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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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  • newFar-right pro-Trump ex-gay still-British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE
    "Zero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts," wrote political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on social media last year. Today the Briton was taken into custody by ICE, having allegedly overstayed in the U.S. He last legally entered the co…
    - 5 hours ago 28 Aug 26, 5:53pm -
  • newFBI drops ban on hiring people who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes
    Applicants who have had used the services of sex workers are not eligible to join the FBI, a prohibition the bureau now plans to drop. It will consider "in a more holistic manner" those candidates who have "engaged in the practice," reports the Assoc…
    - 6 hours ago 28 Aug 26, 5:35pm -
  • newSteve Jobs told his stepbrother to keep his old stuff. Good call!
    Steve Jobs couldn't be bothered to retrieve his old eighth-grade science project from the family home. He told his stepbrother to keep it instead. That decision just turned into $34,375.Jobs made "What is the SCR?" while attending Cupertino Jr. High…
    - 7 hours ago 28 Aug 26, 4:04pm -
  • newPay $79.99 Once and Put ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Under One Roof
    TL;DR: Get lifetime access to 1min.AI, a multi-model AI workspace built for writing, images, documents, PDFs, audio, and more for just $79.99—for just 2 more days.Using one AI tool for writing, another for images, and a third for PDFs is how a p…
    - 7 hours ago 28 Aug 26, 4:00pm -
  • newWhy a jar of Costco Dijon mustard was 10 times hotter than normal
    When Jake Edmiston, a reporter for the Toronto Star, tried a spoonful of Maille Dijon mustard from his local Costco, it was so hot that it burned his mouth. It was the brand he'd used a lot in his mustard chicken recipe, so he knew something was off.…
    - 8 hours ago 28 Aug 26, 3:13pm -
  • newDecades before ChatGPT, video games were sold as having AI
    A lot of video games from the 1970s and later were touted as having AI. Jason Scott of the Internet Archive has a fun retrospective about these games, with links to playable versions.Here's what Scott says about a title from 1985 that I didn't know…
    - 8 hours ago 28 Aug 26, 3:12pm -
  • newGrandpa Pudding Brains genetically believes in space
    Dementia Donnie visited NASA today and explained that his interest in space is apparently hereditary because his uncle was smart and liked space. His uncle also liked "nuclear," so we might be in trouble.The Orange Menace was at Johnson Space Center…
    - 10 hours ago 28 Aug 26, 1:16pm -
  • newTeacher banned for life after giving spycam pen to student and telling them to get changed
    A teacher working Straford upon Avon in England was banned from the profession for life after giving them a pen with a hidden camera. Matthew Udall, teaching science, suggested the child use it to "write in a journal" and encouraged them to "change t…
    - 11 hours ago 28 Aug 26, 12:30pm -
  • newGrok's child-porn nightmare just got worse
    A new lawsuit sheds some light on all those CSAM problems with Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk's Grok: it claims Grok was trained on child pornography, resulting in the child pornography problems created by Grok.The plaintiff, known as Jane Doe, was preschool-…
    - 11 hours ago 28 Aug 26, 12:28pm -
  • newKids are buying CD players again, proving nostalgia has no standards
    Proof that any crap can become a fad if you talk about sound quality: young people are buying CD players again. Popular models sell out, and CD sales are booming: the apocalypse is here.Cassettes and CDs are back. It can't be about sound quality; w…
    - 11 hours ago 28 Aug 26, 12:16pm -

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