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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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  • newClaude Opus 4.7 identified a writer from 125 words she'd never published
    Kelsey Piper, a writer at Vox's Future Perfect, pasted 125 words of an unpublished political column into Claude Opus 4.7 last week and got her own name back. She hadn't logged in; the test was run in Incognito mode, confirmed through the API, and rep…
    - 13 hours ago 21 Apr 26, 4:57pm -
  • newMichio Kaku calls clustering of dead scientists a national security issue
    A string of researchers connected to advanced weapons, space, and nuclear programs have turned up dead or vanished in recent years — and physicist Michio Kaku thinks treating each case in isolation is a mistake the government can't afford to keep m…
    - 13 hours ago 21 Apr 26, 4:44pm -
  • newDesmond Morris wrote The Naked Ape in four weeks to pay for a house
    Desmond Morris, the English zoologist whose 1967 bestseller The Naked Ape argued that modern humans are basically fancy primates still running on Stone Age software, died Sunday near Dublin at 98, according to the New York Times. Twenty million copie…
    - 13 hours ago 21 Apr 26, 4:40pm -
  • newCatRank turns your favorite felines into an online pageant
    On CatRank, users can rank images of their favorite cats. When you use the site, you'll see pairs of cats under the "vote" tab. For each pair, you simply pick your favorite, then move on to rank the next pair, and so on. — Read the rest The post C…
    - 14 hours ago 21 Apr 26, 4:33pm -
  • newLegal Walls maps out where you can graffiti without getting arrested
    Legal Walls is a free global directory of spots where you can spray without getting arrested. The website plots each location on a world map with clickable markers — zoom in on any one to pull up a Google Street View, read community notes, and see…
    - 14 hours ago 21 Apr 26, 4:31pm -
  • newWoman dug 80 feet under her house — the city tried to stop her
    Sometimes a video like this one will make me look around my home and feel like I'm not using my free will to the fullest. Kala, who goes by Engineer Kala on Instagram and TikTok, decided to build an 80-foot-long, 30-foot-deep passage beneath her home…
    - 14 hours ago 21 Apr 26, 4:29pm -
  • newXbox finally cut Game Pass prices — here's the fine print
    For the past while, it's seemed like every time Xbox was in the news, it was the same old story: prices going up, offerings staying exactly the same. Whether it was hardware, software, or Game Pass, you'd be paying more for the same stuff — either…
    - 14 hours ago 21 Apr 26, 4:22pm -
  • newThis cat brushing game has Flappy Bird vibes but scarier
    Brushing a cat is a tricky affair. Cats require consent for any kind of touching, and will attempt to murder you if you violate their bodily autonomy. This is essentially the core idea behind Brush Jjaemu, a free web game on itch.io. — Read the res…
    - 14 hours ago 21 Apr 26, 4:20pm -
  • newSplatoon Raiders finally gets a release date — July 23
    I really, really, like Splatoon's colorful postapocalyptic universe, its unbelievably slick form-shifting gameplay, and, weirdly enough, the awesome ink physics. I do not like getting my ass handed to me by 12-year-olds hopped up on Capri-Sun, though…
    - 14 hours ago 21 Apr 26, 4:16pm -
  • newThis $80 AI tool brings chat, image, audio, video, and docs together in one place
    TL;DR: This $79.97 1min.AI plan (reg. $540) combines a huge list of AI models and tools for writing, images, PDFs, audio, video, and team collaboration.There is now a whole genre of digital life built around opening one AI tool for writing, anoth…
    - 14 hours ago 21 Apr 26, 4:00pm -

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