If you're in the market for a new camera, this holiday season is the time to buy. There are some great Black Friday camera deals available right now, including one on our favorite GoPro, the GoPro Hero 13 Black. There are plenty of other GoPro camera deals, along with some good buys on cameras from Insta360, DJI, Fujifilm, and more. Also, be sure to read our guide to the Best GoPros, Best 360 Cameras, Best Instax Cameras, Best Travel Cameras, and Best Mirrorless Cameras . Do You Need a New Camera? Probably what you need to do is spend a lot more time with the one you have, but if buying a new camera makes you feel like maybe you're getting better at photography, far be it for me to stop you.

The Balsam Hill Vermont White Spruce is so pretty, but pretty spendy--but you can get a great deal this Black Friday. The Vermont White Spruce artificial Christmas tree is the best fake you can buy, and that's not just our opinion. Last month, we rented a studio, secured 10 of the most popular artificial Christmas trees on the market, got 10 volunteers together to put the trees together and fluff them, then invited three interior designers to blind-judge them. The Vermont White Spruce won the competition, getting very close to a perfect score. This is the best fake Christmas tree you can buy, based on the most thorough test we've seen.

What the Rocco fridge lacks in smarts, it makes up for in looks. You have a few hours left to save on the brand's Black Friday sale. When's the last time you poured a perfect glass of Pinot Noir in your own home? Red wines should be served somewhere between 58 and 68 degrees (opinions vary). That's a bit cooler than room temperature, but unless you want to dedicate money and space to a special refrigerator, you don't have many good options.

Best Buy has the Asus Zenbook A14 marked down to almost half its sticker price. On the hunt for a lightweight and budget-friendly laptop that won't let you down? Best Buy has the Asus Zenbook A14 discounted from its usual $1,000 price point to just $550 for an early Black Friday deal . This featherweight laptop is a Windows Copilot+ PC, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus at its core, and is a great deal for students or occasionally putting in some hours from your local café. Weighing in at just 2.1 pounds, this Zenbook is one of the lightest laptops we've tested to date, with most machines starting closer to 2.4, and only Lenovo's Thinkpad X1 Carbon coming anywhere close at 2.2 pounds.

Amazon's Prime Day is here yet again. Our favorite pet tech, from at-home DNA kits to pet cameras, is on sale. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. In the great tradition of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Amazon Prime Day, Amazon has spread the savings love to Prime Big Deal Days, which begin on October 7 and end on October 8.

Game-theoretic interactions between agents with Large Language Models (LLMs) have revealed many emergent capabilities, yet the linguistic diversity of these interactions has not been sufficiently quantified. In this paper, we present the Conversational Robustness Evaluation Score: CORE, a metric to quantify the effectiveness of language use within multi-agent systems across different game-theoretic interactions. CORE integrates measures of cluster entropy, lexical repetition, and semantic similarity, providing a direct lens of dialog quality. We apply CORE to pairwise LLM dialogs across competitive, cooperative, and neutral settings, further grounding our analysis in Zipf's and Heaps' Laws to characterize word frequency distributions and vocabulary growth. Our findings show that cooperative settings exhibit both steeper Zipf distributions and higher Heap exponents, indicating more repetition alongside greater vocabulary expansion. In contrast, competitive interactions display lower Zipf and Heaps exponents, reflecting less repetition and more constrained vocabularies. These results provide new insights into how social incentives influence language adaptation, and highlight CORE as a robust diagnostic for measuring linguistic robustness in multi-agent LLM systems. Our code is available at https://github.com/psyonp/core.

Few maintenance tasks are as tedious and time-consuming as cleaning your swimming pool. The good news is that robots can now perform that job, leaving you more leisure time to actually swim in your pool. We've spotted some great deals ahead of Amazon's Prime Day sale next week, and we'll add more as they become available. The recently reviewed Airrobo PC10 is a mid-range robotic pool cleaner that did a very good job on our test pool, and Amazon has knocked 42% off its list price, taking it down to 350. While we haven't had an opportunity to review the Wybot C1 robotic pool cleaner, we have obtained good results with some of the company's other products.

Amazon Prime Day 2025 is fast approaching, and the sale is already underway on some items. To help you find the best early Prime Day deals, we've scoured Amazon for deals on the tech we love. As always, every deal we recommend here is on a product our reviewers have personally tested and approved--you won't find any shoddy dupes or mystery brands here. This year Prime Day runs for four days, July 8-11, rather than the usual two. That means there's twice as long to suffer save. Be sure to read our explainer on all the Amazon Prime perks you should be taking advantage of.

Britain's new laws to boost safety and tackle hate speech online are "not up for negotiation", a senior government minister has warned, after Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg vowed to join Donald Trump to pressure countries they regard as "censoring" content. In an interview with the Observer, Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, said that the recent laws designed to make online platforms safer for children and vulnerable people would never be diluted to help the government woo big tech companies to the UK in its defining pursuit for economic growth. His comments come as Keir Starmer prepares a major big tech charm offensive this week in which he will pitch the UK as the "sweet spot" for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. However, the prime minister will do so with his government facing constant and wild attacks from Elon Musk, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent figures and a leading Trump supporter. Zuckerberg also used a wide-ranging statement last week to reveal he was ditching "politically biased" factcheckers and reducing restrictions on topics such as immigration and gender on Meta's platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads.

Amazon's October Prime Day (aka Prime Big Deal Days) officially ended Oct. 9, but that doesn't mean every deal is done. Some companies have extended the discounts on their gear a little longer, and many no longer require you to have an active Amazon Prime subscription to take advantage of them. Some are still Prime subscriber exclusive, though, and if that's the case, you can sign up for a free 30-day trial here if you don't have one. However, you should add to cart now; there's no telling how long any of these discounts will last since they're no longer tied to an official sale. Google's Nest Thermostat is a particularly good Prime Day deal because it can actually help pay for itself over time. The Wi-Fi-enabled thermostat can learn your habits and schedule over time and activate your HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system more efficiently and less frequently.