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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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  • newFrench teen arrested for licking vending machine straw in Singapore
    The good news for Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien is that Singapore's draconian attitude toward petty crime won't get him caned. But filming himself licking a straw and putting it back in a vending machine could get him a jail term and a fine. — Rea…
    - 10 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 7:58pm -
  • newA guy bought Friendster for $30K and is rebuilding it to be more social, less network
    Friendster, the proto-social network that beat MySpace and Facebook to market in 2002 and then stopped operating in 2018, has a new owner with a strange plan for it. Mike Carson paid roughly $30,000 for the domain. The deal was $20,000 in Bitcoin plu…
    - 11 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 6:52pm -
  • newEngineer's anti-brain-fog routine: stare at a wall for 10 minutes
    Engineer Alex Selimov keeps falling into the same trap: bad sleep, too much coffee, podcasts in his ears while he works, then HackerNews on every "break," then up too late because the caffeine and scrolling have him wired. Around 1 or 2 in the aftern…
    - 12 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 6:35pm -
  • newWaymo says expecting robotaxis not to block bike lanes is "too high a bar"
    Self-driving cars were supposed to fix human error. Instead, Waymo is building it in, telling cyclists that expecting robotaxis to stay out of bike lanes is simply "too high a bar."Speaking to Streets Blog NYC, Christopher White, executive directo…
    - 13 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 5:12pm -
  • newExit 8 movie escapes subway, opens in America
    A few years ago, Kotakenotokeke's short but unnerving game The Exit 8 trapped the player in a looping but slowly-changing subway platform; to advance one would have to linger at whatever subtle anomalies each return presented. It soon became a film i…
    - 13 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 5:09pm -
  • newTrump Media shakeup after stock collapse
    Trump Media, which is to say the Twitter clone Truth Social, is ditching CEO Devin Nunes (formerly a congressman, also cows and relentless complaints) after what the Associated Press reports as a "stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor we…
    - 13 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 4:53pm -
  • newMini-documentary about Pittsburgh's Long Lines telecom fortress
    You've likely heard of the menacingly brutalist AT&T Long Lines skycraper in Manhattan, a massive telecommunications center believed to house an NSA surveillance facility and the inspiration behind the Oldest House in the Control games. On YouTube, K…
    - 14 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 4:07pm -
  • newThis $399 white-label business builder is for agencies with software fatigue
    TL;DR: Sellful is $399 (reg. $1497) and bundles website building, CRM, invoicing, appointments, courses, payroll, POS, and more into one white-label platform.Running an agency usually means living inside too many systems at once. One handles the s…
    - 14 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 4:00pm -
  • newLegendary emulator ZSNES rewritten from scratch
    My first experience of emulation was ZSNES in the late 1990s, letting me return to what then seemed like ancient history: the early 1990s. I could finally finish Secret of Mana! And I did. It was magical to learn that the new thing could pretend to b…
    - 15 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 3:32pm -
  • newGoDaddy handed a 27-year-old nonprofit domain to a stranger 2,000 miles away
    GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, transferred a 27-year-old nonprofit's main web address to a complete stranger 2,000 miles away. They didn't ask her for a single document to prove she owned it. Within four minutes, websites and ema…
    - 16 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 2:00pm -

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