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

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The Rise of Prediction Culture
By Cool Material
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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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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
Videos
Turning a Log Into a Dugout Canoe

If you had asked us what it took to build a canoe in the era before power tools and big box hardware stores we probably would have just said "a lot." After seeing "The Birth of a Dugout Canoe" by Northmen we can safely say it's far more work than…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
‘Three Billboards’ – Red Band Trailer

Just so we're clear, a "Red Band" trailer is the kind that isn't so safe for work. Now that you've shut off the speakers and donned your headphones, here we go. Three Billboards is the latest film from Martin McDonagh, who you probably know from the criminally underappreciated In Bruges. This time,…

By Mike Newman
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Features
Google Search Hacks

Google search may very well be one of the most critically important inventions of all time. We don’t know about you, but we use it daily in our lives to answer all the questions we can’t, like “How spell bureaucracy?” or “How cook crystal meth?” Over the years, Google has…

By Maxwell Barna
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Recreated Cocktails from “The Simpsons”

Cocktail Chemistry is a fantastic site and YouTube channel where you can learn about everything from making a boulevardier to a snowglobe cocktail. For the newest series, Recreated, they're tackling some of the iconic and hilarious cocktails from The Simpsons. Cocktails like the Flaming Homer. Going frame by frame to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
A Fictive Flight Above Real Mars

Using anaglyph images of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as a starting point, Finnish photographer/inventor/designer/director/artist Jan Fröjdman set about creating a three dimensional rendering titled A Fictive Flight Above Real Mars. It's mesmerizing, breathtaking, astonishing and mind-blowing. Fröjdman is quick to point out that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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