Month: December 2018

Earlier this year, the International Space Station got a new “crew member” of sorts: CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion), an interactive AI assistant that can float around the station and help answer astronauts’ questions — kind of like a specialized spaceflight cross between Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Clippy.

But CIMON’s debut — seen in a new video release by the European Space Agency — shows an early interaction with the space robot is going, well, exactly the way that every single science fiction movie has prepared you to think it will, via Gizmodo.

The idea behind CIMON is innocuous enough. Developed by IBM in conjunction with Airbus, the robot was designed with two functions in mind: to help astronauts with tasks, like…

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There are still at least a few more opportunities to save on tech gifts for loved ones (or yourself; we won’t tell) before the winter holidays arrive. Retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, and Samsung are hosting daily deals on their online stores that could be your best opportunity to score a low price if you missed out on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

As daily deals become available, we’ll compile them below. Keep in mind that these deals will only be active for the day that they are announced.

Samsung

It’s not much of a surprise, but Samsung’s daily deals only include its own products. Each day of sales loops in tech from a few different categories, and we’ll list them out below.

December 2nd:

• Buy Gear S3 Frontier and get a free…

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The year is winding down, the days are getting colder — you might say that winter is coming. But even if you’re not traveling anywhere for the holidays, you can still go et your vacation sightseeing fix through an unlikely source: aerial drone video collections. While Game of Thrones’ eighth and final season doesn’t arrive until next spring, fans have made a series of drone videos featuring famous destinations in Europe and North Africa where the show was filmed.

For instance, here’s a video of Dubrovnik, Croatia, which is actually King’s Landing on the show, set to a remix of the Game of Thrones theme song. A note in the video description details how the seaport city that originated in the 11th century has been preserved through the…

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President Trump’s former campaign chair returned to the news last week. So did Michael Cohen. And climate change.

Americans love their trucks, and the auto industry answered this week with the Jeep Gladiator, Range Rover Evoque, Rivian’s electric pickup, and more.

The best, boldest, and most budget friendly 4K TVs we’ve seen this year, including LG, Samsung, Vizio, TCL, and Sony.

This collector discovers new physical phenomena by looking at the everyday world through the eyes of a child.