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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
Spring Breakers Trailer

The are two very good reasons to see Spring Breakers. The first, and far more obvious, is the sheer amount of bikinis the movie promises to offer. The other, is to simply watch James Franco play a dreadlock-ed thug. Starring Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez (yes, that also makes us…

By Mike Newman
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Urbanears Slussen

The Slussen from Urbanear is officially the tiniest DJ setup ever. Instead of a pair of Technics, a mixer, and a case full of vinyl, it lets you do play DJ right from your phone. Simply carry around the little splitter dongle on your keychain, pop it into your phone's…

By Mike Newman
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Jack Daniels The Whiskey Drum

Have you ever thought about stripping down that Jack Daniels barrel you have sitting around your place and building a custom snare drum out of it? Yeah, thought not. But the guys from SJC, Jack Daniels and Zac Brown Band made it happen anyway. Here's the process:

By Cooper Fleishman
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OD-11 Cloud Speaker

If you ask almost anyone what the most influential sneaker of all time is, they're probably going to say Nike Air Force Ones. If you didn't own a pair when you were little, you dreamed about it. If you did own a pair, you guarded those things with your life,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Palmer Acoustic iPhone Dock

The guys at Palmer started working on this product because they love iPhones, design and music. We're sold because we love all of those things too. It just so happens that their acoustic iPhone dock (4 / 4S / 5 compatible) is better than what we would have even imagined…

By Cooper Fleishman
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