to wait before watching new episodes on PBS. Sesame Street’s move to Netflix is yet another sign of the identity crisis over at Max—or HBO Max, or whatever it’s called these days. HBO had been Sesame Street’s home since 2016, well before HBO Max came on the scene. Still, the legendary kids show fit in with Max’s former strategy of being a big tent rather than a specialty purveyor of adult-oriented programming, hence the rationale behind jettisoning the “HBO” part of the “HBO Max” brand. But sentiments about Max’s future began to shift in late 2024, as the streaming service began to drop some of its more popular kid-friendly programming in the interest of “prioritizing our focus on stories for adults and families,” as Max said in a statement at the time. That shift culminated late last week, when Warner Bros. Discovery announced that Max would go back to being called “HBO Max” this summer. So it’s interesting that Netflix, by far the largest of Max’s competitors, swooped in to save Sesame Street, a move that notches another win for its own collection of children’s programming. Clearly, Netflix is all too happy to go big-tent with its streaming selection.

‘Calendar view’ is a novel way to manage your emails in Outlook
If you’re like most, you probably use Outlook with its standard inbox view. You know, the main list of individual email threads along with the navigation panel on the side and maybe the email preview panel on the other side. It’s what we think of as “standard” email browsing. But if you’re using classic Outlook, there’s another way—a completely different view that may or may not rock your world. I’m talking about the calendar view, which turns your email inbox into a calendar and shows a day-by-day chronological display of when emails landed in your inbox. Joel Lee / Foundry This view certainly isn’t suitable as your default way to manage a slew of daily emails, but it’s quite informative and works well as a supplementary way to navigate your email threads. Each email is shown like a calendar entry, and you can view in daily, weekly, or monthly views. Here’s how to access calendar view for emails: Joel Lee / Foundry Select the View tab in the ribbon navigation, then click Change view at the left side of the bar, then select Manage views. A new window will open. Click the New button, then type in whatever name you want to use for the new view. (“Email Calendar” should be fine.) Under “Type of view,” select Day/Week/Month. Under “Can be used on,” leave it on All Mail and Post folders. Then click OK three times to save. Now, go back to the View tab in the ribbon navigation, click Change view again, then select your newly created calendar view. Again, this is only possible with classic Outlook as of this writing. It’s unclear whether this functionality will come to the new Outlook. However, unlike classic Outlook, the new Outlook is getting offline calendar support, which could be worth making the switch for. Further reading: Useful tips for the new Outlook app

I’m stoked for this barebones, upgradeable Corsair keyboard
I love mechanical keyboards. I love building them, and tweaking them, and customizing them. I won’t buy one for myself without the ability to hot-swap the switches. So Corsair’s new MAKR 75, the first in what looks like a new line, is instantly appealing to me. The company will sell it to you barebones, with upgrades for everything from wireless to a tiny screen. Don’t buy that last one, please. With a 75% layout, The MAKR 75 looks a lot like the K65 Plus Wireless, my current pick for the best gaming keyboard on the market. But in a similar fashion to the GMMK 3, you can customize pretty much every element on Corsair’s Custom Lab online interface. Options for different elements and upgrade include the plate material, MX-compatible switches (hotswap, naturally), a variety of keycaps, a wireless radio plus battery, and a choice of an LCD or volume knob. That’s a lot of options! Unfortunately it also costs a lot of dollars. Looking at the online building tool, the barebones model starts at $215, sans switches, keycaps, and those wireless powers. That’s a high price for a barebones board, and adding on the bells and whistles can bring it up to $375 at the most premium. You won’t save anything by foregoing the assembly and doing it yourself, either. Again, the high price of upgrades is an instant turn-off for a consumer product, even if it’s fairly typical in terms of more custom or customized keyboards from boutique makers. Corsair I appreciate the work that went into making all these options for the MAKR 75 configurable from the get-go…but I get the feeling that anyone looking for a keyboard in this price range will look at other options. The only exception will be those who need access to gaming software for heavily-tweaked, game-specific programming options. And admittedly, Corsair’s iCue is among the better software tools for the gamers…even if that’s damning with faint praise. The Corsair MAKR 75 is currently only offered via the build tool, shipping out within the week.