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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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  • newGet professional coding tools and AI assistance for just $30 with this Microsoft deal
    TL;DR: Make coding easier with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026, on sale for just $29.97 (MSRP $499.99) through tonight at 11:59 PM.Even experienced coders sometimes need a little help. Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 combines pro…
    - 7 hours ago 3 Oct 26, 10:00am -
  • newQuantified Self cofounder Gary Wolf brings his new book to Los Angeles
    My friend and Wired colleague Gary Wolf is one of my favorite writers. He wrote a bunch of fantastic articles for Wired magazine, including a profile of Ted Nelson, creator of the Xanadu hypertext project, and he wrote a history of Wired magazine, a…
    - 23 hours ago 2 Oct 26, 5:24pm -
  • newRob Ullman drew a 48-page comic about his single day in Zion National Park
    Illustrator Robert Ullman, who did some great illustrations for Make magazine when I was editor there, has a new Kickstarter for a 48-page comic about his trip to Zion National Park. What a great way to capture an experience and share it with other p…
    - 24 hours ago 2 Oct 26, 5:05pm -
  • Jared Kushner vows to someday argue with the press
    The Saudi-owned and operated son-in-law of our dementia addled President is tired of people getting things wrong, and maybe sometime he'll tell us the side of the story he wants us to hear. Jared Kushner, whose private-equity firm took a $2 billion…
    - 1 day ago 2 Oct 26, 4:27pm -
  • Doom ported to Commodore 64
    Id Software's 1992 shooter Doom now runs on toothbrushes, alarm clocks and all sorts of other modern gadgets that contain tiny supercomputers. But it doesn't run on the 8-bit home computers (or even 16-bit ones) that are even older than it is. — Re…
    - 1 day ago 2 Oct 26, 4:08pm -
  • Manage your PDFs with ease for life with this $80 Mac PDF Editor 
    TL;DR: Handle your PDFs with ease with this lifetime subscription to PDF Expert's Premium Plan while it's on sale for 43% off. While a few software products include some kind of PDF management, nothing's better than the real thing. Take, for exampl…
    - 1 day ago 2 Oct 26, 4:00pm -
  • New camera database has 1482 entries and it hasn't even gotten to "B"
    Camera Index represents camera expert Pierro Pozella's quest to document every film camera ever made. He aims to turn it into the ultimate encyclopedia of the form, complete with specifications, manuals and, of course, photographs of the gadgets. [vi…
    - 1 day ago 2 Oct 26, 3:42pm -
  • Does Olivia Dean's "I've Seen It" copy Bill Withers' "Just The Two Of Us?"
    British singer Olivia Dean's song I've Seen It lifts a section of melody from 1981 Bill Withers hit Just The Two Of Us, according to a lawsuit [PDF] filed in California. The songs "share musical features … so striking" that it cannot be a coinciden…
    - 1 day ago 2 Oct 26, 1:47pm -
  • The most exciting thing about Amazon's 2026 Kindle refresh is a clicker
    People keep waiting for a groundbreaking reinvention of the e-reader, but Kindle already does it pretty well. The e-reader line has been refreshed. New Basic, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft versions are available, along with Signature editions for the Pa…
    - 1 day ago 2 Oct 26, 1:21pm -
  • Glass eyes, death masks, and human skulls: browse a weird auction's results
    Potter & Potter Auctions just closed its "Weird Tales! UFOs, Curiosities and Tattoos" auction, and it is fun to browse through the catalog and see what was offered and how much money people paid. Items included books on pseudoscience, human skulls, w…
    - 1 day ago 2 Oct 26, 1:10pm -

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