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Perplexity spent the past year running one of the biggest AI growth experiments, giving its premium service away to customers of Indian telecom giant Airtel. Now, as the earliest of those free subscriptions expire, the results are starting to emerge, offering an early test of whether bundling paid AI services
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After numerouslawsuits over AI chatbots’ lack of safety measures, leading to teens’ suicides and other mental health concerns, OpenAI on Monday announced the launch of ChatGPT for Teens. The new product promises to include additional safety measures, as well as the educational crisis of ChatGPT-assisted cheating in schools. On the
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Wet and dry vacuums are handy tools to have in your home because they offer wet cleaning for hard floors, together with suction for dry messes and debris. The downside of having two cleaners in one is that they’re usually bulky and can’t reach tight spots or get
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Firefox’s AI-integrated Smart Window is getting a few new features meant to help people pick up their work right where they left off. The features, announced Tuesday, should make it easier to find answers, organize tabs together and see what you were working on earlier. To make answers more
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CNET readers can save a massive 58% off Incogni’s data-scrubbing services when signing up for an annual plan. Enter the discount code CNETDEAL and you’ll pay as little as the equivalent of $6.79 a month for the Standard plan or $12.74 a month for the full-featured
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Mark Knapp/CNET UPerfect GR19BU portable monitor 8.0 Pros & Cons * Big, bright, colorful and sharp * Can work on a single cable * Fast for gaming * Calibration can further improve it * Awfully weak speakers * Poorly placed controls * Cold white point/color temp The UPerfect GR19BU is an interesting portable monitor.
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There’s an argument to be made that people wouldn’t be all that interested in Coyote vs. Acme if it weren’t for the way David Zaslav tried to kill it. By trying to shelve the project, Warner Bros. Discovery only drew attention to its habit of disappearing nearly
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Looking ahead: Intel says its next major CPU architecture will debut in desktop PCs before reaching the data center, putting enthusiasts ahead of enterprise customers at a time when AI demand has shifted much
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Designed in Copenhagen, the Habity bedside clock swaps your phone screen's glow for an eye-friendly e-paper display, gentle wake-up tones, and a local library of sleep sounds, all running fully offline with no app, account, or subscription. The dumbphone revival and the broader push to reclaim our attention
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * New watermarks on Claude content are upsetting some people. * Reactions reveal company priorities and human over-reliance on AI tools. * To avoid possible watermarks, write it yourself (sorry!). Last week, Anthropic announced it would start watermarking
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. ABC is suing the Federal Communications Commission over claims the agency “waged a retaliatory campaign” against its networks over the content they
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Comcast is bringing Wi-Fi motion sensing to millions of routers that are already in customers’ homes, turning the devices into activity monitors. A new update to the Xfinity Internet app, arriving today, August 18th, enables the feature on compatible Xfinity routers at no extra cost. Announced as part of its
