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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 lifetime access to the full MS Office 2021 suite for $33
    TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for just $32.97 (reg. $219.99). If you're a working professional who prefers a traditional, standalone software experience, Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Window…
    - 2 hours ago 14 Aug 26, 10:00am -
  • newA viral diet and warm oceans emptied the canned sardine shelf
    Canned sardines are hard to find in American supermarkets because of a fad diet. Corner of Fifth reports that the diet consists of tinned fish and water, black coffee, or plain tea. It spread on TikTok and YouTube and through keto communities, and…
    - 3 hours ago 14 Aug 26, 9:00am -
  • newA Kansas reporter raided by police settles for $850,000
    Phyllis Zorn, a reporter at the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion, Kansas to settle her federal lawsuit over the 2023 police raid on the newspaper, reports the Kansas Reflector. Lawyers for Zorn and the city filed the mo…
    - 3 hours ago 14 Aug 26, 8:30am -
  • newThe FDA says you can't wash Cyclospora from your lettuce
    Food safety lawyer Bill Marler says the FDA's new guide on fresh-cut produce admits it knows of no chemical wash that stops Cyclospora from spreading between pieces of cut produce.Cyclospora is a parasite hazard in berries, fresh basil, fresh cilan…
    - 4 hours ago 14 Aug 26, 8:00am -
  • newYou can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI
    The EU AI Act AI outputs to be "detectable as artificially generated" and "embedded within the content in a manner that is difficult for it to be separated from the content." But Sean Goedecke, a software engineer, explains why the European Union'…
    - 4 hours ago 14 Aug 26, 7:30am -
  • newThe government now spends more on interest than on the military
    The US Treasury sold $25 billion of 30-year bonds at a 5.22 percent yield, the most it has paid to borrow that far out since 2001, reports the Financial Times.That's up from 5.06 percent at July's sale, and 4.91 percent just before Trump's second te…
    - 5 hours ago 14 Aug 26, 7:15am -
  • newAdversarial clothing: custom, one-off tees and hoodies that dazzle AI
    noRecognition is a line of basic fashion items (tees, hoodies and gaiters) printed with "adversarial" patterns demonstrated to stymie machine vision systems' ability to detect humans. If battleship dazzle for people has been tried many times, this ef…
    - 5 hours ago 14 Aug 26, 7:12am -
  • newThe only thing inside an AI is people
    In a new StarTalk episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Negin Farsad interviewed Jaron Lanier, the computer scientist who wrote the 2023 New Yorker piece, "There Is No AI."Lanier thinks calling AI a "black box" where nobody knows what's inside t…
    - 5 hours ago 14 Aug 26, 7:00am -
  • newApp tells you what USB-C cables are capable of
    WhatCable does what your eyes can't: it tells you what a USB-C cable can actually do. 40Gbps transfer? 100W fast charging? DisplayPort Alt Mode? So long as you have macOS and a port to plug it into, this free app will provide detailed specs on any of…
    - 6 hours ago 14 Aug 26, 6:09am -
  • newWhen Jewish mysticism answers the Call of Cthulhu
    Peter Bebergal, author of Season of the Witch, Strange Frequencies, and Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons & Dragons, has spent years thoughtfully exploring the borderlands where occultism, religion, pop culture, and imagination overlap. Writ…
    - 17 hours ago 13 Aug 26, 6:51pm -