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The Ultimate Tennis Showdown League, Copy + Paste IRL, and Berluti Buggy

Stream Now: Get Ready for the Ultimate Tennis Showdown League

League play begins this Sat, 6/13 and Sun, 6/14. Subscribe here.

Patrick Mouratoglou — coach of world champion Serena Williams and mentor to rising star Coco Gauff — has decided to launch his own league.. the UTS will tap 10 of the world’s top players, including Stefano Tsitsipas, Matteo Berrettini, David Goffin, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Benoit Paire, and Richard Gasquet, who will all compete in a series of matches streamed live via the event’s website. UTS will profile players in a completely different way, with a focus on behind-the-scenes and storytelling.” via Hypebeast more

(Endless) Summer Dreaming: YuJet Electric Surfboard buy

5 minutes to master. 40 minutes to ride. 16 mile range. 24 mph top speed. Remote controlled. Cruise the pond in style.

If Shredding the Gnar Isn’t For You… 

Cruise the Beach in Style in the Berluti Dune Buggy via Robb Report covet

“Handcrafted using a Volkswagen Beetle frame and motor and a polyester shell, it is an exceptionally light 500KG (about 1,212 lbs.) and runs on an air-cooled 1600cc flat-four engine with a twin carburetor and 90 horsepower. A rollover protection structure doubles as a surfboard stand, making it ideal for those looking to take it off-road in search of the best waves…”

The Berluti buggy is available by special order only.

 

How to Block +Sue Robocallers and Reap Sweet, Sweet Revenge via Popular Mechanics explainer

The TL;DR….

  • DoNotPay, a consumer advocacy firm known for its legal advice chatbot, has developed a new online tool that helps you automatically sue and block robocallers.
  • The app, Robo Revenge, generates false credit card credentials that you can provide to the robocaller. Through the transaction, DoNotPay gains info about whoever was behind the call.
  • In the end, DoNotPay helps you sue for up to $3,000 per fraudulent call.

Copy & paste the real world w. your phone using augmented reality via Venture Beat be amazed

“As this awesome demo from developer Cyril Diagne demonstrates, AR can be the perfect tool to quickly grab visuals from the real world and paste them into digital documents. Just point your phone at what you want to copy, and drag it over to your desktop. No fiddling around emailing images to yourself or cutting out objects in Photoshop…”

Get beta access to the AR Copy Paste app here.

https://storage.googleapis.com/arcopypaste.appspot.com/medias/video2.mp4

 

The New Batmobile is a Muscle-Bound ’68 Ford Mustang via The Drive start your engines

Embrace Debate: Which Batmobile Was the Most Badass?

Warner Bros. + D.C. Comics explore the 70-year lifespan of the Batmobile so from the early comics to the animated series and everything in between. Editor’s Note: Michael Keaton’s Impala was the G.O.A.T.

Take a 360-degree Tour of the International Space Station via Google Arts & Culture explore

Learn more about the out-of-this-world history of humans in space here.

Blowtorch Your Way to the Truly Best Medium Rare Steak via InsideHook read

“Instead of taking the sous-vide approach of cooking the meat evenly and then searing the top and bottom, we’re going to reverse that process by freezing the meat, torching the top and bottom to create a nicely browned crust, and then slow-cooking the steak to a perfectly uniform doneness. It’s easy, it’s delicious and have I mentioned that you get to play with a blowtorch?…”

Now if only we had access to one of Elon Musk’s highly coveted Boring Company (Not a) Flamethrowers….

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