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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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  • newBoox gives its color e-ink notepad a 40% speed boost
    I've been looking to try something outside the Amazon ecosystem for my color e-reader, and I wanted to add note-taking. The Boox Note Air6C looks really cool and is supposedly fast enough to use. Unlike Kindle and Kobo, Boox is an Android-based tabl…
    - 10 hours ago 16 Sep 26, 5:02pm -
  • newMixed reviews for AI music generator Suno's industry-approved new model
    Suno is the "best" music-generating AI platform, at least as benchmarks have it, but the newest model launched last week to mixed reviews. On one hand, Suno v6 cranks out songs fast and they more closely meet the specifications in prompts. — Read t…
    - 11 hours ago 16 Sep 26, 4:30pm -
  • newA picture frame that draws birds it hears out the window
    This e-ink display is mounted in a picture frame and sits near a window overlooking a bird feeder in Arne Giacomo's yard in Bergen, Norway.A microphone next to the birdcage picks up visiting birds' tweets and sends them to the Raspberry Pi mounted i…
    - 11 hours ago 16 Sep 26, 4:13pm -
  • newArchive of Usenet postings going back to 1981
    Usenet-Rewind is the a vast archive of Usenet postings (previously at Boing Boing) covering text from 1981 to the present day. It contains 1,059,610,453 messages and has the "advanced search" features you're looking for.Usenet-Rewind is a research…
    - 12 hours ago 16 Sep 26, 3:45pm -
  • newTrump wants Space Force to look like Starship Troopers. Paul Verhoeven would like him to know more
    When the Trump Administration proudly introduced its new Space Force uniforms, everyone thought they were very reminiscent of the Nazi SS, or just former immigration dunce Greg Bovino. Now we know why…Dozing Donald saw a clip from Starship Trooper…
    - 14 hours ago 16 Sep 26, 1:11pm -
  • newCreepy Sam Altman biopic trailer feels more like a horror film
    The trailer for a film about Sam Altman's dishonesty landed him a wild few days of being fired and rehired at ChatGPT.Altman is notably odd and off in most of his interviews. This movie trailer, however, fits a slasher far better than it does a stor…
    - 15 hours ago 16 Sep 26, 12:51pm -
  • newDOGE spent $6.7 billion paying federal workers not to work
    GAO estimates federal agencies spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave in 2025, including about $6.7 billion tied to DOGE's deferred resignation program. Good work, Elon.DOGE's celebrated plan to shrink the US government involved telling fed…
    - 15 hours ago 16 Sep 26, 12:39pm -
  • newMan allegedly reaches for a gun, immediately demonstrating one of the risks
    A gentleman allegedly reached for a gun to settle an argument and promptly shot himself in the leg. Paramedics patched him up, and then the police booked him. The thing about guns is they have only gotten more dangerous. Striker-fired pistols don't…
    - 15 hours ago 16 Sep 26, 12:20pm -
  • newDolly Parton corn mazes popping up everywhere
    Dolly Parton is being immortalized in corn mazes across the U.S. and Canada, a trend honoring the famed singer-songwriter and entrepreneur who died last month aged 80. At least twenty farms have created a maze of their own, each depicting the country…
    - 15 hours ago 16 Sep 26, 12:08pm -
  • newZoo offering 'child predator tour' apologizes for wording
    Chester Zoo in England, delighting youngsters with its world-class menagerie since 1931, admits that tickets for a 'child predator tour' could have been worded better. The 90-minute bus ride features creatures such as tigers, lions and Komodo dragons…
    - 16 hours ago 16 Sep 26, 11:19am -

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