This pre-Black Friday sale on our favorite value robot vacuum is just so good. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. It doesn't matter what time of year it is--vacuuming is one of those chores that honestly just kind of sucks. If you're sick and tired of getting on your hands and knees to vacuum under your couch, trust me, you're not the only one. Vacuuming leads to more headaches, back aches, and hassles than almost any other chore, it seems.

My husband likes to tell a story from his college years: he was working in data entry, next to a woman with a copy of Anne Rice's erotic novel The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty sitting on her desk. When a supervisor walked by and noticed it, she snapped it up, saying, "This is a romance novel? Hey, let's look for one of the good parts!" Then she started flipping through the pages. Finding page after page of S&M scenarios and graphic sexual activity, she quickly put the book back down.

Getting to the steamy stuff – you know what we're talking about – just got a little easier. Audible recently launched a feature for some romance audiobooks that lets listeners skip to "the good part." The Amazon company launched the Audible Romance Package, which allows users to "binge to your heart's content" thousands of audiobooks included. Because parsing through the masses can be daunting, there are a few ways to narrow the search, including recommendations from the "Take Me to the Good Part" tool. It offers listeners the option to jump to certain places in select audiobooks based on 10 categories.

Getting to the steamy stuff – you know what we're talking about – just got a little easier. Audible recently launched a feature for some romance audiobooks that lets listeners skip to "the good part." The Amazon company launched the Audible Romance Package, which allows users to "binge to your heart's content" thousands of audiobooks included. Because parsing through the masses can be daunting, there are a few ways to narrow the search, including recommendations from the "Take Me to the Good Part" tool. It offers listeners the option to jump to certain places in select audiobooks based on 10 categories.

When we were in the city of Danyang, China, we witnessed a real-life paradox. Danyang is best known for its explosive growth in optical lens manufacturing over the last decade, sprouting hundreds of factories with cleanrooms chock-full of gleaming, automated machinery. There is a lot that goes into manufacturing a lens, and this machinery performs the bulk of it: from lens curing, lens cleaning, to lens coating. As Stanford AI researchers and engineers wildly interested in Chinese manufacturing, we were impressed by this caliber of automation. But the paradox greeted us as soon as we walked into the rooms responsible for the most critical part of the entire process: quality control.