2025-01-09

The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to support open-source Chromium-based browsers

Google's Chromium source code will be used as the basis for new open-source web browsers. [...]

2025-01-09

X's Grok AI assistant is now a standalone app

Grok, the AI assistant that's for some reason baked into X, is now available as a standalone app. Like the version that exists as a tab on the social media platform, the Grok app can be used to g [...]

2025-01-09

The weirdest tech we saw at CES 2025

CES is a great place to check out all sorts of upcoming tech for the year, but it’s often the wildest gadgets that steal the show. The conference hosts thousands of exhibitors, all vying for attenti [...]

2025-01-09

Diffbot’s AI model doesn’t guess—it knows, thanks to a trillion-fact knowledge graph

Diffbot challenges AI giants with a breakthrough open-source language model that outperforms ChatGPT and Google Gemini by prioritizing real-time fact retrieval over large-scale parameters, marking a p [...]

2025-01-09

Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space”

Open source group aims to better organize and fund development of browser. [...]

2025-01-09

Soundpeats' new earbuds are a super-cheap and stylish alternative to the Bose Ultra Open

These super-cheap earbuds are even cheaper if you order now: an early-bird offer makes them one tenth of the Bose alternative's price. [...]

2025-01-09

Amid LA Fires, the Watch Duty App Provides Timely Info on Wildfire Conditions

Volunteers help source information to the service, which gives updates on wildfires and sends out alerts on threats to life and property. [...]

2025-01-09

Perplexity will now show hotel information from TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor has entered into a partnership with Perplexity to offer a human touch to the AI company's hotel information. Through this deal, listings for hotel searches on Perplexity will now incl [...]

2025-01-09

This mean bean machine is bound to upset coffee fans

If you know anything about coffee, and coffee snobs, you’ll know they’re always going on about where their beans are sourced from. The preference for single origin beans is better for traceability [...]