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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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  • newHow a banned rice cooker cost a Welsh university £264,442
    Peak Ong, a 72-year-old cleaner at Aberystwyth University in Wales, won £264,442.09 from the school after a dispute that started with a banned rice cooker ended in her firing and a vindictive job reference.Catherine Green, Ong's manager, accused he…
    - 11 hours ago 6 May 26, 6:50pm -
  • newNewborn gosling leaps from an I-5 offramp into the Willamette River
    Watch an adorable, fluffy newborn gosling take its first leap, and what a leap it is. This brave little chick jumped from an I-5 offramp high above Portland's Eastbank Esplanade and the Willamette River, falling toward its parents and siblings waitin…
    - 12 hours ago 6 May 26, 4:58pm -
  • newDevils Hole pupfish: rarest fish on Earth lives in one Nevada cavern
    This video shows the weirdness of the Devils Hole pupfish. Deep inside a single limestone cavern in Nevada's Mojave Desert lives one of the rarest fish on Earth. The tiny, shimmering blue fish can be found in only one known natural habitat in the wor…
    - 13 hours ago 6 May 26, 4:56pm -
  • newHis brother's hamster is charging his phone now
    A YouTuber going by Flamethrower spent nights listening to his brother's new hamster squeak through the exercise wheel and decided to harvest the energy. The result is a working phone charger powered by the rodent.A hamster runs in bursts, while a p…
    - 13 hours ago 6 May 26, 4:53pm -
  • new1940s miner crafted dentures from toothbrush handles and coyote teeth
    This unusual set of dentures was made in the 1940s by a California miner named George Washington Hancock, who couldn't afford conventional dental care. He needed teeth, so he made them. Hancock fashioned the bases himself by heating celluloid toothbr…
    - 13 hours ago 6 May 26, 4:44pm -
  • newThe man who discovered microwaves measured a flower's heartbeat in 1926
    In August 1926, Jagadish Chandra Bose walked into an Oxford lecture hall carrying a snapdragon stem. He hooked it to one of his handmade instruments, told the audience they were watching the plant's heartbeat, and pointed to a tracing that rose and f…
    - 13 hours ago 6 May 26, 4:30pm -
  • newUpgrade to Windows 11 and get Office 2024 for under $100
    TL;DR: Give your wallet and chosen device an easy win with lifetime access to both Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business for Mac or PC—now just $95.97 (reg. $448.99). Microsoft recently ended Windows 10 support, which means t…
    - 13 hours ago 6 May 26, 4:00pm -
  • newSimple app to make images look like they're on an old CRT display
    Everytime I want to make pixel art look old-timey, I find myself searching for and fussing with online filter sites that don't look right, or trying to do something clever with scanlines or shadowmask textures in Photoshop, which also never looks qui…
    - 14 hours ago 6 May 26, 3:17pm -
  • newMusk defends tweets that allegedly tanked Twitter stock before buyout
    Elon Musk defended his conduct in federal court Thursday as former Twitter shareholders accused him of deliberately driving down the company's stock price ahead of his 2022 purchase of the platform now known as X.The case, which represents Twitter…
    - 15 hours ago 6 May 26, 2:40pm -
  • newSecurity researcher tears apart White House app and finds a tracking and security nightmare
    A security researcher who decompiled the White House's new mobile app says it contains hidden GPS-tracking capabilities, weak security protections, and code loaded from an outside GitHub page, raising serious questions about privacy and cybersecurity…
    - 15 hours ago 6 May 26, 2:26pm -

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