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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
Audio
Sony SA-NS500 HomeShare Portable Speaker

At this point in time, it's harder to get us interested in another speaker/dock/super-universal-totally-versatile-sound-system than it is to get us to a dry wedding. Sony actually piqued our interest with the new HomeShare Portable Speaker for more than one reason. First, it's not ugly. It's AirPlay enabled (No iDevice? Just…

By Cooper Fleishman
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UP by Jawbone

We flip through issues of Outside magazine while planning our next rock climbing expedition but until we gear up on the trip, most of our time is spent staring at PDF files and random websites. So, as much as we'd like to trick ourselves into thinking we're active beings with…

By Mike Newman
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Videos
“21 Jump Street” Red Band Trailer

21 Jump Street was a show about older police officers pretending to be younger kids in order to infiltrate high schools and colleges. Even though it sounds like every show on the CW, it originally aired in the late 80s and starred Johnny Depp. Just like everything else these days,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Logitech Mini Boombox

It seems like every time we open an internet browser we're being bombarded with the latest and greatest iPod / iPhone / iPad dock. We haven't played with all of them, but when you see 15 of them a week it's safe to say they aren't all good. And what…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Cameras
Lomokino Movie Camera

Seeing as how everything else is going all "vintage" these days, it was only a matter of time before even photography took the plunge. Technically that would have been a more fitting statement to make around a decade ago, but you get the idea. Lomography is here and it's not…

By Cooper Fleishman
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