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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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  • newTidbyt: a 64-by-32 pixel LED display that you can make your own apps for
    The Tidbyt is a compact retro pixel display that makes it pleasant instead of corrosive to keep track of things you'd grab your phone to check: weather, sports, when the train comes, whether he's dead yet, and so on. You plug it in, pick apps from a…
    - 3 hours ago 15 Jul 26, 12:04pm -
  • newTrailer for Michael Mann's "Manhunter: The Final Cut"
    Manhunter, Michael Mann's 1986 thriller, was restored for its forthcoming release on 4K Blu-ray and in theaters. A trailer is out. Starring Willian Petersen, Tom Noonan, Kimt Greist and Dennis Farina, it was the first movie based on Thomas Harris' no…
    - 4 hours ago 15 Jul 26, 10:42am -
  • newThis $45 Microsoft Visio deal makes diagrams a lot easier
    TL;DR: Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 includes more than 250,000 templates and shapes for creating flowcharts, floor plans, network diagrams, and more. Get a lifetime license for $44.97 (reg. $579).Sometimes the fastest way to explain an idea i…
    - 5 hours ago 15 Jul 26, 10:00am -
  • newAn airline exec turned a jet around over nuts in a bag
    On December 5, 2014, Korean Air Flight 086 was taxiing toward takeoff at JFK when it turned around and rolled back to the gate. The reason: Heather Cho, a company vice president and the daughter of its CEO, had been handed her first-class macadamia n…
    - 6 hours ago 15 Jul 26, 9:00am -
  • newNevada governor escaped traffic ticket after telling cop who he was
    Joe Lombardo, the governor of Nevada and former law enforcement officer, was pulled over on May 15 after his pickup truck was seen running a red light. After a police officer approached his vehicle, Lombardo announced "I'm Joe Lombardo," and was allo…
    - 6 hours ago 15 Jul 26, 8:59am -
  • newThe blurry sonar blob tabloids turned into a sunken UFO
    In June 2011, a Swedish treasure-hunting team called OceanX returned from the Gulf of Bothnia with a blurry sonar image of something on the seafloor: a roughly circular, 200-foot feature they said looked man-made. When the Daily Mail ran the image in…
    - 7 hours ago 15 Jul 26, 8:30am -
  • newSix of the tsars' jeweled Fabergé eggs have never been found
    Between 1885 and 1917, the House of Fabergé built 50 jeweled Easter eggs for the Russian tsars — lavish confections of gold, enamel, and gems, each hiding a tiny surprise inside, given by Alexander III and Nicholas II to the women of the imperial…
    - 7 hours ago 15 Jul 26, 8:00am -
  • newThe real Backrooms wallpaper texture
    The sprawling lore of the Backrooms, now a blockbuster film, flows from a single photo of an unsettlingly dingy office space. The pic captured the imagination of image-board users in the late 2000s, and inspired artists to recreate the distinctively…
    - 7 hours ago 15 Jul 26, 7:53am -
  • newThey boiled a toadstool to eat it and tripped for hours instead
    Amanita muscaria — the red-and-white toadstool of fairy tales and Mario games — is poisonous raw, but boiling breaks down enough of its toxins that brave people around the world eat it. Mycologist David Arora serves it on his forays; Russians pri…
    - 8 hours ago 15 Jul 26, 7:30am -
  • newA clever trick to keep loose zip ties from turning into a tangle
    A bag of loose zip ties always seems to collapse into the same knotted ball at the bottom of a drawer. Writing in his latest Gar's Tips & Tools newsletter, maker and longtime tech writer Gareth Branwyn passes along a fix he picked up from an Instagra…
    - 8 hours ago 15 Jul 26, 7:00am -

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