Tag: space

🦃 Hosting Thanksgiving? Read this first

More time with family, less time stuck in the kitchen. I found 15 smart tools for Turkey Day, so you can sit down and enjoy the feast, too.

🎁 The cozy gift guide you need: Up to 61% off

Inside: 15 little comforts make chilly days easier. Some, like a heated eye mask and fuzzy slippers, make perfect gifts.

The Orionid meteor shower peaks tonight. Here’s when to look, where to look and how to catch a shooting star on your phone.

Bits of Halley’s Comet are hitting our sky at 148,000 mph, friend, and tonight is the peak. Free apps point you to the right spot, one site gives your town’s best hour and your phone’s night mode can catch a streak. Steps below.

Untangle your life for less than $50

Messy cords, dead batteries and dark corners? I found 10 clever tech upgrades to tackle everyday headaches. Up to 35% off.

Fix It or Ditch It? Make ChatGPT Build You a Repair-vs-Replace Calculator

To repair or not to repair, the age old question. ChatGPT can now build interactive calculators with sliders, so you can figure in energy costs, how many years the fridge has left and the odds it breaks again before you decide.

A tiny island nation strapped cameras to sheep to promote itself. Google loved it. Here are six wild places to explore on Google Maps tonight, from a camel’s back to the space station.

Google skipped the Faroe Islands, so locals made their own Street View with sheep. Google showed up. Now you can wander the islands, a desert, the Galapagos and even the International Space Station from your couch. Here’s where to tap.

SpaceX to launch satellites the size of a pickup, which could make your internet 10x faster

Starship will carry 26 next-gen Starlinks into orbit. Here’s how big they are, how fast they’ll be, how long they’ll last and what happens when one dies (nobody reboots it).

Same towers, half the bill: A couple paying $200 a month asked me what the catch is. Here are all three.

After 20 years of marriage, Dave and his wife agree on one thing: $200 a month for two phones feels wrong. The same signal sells for half. There’s a catch, friend. Three, actually. All smaller than the one they’re living with.

Redesign your room with AI before you spend a dime

Upload a few room photos, give AI a hard budget and make it tell you what to keep, move, sell or replace before you buy another piece of furniture.

The internet isn’t in a cloud. It’s 600 cables on the ocean floor, and a single one is about as thick as a garden hose.

An estimated $10 trillion crosses these cables every day, and roughly 60 ships on the entire planet keep them running. Ship anchors do more damage than sharks ever have, and Starlink’s whole fleet still can’t match one cable’s capacity.

Your phone is a magic star map. Here’s how to use it tonight.

No telescope, no chart, no clue what you’re looking at? Doesn’t matter. The free app already in your pocket names every star you point it at, and one trick lets you see the stars beneath your feet. Plus, the farthest thing your eyes can ever reach.

9 movies that predicted the future

It’s a long holiday weekend, and I’m doing something a little different. I’m queuing up the movies that called it: the ones that predicted the digital world we’re all living in. AI assistants, video calls, screens on everything. Hollywood saw it coming decades ago.  Grab the popcorn, and watch along with me. These flicks were […]

The FBI built a fake town in Alabama. Then started attacking it.

Empty houses. A hospital. Traffic lights blinking at nobody. The FBI built a whole pretend town for one chilling reason.

Your GPS has been receiving secret military messages for 20 years

A security researcher proved every GPS satellite doubles as a Cold War-style “numbers station,” beaming encrypted Pentagon code to every phone, car and smartwatch on Earth.

A reader drove China’s $10,300 EV and wants one. Here’s why he can’t have it, and how America fights back

Mark in San Diego test-drove the BYD Seagull in China and would buy one tomorrow. Kim breaks down the national security reason he can’t and the $200 billion American factory boom answering the challenge.

Smart travelers don’t leave home without these essentials. A few are less than $10.

The smartest travel gear I’ve packed lately, from anti-theft tools to tech that solves your biggest vacation headaches.

Your antivirus might be the reason your computer runs like it’s moving through wet cement

You installed antivirus to protect your computer. But what if it’s quietly destroying the thing it’s supposed to protect? This isn’t a hypothetical. Most antivirus software runs constantly in the background, eating RAM, slowing your startup and making every app launch feel like it’s wading through quicksand.  You blame your old computer. You think about […]

Four humans flew around the moon. Here’s the technology that got them there.

Yesterday, four humans flew 252,757 miles from Earth, swinging around the lunar far side in a spacecraft the size of a minibus. They broke a record that had stood since 1970 when Apollo 13 limped past the moon, trying to get its crew home alive. The Artemis II voyagers woke up to Chappell Roan’s “Pink […]

Handy deals $25 and under: Save up to 58%

Small prices on motion lights, fast-charging cables, organizers and five picks under $10.

Miss my January favorites? They’re still on sale!

Kim Komando shows you fitness upgrades and smart gear up to 43% off.