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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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Tech
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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Tech
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
Audio
Philips Fidelio L1 Headphones

We frankly don't understand how you could live in Paris. Yeah, we get that there's great food and beautiful women and all, but how do you not spend every waking minute in collette? If somehow we could just do our work at a little desk in the corner of that store and…

By Mike Newman
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Computers
Do More with the HP dv6t

If you're anything like us (and we suspect you are), then you expect your laptop to be constantly multitasking as you update Facebook, browse YouTube videos, check email, and challenge your friends to online poker simultaneously. And thanks to its 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor, the HP dv6t does…

By Cool Material Guest
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Audio
Rock Out with Beats Audio™ from HP

You may think you're happy with your computer's audio quality (or maybe you're just resigned to dealing with the distortion and drops that come with most machines), but hold onto your ski hat, because Beats Audio™ is about to blow your mind. This cutting-edge audio technology is only available on…

By Cool Material Guest
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Phones
The iPhone Lens Dial

If your iPhone photo options are limited to the post-snap editing of Camera+ and Intstagram, it's time to take your camera-phone game to a whole other level. The iPhone Lens Dial looks like Rick Moranis went all "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" on one of those swinging sight checkers at the…

By Mike Newman
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Audio
Hidden Radio & Bluetooth Speaker

Reading marketing copy like "the simplest and most intuitive product ever" in relation to an electronic device that interfaces wirelessly with other electronic devices seems a little misleading at first. What happened to all the bells and whistles and lights and knobs we're used to seeing on these sorts of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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