Black Friday deals have already begun at Best Buy. These are Best Buy's best bargains we've found across multiple categories: TVs, Apple gear, earbuds, headphones, fitness trackers, gaming gear, laptops and other PC components.

SHOPPING: Products featured in this article are independently selected by our shopping writers. If you make a purchase using links on this page, MailOnline will earn an affiliate commission. The Amazon Black Friday Week Sale is a brilliant time to finally shop the products you've been eyeing up all year, and if you've been thinking of investing in home security, then this is a deal not to miss. It's had the backing of 12,000 five-star reviews. This bundle, which is now 58 per cent off, includes a Blink Outdoor security camera and a Blink Mini Indoor security camera for free, so you can have total peace of mind that your home is safe whilst you're away.

Last week, Amazon extended buyout offers to hundreds of its recruiters as part of what is expected to be a months-long cycle of layoffs that has left corporate employees across the company angered and on edge. Now, Recode has viewed a confidential internal document that raises the question of whether a new artificial intelligence technology that the company began experimenting with last year will one day replace some of these employees. According to an October 2021 internal paper labeled as "Amazon confidential," the tech giant has been working for at least the last year to hand over some of its recruiters' tasks to an AI technology that aims to predict which job applicants across certain corporate and warehouse jobs will be successful in a given role and fast-track them to an interview -- without a human recruiter's involvement. The technology works in part by finding similarities between the resumes of current, well-performing Amazon employees and those of job applicants applying for similar jobs. The technology, known internally as Automated Applicant Evaluation, or AAE, was built by a group in Amazon's HR division known as the Artificial Intelligence Recruitment team and was first tested last year.

Almost everyone has some kind of contact with artificial intelligence on a daily basis. From using the face recognition function to unlock your cell phone to asking Alexa to play your favorite song. So, whether they know it or not, most consumers are already interacting with artificial intelligence and enjoying its benefits every day. As so many people only have a vague understanding of what artificial intelligence is, it is little surprise to know that its potential goes unrecognized by the public at large. But, one area where the power of artificial intelligence is undoubtedly getting the attention it deserves is the eCommerce industry.

Training Machine Learning models involves multiple steps, it gets more complex and time consuming when the size of the data set for training is in the range of 100s of GBs. Data Scientists run through large number of experiments and research which includes testing and training large number of models. Kubeflow provides various ML capabilities to accelerate the training process and run simple, portable scalable Machine Learning workloads on Kubernetes. Model parallelism is a distributed training method in which the deep learning model is partitioned across multiple devices, within or across instances. When Data Scientists adopt Model parallelism there's also a need to share the large dataset across Machine Learning models.

Google's Nest Thermostat is on sale for just $90 for Black Friday, with a tidy $40 discount. That's among the lowest prices we've seen, and close to the lowest it has gone for so far. Like most smart home devices, the Nest Thermostat grants control via smartphone, tablet, laptop or even a smart display like Amazon's Echo Show or Google's Nest Hub (both of which are seeing significant Black Friday deals). Since it's programmable and capable of knowing when you're home, the thermostat can save energy by not overly heating or cooling an empty house. Google designed it to be easy to install, and most people can do it themselves.

Demand for the current generation of Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox consoles has been through the roof for the better part of two years now, and that should only amplify during Black Friday. We can't guarantee you'll be able to get the Switch, PS5, or Xbox Series X/S you've been eyeing this holiday season, but to help make your search a little bit more convenient, we've compiled all the product listings we can find for each console in one place. Again, demand for these machines is high, so not every console may be in stock by the time you read this. And though Black Friday is near, we don't expect to see many outright discounts on most consoles, either -- at the time of publication, the only deals available are for the lower-power Xbox Series S and the base Nintendo Switch. We'll update this article over the course of the week if new offers pop up. For now, though, let us save you a bit of Googling.

Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs in the company's history right now, with a plan to eliminate some 10,000 jobs. One of the areas hit hardest is the Amazon Alexa voice assistant unit, which is apparently falling out of favor at the e-commerce giant. Alexa has been around for 10 years and has been a trailblazing voice assistant that was copied quite a bit by Google and Apple. Alexa never managed to create an ongoing revenue stream, though, so Alexa doesn't really make any money. The Alexa division is part of the "Worldwide Digital" group along with Amazon Prime video, and Business Insider says that division lost $3 billion in just the first quarter of 2022, with "the vast majority" of the losses blamed on Alexa.

SHOPPING: Products featured in this article are independently selected by our shopping writers. If you make a purchase using links on this page, MailOnline will earn an affiliate commission. Amazon's Black Friday Week sale is jam-packed with savings, and bargain hunters have been rushing to get their hands on the best deals, including this Amazon Smart Plug, now just £12.99 - meaning you can control your devices remotely. Now 48 per cent off, this is just one unmissable discount Amazon has dropped on their bestselling smart home devices, which includes unmissable markdowns on Echo, Fire, Blink and Ring devices. You can use the Amazon Smart Plug to control anything plugged into using the Alexa app.

SHOPPING: Products featured in this article are independently selected by our shopping writers. If you make a purchase using links on this page, MailOnline will earn an affiliate commission. Although Black Friday hasn't officially arrived yet, Amazon is warming up to the main sale with unmissable early deals on bestselling Echo, Fire TV, Blink and Ring devices and more. The Amazon Black Friday Week event is packed with tons of deals, and savvy shoppers can already enjoy impressive savings with up to 61 per cent off Amazon Echo and Alexa devices - and prices start at just £12.99. Whether you've been holding off investing in the best smart home devices as they tend to be expensive or looking for a convenient and efficient way to control your indoor Christmas lights when you're not at home, there are plenty of impressive deals to grab now.