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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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  • new7 Microsoft Office apps are yours for life with this $15 deal (MSRP $229)
    TL;DR: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows lets you enjoy seven tools for a one-time low price, just $14.97 (MSRP $229) now through September 3.When you think of Microsoft Office, you probably think of Word and Excel, but these da…
    - 8 hours ago 3 Sep 26, 4:00pm -
  • newHikers let Gemini plan their Mount Shasta climb. Search and Rescue brought them home
    Trust AI to help fix your PC or make a funny image to tease your friends; don't use it to plan your ascent of a 14,000-foot volcano that regularly kills people. Three college students used Google Gemini to plan their ascent of Mount Shasta. — Rea…
    - 9 hours ago 3 Sep 26, 2:54pm -
  • newJD Vance is a real tool
    Couch enthusiast JD Vance offered two helpful reminders today that beneath the eyeliner, beard, expensive suits, and enormous ambition lies a real jerk.Yelling at his kid to shut up so Vance can kiss Trump's butt, straight up telling the press he'll…
    - 10 hours ago 3 Sep 26, 2:07pm -
  • newFind someone who looks at you like Raygun's husband looks at her Olympic buffoonery
    Destined to become as Netflix-famous as the "Poop Cruise," Raygun's documentary is proving to be even worse at rehabilitation than the notorious Olympian is at dancing. Mr., however, is still legit. This clip of Raygun's husband fawning over her per…
    - 10 hours ago 3 Sep 26, 1:25pm -
  • newIce Barbie's misogynist replacement fights the Constitution with bigotry
    The Constitution keeps getting in the Trump administration's way, so an unholy triumvirate of DHS, DOJ, and whatever RFK Jr is thinks it's found a route around it: keep pregnant foreigners out of the country in the first place, and their kids won't b…
    - 11 hours ago 3 Sep 26, 1:03pm -
  • newA banana sticker with Andy Warhol's face
    Eric Antonow is an artist best known for the Methaphone, a slab of clear acrylic shaped like a smartphone. The idea of the Methaphone is that it gives you something to hold instead of your phone. You can use it while you are waiting in line or in oth…
    - 12 hours ago 3 Sep 26, 12:04pm -
  • newA blogger imagines Hell as a lesson in AI alignment
    "If you have a mental picture of guys living in computers, it'll likely prepare you for the future better than otherwise," the pseudonymous AI researcher roon wrote on X, describing that mental model as the right way to read the recent Hugging Face b…
    - 12 hours ago 3 Sep 26, 11:24am -
  • newA marmot named Dawn just won the first-ever Fat Marmot Week
    The inaugural Fat Marmot Week has concluded. After over 23,000 votes, the winner is Dawn.Facing funding cuts, scientists at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory's Marmot Project launched an OnlyFans to raise money to keep the project going. Fat Marm…
    - 13 hours ago 3 Sep 26, 10:52am -
  • newPlant Smart: database of plants harmful to pets
    Plant Smart is a database of plants that are harmful to pets, so you're not stuck asking Google or Claude if you just killed Rover by letting him eat a daffodil. Narcissus spp. is toxic to cats, dogs, horses, small mammals and reptiles. — Read…
    - 13 hours ago 3 Sep 26, 10:49am -
  • newExperience the joy of getting online with a dial-up modem
    56k.rip simulates the experience of trying to get online 35 years ago, right down to replicating a typical Windows 3.x desktop and requiring you to figure out what to click to even try. Once you do, though, you get to listen to that pleasantly nostal…
    - 13 hours ago 3 Sep 26, 10:32am -

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