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  • Remove a Cork Stuck Inside a Wine Bottle With a Ribbon
    You go to pop open a fresh bottle of wine—maybe you don’t have a proper wine-opening tool —and the cork, or part of it, plummets into the bottle. You’re left with two choices: finish the bottle, or use this handy trick.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 6:00pm -
  • Flamyngo Simplifies Getting Travel Tips From Friends
    iPhone: If you’re heading out on vacation to somewhere your friends or family have already gone, it’s natural to ask for any suggestions they might have for places to go. This usually results in a mess of texts and emails from various people. Fla…
    - 3 Jul 16, 5:00pm -
  • Get Your Game of Thrones Fix With This Interactive, Spoiler-Proof Map
    Game of Thrones fans, you might not know what to do with yourself now that Season 6 is over. This interactive map will help you get your fix until the next season starts.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 3:00pm -
  • When In Doubt, Mimic the Body Language of Others to Be More Persuasive
    Body language varies from one person to another. Trying to follow a set of specific actions to effectively communicate with everyone is bound to fail. If you’re talking with someone one-on-one, mimic their body language instead to be more persuasiv…
    - 3 Jul 16, 2:00pm -
  • This DIY Wood Beer Carrier Even Has a Bottle Opener on the Side
    Instructables user Herbsco built this reusable, good-looking beer carrier out of solid walnut, which probably explains why it looks so good, but even if you don’t have that available, he has everything you need to make your own—and attach a bottl…
    - 3 Jul 16, 1:00pm -
  • Ambient Noise Showdown: Noisli vs. White Noise vs. Rain Rain
    Ambient noise apps drown out distractions so you can focus on your work, or generate serene, peaceful environments that encourage you to fall asleep. But with dozens you can download, it’s hard to know which is the best. Noisli, White Noise, and Ra…
    - 3 Jul 16, 10:00am -
  • A Video and Graphic Guide to 12 of America's Most Beautiful Natural Parks
    There are dozens of beautiful National Parks in the United States, but if you could only see one, this video and graphic guide from Expedia helps you narrow your choices down to 12 great parks you can explore, all of which are known for specific land…
    - 3 Jul 16, 9:00am -
  • Sunday's Best Deals: Fire HD 6, GreenWorks Tools, Weather Radios
    Weather radios, GreenWorks tools, and Amazon’s Fire HD 6 lead off Sunday’s best deals.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 8:30am -
  • This Week's Top Downloads
    Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.Read more...
    - 2 Jul 16, 6:00pm -
  • Clean Rusty Grill Grates With Some Oil, Salt, and a Potato
    If you don’t grill very often that probably means you don’t clean your grill regularly either. If your grill grates are covered in burnt food and rust, you can get it ready for a cookout with a few household staples.Read more...
    - 2 Jul 16, 5:00pm -

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  • newLight Flip is a minimalist phone without the dumb
    Light, maker of the stripped-down Light Phones (previously recommended), today announced the Light Flip, a clamshell model that swaps e-ink for matte OLED and gets a hinge, a keypad and (drum roll!) a camera. As much as I loved my Light Phone II, the…
    - 4 hours ago 21 Jul 26, 10:37am -
  • newLuke Skywalker's severed hand and lightsaber prop sold for $3.75M
    The lightsaber that Mark Hamill held and lost, along with the hand holding it, to the central reactor shaft of Bespin's Cloud City in "The Empire Strikes Back," which canonically was preserved in a cloning tank by Emperor Palpatine, or whatever, sold…
    - 5 hours ago 21 Jul 26, 10:00am -
  • newSpeak a new language confidently sooner than you dreamed with Rosetta Stone Sapphire for $127.20
    TL;DR: Learn to speak one (or more!) new languages confidently and naturally with a one-year subscription to Rosetta Stone Sapphire for $127.20, a 20% savings on the $159 regular price.Learning a new language has a ton of benefits: It challenges…
    - 5 hours ago 21 Jul 26, 10:00am -
  • newNorth Korea's fake village with painted-on windows
    From the South Korean side of the DMZ you can look through binoculars at a tidy North Korean town — bright blue roofs, multicolored walls, a childcare center, schools, a hospital. Kijŏng-dong is a stage set.The buildings are concrete shells with…
    - 5 hours ago 21 Jul 26, 9:45am -
  • newWhy 85% of tall buildings skip the 13th floor
    Fear of the number 13 has a proper name — triskaidekaphobia — and it's baked into the buildings around you. In 2002, an Otis Elevator executive estimated that among buildings with 13 or more floors and Otis elevators, 85% had no floor labeled the…
    - 6 hours ago 21 Jul 26, 9:28am -
  • newDrone spins into a ghostly blur, making it almost invisible
    Most attempts to hide a drone tinker with how it looks — camouflage, transparent shells, light-bending optics. Northwestern University engineers went the other way and changed how your eyes see it. Their prototype, the "Phantom Twist," spins up to…
    - 6 hours ago 21 Jul 26, 9:26am -
  • newMicrosoft Office is just $28, but only through July 26
    TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for $27.97 instead of $219.99. The one-time purchase includes eight familiar productivity apps for one PC, with no recurring subscription fee. The deal ends July 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT.Subscr…
    - 23 hours ago 20 Jul 26, 4:00pm -
  • Humanoid robot keeps fighting, even after his block was knocked off!
    China's humanoid robots continue to improve their kung fu and have expanded into MMA cage fighting. The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend tournament is a showcase for EngineAI's humanoid robot, the T800.The model is seemingly unironically named after…
    - 1 day ago 20 Jul 26, 3:03pm -
  • Jimothy is the weird little raccoon we need in these dark times

    - 1 day ago 20 Jul 26, 2:59pm -
  • William Shatner's metal band is playing Riot Fest
    Riot Fest has packed its lineup for 2026, with the Pixies, the Sex Pistols (sans Johnny Rotten), Patti Smith, and… William Shatner? The 95-year-old actor/space tourist/horse semen owner/singer and his heavy metal band the *uckers — the asterisk a…
    - 1 day ago 20 Jul 26, 2:56pm -

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