GM Will Add Bidirectional Charging Capabilities To All Ultium-Based EVs Soon, all GM EV&#39;s on the Ultium platform will come equipped with bidirectional charging capabilities. Electrek reports: According to a release from GM this morning, the automaker has decided to roll out V2H capabilities to all of its incoming EV models, in addition to those already promised. [...] According to GM, all new EVs based upon the Ultium platform will feature bi-directional charging by model year 2026, so expect additional models beyond those above to also come equipped with the ability to power your home. GM states its expanded V2H access will be supported by the rollout of the Ultium Home bundles previously announced, although we still do not know how much this technology is going to cost homeowners. GM says that additional details of expanded V2H technology and the specific timings of its rollout to the models mentioned above will be revealed at a later date. In the meantime, check out GM&#39;s latest sizzle reel showing off some of the incoming capabilities of its Ultium EVs, including a shadowy peek at the aforementioned Escalade IQ. <img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"> <img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"> Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Google Launches Project IDX, a New AI-Enabled Browser-Based Development Environment An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment for building full-stack web and multiplatform apps. It currently supports frameworks like Angular, Flutter, Next.js, React, Svelte and Vue, and languages like JavaScript and Dart, with support for Python, Go and others in the works. Google did not build a new IDE (integrated development environment) when it created IDX. Instead, it is using Visual Studio Code -- Open Source as the basis of its project. This surely allowed the team to focus on the integration with Codey, Google&#39;s PaLM 2-based foundation model for programming tasks. Thanks to Codey, IDX supports smart code completion, a ChatGPT/Bard-like chatbot that can help developers with general coding questions as well as those related specifically to the code you are working on (including the ability to explain it) and the ability to add contextual code actions like &#34;add comments.&#34; &#34;We spend a lot of time writing code, and recent advances in AI have created big opportunities to make that time more productive,&#34; the IDX team explains in today&#39;s announcement. &#34;With Project IDX, we&#39;re exploring how Google&#39;s innovations in AI -- including the Codey and PaLM 2 models powering Studio Bot in Android Studio, Duet in Google Cloud and more -- can help you not only write code faster, but also write higher-quality code.&#34; As a cloud-based IDE, it&#39;s no surprise that Project IDX integrates with Google&#39;s own Firebase Hosting (and Google Cloud Functions) and allows developers to bring in existing code from the GitHub repository. Every workspace has access to a Linux-based VM (virtual machine) and, soon, embedded Android and iOS simulators right in the browser. <img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"> <img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"> Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Walmart Is Bringing Digital Ads To An Aisle Near You According to CNBC, Walmart shoppers &#34;will soon see more third-party ads on screens in Walmart self-checkout lanes and TV aisles; hear spots over the store&#39;s radio; and be able to sample items at demo stations.&#34; From the report: For Walmart, selling ad space to its wealth of existing partners is another way to capitalize on the company&#39;s huge reach and to expand into higher-margin businesses. The discounter has nearly 4,700 stores across the U.S., with roughly 90% of Americans living within 10 miles of a Walmart store. In the U.S., about 139 million customers visit Walmart stores and its website or app each week. The company plans to ramp up in-store ads using its approximately 170,000 digital screens across its locations as well as 30-second radio spots that will be available to suppliers later this year and can target a specific store or region. And it&#39;s hoping at least one of the new advertising initiatives will be easy to digest: free samples in stores on the weekends. It tried out the new in-house approach of selling sampling stations in Dallas-Fort Worth and plans to offer the option in more than 1,000 stores across the country by the end of January. Advertising still drives a small sliver of Walmart&#39;s overall revenue. Its global advertising business hit $2.7 billion in the most recent fiscal year, which ended in late January. That&#39;s less than 1% of Walmart&#39;s total annual revenue. Yet it is becoming a more meaningful growth engine for Walmart. CEO Doug McMillon said earlier this year that he expects company profits to grow faster than sales over the next five years, driven in part by higher-margin businesses, including advertising. In the most recent fiscal year, Walmart&#39;s global ads business grew nearly 30% and its U.S. ads business, Walmart Connect, rose about 40%. That&#39;s a sharper gain than the approximately 7% increase in Walmart&#39;s total revenue and Walmart U.S. net sales during the period. <img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"> <img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"> Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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According to CNBC, Walmart shoppers &#34;will soon see more third-party ads on screens in Walmart self-checkout lanes and TV aisles; hear spots ove...