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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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  • newThis $100 subscription helps protect against identity theft and financial fraud
    TL;DR: If you regularly bank, shop, and manage your finances online, this discounted 15-month subscription offers an affordable way to monitor your identity and respond quickly if fraud occurs—grab it now for just $99.99 (reg. $187.35).With Life…
    - 7 hours ago 7 Aug 26, 4:00pm -
  • newDoing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center
    Google has a difficult engineering problem at its enormous Fort Wayne data center: some of the land it wants to build on is protected wetlands.The search giant's solution is simple: build anyway. In the permitting documents for the not-evil-mastermi…
    - 9 hours ago 7 Aug 26, 2:27pm -
  • newCan you guess Rock Hard's branding problem?
    Los Angeles' stiffest self-proclaimed superhero is fighting a branding problem of his own devising. Based on the name alone, I had already imagined an incredible origin story involving the ever-popular fateful tumble into a vat of chemicals. His cra…
    - 9 hours ago 7 Aug 26, 2:06pm -
  • newNever lose your wallet again with this $32 smart tracker
    TL;DR: Never lose your wallet or ID cards again with this Gen 3, 1-pack KeySmart SmartCard for just $31.99 (reg. $39.99).The KeySmart SmartCard is a credit-card-thin, IPX8 waterproof, rechargeable smartcard that works with Apple Find My or Googl…
    - 13 hours ago 7 Aug 26, 10:00am -
  • newMeta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages
    Meta is paying for posts that appear to break its own rules, according to an ABC (Australia) New Verify investigation by Lucy Carter. The report cites four accounts that have received payment from Facebook's invitation-only Content Monetization progr…
    - 15 hours ago 7 Aug 26, 8:00am -
  • newMark Twain wrote a story in 1898 that describes the internet
    "From The 'London Times' in 1904" is an 1898 Mark Twain short story set six years in the future, and it describes something very close to the internet. It opens as a murder mystery. Clayton, a hot-tempered army officer, is accused of killing Szczepan…
    - 16 hours ago 7 Aug 26, 7:45am -
  • newA Dutch doctor translated acupuncture through four languages
    De Acupunctura is a 1683 book by the Dutch physician Willem ten Rhijne, and it came out of one of the most roundabout translation jobs on record. Ten Rhijne was living at Dejima, the artificial island off Nagasaki that was the only piece of Japan ope…
    - 16 hours ago 7 Aug 26, 7:30am -
  • newA Kentucky water tower says "Y'all" because of a legal problem
    The Florence Y'all Water Tower stands beside Interstate 75 in Florence, Kentucky, and it says "Y'all" because of a paperwork problem. When it went up in 1974 it read FLORENCE MALL. The developers had given the city the land for the tower on the condi…
    - 16 hours ago 7 Aug 26, 7:15am -
  • newTake a seat and watch the trailer to Primetime
    There's been some speculation about exactly what Primetime, A24's movie about the hit show To Catch A Predator, is going to say. Having seen the trailer, I figure that if you were skeptical of host Chris Hansen's motives and character, this movie sha…
    - 16 hours ago 7 Aug 26, 7:08am -
  • newHear what the Odyssey may have sounded like as a song
    Georg Danek and Stefan Hagel have worked out a way to sing Homer, and Open Culture has their recording. Danek teaches at the University of Vienna and Hagel is at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. What they recorded is lines 267 to 366 of book 8 of th…
    - 16 hours ago 7 Aug 26, 7:00am -