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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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  • newExtended trailer for Christopher Nolan's Odyssey
    Chris Nolan may be done making Batman movies, but you could be mistaken for thinking otherwise with how dark, gritty and full of black armor his upcoming The Odyssey movie is shaping up to be. Better-informed historians than I have torn into this mov…
    - 13 hours ago 5 May 26, 4:49pm -
  • newThe case for thinking of yourself as a meat-based language model
    Are humans just LLMs in meat suits? Arturo Nereu doesn't quite think so, but in a recent essay, he lays out the uncomfortable parallels between how large language models work and how he experiences his own thinking. The more he interacts with AI tool…
    - 13 hours ago 5 May 26, 4:22pm -
  • newKeep your projects on track with Microsoft Project Professional 2024
    TL;DR: The ultimate project management tool, Microsoft Project Professional 2024: Lifetime License for Windows, is available now for $54.97 (MSRP $1,129.99) until May 10 at 11:59 p.m. PT.Level up in the workplace with prime project management soft…
    - 13 hours ago 5 May 26, 4:00pm -
  • newWhy the "It's not X, it's Y" AI tic backfires on its writers
    Try to keep the idea of a white bear out of your head. Daniel Wegner's 1987 experiment is now showing up in a critique of one of the most recognizable AI writing tics, the LinkedIn-saturated "It's not X, it's Y," by University of Guelph linguistics…
    - 14 hours ago 5 May 26, 3:44pm -
  • newOne psilocybin dose may reshape brain wiring a month later
    A new paper in Nature Communications, covered by Ian Sample at the Guardian, claims a single 25mg dose may leave behind anatomical changes in the wiring itself, still visible 30 days on.Researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London rec…
    - 14 hours ago 5 May 26, 3:40pm -
  • newAfter Friday, Meta can read your Instagram DMs again
    This Friday, May 8, Meta will turn off end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs. The feature, added as opt-in in 2023, is being yanked because almost nobody used it — or at least, that's the official explanation, according to MacRumors, citing a Met…
    - 14 hours ago 5 May 26, 3:35pm -
  • newStunning new scans reveal RMS Titanic debris field in eerie detail
    Newly released 3D scans of the RMS Titanic wreck site reveal a sprawling debris field where everything from delicate tableware to massive machinery lies scattered across the ocean floor, presenting an unusually clear picture of how the ship broke apa…
    - 17 hours ago 5 May 26, 12:35pm -
  • newWhen your yacht is too big for Monaco, Italy, and reality
    Jeff Bezos may be looking to unload his record-setting sailing yacht Koru after discovering that a 417-foot floating monument to excess is, inconveniently, too large to dock in many of the places billionaires like to show them off.Koru is one of th…
    - 17 hours ago 5 May 26, 12:26pm -
  • newHowToBasic goes vegan with extremely cursed burger recipe
    I never thought I'd see the day when HowToBasic, the unhinged YouTube chef most famous for adding an artery-clogging amount of raw eggs to the smoldering detritus he calls his food, went vegan. Not a single one of his recipes ends without something o…
    - 17 hours ago 5 May 26, 12:04pm -
  • newThis destroyed Nintendo 3DS restoration is supernaturally relaxing
    A nearly destroyed Nintendo 3DS gets a meticulous second life in this restoration video, and watching it is ASMR-level satisfying. The careful disassembly of wafer-thin circuit boards, the lineup of delicate specialized tools, the anti-yellowing wash…
    - 17 hours ago 5 May 26, 12:04pm -

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