We've used all of these down comforter picks on our own beds and can attest they're excellent for winter (or year-round). Down comforter deals are usually easier to find during the warmest months of the year, but we've rustled up a few worth your while before it gets too bitterly cold outside. Down comforters are some of my very favorite products to test. I live in northern Illinois, and around this time of year it's usually either snowing, dangerously cold, or both. I have tried several blankets for our down comforter buying guide in my day-to-day life over the course of months.

Bring this to a holiday party and take pictures or wrap one up as a great gift for anyone who likes photos taken without a smartphone. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Did you know you're not supposed to shake a Polaroid picture? There's actually a chemical process going on inside of each Polaroid print and shaking it won't help it turn out any better. In fact, it might ruin the emulsion required for the picture to form.

'This pistol is something a bit different,' according to a firearms expert. Despite its generic appearance, this 18th century firearm features a comparatively unique design. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It's difficult to resist raising an eyebrow at an Oklahoma robbery suspect's alleged recent weapon-of-choice . According to several Oklahoma news outlets including WKTUL, a 24-year-old man was arrested on December 6 by Tulsa police after allegedly robbing a liquor store using what employees described as an "old-timey musket."

Rachael Dunfell knew two things about her husband's 21-year-old cousin: that he liked specialised racing bikes and that he was interested in the Vikings. But those pieces of information yielded few ideas for a suitable Christmas gift. So Rachael, 33, from Manchester, turned to artificial intelligence. She inputted his age, his hobby and his interest into Copilot, the Microsoft-owned chatbot, which led her to the website of a niche retailer that sells Viking-themed metal bike parts. It's just something that I really would never have known existed, she said, but it was perfect.

Gear Outdoor Gear Amazon dropped Ororo's heated jackets, vests, and gloves to prices lower than Black Friday Stay warm all winter with big discounts on Ororo's most popular heated outerwear and accessories. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. If you're staring down a few more months of cold commutes, dog walks, or pretending to have fun at an outdoor holiday market that charged you $18 for a hot chocolate, heated layers can make winter feel a lot more survivable. ORORO's battery-powered vests, jackets, and accessories hide built-in heating elements to warm your core (and even your hands and legs) at the press of a button, and a bunch of their most popular pieces are on sale at Amazon right now. Whether you want a low-profile heated vest to slip under a coat or a fully insulated jacket with multiple heat zones and dual controls, these discounts cover just about every style.

This paper proposes DeepRule, an integrated framework for automated business rule generation in retail assortment and pricing optimization. Addressing the systematic misalignment between existing theoretical models and real-world economic complexities, we identify three critical gaps: (1) data modality mismatch where unstructured textual sources (e.g. negotiation records, approval documents) impede accurate customer profiling; (2) dynamic feature entanglement challenges in modeling nonlinear price elasticity and time-varying attributes; (3) operational infeasibility caused by multi-tier business constraints. Our framework introduces a tri-level architecture for above challenges. We design a hybrid knowledge fusion engine employing large language models (LLMs) for deep semantic parsing of unstructured text, transforming distributor agreements and sales assessments into structured features while integrating managerial expertise. Then a game-theoretic constrained optimization mechanism is employed to dynamically reconcile supply chain interests through bilateral utility functions, encoding manufacturer-distributor profit redistribution as endogenous objectives under hierarchical constraints. Finally an interpretable decision distillation interface leveraging LLM-guided symbolic regression to find and optimize pricing strategies and auditable business rules embeds economic priors (e.g. non-negative elasticity) as hard constraints during mathematical expression search. We validate the framework in real retail environments achieving higher profits versus systematic B2C baselines while ensuring operational feasibility. This establishes a close-loop pipeline unifying unstructured knowledge injection, multi-agent optimization, and interpretable strategy synthesis for real economic intelligence.

Auk Mini's stylish herb garden makes a great gift, and its discount is still live. I test a lot of indoor gardening systems throughout the year, and the midcentury-chic Auk has remained my all-time favorite for herbs . Not only can you plant whatever seeds you want in its coco coir substrate (though it does come with parsley and basil), it takes very little maintenance, requiring only periodic refills of water and nutrients. There's also no app to worry about, or pumps, or pH testing needed. This makes it a perfect no-muss, no-fuss gift for cooks, gardeners, or anyone at all interested in growing their own herbs.

Adverts for Nike, Superdry and Lacoste have been banned for making misleading claims about their green credentials. The UK's advertising watchdog challenged the brands over the use of the word sustainable in paid-for Google ads which were not backed up by evidence of their sustainability. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) identified three adverts from the retailers promising customers sustainable materials, sustainable style and sustainable clothing. The UK's advertising code states that the basis of claims about environmental sustainability must be clear and supported by a high level of substantiation. In each case, it asked the companies for evidence to back up the claims about the sustainability of the products.

Cyber Monday is over, but many deals are still available, at least for now. These are the absolute best discounts on gear we've tested ourselves. Cyber Monday may be over, but many Cyber Week deals are still going strong. Whether you're checking off your holiday shopping or snagging a special treat for yourself, now's the time to pounce. The WIRED Reviews team has hundreds of years of collective experience tracking deals--not just inflated markdowns--on products we've hand-tested. Below, you'll find everything that made the cut and is still on sale: True discounts on the gear and gadgets we'd recommend to our friends and family. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2024, 12th Generation) $ 160 Our all-time favorite Kindle packs a three-month battery life, an auto-adjusting warm light, and a nice seven-inch screen for one of the best e-reader experiences. Dell had a killer $500 discount all weekend on the Core Ultra 5 version of its Dell 14 Plus. It was a high-end laptop being sold for downright budget-level prices. It's sold out now, unfortunately. But the current discount is still quite good. This is a very strong display for a laptop at this price. While the Surface Laptop is better in many ways, the $650 Dell 14 Plus gets you a full terabyte of storage. Microsoft's Surface Laptop is the closest thing the Windows world has to a MacBook, and it's never been so cheap. Usually, inexpensive Chromebooks have subpar displays and touchpads, but this Acer model's are just fine--at a killer price. Our favorite gaming laptop has a sleek, thin design and impressive graphics. Weighing only 2.16 pounds, it's one of the lightest laptops you can buy, without making any major sacrifices to achieve that weight. The M4 MacBook Air has been the best laptop on the market since it was released in 2024.

A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how. If you're near Rochester, New York, the price for a carton of Target's Good & Gather eggs is listed as $1.99 on its website. It's unclear why the prices differ, but a new notice on Target's website offers a potential hint: "This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." A recently enacted New York State law requires businesses that algorithmically set prices using customers' personal data to disclose that. According to the law, personal data includes any data that can be "linked or reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with a specific consumer or device." The law doesn't require businesses to explicitly state what information about a person or device is being used or how each piece of information affects the final price a customer sees.