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The latest in tech: the newest products, most exciting innovations and biggest releases.

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I Watched USA vs. Bosnia Through the Lens of a Prediction Market
By Lanny Fuller
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Black Book: 13 Products Our Editors Loved in June 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in June 2026.

By Cool Material
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On Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, 20 Years Later

And how horror went from critically hated to the latest Cannes "it" genre.

By Andy Crump
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The Rise of Prediction Culture

From sports to pop culture, Polymarket is changing how we engage with what happens next.

By Cool Material
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Contacts That Can Zoom Are Almost a Reality

Plenty of you reading this will have been blessed with perfect eyesight. For the rest of us, it's glasses, contacts or Lasik surgery. While we're cool with whatever works best for you, advances in the world of contact science by researchers at the University of California San Diego have led…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
Jeremy Mayer Typewriter Assemblage Sculptures

We know there's more than the world's fair share of artists out there who create original works from junk, but Jeremy Mayer stands out because his pieces are actually poetically beautiful in their exclusive use of old mechanical typewriter parts. Inspired from a very young age when he dismantled his…

By Amos Kwon
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Sony RX100 VII

Don’t call the compact Sony RX100 VII a point-and-shoot. The small powerhouse packs a big tech punch. It was built for creatives and delivers the goods with rich SLR capabilities like a Single Burst Driving Shooting Mode, an external microphone port, and what’s known as Real-Time Eye Auto-Focus that has…

By Amos Kwon
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‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Official Trailer

We're not going to be the first publication that admits that the entire zombie genre as a whole is played out, but it basically lead to the death of the AMC network as a whole. Zombieland gets a pass because the movie franchise is completely hilarious--even without Bill Murrary, but…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
‘The Shining’ LEGO Trailer by kreimkouk

This hilarious, albeit still creepy stop motion LEGO trailer for a nearly 40-year old film feels fresh and rightly timed before the "Doctor Sleep" sequel hits this November. Brilliantly and meticulously created by YouTuber kreimkouk, who has done his fair share of LEGO trailers, LEGO The Shining has 2,130 stop…

By Amos Kwon
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