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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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  • newThis $40 food-tracking app may tell you more about your groceries than the box does
    TL;DR: Fooducate Pro is $40 (reg. $199.99) and combines meal tracking, barcode scanning, food grades, ingredient analysis, and nutrition tools in one app for new users.Grocery packaging has become its own weird dialect. Everything is "natural," "s…
    - 2 hours ago 20 May 26, 4:00pm -
  • newH.P. Lovecraft borrowed from this real Connecticut seismic phenomenon
    The Connecticut village of Moodus lies over a seismic fault that produces shallow microearthquakes that cause weird booms, rumbles, and cracks. The Algonquian peoples named the area Matchitmoodus. ("the place of noises")The biggest Moodus Noise o…
    - 4 hours ago 20 May 26, 1:34pm -
  • newDOJ quietly slips Trump what looks a lot like permanent audit invisibility
    "What could he possibly be hiding?" is, admittedly, not the reassuring question we're all thinking.While Todd Blanche was apparently busy testifying before the Senate about other matters, the Justice Department reportedly posted a one-page addendum…
    - 5 hours ago 20 May 26, 1:01pm -
  • newIncredible AI slop from the Department of Education
    This is what happens when you do not care. Everything about this image says "wow, AI really went nuts here!" and not "we should use this to represent the United States Department of Education," until you look at who is running the United States. —…
    - 5 hours ago 20 May 26, 12:46pm -
  • newAnna's Archive hit with $19.5M judgment and global domain order
    Thirteen major publishers — Penguin Random House, Elsevier, HarperCollins, and ten others — won a $19.5 million default judgment against the shadow library Anna's Archive on May 19, handed down by federal judge Jed Rakoff in New York's Southern D…
    - 5 hours ago 20 May 26, 12:45pm -
  • newGrandpa Pudding Brains free associates a commencement address
    The real question here is what speech or words are being displayed on the teleprompters, as convicted felon, real estate fraudster, and over 26 times credibly accused of sexual assault, Donald Trump babbles on about unimaginable "things" happening. I…
    - 5 hours ago 20 May 26, 12:40pm -
  • newWhat actually makes hybrid cars fuel-efficient?
    The 2021 Toyota Sienna is a three-row AWD minivan that gets 34 mpg city and highway — beating its nearest rivals by more than 50%. Most people assume the batteries and electric motors explain that number. Alec Watson at Technology Connections has m…
    - 5 hours ago 20 May 26, 12:29pm -
  • newProtesters tore the crowns off NYC's oldest fence in 1776
    Bowling Green is the oldest park in New York City. The park was established in 1733 as, well, a bowling green, and leased from local businesses for the cost of "one peppercorn a year," or a nominal fee.The Charging Bull has attracted the most attent…
    - 6 hours ago 20 May 26, 12:25pm -
  • newChina secretly trained Russian troops, and some have since fought in Ukraine
    China has done a lot to appear impartial whenever Russia's invasion of Ukraine comes up. Maybe "impartial" is the wrong word: the People's Republic of China has even talked up the idea of finding a peaceful outcome to the war. But it looks like al…
    - 6 hours ago 20 May 26, 11:36am -
  • newWould you spend $650,000 to ride a transforming mecha?
    Hey! Do you have $650,000 to spend? Not interested in pissing away that cash on feeding a school full of kids lunch for a few years or helping a couple of families off the street? Then you, friendo, could soon find yourself riding around in your own…
    - 6 hours ago 20 May 26, 11:34am -

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