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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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  • newA whole language built from about 120 words
    Most invented languages try to say everything. Toki Pona tries to say just enough — with about 120 words and 14 sounds. The Canadian translator Sonja Lang built it in 2001, while she was struggling with depression, as a way to simplify her own thou…
    - 9 hours ago 19 Jul 26, 10:00am -
  • newWhat is the cause of mystery booms heard around the world?
    In the 19th century, people living near the Barisal region of Bangladesh kept hearing what sounded like distant cannon fire booming out of a clear sky. The Barisal guns became one of the best-known examples of a "skyquake," a sudden loud sound with n…
    - 9 hours ago 19 Jul 26, 9:30am -
  • newIn 1945, Five bombers vanished and launched the Bermuda Triangle legend
    On December 5, 1945, five Navy torpedo bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine navigation exercise and never came back — the disappearance that launched the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. Partway through, the flight leader, Lt. Charles…
    - 10 hours ago 19 Jul 26, 9:00am -
  • newThe theory that UFOs come from Earth, not space
    Most UFO theories reach for outer space. The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis reaches down instead: it proposes that flying saucers come not from distant planets but from an advanced, hidden civilization that has been living on Earth all along — under…
    - 11 hours ago 19 Jul 26, 7:30am -
  • newAn AWS bug turned a 5-cent bill into $2.5 billion
    On the morning of July 17, a redditor who normally pays Amazon Web Services about five cents a month opened their inbox to a wall of billing alerts and a running tab of $2.5 billion. Their whole setup was a single S3 storage bucket, untouched since 2…
    - 12 hours ago 19 Jul 26, 7:00am -
  • This $430 MacBook Pro once cost nearly $2,000
    TL;DR: This Grade A refurbished 2020 MacBook Pro has 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 13.3-inch Retina display for $429.97 instead of $1,999.A new MacBook Pro can cost the approximate GDP of a small moon colony. Or you could get this refurbished 202…
    - 1 day ago 18 Jul 26, 4:00pm -
  • Some people initiate sex in their sleep and remember none of it
    Sexsomnia is a parasomnia — in the same family as sleepwalking — in which a person engages in sexual acts during non-REM sleep. People in an episode often appear fully awake because their eyes are open, but they're unconscious and typically have…
    - 1 day ago 18 Jul 26, 11:00am -
  • Free up computer space with 2TB of cloud storage for $59 — for life

    - 1 day ago 18 Jul 26, 10:00am -
  • Two AIs got $100 each to make a music video by themselves
    Someone at TryAI handed two frontier AI models the same assignment: here's Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk," a budget, and a shell with ffmpeg plus access to every video-generation model on the market — now direct a music video by yoursel…
    - 1 day ago 18 Jul 26, 8:30am -
  • New monkey: so rare only 8 of 52 nearby villages knew it existed
    An international team including Yale researchers has described a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopy of the Democratic Republic of Congo — only the fifth new African monkey found in the past 75 years. The small, black ani…
    - 1 day ago 18 Jul 26, 8:00am -

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