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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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Amazon Fire TV Is Best Value Streaming Box

We know you probably already have at least one of the three most popular streaming set top boxes on the market, but you're still going to want an Amazon Fire TV. The tech specs alone put it far above the competitors: quad-core processor (most others are single-core), 2GB of memory…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Making Of: The Aether x SPIDI Eclipse Motorcycle Jacket

Aether makes some of the best looking outerwear on the market. SPIDI makes some of the safest motorcycle gear on the market. When they got in bed together to make the Eclipse Motorcycle Jacket, magic happened.

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
The Drop is One of James Gandolfini’s Last Movies And It Looks Fantastic

We'll take every opportunity we get to see more of the brilliance of James Gandolfini. The trailer for one of his final films, The Drop, just came out and we can only hope the film lives up to the trailer. The story is from the same author that wrote Gone Baby…

By Mike Newman
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Lifestyle
Hands-On: Qualcomm Toq

We spent a couple months with the Qualcomm Toq to see if it’s the smartwatch you should finally spend your money on. After using it for that long, here’s what we found out: The Watch The Toq comes in a well-designed package that includes the watch itself, the charging base,…

By Jeff Drumheller
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Sony Digital Paper Looks to Replace All Office Paperwork

If you find things on your office desk and can tell when they were from by the stacks of paper you found them in, Sony's Digital Paper would like to help out. The handheld letter-size device lets you annotate, share, and save all the documents you and your coworkers are…

By Mike Newman
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