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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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The Cool Shop

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.

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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Google Home

A little over a year ago, Amazon launched Echo, an always-connected speaker/hub that allowed owners to receive answers to questions, hear the news, get the weather, and much more without pressing a button. Now, Google has released a competitor: Home. Google Home is a similar always-listening speaker that can respond to…

By Mike Newman
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‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Trailer

After watching  the pilot for USA's Mr. Robot last year, we went ahead and declared it The Best Show You're Not Watching. Now that you are watching—along with over one million other people—it's time for Elliot's second act, and if this official trailer is any indication, the coming season, which premieres in July,…

By Mike Newman
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Amazon Programmable Dash Button

The latest Amazon Dash button is going to do something far more exciting than make paper towel and laundry detergent reorders easy. It's going to do, well, anything. The Amazon AWS IoT Dash button is programmable so, with a little know-how, you can use it to request an Uber, order a pizza,…

By Mike Newman
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Robert Downey Jr. Shows Off His Epic Watch Collection

Leave it to GQ to get RDJ to sit down for a hilarious interview about the epic collection of watches he keeps in his jewelry box. It wouldn't be RDJ without a certain amount of triviality (who throws a Breitling and a Rolex on the floor?!?), but the collection really…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Ephemeral Tattoo Ink Disappears After a Year

Everyone knows that tattoos are awesome, but if you're one of those people that can never decide what they want or worries about future regret, Ephemeral is developing a "temporary" tattoo ink that's perfect. Just revealed at Tech Crunch Disrupt, the Ephemeral Tattoo Ink uses smaller molecules designed to be processed…

By Cooper Fleishman
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