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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
Freddie Mercury Google Doodle

In case you missed it (however impossible that might be), here's the full minute and a half Google Doodle tribute to the birthday of the one and only Freddie Mercury. Mercury himself might be gone, but he lives on through the music of Queen, tribute videos like this doodle and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Custom Cedar Cigar Box Powered Speakers

Some of us enjoy cigars regularly while others wait for the birth of a baby, the crowning of a championship team or a few too many tequilas with friends. Whatever the occasion may be, our interest is based on the smooth, mellow and relaxing feel of a good cigar—kind of like…

By Mike Newman
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BLAKROC2: Coming Soon…

Aerosmith and Run DMC might have put rock/rap hybrids on the airwaves for the masses with "Walk This Way," but there's always room for another good collaboration - BLAKROC2 will be the next one. Put all-but-legendary group The Black Keys in a studio with Talib Kweli, Jay Electronica, U God,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Movie Mount for iPad2

There is soon going to be a day where we do literally everything with our iPads. Chopping up onions for dinner: iPad. Steering your car: iPad. Voting: iPad. While we aren't there yet, we are starting to get dangerously close with all the products flooding the market that take your little…

By Mike Newman
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Helo TC Touch-Controlled Helicopter

We may have traded in our Star Wars PJs for a fitted suit and a snazzy tie-bar but as guys we will never lose our interest in toys. Sure in the years since we were young we put on a few pounds, gained a few late-night bender induced wrinkles and significantly…

By Mike Newman
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