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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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Pabst Blue Ribbon Presents: The Greatest Beer Run Ever

John “Chickie” Donohue is a guy that had a rep as a wild child back in the day. During Vietnam, the merchant seaman was convinced by a friend tending bar one night to buy some other guys from the neighborhood a beer… in Vietnam. He did it. "The Greatest Beer…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Xilo 5.1 Speaker Is Made From a Formula 1 Exhaust

iXoost is an Italian company that makes some of the most gorgeous speakers and sound systems we’ve ever seen. Based in Modena, the capital of engines, the designers behind iXoost do their hometown justice by using Formula 1 exhausts to make their elaborate creations. The latest release, Xilo 5.1, uses…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Wasteland Weekend, The Festival Inspired by ‘Mad Max’

In case you missed it the last time we talked about it, Wasteland Weekend is an outdoor festival in the desert that allows you to live out all your Mad Max post-apocalyptic fantasies. For Mike “Sweet Lips” Orr, a life support aquarist at an aquarium in Vegas, that means outdoing…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Hover Camera

Drones have made it possible for people to record themselves without the help of a friend. But with these drones come complicated instructions, registration with the FAA, and a backpack-sized helicopter you have to carry around. Maybe it is easier to just grab a friend? Well, with Hover Camera, those problems are…

By Mike Newman
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When the King Held Court

Until watching this latest Victory Journal film presented by ESPN, we had no idea that Elvis was a huge racquetball fan. What started as a way to lose weight turned into a full-on addiction that led to a quarter million dollar court at Graceland and almost a chain called Presley’s…

By Cooper Fleishman
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