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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
Videos
Evolution of Get Lucky

The amount of Get Lucky covers out there is mind-blowing. Most are okay at best and quite a few will wreck your eardrums. This work from PV Nova, on the other hand, is simply amazing. It imagines the Daft Punk tune as it would sound through the decades and it…

By Mike Newman
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The Konstruktor – The World’s First 35mm DIY Camera

If someone asked us to build a camera, we wouldn't know where to start. With The Konstruktor from Lomography it's actually quite simple. The Konstruktor is the world's first 35mm SLR do-it-yourself camera. All you do is click and screw together the kit in a few steps and you'll be…

By Mike Newman
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300: Rise of an Empire Trailer

How did we not know they were making this? Yeah, you're gonna have to wait quite a bit until you can actually see the movie (it comes out in March next year), but this will wet your appetite for the sequel to 300. Themistocles does battle with the invading Persians…

By Mike Newman
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The World’s First Playable Beer Bottle

All we really do with empty beer bottles is throw them in a giant recycling bin that informs our neighbors we have a bit of a problem every time we haul it to the curb. Beck's teamed up with Gyro Constructivists to put one of those empties to better use.…

By Mike Newman
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Ill Submarine – The Beastles

The two Beastie Boys/Beatles mashup albums were missed by a lot of the public because they were ripped offline before many even knew they existed. Now, dj BC has brought The Beastles project back with a full album of clever music mashing. Here's a little taste.

By Mike Newman
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