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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
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Lab-Box Daylight Film Developing Kit

If you were ever interested in analog film photography, you know what a pain it can be to have your film developed. With the Lab-Box Daylight Film Developing Kit you don't have to worry about a darkroom or wait for your film to come back from a lab because you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Analogue Nt Mini Plays All Your Old Nintendo Games

Forget all those plug n' play "retro" video game systems with only a handful of classic titles that always seem to appear on store shelves around the holidays. The Analogue Nt Mini is a modernized NES. The revamped Nintendo Entertainment System was built from the ground up by Analogue to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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ColorWare Retro iPhone 7+

ColorWare, the Minnesota-based paint shop that's been customizing electronics for almost two decades, just dropped details on their latest creation, the Apple iPhone 7+ Retro. Decked out to look like a Macintosh computer from the 1980s, ColorWare's Retro iPhone features an overall light beige paint job with darker stripes on…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
‘American Playboy,’ Amazon’s Hugh Hefner Biopic Trailer

Amazon's latest Original piece is a biopic about the one and only Hugh Hefner. Say what you will about Hef: Pioneer. Provocateur. Father. Bachelor. Rebel. Activist. Visionary. Playboy. Legend. The man is an icon that absolutely deserves to have his story told. Based on the production quality of this American…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
8 New Apps You Should Know

Instead of wading through the massive amount of new app releases searching for a few diamonds in the rough, just let us be your guide. This is a collection of our favorite new apps for both iOS and Android for your downloading pleasure. Black Blue Remember "The Dot Game" (aka…

By Cooper Fleishman
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