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This isn't just about TVs, though. It's about ads. Vizio's financial results in 2021 made it clear that the firm was making twice as much money from ads, subscriptions and data than it was bringing in from actual TV sales. And that's the business Walmart is really interested in.

Walmart will be tracking what you watch on your Vizio TV. According to FlatpanelsHD, Walmart will be collecting viewing data via a system called ACR, short for Automated Content Recognition. That scans the content you watch to help target ads more effectively.

https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2024/12/03/walmart-completes-acquisition-of-vizio

The acquisition of VIZIO and its SmartCast Operating System allows Walmart to serve its customers in new ways to enhance their shopping journeys. It will also bring to market new and differentiated ways for advertisers to meaningfully connect with customers at scale and boost product discovery, helping brands achieve greater impact from their advertising investments with Walmart Connect – the company’s retail media business in the U.S.

https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/walmart-vizio-advertisers-should-know/
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Retail media and CTV are becoming more closely linked as companies look to reach consumers in their own closed-loop systems. And for Walmart, the move was “smart and logical,” according to Oz Etzioni, CEO of adtech company Clinch.

“Their already massive global footprint and treasure trove of first-party data, combined with CTV/OTT (over-the-top) channel ownership, will offer advertisers a quite compelling package and more seamless opportunities to activate audiences at scale in a true omnichannel fashion,” Etzioni previously told ADWEEK. “Establishing such a vast and holistic ecosystem will lend itself to seamless opportunities for advertisers to reach their audience in an increasingly relevant and personalized way.”

I have a USB HDD that I'm hoping to install Windows on for a few games and other pieces of software. I know my load times will be miserable, but how poorly will things run once on ram? Lastly, Windows does like to screw with other operating systems on the same drive, will it play nice with my main drive as long as it's on the HDD?

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https://www.researching.cn/articles/OJ97a9c4dcc97720f3

It's a very good, enjoyable talk. Also he quotes Ursula Le Guin.

Do they plug in the headphone slot or is it an hdmi thingy?

In normal, non-subsidized free-market news:

Intel Corporation and the Biden-Harris Administration announced today that the U.S. Department of Commerce and Intel have reached agreement on terms to award the company up to $7.86 billion in direct funding for its commercial semiconductor manufacturing projects under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act. The award will support Intel's previously announced plans to advance critical semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging projects at its sites in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio and Oregon. Intel also plans to claim the U.S. Treasury Department's Investment Tax Credit, which is expected to be up to 25% of qualified investments of more than $100 billion.

Also, interesting they are still calling it biden-harris regime

The slop: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/a50d/live/57dcda40-9d54-11ef-9850-61b70bbc107f.png.webp

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It was down for months. Maybe Twitter will be usable again.

A laptop you can upgrade the parts of instead of buying a whole new laptop? Sounds pretty cool. Did I dream it up or is this a real thing?

I need a new vpn and don't know which one I should get, any recs?

One aspect mentioned in the video: somewhere in that 14 GB of text data, there is probably evidence of Tate conspiring to pump and dump crypto. The hack acquired, among other things, every private message and private channel post on their servers.

Latest move to tighten regulation comes amid soaring use of algorithms for content recommendation, e-commerce and gig work distribution

Tech operators in China have been given a deadline to rectify issues with recommendation algorithms, as authorities move to revise cybersecurity regulations in place since 2021.

A three-month campaign to address “typical issues with algorithms” on online platforms was launched on Sunday, according to a notice from the Communist Party’s commission for cyberspace affairs, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and other relevant departments. The campaign, which will last until February 14, marks the latest effort to curb the influence of Big Tech companies in shaping online views and opinions through algorithms – the technology behind the recommendation functions of most apps and websites.

System providers should avoid recommendation algorithms that create “echo chambers” and induce addiction, allow manipulation of trending items, or exploit gig workers’ rights, the notice said.

They should also crack down on unfair pricing and discounts targeting different demographics, ensure “healthy content” for elderly and children, and impose a robust “algorithm review mechanism and data security management system”.

Tech companies have been told to “conduct in-depth self-examination and rectification to further improve the security capabilities of algorithms” by the end of the year.

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title, basically. a comrade had shared his acc with me for a while (if you read this pm me! and thanks!!) without a hitch, until i managed to botch a cleanup of my PC because i was careless. I hadnt realized this until i deleted my hexbear acc with the og pm with the password and name lmao, so now im truly screwed. so yeah if anyone can help, id appreciate!!