Remember when people would break down the doors to get inside Walmart to score the best deals? Fill up your digital shopping cart instead with these Walmart Cyber Monday deals on some of the best devices we've tested this year--no door-breaking necessary. We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically. If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism.

Cyber Monday is as good a time as any to snap up a smart speaker (or two or three) to build out your home audio setup, and here's some welcome news for those who've been dithering over whether to buy Sonos' most powerful model. The Sonos Five is 20 percent off for Cyber Monday. The smart speaker has dropped from $549 to $439. It's a one-day-only deal, so you'll need to act quickly if you're interested. The Sonos Five is the company's best-sounding smart speaker and, for Cyber Monday only, it's $110 off.

Whether you play on PS5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch or PC, the myriad Cyber Monday sales around the web include a number of deals that may be of interest. To help you cut through the junk, we've rounded up the best Cyber Monday gaming deals we could find below. Most are left over from Black Friday, but that still means lower-than-usual prices on consoles, games, mice, keyboards, headsets, handhelds, monitors, laptops and more recommended gaming gear our experts have tested and reviewed. The non-slim PS5 is still 10 percent off for Cyber Monday at Amazon and GameStop, a rare discount for Sony's console. The PlayStation 5 is still $50 off and down to $450 at Amazon and GameStop -- though stock has been going in and out at the former, and the latter appears to require in-store pickup. This offer only applies to the older version of the PS5, not the smaller "slim" version that was announced last month. But discounts of any kind for Sony's console have been extremely rare since the device arrived in 2020, and there's no performance difference between the two models. If stock for that deal completely runs dry, Sony is still offering a pair of bundles that do include the latest version of the console: one that comes with Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and one that includes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. You should go with the former while both are available: We called Spider-Man 2 a "perfectly balanced game" in our review, while Modern Warfare 3 has been roundly criticized as one of the most undercooked CoD entries in recent memory. Both games cost $70 on their own, so that's what you're saving here. As a refresher, Sony says the slim PS5 takes up 30 percent less volume than the original models and weighs up to three pounds less. It also has two USB-C ports instead of one. If the slim Spider-Man 2 bundle runs out of stock, Sony is running a similar deal with the older "fat" PS5 as well.

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the retail landscape and has accelerated the adoption of innovative technologies. A striking example relates to the proliferation of online grocery orders and the technology deployed to facilitate such logistics. In fact, for many retailers, this disruption was a wake-up call after which they started recognizing the power of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). In this article, we discuss the opportunities that AI can offer to retailers in the new normal retail landscape. Some of the techniques described have been applied at scale to adapt previously deployed AI models, whereas in other instances, fresh solutions needed to be developed to help retailers cope with recent disruptions, such as unexpected panic buying, retraining predictive models, and leveraging online-offline synergies.

We propose WorldSense, a benchmark designed to assess the extent to which LLMs are consistently able to sustain tacit world models, by testing how they draw simple inferences from descriptions of simple arrangements of entities. Worldsense is a synthetic benchmark with three problem types, each with their own trivial control, which explicitly avoids bias by decorrelating the abstract structure of problems from the vocabulary and expressions, and by decorrelating all problem subparts with the correct response. We run our benchmark on three state-of-the-art chat-LLMs (GPT3.5, GPT4 and Llama2-chat) and show that these models make errors even with as few as three objects. Furthermore, they have quite heavy response biases, preferring certain responses irrespective of the question. Errors persist even with chain-of-thought prompting and in-context learning. Lastly, we show that while finetuning on similar problems does result in substantial improvements -- within- and out-of-distribution -- the finetuned models do not generalise beyond a constraint problem space.

The shopping event of the year isn't over just yet, and if you're looking for a robot vacuum to keep your home clean, one of Engadget's favorites is on sale for a stellar price this Cyber Monday. Right now, you can get the Shark AI Ultra for half off, or $300 less than its $600 MSRP. For those in the market for a robot vacuum that can clean their floors too, Shark also offers a version of the AI Ultra with mop functionality built-in. After a 43 percent discount, that variant is currently $400, down from $700. Either way, those are excellent prices for a pair of robot vacuums that offer a compelling mix of features and cleaning performance.

Every single year I tell myself that I'm not going to go overboard for the holidays. Then I start shopping for 20 people. If you're in the same boat, you'll be happy to know we've tracked down the Black Friday deals under $50 on reviewer-approved gadgets. WIRED tests products year-round and handpicked these deals based on the actual discounts. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out . We'll update this guide through Black Friday. If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. If you watch mainly Amazon Prime content, the Fire TV Stick is the streaming device you need, and this one was just released at the end of September. You can stream from any service, of course, but it's heavily geared toward the company's own content. This 4K Max is faster, with 16 gigabytes of storage versus 8, but if you want to spend less and still stay in the Amazon ecosystem, the also-new 4K Stick is on sale for $25 ($25 off). The Echo Show 5 is typically overpriced at $90, but the deal price of $40 matches the best we have tracked. Just keep in mind that it goes on sale quite frequently. We prefer the Echo Show 10 for its larger size, but the smaller footprint of the Echo Show 5 is good for a nightstand or tiny kitchen.

Smart plugs are a great way to bring even your non-IoT devices into the smart home ecosystem, and with a Cyber Monday deal on Amazon, you can pick up some of the best for super cheap. A four-pack of TP-Link's Kasa Smart Plug Mini 15A is 30 percent off, bringing the price down to just $35 dollars from its usual cost of $50. These smart plugs work with all of the major smart home platforms, including Apple Homekit, Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Samsung SmartThings. Get a four-pack of smart plugs while they're 30 percent off for Cyber Monday. Kasa Smart Plugs are easy to set up through the app, available for both iOS and Android, and are great for anyone looking for a no-fuss experience.

It's Sunday now, but there are lots of Black Friday deals still available--most more appealing than the leftover turkey turning vaguely green in your fridge. Many of these will carry on over through Cyber Monday tomorrow too. WIRED's gear team spends all year combing the internet to bring you the best discounts on smartphones, laptops, iPads, headphones, battery chargers, and plenty more WIRED-approved gear. We have dozens of deals posts broken up by category which you can find linked below but this post is where we put our very favorite deals from across genres. We'll update this post throughout the weekend with more deals as we find them. We last updated it on Sunday, November 26, 2023, at 8 am. We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discount amounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically.

Best Buy's Black Friday deals have already been running for weeks and show no sign of slowing down. The classic big box electronics store is going head-to-head with Amazon and has been touting a price match guarantee--at this point, though, we know where the deals are going to land. If you have a paid My Best Buy Membership, you can access some exclusive deals, but they're not worth the yearly fee if you haven't already joined. We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discount amounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically. If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. This is our top TV recommendation if you're looking for the best bang for your buck. The Hisense U8K (8/10, WIRED Recommends) has a mini-LED display that delivers excellent black levels, and it comes with a Google TV interface that's easy to use. The feet are on the ends though, so you'll want to mount it or pair it with a long TV stand. We've been fans of TVs with Roku's interface for a while, and Roku's in-house line makes our favorite entry-level TV.