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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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    TL;DR: Get professional-looking results sans the steep learning curve with lifetime access to this Luminar Neo Bundle for just $69.97 (reg. $332).These days, taking your own pictures is easy enough. Mobile cameras are almost as good as normal came…
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    TL;DR: Manage, edit, sign, and organize your PDFs from a single workspace with this lifetime subscription to PDF Expert Premium Plan for just $79.99 (reg. $139.99).Instead of collecting multiple subscriptions to manage your PDFs, why not invest in…
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  • Simplify complex data into clear diagrams for $49 with Microsoft Visio 2024 for life
    TL;DR: Turn complex processes, data, and workflows into professional diagrams with this lifetime license to Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 for Windows for just $48.97 (reg. $579.99).While well-made diagrams are an easy way to represent complex…
    - 2 days ago 11 Sep 26, 4:00pm -
  • This Japanese game show turned people into human pool balls
    This clip is from a Japanese TV show called Masquerade, a variety show that first aired in 1979. The premise of the show was that people would turn themselves into everyday objects without any use of special effects. Forget CGI or AI: these folks use…
    - 2 days ago 11 Sep 26, 2:38pm -
  • Watch thousands of swifts swarm into a chimney at dusk
    This ethereal clip shared by AccuWeather shows thousands of birds swarming around a church steeple at dusk. The birds put on quite a show, circling around and around like a scene from a scary movie, until they finally decided to settle down for the n…
    - 2 days ago 11 Sep 26, 2:38pm -
  • In 1963, two kids found the most interesting thing in an art museum
    I've seen lots of amazing photos of people doing funny or interesting things inside art museums over the years, but this one takes the cake. Herb Slodounik took this photo in 1963. The photo shows a fancy art museum filled with paintings, but two chi…
    - 2 days ago 11 Sep 26, 2:37pm -
  • A single bacterium can learn — and it works like an AI neural network
    Shiladitya Banerjee, a computational biophysicist at Georgia Tech's School of Physics, ran an experiment with thousands of individual E. coli cells. He varied their food supply and noticed that the bacteria behaved differently depending on the previo…
    - 2 days ago 11 Sep 26, 1:30pm -
  • Droopy Don shows his respect for 9/11 victims by apparently dozing through their names
    Grumpy and tired, as he was not invited to speak at the Ground Zero ceremony, Grandpa Pudding Brains decided to nap at the Pentagon remembrance event instead.The Pentagon began its 9/11 ceremony by reading the names of all 184 people killed there, t…
    - 2 days ago 11 Sep 26, 1:19pm -
  • Researchers found evidence of drug use 25,000 years ago
    Years ago I spent a couple of months in Malaysia. In the capital, Kuala Lumpur, I noticed little stalls selling betel nut. It's a psychoactive stimulant. I bought some from a vendor to try it. He gave me a kit with some sliced betel nuts, fresh betel…
    - 2 days ago 11 Sep 26, 1:09pm -
  • JD Vance answers accusations of racism with more racism
    Tired of people noticing the racism, JD Vance leaned into some racist rhetoric. At the Republican "midterm convention" in Dallas, Trump's lackey complained that "Americans" have been unfairly labeled for noticing that the country was becoming "dirtie…
    - 2 days ago 11 Sep 26, 1:04pm -

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