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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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  • newNo one knows why dark side of Venus has a faint glow
    On January 9, 1643, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli pointed his telescope at Venus and noticed a faint glow on the planet's unlit side. Riccioli figured it was an artifact of his glass — the same trick that makes a prism throw rai…
    - 14 hours ago 8 May 26, 4:02pm -
  • new75% off a MacBook Pro? Upgrade your laptop for just $400
    TL;DR: Save on upgrading your laptop with this deal on an Apple MacBook Pro (2020) 13″. Get this sleek and speedy device for just $399.99 (Reg. $1,580) when you buy refurbished.Time to upgrade your laptop? Don't waste your time wincing at the pr…
    - 14 hours ago 8 May 26, 4:00pm -
  • newSafeway blames a "wood pulp shortage" for its handleless paper bags
    Karen Aitchison, a senior who has shopped the Diamond Heights Boulevard Safeway for 30 years, lives three flights up. When her grocery store stopped stocking paper bags with handles last month, she did what any sensible person would do — she hoarde…
    - 14 hours ago 8 May 26, 3:57pm -
  • newPhysicist says the 'hard problem of consciousness' isn't real
    When Carlo Rovelli's bicycle chain comes off, he calls a bike-shop mechanic, never a particle physicist — even though particle physics technically governs every bolt on the thing. The Italian quantum-gravity theorist uses that fact to swat away one…
    - 14 hours ago 8 May 26, 3:53pm -
  • newMeta's daily user count just dropped for the first time ever
    Daily active users across Meta's properties slipped from 3.58 billion to 3.56 billion last quarter, the first decline the company has ever reported. Julia Angwin, writing in a New York Times opinion piece, says Meta has caught the same stink that AOL…
    - 14 hours ago 8 May 26, 3:49pm -
  • newListen to almost 50 years of startup sounds
    The Data Drop releases one interactive visual essay every week, and the latest is a collection of startup sounds from 1977 to the present, covering everything from the Apple II to the Vision Pro. Along with the actual startup sound, or lack thereof,…
    - 16 hours ago 8 May 26, 2:09pm -
  • newUS and Iran practicing an "Israeli ceasefire," by shooting at one another
    Diplomacy in 2026 increasingly resembles two raccoons fighting inside a dumpster while insisting they are "de-escalating," and the latest US-Iran ceasefire appears to follow Israel's favorite template: keep firing, but call it a "ceasefire."A U.S.…
    - 16 hours ago 8 May 26, 1:24pm -
  • newYellowstone grizzly introduces two hikers to the "find out" phase of wildlife tourism
    Yellowstone's wildlife brochure probably mentions the geysers first, but this week a mother grizzly reminded two hikers that the park's unofficial mascot still has claws, teeth, and very strong opinions about strangers approaching her cubs.Th…
    - 17 hours ago 8 May 26, 1:14pm -
  • newReport says Kash Patel is spiraling over leaks and grilling staff with lie detectors
    According to new reporting from Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian, already paranoid-looking FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly ordered polygraph tests for more than two dozen current and former staffers as leak paranoia and internal panic spread thr…
    - 17 hours ago 8 May 26, 1:02pm -
  • newThis animator is doing wild things with construction paper
    This animation by Philippa Rice uses an innovative technique I haven't seen before: paper cutouts. The video shows the technique used in different ways, and it's fun to see the possibilities that come from simply cutting paper and animating it. — R…
    - 17 hours ago 8 May 26, 12:58pm -

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