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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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  • newMan builds a belt-fed potato cannon, because he could
    The cannon looks fantastic and works, but the entire process is the adventure. This is a very serious potato cannon, and the deep research undertaken to arrive at such a masterpiece is a joy to watch.Compressed air is fun. — Read the rest T…
    - 2 hours ago 29 Jun 26, 10:10am -
  • newLarge Hadron Collider retired for upgrades
    CERN's Large Hadron Collider has collided its last hadron. The 27-kilometer (17-mile) ring, buried dozens of meters underground on the French and Swiss border, begins decommissioning today. The collider will not be dismantled, but upgraded as the Hig…
    - 2 hours ago 29 Jun 26, 10:05am -
  • newCalifornia's slowest natural disaster is a wandering mud hole
    Near the south end of the Salton Sea, California has a bubbling mud hole that appears to have looked at roads, rail lines, and pipelines and decided: those belong to me now.The Niland Geyser is the kind of thing California does better than anyone: a…
    - 2 hours ago 29 Jun 26, 9:56am -
  • newElon Musk demands one name of someone killed by aid cuts, gets a list
    Elon Musk demanded that critics name "a single" person who died because of DOGE-driven foreign aid cuts, and then experienced the rare online phenomenon of receiving exactly what he asked for.This is the hideous little trick at the center of austeri…
    - 3 hours ago 29 Jun 26, 9:27am -
  • newSupreme Court rejects Trump appeal of sexual assault verdict
    The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear President Trump's appeal against a $5 million judgment after he was found liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll. None of the justices dissented from the decision. Trump denied assaulting…
    - 3 hours ago 29 Jun 26, 9:20am -
  • newA million passports leaked online by marijuana club portal
    An Irish software firm managing membership of cannabis social clubs left more than a million member records and roughly 985,000 identity-document photos sitting on a server that required no password, according to a security researcher who extracted t…
    - 16 hours ago 28 Jun 26, 8:24pm -
  • newUncovered: read book samples without knowing who wrote it, what the title is, or looking at the cover
    "Don't judge a book by its cover," they say, but how can one not? The cover's right there. Uncovered is a website that forces the issue by presenting book excerpts without the cover—or the author, or the title!—to distract you. There's no account…
    - 20 hours ago 28 Jun 26, 4:27pm -
  • new60 million stars shine in Euclid telescope's new image of the Milky Way
    The European Space Agency on Wednesday released the largest and most detailed visible-light image of the Milky Way's center. The picture shows more than 60 million stars in the galactic bulge, glistening along with nebulae and star clusters. It is a…
    - 20 hours ago 28 Jun 26, 4:02pm -
  • newBag labeled "deffntely not a bag full full of drugs" was full of drugs
    Two Kentucky residents were arrested last week after a detecive looked in a bag labeled "deffntely not a bag full of drugs" and found it to contain narcotics. In a press release posted to Facebook, Lauren County Sheriff's Office announced that Tricia…
    - 22 hours ago 28 Jun 26, 1:57pm -
  • newFirewood chopping simulator
    Firewood is a free online log-chopping simulator: rounds of firewood are placed upon an old stump and you must use an axe to chop them into appropriately-sized splits. Rounds come in various sizes and heights. The full-window graphics are surprisingl…
    - 22 hours ago 28 Jun 26, 1:47pm -

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