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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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  • newMan, yeeted by a bison, is grateful for its mercy
    Carl McDaniel, the tourist who was launched into the air by a Yellowstone bison, recognizes the animal could have killed him but chose not to do so. The bison has still not been reached for comment.Having shared his story, all I can say is Carl McDa…
    - 3 hours ago 14 Jul 26, 12:22pm -
  • newTom Cruise plays an eccentric billionaire in a doomsday short film
    To be honest and vulnerable, the last thing I remember liking Tom Cruise in was that mistakenly uploaded The Mummy trailer with the music and sound effects missing. Before that, it was probably Collateral, if only because his villain turn allowed him…
    - 3 hours ago 14 Jul 26, 12:18pm -
  • newScrandle turns stadium food into a daily taste test
    An eternity and a half ago, I wrote about Footy Scran, a growing database of the most appetizing (or not) food served at stadiums across the world. If you're going to be paying thirty bucks out of pocket for a thing of fries with mayo (oh, sorry, aio…
    - 3 hours ago 14 Jul 26, 12:17pm -
  • newA YouTuber gave Skyrim a full high-speed rail network
    Bethesda's magnum opus The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the most modded, dissected, and reinvented games ever made, if not the most. There's one glaring oversight that none of the province's jarls have ever taken steps to fix, though: there's no…
    - 3 hours ago 14 Jul 26, 12:17pm -
  • newThe smartest business decision you can make? Optimizing your operating system for 92% off
    TL;DR: Optimize your digital office set up with 92% off this Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows + Windows 11 Pro Bundle for just $34.97 (Reg. $418.99).What if you could expand your digital landscape and optimize all your processes with…
    - 5 hours ago 14 Jul 26, 10:00am -
  • newThe only curse on Venice's cursed island is us
    Venice's buildings were famously built on millions of wooden piles driven into marshy lagoon floor, but the lagoon itself is not one giant man-made raft. It contains natural, marshy, reclaimed, and artificial islands, formed over thousands of years b…
    - 5 hours ago 14 Jul 26, 9:52am -
  • newA paranoid dictator built 750,000 bunkers no one ever used except for sex
    Enver Hoxha, the Stalinist dictator who sealed Albania off from most of the world, was sure enemies could strike at any moment — "like the snake that bites you and injects its poison before you are aware of it." So, from the 1960s to the 1980s, his…
    - 6 hours ago 14 Jul 26, 9:45am -
  • newHouses built for one purpose: to make the neighbors miserable
    A spite house is a building put up to punish someone — by blocking a neighbor's light, ruining a view, or planting a permanent monument to a grudge in their sightline. America has been building them for centuries. In 1716, sailmaker Thomas Wood bui…
    - 6 hours ago 14 Jul 26, 9:41am -
  • newThe billion-dimensional map hidden inside every AI model
    AI models contain a vast, compressed map that they pull every answer and image out of. In his new essay, Kevin Kelly calls this latent space a real creative medium, as consequential as film or photography. Because the model stores patterns instead of…
    - 7 hours ago 14 Jul 26, 8:26am -
  • newSmearing yogurt on your windows can cool a house by 6 degrees
    When a heatwave hits the UK, where almost no homes have air conditioning, staying cool takes improvisation. Dr. Ben Roberts, a researcher at Loughborough University, tested one of the stranger fixes going around and found it actually works: smear pla…
    - 7 hours ago 14 Jul 26, 7:58am -

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