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

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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026
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What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

By Lanny Fuller
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The Rise of Prediction Culture

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

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I Watched USA vs. Bosnia Through the Lens of a Prediction Market

Checking Polymarket throughout the round of 32 game added an interesting perspective to my watching experience. Here are my notes.

By Lanny Fuller
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Amazon’s Fire TV Recast Is an OTV DVR

The only thing holding many back from cutting the cord is access to sports. When you want to watch some sports without paying for TV, you don't have any option outside of an over-the-air antenna. But what happens if you want to watch your sports, news or network television at…

By Cooper Fleishman
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8 Camera Bags For Trips That Require More Than Your Phone

The bag is usually the least glamorous part of photography. We’ve seen so many cumbersome, bulky, inefficient designs we’d almost resigned ourselves to wrapping our gear in bubble wrap and sticking it in a duffel bag. That’s about when we started looking for better camera bags and, surprisingly, finding them.…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Amazon's Alexa makes it so easy to listen to Spotify or Pandora, order products through its site or set reminders, that Echo devices have become a part of our daily lives. As much as we love all our Echo products, the bass response when listening to music is, well, a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Amazon Echo Auto Brings Alexa to Your Car

Amazon announced a bunch of new products yesterday designed to upgrade the Echo ecosystem throughout your home. Amazon has also decided that you need to have access to Alexa while you're driving, hence the introduction of the Echo Auto. Honestly, we're totally on board. Alexa makes it easy to play…

By Cooper Fleishman
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JBL Made a Modern Version of Their Classic L100 Speakers

The iconic JBL L100 speaker was first produced in 1970 and went on to become the bestselling loudspeaker in JBL's history. The JBL L100 Classic is a modern take on the original L100 found in homes across the country throughout the '70s and '80s. First, we need to talk about…

By Cooper Fleishman
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