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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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  • newStar Wars: Galactic Racer has a release date
    On October 6th, you can be pod racing! A racing game that relies on as much aggression and underhandedness as it does pure speed, Star Wars: Galactic Racer has a very Star Wars soundtrack and effects.I worry that lots of Aurbesh plus music that…
    - 8 hours ago 30 Apr 26, 10:20pm -
  • newA hobbyist mounted a cesium atomic clock on his Raspberry Pi
    A hobbyist who blogs as Chip Overclock wasn't satisfied with his GPS-disciplined desk clock. The Raspberry Pi inside it kept time within microseconds of UTC, but only when GPS satellites were available. Lose the signal during bad weather or an antenn…
    - 11 hours ago 30 Apr 26, 7:11pm -
  • newWearable tails help elderly folks keep their balance
    About 25 million years after our ancestors traded theirs for an upright stance, a research team at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design gave our long-lost tails a comeback tour. The prototype, dubbed Arque, was a meter-long wearable robot…
    - 11 hours ago 30 Apr 26, 6:43pm -
  • newHoney from sealed Egyptian tombs is still edible after 3,000 years
    Derma Sciences sells a wound bandage called Medihoney that hospitals use to treat burns and slow-healing sores. The active ingredient is exactly what you'd guess: honey. The same stuff in your pantry pulls water out of damaged tissue and releases tra…
    - 12 hours ago 30 Apr 26, 6:30pm -
  • newA 1964 art school study predicted who would still be painting in 5 years
    In 1964, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago handed 31 of its students an hour, a sheet of paper, and a long table covered in oddities: grapes, a gearshift, a glass prism, an old book, and 23 other items chosen by two researchers in the next r…
    - 12 hours ago 30 Apr 26, 6:25pm -
  • newCraig Venter, who booted up the first synthetic cell, dies at 79
    In 2010, Craig Venter and his colleagues took a bacterial genome they had designed on a computer, assembled it from chemical building blocks, transplanted it into an empty cell, and watched the cell start dividing. The result, Mycoplasma mycoides JCV…
    - 12 hours ago 30 Apr 26, 6:08pm -
  • newHow a retired technician handed EFF the proof of NSA mass spying
    On the sixth floor of an AT&T building on Folsom Street in San Francisco, a locked room labeled 641A held the hardware that gave the NSA a copy of every byte of internet traffic passing through. The man who figured this out was a retired AT&T technic…
    - 12 hours ago 30 Apr 26, 6:03pm -
  • newA computer scientist beat textbook binary search by more than 2x
    Binary search is the page-flipping trick everyone learns in their first programming class: to find a word in a sorted list, look at the middle, decide whether your target is in the top or bottom half, and repeat. It has been considered close to optim…
    - 12 hours ago 30 Apr 26, 5:57pm -
  • newMystery statue in London is a Banksy
    A statue appeared mysteriously overnight on a plinth in London's Waterloo Place, showing a man in a suit, blinded by the large flag he carried, about to step off the edge. It was signed by Banksy, and the famed street artist confirmed the attribution…
    - 12 hours ago 30 Apr 26, 5:53pm -
  • newMan hid in Best Buy at closing to get drop on new Pokémon cards
    Police responded to the Pasadena Best Buy early Wednesday after an employee reported that cameras showed someone inside the store. Storming in, officers found Patrick Keys, 45, and arrested him on suspicion of burglary.There was no sign of forced en…
    - 13 hours ago 30 Apr 26, 5:25pm -

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