Vizio TVs Now Require Walmart Accounts For Smart Features An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Prospective Vizio TV buyers should know there's a good chance the set won't work properly without a Walmart account. In an attempt to better serve advertisers, Walmart, which bought Vizio in December 2024, announced this week that select newly purchased Vizio TVs now require a Walmart account for setup and accessing smart TV features. Since 2024, Vizio TVs have required a Vizio account, which a Vizio OS website says is necessary for accessi… Apple Can Create Smaller On-Device AI Models From Google's Gemini Apple reportedly has full access to customize Google's Gemini model, allowing it to distill smaller on-device AI models for Siri and other features that can run locally without an internet connection. MacRumors reports: The Information explains that Apple can ask the main Gemini model to perform a series of tasks that provide high-quality results, with a rundown of the reasoning process. Apple can feed the answers and reasoning information that it gets from Gemini to train smaller, cheaper mode… Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns the week of June 8 Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) online from June 8-12. Can A $40 Knockoff DeWalt Chainsaw Beat The $130 Original? This Test Found Out A popular tool tester put a budget pruning chainsaw up against a genuine DeWalt model to see how the cheaper alternative compares. The results may surprise you. Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations , multicloud networking, zero trust network access ( ZTNA ), and SD-WAN . Here’s a recap of some of the latest industry research, hiring statistics, and certification trends that impact today’s network professionals, infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders, and data center… Safety Experts Considered LaGuardia Challenging but Not an Outlier Regulators, pilots and others in aviation have worried about the kind of runway accident that happened at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday. The sunsetting of Sora: A hard lesson in AI portfolio resilience OpenAI's decision to shut down the text-to-video model reveals the volatility of the current AI market and the need for agnostic AI workflows. The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins Success in modern UX isn’t about having the most content. It’s about having the most findable content. Yet even with more data and better tools than ever, internal search often fails, leaving users to rely on global search engines to find a single page on a local site. Why does the “Big Box” still win, and how can we bring users back? Sony and Honda pull plug on the $100,000 EV that was set to debut in California After the Japanese automaker Honda discontinued plans for three of its EVs, its joint venture with Sony announced it's shutting down its luxury EV Afeela. |
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