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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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Daft Punk Unchained Official Trailer

Daft Punk Unchained is the epic story of everyone's favorite music making robot duo in a first of its kind documentary. This is the official trailer for that film, and you should watch it immediately before someone on the Internet ruins something for you. The movie will be released worldwide…

By Cooper Fleishman
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‘The Big Short’ Trailer

Brad Pitt. Christian Bale. Ryan Gosling. Steve Carell. We'd see any movie that the four of them were involved in, but it's even better when Adam McKay, the man behind Step Brothers, Anchorman and The Other Guys, is the one behind the camera. Based on the book by Michael Lewis…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Memories Cable Stores Data and Charges Your iDevices

Apple might have significantly reduced the size of the major updates to iOS, but you're still going to run out of space on your phone at one point or another. Rather than having to worry about manually backing everything up to your computer, iCloud or even a cumbersome external drive,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Camera That Forces You to Take Unique Photos

Spend enough time at popular tourist destinations and you're bound to take the same exact photo someone else has. You might throw some extra filters on it or edit it differently, but fundamentally the photo is the same. Camera Restricta is a speculative design of a new type of camera…

By Cooper Fleishman
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A Rare Glimpse Inside the Yakuza

Someone bold enough to snap shots of the mafia could easily find himself swimming with the fishes. But for one Belgian photographer, a Yakuza family in Japan actually allowed him access for two years. From the images and stories that emerged, a very different picture gets painted from the one…

By Mike Newman
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