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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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  • newTrump phone is years-old knockoff with wrong number of stripes on U.S. flag logo
    Imagined as an original made-in-America smartphone, but realized as a made-elsewhere knockoff, the $500 Trump Phone is finally here. It's an Alibaba-tier variant of the years-old HTC U24 Pro and has an American flag with the wrong number of stripes o…
    - 2 hours ago 21 May 26, 8:47am -
  • newKingdom Come: Deliverance devs are making a Lord of the Rings game
    Although its predecessor didn't exactly grip me, sprawling medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance II proved to be one of my favorite games of the 2020s. So big! So immersive! So stuffed with content that it made me concerned for the dev team! — Rea…
    - 2 hours ago 21 May 26, 8:29am -
  • newQuantic Dream's inexplicable live service hero shooter dies an ignominious death
    Marathon may not have turned out to be the next Concord, but Spellcasters Chronicles might now have a decent claim to the title. Perhaps Quantic Dream, the studio known exclusively for story-driven singleplayer experiences that have about as much act…
    - 2 hours ago 21 May 26, 8:28am -
  • newRevisiting the strange world of Dick Tracy
    When I was a kid first getting into comics, there was something about Dick Tracy that genuinely made me uneasy. I was already into Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, other popular spandex supes. Their worlds felt heightened and fantastic, but also somehow…
    - 2 hours ago 21 May 26, 8:27am -
  • newPlayStation to give its next game reveal a nationwide theater screening
    Nothing says "confidence" quite like letting people get tickets to go see the announcement of a lineup of upcoming games in a proper movie theater. Granted, it could also say "let's blast ads to our core audience on as big a screen as humanly possibl…
    - 2 hours ago 21 May 26, 8:25am -
  • newA virtual museum runs 570 operating systems in your browser
    Andrew Warkentin has spent over twenty years collecting old operating systems and getting them to run. The result is the Virtual OS Museum, a launcher and Linux VM that boots 570-odd operating systems on top of QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM, with everythi…
    - 15 hours ago 20 May 26, 7:34pm -
  • newTennessee man jailed 37 days for a Trump meme wins $835,000
    Larry Bushart, a Tennessee retiree who spent his career in law enforcement, will receive $835,000 from Perry County and Sheriff Nick Weems to settle the federal civil rights case he filed last December, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expres…
    - 15 hours ago 20 May 26, 7:29pm -
  • newHumans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
    Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates often have strong biases, and chimpanzees, gorillas, and a few other species lean slightly to the right or left as groups, b…
    - 15 hours ago 20 May 26, 7:23pm -
  • newThis $40 food-tracking app may tell you more about your groceries than the box does
    TL;DR: Fooducate Pro is $40 (reg. $199.99) and combines meal tracking, barcode scanning, food grades, ingredient analysis, and nutrition tools in one app for new users.Grocery packaging has become its own weird dialect. Everything is "natural," "s…
    - 19 hours ago 20 May 26, 4:00pm -
  • newH.P. Lovecraft borrowed from this real Connecticut seismic phenomenon
    The Connecticut village of Moodus lies over a seismic fault that produces shallow microearthquakes that cause weird booms, rumbles, and cracks. The Algonquian peoples named the area Matchitmoodus. ("the place of noises")The biggest Moodus Noise o…
    - 21 hours ago 20 May 26, 1:34pm -

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