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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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  • newRobo-party clown ignores Asimov's first law of robotics
    This clown was clearly a big hit, or rather, a kick!It seems that a robotic party clown didn't get Asimov's First Law of Robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. — Read the rest Th…
    - 2 hours ago 4 Jun 26, 2:11pm -
  • newHow a raunchy love charm became an innocent nursery rhyme
    The 17th-century English antiquarian John Aubrey recorded a love charm called moulding cockle bread. A young woman would climb onto a table, lift her skirts, and, in Aubrey's words, "wabble to and fro with the Buttocks as if they were kneading of Dou…
    - 2 hours ago 4 Jun 26, 2:03pm -
  • newThe Army told Hershey to make a chocolate bar that tasted bad

    - 2 hours ago 4 Jun 26, 1:48pm -
  • newAI beat law professors in 75% of blind matchups, Stanford finds
    A Stanford Law study put AI tutors up against actual law professors, and the machines won. Sixteen professors wrote answers to 40 contract law questions, then graded a stack of answers blind, not knowing which came from a colleague and which from a l…
    - 2 hours ago 4 Jun 26, 1:38pm -
  • newTrump's war in Iran cancels summer vacation
    The Orange Menace promised cheap gas and no new wars, then delivered expensive fuel and canceled flights.American Airlines says it is temporarily suspending some August and September routes because jet fuel costs are punishing for carriers amid the…
    - 3 hours ago 4 Jun 26, 1:24pm -
  • newNancy Pelosi has no time for Mike Lindell's hallway goblins
    Raw Story reports that LindellTV correspondent Alison Steinberg confronted Pelosi with the old MAGA claim that Pelosi turned away the National Guard on January 6. Pelosi answered with the efficiency of someone who has heard enough pillow-adjacent non…
    - 3 hours ago 4 Jun 26, 12:59pm -
  • newCould a Nabokov novel have been the 'father of all hypertext demos'?
    In 1969, IBM wanted to show off Ted Nelson's early hypertext system at a conference, and Nelson secured permission to demonstrate it using an unlikely text: Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire, which consists of a 999-line poem buried under the d…
    - 4 hours ago 4 Jun 26, 11:52am -
  • newTesla FSD is so good its trainers won't ride in it
    Tesla's Full Self-Driving is so ready for the future that some of the people who trained it reportedly will not get in the car.Reuters interviewed nine former Tesla data labelers and one former self-driving engineer about FSD. Seven of the nine labe…
    - 4 hours ago 4 Jun 26, 11:46am -
  • newRetro Pokémon-inspired indie game looks very cool, but not long for this world
    Making a direct Pokémon-inspired game in 2026 is a pretty risky move. It's common knowledge that Nintendo will defend even the smallest perceived attack on their copyright with lethal force, and their army of ninjas has sunk many fan projects and…
    - 4 hours ago 4 Jun 26, 11:38am -
  • newUntil Dawn gets a surprise sequel announcement
    This is where I would clown on Supermassive Games for taking more than a decade to craft any sort of followup to Until Dawn, the interactive 90s horror pastiche that put them on the map. Notice that I said would, because the newly-announced Until Daw…
    - 5 hours ago 4 Jun 26, 11:36am -

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