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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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  • newFree up computer space with 2TB of cloud storage for $59 — for life

    - 5 hours ago 18 Jul 26, 10:00am -
  • newTwo AIs got $100 each to make a music video by themselves
    Someone at TryAI handed two frontier AI models the same assignment: here's Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk," a budget, and a shell with ffmpeg plus access to every video-generation model on the market — now direct a music video by yoursel…
    - 6 hours ago 18 Jul 26, 8:30am -
  • newNew monkey: so rare only 8 of 52 nearby villages knew it existed
    An international team including Yale researchers has described a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopy of the Democratic Republic of Congo — only the fifth new African monkey found in the past 75 years. The small, black ani…
    - 7 hours ago 18 Jul 26, 8:00am -
  • newKnitters believe a hand-made sweater can end your relationship
    Knitters call it the sweater curse: knit a sweater for a significant other and they'll break up with you — in one version, before the sweater is even finished. In a 2005 poll, 15% of active knitters said they'd experienced the curse firsthand, and…
    - 7 hours ago 18 Jul 26, 7:30am -
  • newAn orchestra with inept players sold out the Royal Albert Hall
    In 1970, composer Gavin Bryars and a group of students at the Portsmouth School of Art formed the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestra open to anyone regardless of talent. Trained musicians could join too, as long as they picked an instrument entirely n…
    - 8 hours ago 18 Jul 26, 7:00am -
  • newPokémon-parody sex toys are back, with holographic trading cards
    Ten years ago, an Australian company called Geeky Sex Toys launched a line of adult toys based on Pokémon. It sold out almost instantly. Now, according to the relaunch drop, Pokemoan is back with four redesigned toys — and a disclaimer that distan…
    - 21 hours ago 17 Jul 26, 6:27pm -
  • This Los Angeles man-on-the-street interview is internet gold
    Harkening back to the good old days when Bub Rub and Lil' Sis were all the rage, this interview is pure gold. These two gentlemen may not like turtles, but they sure have their priorities in line. A day after Los Angeles' crumbling infrastructure wi…
    - 1 day ago 17 Jul 26, 1:12pm -
  • Brain implant lets a paralyzed man feed himself and pet his dog
    Keith Thomas broke his neck diving into a pool in 2020 and was paralyzed from the chest down. Six years later, thanks to a set of brain implants that bypass his spinal injury, he can feed himself, drink from a cup, and feel the fur on his dog again,…
    - 1 day ago 17 Jul 26, 1:03pm -
  • Your brain can track two voices at the same time
    You know the trick of picking one voice out of a crowded room — the "cocktail party" problem. A new study in PLOS Biology looks at the messier moment when you switch your attention from one talker to another, and finds the brain doesn't hand off cl…
    - 1 day ago 17 Jul 26, 12:54pm -
  • JD Vance discovers parenting is easy when the Secret Service does the hard parts
    JD Vance reinforced the stereotype that the U.S. Vice President does nothing by asserting that it is a great time to raise a newborn. Apparently, JD has cracked the code on modern parenting: be vice president, surround your family with taxpayer-funde…
    - 1 day ago 17 Jul 26, 12:51pm -

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