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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
Phones
Luxeplates Stainless Steel iPhone Backplates

When you spend more than $100 on anything, some part of you always wants to show it off. If the expenditure in question happens to be a fancy new cellphone capable of talking back to you, you're going to want to show it off even more. The thing about iPhones…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
The Notorious IBE 2011 “All Battles All” Official Recap

Part dancing, acrobatics, circus contortion and self-mutilation, defying gravit... err, breakdancing, isn't something everyone is capable of doing. The Notorious IBE (International Breakdance Event) is the Bboy World Series and this is the highlight reel from 2011.

By Cooper Fleishman
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iTar iPad Guitar

iPads are fantastic media consumption devices. Netflix, games and music are never more than a finger tap away from occupying you for hours at a time, but they've been much for media creation (email doesn't count as media). Until now that is. Pledge $200 or more to Starr Labs and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Mother of All Hot Wheels Tracks

Our favorite Hot Wheels when we were kids were the ones that had the side panels that flipped over to reveal damage like they had just been t-boned, and, based how we played with them, that made perfect sense. When we made a track, we'd fling those pieces of metal so…

By Mike Newman
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Jotly

Verbifying nouns used to be reserved for the pretentious percentage of the population with multiple seasonal homes, but it isn't anymore. Now you can Google it and Facebook it and Yelp it and Twitter it. Each of these (over)sharing services have options for geo-location, so the 500 people you haven't…

By Cooper Fleishman
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