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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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Poly

Everyone says the iPad doesn't count as a computer because it's a content consumption device and not a content creation device. We say to hell with that. Download the Poly app and you can do in 10 minutes what it took Picasso a lifetime to master. Take that college art…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
Teroforma “Whisky Stones”

You might be able to find them in different shapes and sizes now, but whisky stones weren't always the ubiquitous drinking accessory that they are now. This is the story of that original Aha! moment and a behind the scenes look at the process of creating them, told by the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Dark Knight Rises

We don't need to tell you why you should watch the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. You saw The Dark Knight, you know what Christopher Nolan is capable of and you've no doubt already clicked through months of candid shots of Bane. In fact, we're fairly sure you've already clicked…

By Mike Newman
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Urban Flipper Playable Pinball Machine

The only issue we ever had with pinball was the sheer size of the game.  While easy to store in an arcade or back of a run-of-the-mill pizza joint, putting Intellivision/NES/Sega Genesis/Playstation/Xbox 360 just made more sense to us for optimal storage vs entertainment ratio.  So, it would be easy…

By Mike Newman
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Roll Up Travel Charger

If you want to know what it feels like to be Tim Tebow for a few hours, you have a few options. You could attempt to become a football star, but it's a little late in life for that and some amount of it is probably genes. It's much easier…

By Cooper Fleishman
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