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Tech

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
Los Gogo Single Fin 6’2″ Surfboard Construction

How It's Made shows are the male equivalent of Food Network (to be fair, we watch that with rapt attention too). The process of creation has always been something we've found interesting, and even if we've never been much good at surfing, we want to try again after seeing the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Fanhattan App

We'll admit that this Fanhattan app is far better than the Fanhattan app we dreamt up - one that shows you all the touristy spots in NYC - and unlike ours it happens to be free (we were planning on charging $375 a download - hey, you gotta make money somehow).  Fanhattan is a…

By Mike Newman
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Tech
GL1 Vehicle Diagnostics for iPhone/iPad

We do so much with our iPhones and iPads that we can imagine a not too distant future where they will sprout wheels and we'll actually drive them around like the little race cars those colorfully dressed monkeys used to do. Until this utopia exists, we will just use our iPhone or…

By Mike Newman
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Computers
Microsoft Wireless Mouse Artist Edition

Until we saw this new collection of Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 Studio Series - Artist Edition offerings (catchy name), we never really put much thought into our mice . . . mouses . . . meese?  Designed by five premiere artists from around the world each of these graphics add…

By Mike Newman
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Drinks
The Bond Mixology App

Even if you were a youngen when James Bond proclaimed, "Shaken not stirred," it affected you to the point where whatever was being put in your sippy cup next better be served that way or heads would roll.  Now for $2 we can live the Bond lifestyle - at least the drinking…

By Mike Newman
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