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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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  • newThe country that hands you a one-year tourist visa at the airport
    Most countries give tourists a 30- or 90-day stamp and start counting the days. The Republic of Georgia gives you a whole year, no application required. In his travel newsletter Nomadico, Tim Leffel calls it the best tourist visa in the world — lan…
    - 3 hours ago 16 Jul 26, 12:07pm -
  • newCuba's surviving Trump's oil embargo with solar powered tuk-tuks
    Anyone who's spent a lot of time in second-or third-world nations will tell you that tuk-tuks are definitely a thing. They're inexpensive to operate, compared to a car or truck, and serve in almost every capacity that you can imagine. From colectivos…
    - 3 hours ago 16 Jul 26, 12:04pm -
  • newThe Newest Complete Carl Barks Library volume has Donald Duck lost beneath the sea
    Fantagraphics Books is nearing completion of its ambitious mission to publish the entirety of master cartoonist Carl Barks's 1942-1966 run of Donald Duck comics for Western Publishing. Comics fans (full disclosure: including me) and historians genera…
    - 3 hours ago 16 Jul 26, 12:00pm -
  • newNew documentary explores the astonishing legacy of manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka
    Osamu Tezuka's influence on comics and animation is monumental. Before Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Chainsaw Man, and countless other manga and anime that found devoted audiences across the world, there was Osamu Tezuka. His storytelling, cinematic pag…
    - 3 hours ago 16 Jul 26, 11:59am -
  • newBloomberg calls chargebacks "friendly fraud" — but it's often the only option
    Americans filed 158 million card-transaction disputes in 2025 — up 29% since 2021, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek piece by Amanda Mull. Worldwide, the jump was even steeper, 46%. Bloomberg describes it as "friendly fraud" — shoppers disput…
    - 4 hours ago 16 Jul 26, 11:10am -
  • newCopilot, BitLocker, and Hyper-V for under $10? Meet this Windows 11 Pro deal
    TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for $9.97 (reg. $199), no coupon code needed.A Windows license for under ten bucks sounds like the setup to a scam, but this one's real, no code required, and it's only around through July…
    - 5 hours ago 16 Jul 26, 10:00am -
  • newThis refurbished MacBook Air is under $200
    TL;DR: If you're looking for the perfect technological assist for all your browsing, streaming, and document-management needs, this refurbished 2018 MacBook Air is now just $199.97 (reg. $1,199)—grab your 128GB one in Gold.12+ hours of battery l…
    - 5 hours ago 16 Jul 26, 9:59am -
  • newThe new invisible facelift moves the face like a Halloween mask
    About a decade ago, Jia Tolentino argues in a New Yorker essay, famous faces on Instagram began converging on one look — plumper lips, catlike eyes, sharper cheekbones. People edited their faces in selfies, then had surgeons reshape the real thing…
    - 5 hours ago 16 Jul 26, 9:58am -
  • newThe Peking Man fossils vanished in 1941 and are still missing
    The Peking Man fossils — the Homo erectus skullcaps and bones from Zhoukoudian cave that anchored the theory that humans evolved in Asia — disappeared in December 1941 and haven't been seen since. With Japanese forces advancing through China, t…
    - 5 hours ago 16 Jul 26, 9:30am -
  • newWhen six people in a Kansas thrift store elected their own pope
    In July 1990, six people — a would-be priest, his parents, and three others — gathered in the family thrift store in Belvue, Kansas and held what they called a papal conclave. On the first ballot they elected one of their own, 30-year-old David B…
    - 6 hours ago 16 Jul 26, 9:00am -

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