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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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  • newAtari buys rights to RPG classic Wizardry
    Wizardry, originally coded in BASIC at the turn of the 80s, was one of the early greats in computer role-playing games, spawning a long-running series with countless spin-offs. It is now the property of Atari, following a successful remake by the lat…
    - 11 hours ago 7 May 26, 6:52pm -
  • newA free site uses live weather data to flag pavement that will burn your dog's paws
    Press the back of your hand against the sidewalk for seven seconds. If you can't stand it, your dog can't either. That's the old vet's rule for hot pavement, and it works. Asphalt at an 87°F air temperature can reach 140°F in direct sun; vets see…
    - 13 hours ago 7 May 26, 4:58pm -
  • newAI Graveyard: 142 AI companies so far buried, many more to come
    You've probably visited the Google Graveyard, which keeps track of bodies dumped by the tech giant, but the AI boom has already got it beat. There's already a veritable mountain of corpses in the AI Graveyard, lurching with "142 AI tools that have s…
    - 13 hours ago 7 May 26, 4:53pm -
  • newReMarkable Paper Pure claimed to be 50% faster than last-gen model
    ReMarkable's progress has been quite, well, remarkable. Despite being in the shadow of Amazon's Kindle ecosystem, it (and Kobo, Boox, Supernote…) have put out nicer and more useful e-ink devices than the tech giant, forcing it to keep pace. — Rea…
    - 13 hours ago 7 May 26, 4:07pm -
  • newFrance summons Musk for X criminal charges
    Sam Schechner reports in The Wall Street Journal that French prosecutors have summoned Elon Musk to Paris to face preliminary criminal charges as part of their investigation into X. The summons comes weeks after Musk skipped a voluntary interview, a…
    - 14 hours ago 7 May 26, 3:48pm -
  • newFantasy book community Tome shuts down
    Goodreads remains the dominant social media site for readers, despite the almost total hatred they seem to have for it. It has two overwhelming advantages: it already has the users and it's owned by Amazon. The latest competitor to shut down is Tome,…
    - 14 hours ago 7 May 26, 3:36pm -
  • newCalifornia has four to six weeks of gasoline left

    - 14 hours ago 7 May 26, 3:31pm -
  • newBrain-eating amoeba turns up in five western national parks
    Naegleria fowleri — the single-celled organism that causes a brain infection with a 98% fatality rate — has been showing up in warm waters at Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Olympic, Lake Mead, and Newberry National Volcanic Monument, according to a SF…
    - 14 hours ago 7 May 26, 3:18pm -
  • newRichard Dawkins renamed Claude "Claudia" and decided she's conscious
    Richard Dawkins, the 84-year-old evolutionary biologist who spent decades insisting people stop believing in things without evidence, has decided that Anthropic's Claude chatbot is conscious. He gave it a new name, Claudia, and reports that she seeme…
    - 14 hours ago 7 May 26, 3:06pm -
  • newUS debt hits $31.26 trillion, exceeds annual GDP
    The last two times the United States owed more than its annual economic output, the country was either fighting a world war or shutting down due to a pandemic. As of March, it's happened again — this time without an emergency to point to. — Read…
    - 15 hours ago 7 May 26, 2:58pm -

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