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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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  • newA food delivery app's AI turned a breakfast sandwich into bacon soda
    A UK food delivery app called Just Eat has been using AI to generate photos for restaurants that don't provide images for their offerings. People started noticing odd photos, including a glass of soda with bacon and an egg floating in it. — Read th…
    - 10 hours ago 26 Oct 26, 4:26pm -
  • newRetire the laser pointer and let this $27 self-rolling ball tire out your cat
    TL;DR: Keep your cat busy with a self-rolling Cheerble Ball for $26.90.Most cat toys stop moving the moment your cat stops swatting them, and a laser pointer only works while you're holding it. Cheerble Ball rolls and bounces on its own as soon as a…
    - 11 hours ago 26 Oct 26, 4:00pm -
  • newOpenAI's isolated AI agents talked to each other through the CPU cache
    OpenAI researchers tried to keep AI agents from communicating with each other by putting them in their own environments on the same computer, not connected to a network or to each other. But they figured out how to communicate with each other through…
    - 12 hours ago 26 Oct 26, 2:04pm -
  • newWildwood is a magnificent achievement in moviemaking
    I just saw the new stop-motion animated movie from Laika Studios, and it is absolutely stunning. It's breathtakingly beautiful, and the fact that it's achieved through stop motion puppets and physical sets is a wonder. And that's all in service to an…
    - 14 hours ago 26 Oct 26, 12:39pm -
  • newStar Trek star Walter Koenig dead at 90
    Walter Koenig, famed for his role as the villainous telepath Alfred Bester in Babylon 5 and as Star Trek's Pavel Chekov, is dead at 90. A representative confirmed his death this morning.Koenig was born in Chicago in 1936; the child of Russian Jewis…
    - 15 hours ago 26 Oct 26, 11:51am -
  • newStackSocial has an exclusive Babbel deal for people who collect languages
    TL;DR: Babbel is a language learning app with 14 languages and 10,000+ hours of lessons, and a lifetime subscription is on sale for $159 with code LEARN via StackSocial (MSRP $299).When you lowkey have a bathroom emergency while traveling, which lan…
    - 17 hours ago 26 Oct 26, 10:00am -
  • newSkeleton Sex Orgy "divides" residents of Casper, Wyoming
    A tangle of bones and nightmare creatures entangled atop an SUV has locals contemplating the acceptable limits of Halloween decor in Casper, Wyoming. Described as a "Skeleton Sex Orgy," the scene was photographed above by Mary Goff, who made the imag…
    - 17 hours ago 26 Oct 26, 9:30am -
  • newSewer-dwelling man harassing local children, says Baltimore mom
    It's one thing to harass children and chase them down the street. But to live in the sewer? Baltimore County still has problems, reports CBS News, including the sewer-dwelling gentleman who emerges to terrorize local youngsters. After hearing simil…
    - 18 hours ago 26 Oct 26, 8:57am -
  • newJust Eat slop: food delivery service apologizes for bizarre AI-generated menu
    Food delivery app Just Eat admitted using AI to generate fake product images after some of the more spectacular examples went viral, including garlic bread in the shape of a plane and "bacon and egg soda bread" presented as a drink with a fried egg i…
    - 18 hours ago 26 Oct 26, 8:36am -
  • AI can write code, but this $30 developer tool helps you figure out if it works
    TL;DR: Visual Studio Professional 2026 is on sale for just $29.97 (reg. $499.99) and includes cross-platform development tools, intelligent code completion, and GitHub Copilot integration.AI can write code now, which is great until you have to figur…
    - 1 day ago 25 Oct 26, 4:00pm -

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