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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
The Dark Knight Rises – Official Trailer #3

We'll be honest, there could be 40 official trailers for The Dark Knight Rises and we'd post every single one of them. Each one would include a few words that would make us sound like 13-year-old girls waiting for the new Twilight Games movie (that's what they're called, right?). In…

By Mike Newman
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Big Jambox

When Jawbone decided to make a bigger version of the Jambox, we can only assume that after hours of debating names someone half-jokingly tossed out, "What about 'Big Jambox?'" At that the team, so tired from crafting a kick-ass product, responded with a, "Fine, now can we please get some…

By Mike Newman
Big Jambox
Computers
ZDAY Survival Simulator for iPad

If you need proof that video games don't always prepare you for real-life situations, go pick up a gun and fire it like you would in Grand Theft Auto or grab a football and try flinging it around like you would in Madden. Wait, you're not Payton Manning? These things take some…

By Mike Newman
ZDAY Survival Simulator for iPad
Phones
Klout for iPhone

Every post we put on Facebook we expect to be received with fanfare, perhaps a parade and more likes than the social network can handle. What we usually get is "a" like and "a" dead iPhone battery from checking to see if we got any comments. Still, we can't help…

By Mike Newman
Klout for iPhone
Computers
Voice Authenticating USB Drive

We all have sensitive files that never need to see the light of day. Maybe it's blackmail information on your boss, or a top-secret chicken recipe or photographic evidence of the location of all your special friend's moles, but you don't want those things floating around on the open Internet.…

By Cooper Fleishman
Voice Authenticating USB Drive