Early Black Friday Amazon deals on home security are the lowest we’ve (ever) seen

TL;DR: Buy the vigilant SimpliSafe 9-piece wireless home security system at it’s lowest price ever of $265.05 at Amazon. You likely won’t get a better offer on Black Friday, and it’s not the only sale you’ll find at Amazon on other home security accessories. 


The holidays are already stressful. After all your time and money spent on gifts, the last thing you should worry about is someone snatching them right off your doorstep. 

A good home security system is the best path to holiday peace of mind, and a better option than hoping your dog will scare thieves away. 

Amazon will help you stay one step ahead of aspiring Grinches with some early Black Friday offers on SimpliSafe home security and other popular brands like Arlo and Ring. While we expect other deals once Black Friday arrives, it’s never a bad idea to get a head start ahead of the rush.  Read more…

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Trash-talking robots can hurt feelings, says study you stupid humans probably won’t understand

Turns out robots can shade humans, and when they do, it makes us sad and unproductive.

So say researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who have released the results of a student-led study from its Robotics Institute. 

The whole thing worked like this: Each of the study’s 40 subjects played a game called “Guards and Treasures” against the robot, Pepper, 35 times. The game, classified as a Stackleberg game, pits “leaders” against “followers,” where a designated leader moves first based on a predetermined strategy, and subsequent players have to respond to that strategy. Still with us? Good.

Researchers typically use this type of game to study “defender-attacker interaction in research on security games.” But for this study, they were able to “explore the uses of game theory and bounded rationality in the context of robots.” That’s a mouthful, we know. But what it essentially means is they were testing to see how humans and robots interact in a non-cooperative environment. While playing each game, the students would either receive praise or taunts from Pepper.  Read more…

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Amazon KitchenAid deals for Black Friday are already heating up

TL;DR: Be a kitchen wizard and save up to 35% on KitchenAid blenders and food processors at Amazon before Black Friday even begins.


Take a look around that kitchen. What do you see? Like most folks, the basics probably adorn your counter top: microwave, toaster, and coffee maker. Which is fine, if you want to be basic. 

But now that you’ve binged The Great British Baking Show and exhausted the entirety of America’s Test Kitchen, basic simply won’t do. You need the right appliances at the right price to give your kitchen the glow-up it deserves and get cooking.

SEE ALSO: These are the Black Friday sales worth waiting for Read more…

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Emilia Clarke’s nude scene pressure didn’t come from ‘Game of Thrones’

Emilia Clarke opened up about performing in nude scenes on Game of Thrones and later projects in a recent episode of Dax Shepard’s podcast Armchair Expert

In the episode, Clarke recalled feeling inexperienced on set during the first season of Game of Thrones and noted how she relied on her co-star and sex scene partner Jason Momoa to let her know what is and isn’t acceptable for on-set nudity. 

“Because Jason had experience, he had done a bunch of stuff before coming on to this, he was like, ‘Sweetie, this is how it’s meant to be and this is how it’s not meant to be, and I’m going to make sure that’s the way it goes,'” she said after mentioning that she felt “fortunate” to have him there to keep her comfortable.  Read more…

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‘The Mandalorian’ concept art proves Baby Yoda was always adorable

We don’t know where Baby Yoda came from (yet), but The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau is willing to divulge how he first saw the adorable creature.

On Tuesday, four days after the release Disney+’s second Mandalorian installment, Favreau shared the concept art for “The Child” on Twitter. With two big brown eyes, two bigger green ears, and one little foot poking out of his snuggly, first draft Baby Yoda looks almost as cute as the one that made it into the show. 

Original concept art#TheMandalorian pic.twitter.com/4VWm6WUzFl

— Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) November 19, 2019

Star Wars fans were quick to applaud Favreau’s work…  Read more…

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Twitter to trolls: Say goodbye to your toxic lists

It’s about time, Twitter!

A full decade after launching lists, Twitter’s handy feature for following groups of people, the company is finally addressing the tool’s dark side: harassment. The service will now allow users to flag lists as abusive, Twitter announced Monday, making it the first time the company has had a reporting function specifically for lists. 

With the update, which is available on iOS now and will be on Android and Twitter’s website “soon,”  users are able to report a list the same way they might report an individual tweet. From the list page, the “…” menu will have a “Report” option, which then allows you to flag the list to Twitter. Read more…

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Future kids are going to be pretty confused about history, thanks to this meme

The children of the future might have a wildly skewed version of history, thanks to a meme making the rounds on Twitter. 

The meme has Twitter users posting a completely random, unrelated photo with a historical figure’s name. Whether a founding father or an iconic pop star, people are comparing photos of Panic! At the Disco’s Brendon Urie to Abraham Lincoln and the terrifying Chuck E Cheese animatronic band to Brockhampton. Twitter users are captioning the tweets with “Gonna tell my kids this was” and adding a historical figure. 

Here are a handful of questionable history lessons. 

gonna tell my kids this was benjamin franklin pic.twitter.com/MLeDN5woUu

— L.A.S. (@SartoriallyInc) November 18, 2019 Read more…

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