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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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Oculus Has Two New VR Headsets Worth Checking Out

A proper virtual reality experience used to require giant moving contraptions or full-sized arcade-style contraptions, but the Oculus Rift and other similar headsets brought that experience into the living room. Oculus is back with two new VR headsets that are better than the existing Oculus Rift in completely different ways.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Ford Self-Braking Shopping Cart

Errant shopping carts are machines of destruction and injury when wielded by overeager children or oblivious adults. Plus, aside from making them out of red plastic, shopping carts have advanced about as much as toilet paper has. As part of Ford’s Interventions Series, the “Self-Braking Trolley” utilizes the automaker’s Pre-Collision…

By Amos Kwon
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Samsung Is Making a Vertical TV Targeted at Millennials

You know who hates vertical videos? Everyone. Except millennials apparently, because they're the target market for Samsung's latest TV, The Sero. If their press release is to be believed--and we have no reason to doubt it--Samsung South Korea is targeting both millennials and baby boomers with their new 43" TV…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Nike x Tom Sachs Exploding Poncho

In 2015, Nike began work on a design challenge focused on transforming apparel. Nike's senior design director for apparel special projects, Jarrett Reynolds, was intrigued by the idea of a slimline pack with a quick-deploy poncho that was easily deployed and repacked. Eventually the project ended up in the hands…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Simplify Chrome Extension Declutters Gmail

If you're anything like us, the amount of emails you get on a daily basis is almost insurmountable. Gmail does their best to make things easy with smart filters, categories and other features, but the loss of Inbox was a huge blow to daily productivity. The new Simplify Chrome extension…

By Cooper Fleishman
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