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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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  • newSeems Karoline Leavitt doesn't want to be left to die
    Thus, exits the Mouth of Moron.After returning early from maternity leave at the request of her crying baby President, Leavitt learned that the press corps and senior White House staff had been left aboard a decoy plane under a credible missile thre…
    - 1 hour ago 13 Aug 26, 2:42pm -
  • newNorth Korea's operating system watermarks every file you touch
    North Korea's Red Star Linux OS ships with a modified Firefox called Naenara ("Our country") and lets users browse Kwangmyong, the country's isolated national intranet. It also comes with an office suite, media players, and video games. It sells fo…
    - 5 hours ago 13 Aug 26, 11:03am -
  • newPolice are now scanning faces at a London Underground station
    The British Transport Police announced it would start using facial recognition cameras in a London Underground station. The Victoria Underground station was the first to be equipped with cameras.The cameras scan the faces of everyone who walks past…
    - 5 hours ago 13 Aug 26, 10:57am -
  • newIn Japan, press the button on your table and a server appears
    Many restaurants in Japan put a small plastic device on tables. When you press it, a chime rings at the waitstaff station or in the kitchen, and a server comes to your table. Algis Tamosaitis writes the newsletter Japan or Die, and he explained the…
    - 5 hours ago 13 Aug 26, 10:47am -
  • newThis $70 PDF editor doesn't care which operating system you use
    TL;DR: UPDF packs editing, OCR, conversion, forms, signatures, batch processing, and cloud syncing into one cross-platform PDF toolkit, now $69.99 for life.PDFs are already stubborn enough without your editing software demanding a specific operati…
    - 6 hours ago 13 Aug 26, 10:00am -
  • newThe only ATM in Antarctica has a second ATM for spare parts
    The world's southernmost ATM is at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, at 77°51′ south. It is the only cash machine on the continent.Atlas Obscura says the machine works the same way as an ATM in the United States, and it gives out U.S. — Read the r…
    - 8 hours ago 13 Aug 26, 7:45am -
  • newStewart Brand put his 1997 BBC architecture series online for free
    How Buildings Learn is a six-part BBC television series from 1997 about what happens to a building after the builders leave. Stewart Brand wrote and presented it, and Brian Eno wrote the music.Brand made the series from his illustrated book of the s…
    - 8 hours ago 13 Aug 26, 7:45am -
  • newAnsel Adams shot 226 park photos for a mural that never got made
    In 1941 the National Park Service hired Ansel Adams to make a photo mural of the national parks for the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC. Adams took the pictures between 1941 and 1942, and then the project stopped. — Read the r…
    - 8 hours ago 13 Aug 26, 7:45am -
  • newA mechanical keyboard, plain yoghurt, and a 7am start
    Keith Kahn-Harris is a sociologist in London who writes about heavy metal and about Jewish communities. His ninth book, The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne: How Metal Teaches Us To Live, came out in June 2026. He types on a Wobkey Rainy 75 mechanica…
    - 9 hours ago 13 Aug 26, 7:30am -
  • newHow San Francisco became a tech capital, then nearly lost itself
    Jonathan Weber has written a history of San Francisco's rise as a global technology capital and the crises that came with it. City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco opens in the early 1990s, when San Fran…
    - 9 hours ago 13 Aug 26, 7:00am -

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