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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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  • newTurn Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access into a one-time $50 purchase
    TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Microsoft Office 2024 Pro Plus for Windows for $49.97 (MSRP $249.99) through October 15. The one-time license includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access without recurring subscription fees.It seems l…
    - 45 mins ago 12 Oct 26, 4:00pm -
  • newNew Zealand bank censors racy fan art of sexy new sheep mascot
    Kiwibank unveiled its new mascot Buck this year, hoping the adorable cartoon sheep would convince people to move their accounts there. Now the New Zealand-based bank is struggling to contain Buck's success as consumers make deposits of a different ki…
    - 56 mins ago 12 Oct 26, 3:49pm -
  • newBurglar escapes with stack of empty Mac Mini boxes
    A man who broke into a tech company in Tempe, Arizona, made off with what he "likely" thought were Apple computers. But the Mac Mini boxes were empty, and he left the computers on the desks there. "I come in, the window was smashed to pieces," emplo…
    - 4 hours ago 12 Oct 26, 12:36pm -
  • newClassic real-time strategy game Total Annihilation is 30 years old—and everyone is remixing it
    Nanolathe is the latest example of a fascinating subgenre of real-time strategy game: Chris Taylor's 1997 hit Total Annihation but with something more. Nanolathe offers an open source MIT-licensed 2.5D RTS engine reimplementing the original plus thre…
    - 5 hours ago 12 Oct 26, 11:45am -
  • newUnsurprisingly, gambling apps reward gambling addiction
    It's kind of bleak that gambling ads have become so ubiquitous, right? It feels like every time you turn on the TV or click on a YouTube video, you're greeted with some morally bankrupt celebrity — usually Kevin Hart — trying their hardest to mak…
    - 6 hours ago 12 Oct 26, 11:11am -
  • newMinesweeper as a triple-A game
    I'm about to say something bold and trailblazing: the triple-A game development industry isn't particularly creative and has stagnated significantly, in large part thanks to overinflated budgets bringing with them astronomical revenue goals that heav…
    - 6 hours ago 12 Oct 26, 11:10am -
  • newMessing with AI interviewers is cathartic
    If you've been engaging with the American job market lately, first of all, I'm so sorry. Second of all, you've probably run into an AI-powered "automated recruitment agent": in other words, an AI bot that the company makes you do a one-sided intervie…
    - 6 hours ago 12 Oct 26, 11:09am -
  • new"Terrible games" made with AI
    Last week, a clone of Adobe's Creative Suite appeared, said to be reverse-engineered and recreated using AI. Adobe's bad reputation made it easy for the internet to take perverse joy in its misfortune. Out with Adobe's surveillance technology, in wit…
    - 6 hours ago 12 Oct 26, 10:52am -
  • newA used PS5 Pro will now run you twice its original launch price
    Remember when the PS5 Pro launched and we all lost our collective minds about it costing $700, which is, to be fair, still an egregious price for a console? Good times.If only we knew, right? The enormity of the AI component crunch hadn't quite hit…
    - 6 hours ago 12 Oct 26, 10:17am -
  • newAnthropic wants people to stop being mean to Claude
    Anthropic updated its usage policy to protect Claude from bullies. Along with clarifications on child sexual abuse material and weapons development, the 2026 Usage Policy update prohibits users from "Engag[ing] in sustained and needless abusive or cr…
    - 6 hours ago 12 Oct 26, 10:16am -

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