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Tech

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
Transportation
DIY Beer Keg Sidecar

For most of us, getting a new bike means picking up all kinds of accessories like helmets, lights, bottle holders and the like. For German artist / designer / maker Laura Kampf, getting a new bike meant turning a beer keg into a sidecar. Yes, you read that correctly. Laura…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audio
McIntosh MTI100 Integrated Turntable

New York-based McIntosh Laboratory has been manufacturing high-end audio equipment for seven decades as of this year. Describing their products as top of the line is in no way a stretch as they have cult-like followings in Japan and Italy, and one of their car audio systems was even available…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
The Dude Returns for a Stella Artois Super Bowl Ad

Jeff Bridges has been putting in some truly remarkable performances across a whole host of genres for longer than most of you reading this have been alive, but he will always be Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski to us. The movie is more than two decades old at this point, so…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Tech
The Amazon Scout Robot Is Now Delivering Packages in Washington

Everyone knows that Amazon is not-so-slowly taking over the world. While we've seen plenty of improvements to their core business of package delivery over the years, we never thought we'd see functional delivery robots so soon. Amazon Prime Air flying drone delivery is an interesting idea in concept, but the practicality…

By Cooper Fleishman
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RoboSea Robo-Shark Underwater Robot

If you thought "Baby Shark" was going to be the only shark haunting you, you were wrong. Say hello to RoboSea's Robo-Shark, "a bionic underwater robotic platform used in the ocean with high speed and low noise." Robo-Shark was built with using a real shark as a sort of prototype,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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