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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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  • newOne $50 payment gets you lifetime VPN protection on 10 devices
    TL;DR: Catch threats before they can strike with this GhostShield AI-Powered VPN Premium Plan lifetime subscription, on sale now for just $49.99 (MSRP $399).A VPN is the most basic way to protect your online privacy, but sometimes you need a little…
    - 12 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 4:00pm -
  • newPatrick Stewart dead at 86
    Patrick Stewart, the Olivier award-winning Shakespearean actor who achieved international stardom as Star Trek's Jean-Luc Picard and The X-Men's Professor X, is dead at 86. Already a distinguished stage and screen presence when he took the role of t…
    - 13 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 3:22pm -
  • newWhy a Fukuoka subway sign calls your backpack a "rucksack"
    Last month I went to Japan with my family. It was my 10th time in Japan. But until this visit, I had never gone to any island other than Honshu, the one that has Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. This time we went to Kyushu, which is south of Honshu. — Read…
    - 13 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 3:13pm -
  • newMy Kindle cracked again, so I switched to a tiny Xteink e-reader
    A few years ago, I was on a plane with my Kindle Paperwhite in my lap, and when I grabbed the seatbelt to strap in, the buckle hit the screen and cracked it. It was still usable, but the bright spot was distracting. — Read the rest The post My Kin…
    - 14 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 1:54pm -
  • newTom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and His Doge Pals hunt down the threat to Western Civilization

    - 15 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 12:56pm -
  • newBankrupting scammers is surprisingly easy
    It feels like AI is coming for everybody's jobs, but especially for phone scammers. Thanks to the availability of consumer AI, anyone in any call center anywhere can throw up a decently convincing-sounding AI agent to fleece people out of their money…
    - 16 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 12:27pm -
  • newSomehow, No Man's Sky is still getting updates
    Keep your Cyberpunks or your Fallout 76es: when it comes to launch disasters, No Man's Sky remains the undisputed champion, which I'm not sure is something to be proud of. Something Hello Games can be proud of, however, is its continued and intensive…
    - 16 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 12:26pm -
  • newBreaking into IT? Start with nine CompTIA exam prep courses for $24.99
    TL;DR: Prep for nine CompTIA exams with the 2026 CompTIA Certification Training Complete Exam Prep Bundle for $24.99 (reg. $269.91).Preparing for CompTIA exams usually means buying a separate prep course for each certification. If you'd rather get t…
    - 18 hours ago 29 Oct 26, 10:00am -
  • How to turn modern Linux into an old Mac
    Adam Lawson's Zac-OS-9 is a completist recreation of the classic Mac desktop experience for Debian Linux, "drawn pixel by pixel from scratch." Modeled on the last versions before the switch to Mac OS X (more than 25 years ago!) it's not just a skin:…
    - 1 day ago 28 Oct 26, 5:41pm -
  • Get lifetime of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini + more in a single workspace for $79
    TL;DR: Get ChatPlayground AI's Unlimited Lifetime Plan for just $79 (MSRP $619), with side-by-side comparisons across 20-plus AI models and more.Asking three chatbots the same question shouldn't require three tabs and a spreadsheet. ChatPlayground A…
    - 2 days ago 28 Oct 26, 4:00pm -

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