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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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  • newBeloved Windows text editor Notepad++ now on Mac
    On MacOS, there's a wealth of beautifully elegant and powerful text editors to choose from. On Windows, there's Notepad++. And now, on MacOS, there's… Notepad++! Notepad++ is now available as a native macOS application. It is a free, open-source…
    - 12 hours ago 28 Apr 26, 6:00pm -
  • newTom the Dancing Bug nominated for Reuben Award for editorial cartooning
    Tom the Dancing Bug, published weekly here at Boing Boing by Ruben Bolling, was nominated for a National Cartoonists Society Award for Editorial Cartooning. Congrats, Ruben!For when the membership votes: I want to reiterate my position that voter…
    - 12 hours ago 28 Apr 26, 5:35pm -
  • newStudy finds infrasound the likely horror in hauntings
    Noise below the range of human hearing from old pipes and mechanical systems can induce stressful sensations, according to a study published by Canadian researchers in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. The findings offer a compelling scientific e…
    - 13 hours ago 28 Apr 26, 5:04pm -
  • newDevelopers can now get Visual Studio Pro for life for under $40 (was $499.99)
    TL;DR: Get a lifetime license for Visual Studio Pro 2026 while it's only $35.Most developers just keep renewing their IDE subscription every year without really questioning whether there's a cheaper way to do it. Turns out, there's a much cheaper w…
    - 14 hours ago 28 Apr 26, 4:00pm -
  • newHow to skip a year of work without anyone noticing
    Half an hour before her weekly check-in, Leyla Kazim would spend 15 minutes "knocking up a page of something," fire off a couple of emails, and deliver her updates "in a convincing tone." That was the entire work week. She'd been at the same London c…
    - 17 hours ago 28 Apr 26, 12:56pm -
  • newApple patches bug that exposed deleted Signal messages
    Signal's disappearing messages weren't fully disappearing. When a message arrived on your iPhone, iOS stored the notification content in an internal database — and that database held onto the text for up to a month after you deleted the message ins…
    - 17 hours ago 28 Apr 26, 12:52pm -
  • newTor Browser's "New Identity" button didn't actually reset your fingerprint
    Tor Browser has a "New Identity" button that's supposed to give you a completely fresh start — like opening a brand-new browser with no memory of what you were doing before. But it turns out it didn't fully do that.Researchers discovered that a bu…
    - 17 hours ago 28 Apr 26, 12:49pm -
  • newWhy America is deeply, uniformly unhappy

    - 17 hours ago 28 Apr 26, 12:34pm -
  • newScientists finally cracked how bacteria's spinning motor actually works
    Mike Manson has spent 50 years at Texas A&M studying the bacterial flagellar motor — a molecular machine that spins hundreds of times per second, outpacing a race car's spinning crankshaft, to drive bacteria through water. He finally understands it…
    - 17 hours ago 28 Apr 26, 12:29pm -
  • newSony's table tennis robot beat a pro player she couldn't read
    Mayuka Taira, a professional table tennis player, lost to a robot called Ace in December 2025 and described the experience: "it is very hard to predict, and it shows no emotion. Because you can't read its reactions, it's impossible to sense what kind…
    - 17 hours ago 28 Apr 26, 12:23pm -

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