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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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  • newCrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse
    CrankGPT is a fully offline AI box that you power by turning a crank. There's no battery and no internet connection: just a single-board computer (Raspberry or Orange Pi) that runs speech recognition, a small language model, and text-to-speech locall…
    - 5 hours ago 16 Jun 26, 7:03am -
  • newBritish police officer accused of using AI to fabricate evidence
    A Derbyshire Constabulary officer is under criminal investigation over claims they used artificial intelligence to fabricate evidence. The BBC's Samantha Noble reports that it's thought to be the first case of its kind in Britain.The officer is all…
    - 5 hours ago 16 Jun 26, 6:42am -
  • newTrump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden
    When President Trump first showed reporters a model of the proposed United States Triumphal Arch, CBS News's Ed O'Keefe asked who it was for. "Me," said Trump. "It's going to be beautiful."The arch, formally in honor of the United States' 250th anni…
    - 6 hours ago 16 Jun 26, 6:13am -
  • newMoneroeville Mall hosts final Dawn of the Dead tour
    The sprawling Monroeville Mall outside of Pittsburgh is most famous as the setting for George A. Romero's 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead: the shambling zombies return out of instict, says one character, becuase the place "was important in their li…
    - 6 hours ago 16 Jun 26, 5:41am -
  • newWoman cheers Knicks win, LAPD bursts in and kills her dog
    A Black woman yelled, "Oh my god," because the Knicks won, someone called the LAPD, and police reportedly responded by bursting into her apartment and killing her golden doodle.According to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's Threads post, the dog was wearin…
    - 22 hours ago 15 Jun 26, 2:32pm -
  • newKeystone Kops get a physics lesson from falling bear
    A bear rescue in Rancho Sahuarita, Arizona, turned into a live-action cartoon when a tranquilized bear dropped from a tree, hit the tarp, and one of the humans went down with it.They meant well.The bear was tranquilized. What's the LEO's excus…
    - 23 hours ago 15 Jun 26, 1:31pm -
  • newMan who hates paying taxes loves government handouts
    Elon Musk hates taxes, government, regulation, and the public sector right up until the check clears.CNN's Chris Isidore lays out the part of the Musk myth that gets buried under all the rocket smoke and Cybertruck cosplay: SpaceX needed early NASA…
    - 23 hours ago 15 Jun 26, 12:45pm -
  • newViolet Jessop survived the Titanic, the Britannic, and a collision on the Olympic
    Violet Jessop was born in Argentina in 1887, the eldest of nine children. She survived tuberculosis as a child, contrary to doctors' predictions. At 21, she became a stewardess for Royal Mail Line. Then she boarded three White Star ships, and all thr…
    - 24 hours ago 15 Jun 26, 12:22pm -
  • newWatch an inebriated Bob Dylan troll a bored John Lennon about stealing "Norwegian Wood"
    In a great interview on Frank Santopadre's podcast, "Fun for All Ages" promoting his book Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other — And the World, author Jim Windolf describes how in 1966, Bob Dylan stole/parodie…
    - 24 hours ago 15 Jun 26, 12:21pm -
  • newGrandpa Pudding Brains algae-filled improvements
    After weeks of regaling us with his knowledge of great pool guys and shades of blue, The Orange Menace's taxpayer-funded vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is complete. By complete, we mean completely filled with algae.The most likely…
    - 24 hours ago 15 Jun 26, 12:20pm -

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