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Earlier this year, with a TikTok ban looming, Perplexity AI threw its hat into the increasingly crowded ring to take over the embattled social media company. Now, the maker of the AI search engine is outlining its vision for TikTok if its bid were to win out.
In a blog post, the company made a lengthy pitch for "rebuilding TikTok in America," an effort that would see the AI company rebuild the app’s signature algorithm, add Community Notes, and integrate the shortform videos into its search engine.
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While the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are not expected to launch until September, there are already plenty of rumors about the devices. iPhone 17 Pro's alleged design via Front Page Tech Below, we recap key changes rumored for the iPhone 17 Pro models as of March 2025: Aluminum frame: iPhone 17 Pro models are rumored to have an aluminum frame, whereas the iPhone 15 Pro and... Read more ›
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Reuters reported this week that several U.S. national security agencies "have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks..." The plan was led by the president's National Security Council (NSC) and involved at least seven national security agencies working with European allies to disrupt plots targeting Europe and the United States, seven former officials who participated in the working groups told Reuters... [S]ince Trump took... Read more ›
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Two Jewish passengers have sued United Airlines, TSA, and DHS for alleged discrimination and mistreatment during a flight from Mexico to Texas. Read more ›
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USS Spruance left its home port to support efforts to "restore territorial integrity" at the southern border, US Northern Command said. Read more ›
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Rachel Zegler is starring in Disney's "Snow White" remake. Here's what to know about the rising star. Read more ›
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In recent weeks, airport Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have drawn public outcry for denying travelers US entry based on searches of their phones. A doctor on an H-1B visa was deported to Lebanon after CBP found âsympathetic photos and videosâ of Hezbollah leaders. A French scientist was turned away after a device search […] Read more ›
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LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says he uses AI to learn topics and research companies he might invest in. Read more ›
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Instability woes continue to trouble Nvidia's RTX 40 series GPUs after three months, as reported by many users across different forums. Read more ›
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Military spouses say they rely on the federal government for jobs. When mass firings started, their families were dealt an especially hard blow. Read more ›
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Apple is working on adding cameras to future Apple Watch models in order to make them function more like AI wearables, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in the Power On newsletter. Gurman reports that the company “is considering adding cameras to both its standard Series watches and Ultra models,” with plans for a 2027 launch. The move would allow the Apple Watch to support AI features like Visual Intelligence, which... Read more ›
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Emma Le Teace has made a career out of her love of cruises. At 31 years old, she's already been on 76 voyages. Read more ›
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Right now at Amazon, you can find the Apple Mac Mini M4 desktop available for $499, its lowest price to date. Read more ›
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Pete Petersen, 58, has been looking for work since last February after he was laid off from his corporate job, suspecting ageism. Read more ›
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Frank Noble retired early at 55 and is now 86. Decades later, he attributes his long and successful retirement to financial stability and hobbies. Read more ›
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Hollywood's reportedly looking at bringing the recently released (and popular) Split Fiction to the silver screen. Read more ›
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A user on Reddit has compiled prices of completed RTX 5090 FE sales on eBay, with the data indicating that prices have stabilized throughout March, though still above MSRP. Read more ›
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Ancient sponges and corals were found on the exposed seafloor, in an area previously inaccessible to humans. Read more ›
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Jensen Huang began the first ever Quantum Day at Nvidia's GTC with an apology, but attendees and investors weren't convinced of his contrition. Read more ›
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The Elias Law Group hit back at Trump after it was namedropped in a White House memo targeting law firms' "frivolous" suits against his administration. Read more ›
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Evan Feinman, who directed the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program meant to bring high-speed internet access to rural areas, exited the role on Friday after he was not reappointed for a new term, according to ProPublica’s Craig Silverman. In an email sent to staffers, which Silverman shared screenshots of on Bluesky, Feinman warned against changes proposed by the new administration that could “benefit technology that delivers... Read more ›
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While Tesla is a popular car for ride-hailing drivers employed by the likes of Uber and more, the company could soon cut out the middleman. The California Public Utilities Commission has approved the company's bid for a transportation charter-party carrier permit, Bloomberg reports. The permit opens the way for Tesla to operate a ride-hailing service to compete with Uber, Lyft and other established companies. Tesla employees would drive the cars,... Read more ›
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Now that Apple’s recent slew of hardware releases are behind us, we got some news on the software side last week. First, the company publicly announced that it was delaying the smarter, more personal version of Siri that’ll be powered by Apple Intelligence. Then, rumors sprang up again that Apple was giving an extensive visual update to its software platforms, including iOS 19 and macOS 16 which are expected to... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump's efforts to remake the US government continued today with the firing of the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission. This agency has historically had five members: three from the same party as the president and two from the opposing party. The New York Times reported that the president terminated the roles for FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya. Both Slaughter and Bedoya said... Read more ›
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The Federal Trade Commission has removed all posts from President Joe Biden's term in office from its business blog. This online publication has historically provided advice about how companies could best comply with consumer-protection regulations, covering topics such as artificial intelligence and how big tech companies have collected and used customer data. Currently, it has no content published between December 21, 2020 and March 7, 2025. Wired highlighted some of... Read more ›
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Google has followed up an ocean's worth of leaks with the official announcement of its Pixel 9a smartphone, which will retail for $499. Possibly the biggest change to the new A-series model is in its appearance, with the removal of the camera bar on the back of the phone. In the 9a, the camera housing is "slightly domed," sitting nearly flush with the rest of the frame, giving this midrange... Read more ›
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It has been over two years since ChatGPT exploded onto the world stage and, while OpenAI has advanced it in many ways, there's still quite a few hurdles. One of the biggest issues: hallucinations, or stating false information as factual. Now, Austrian advocacy group Noyb has filed its second complaint against OpenAI for such hallucinations, naming a specific instance in which ChatGPT reportedly — and wrongly — stated that a... Read more ›
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Eight days. That’s how long Boeing Starliner’s mission — its first flight test with crew aboard — was supposed to last. But this mission has been singular in almost every way, and astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have instead spent the past nine and a half months aboard the International Space Station. Now, finally, they're headed home. Their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule is slated to begin undocking from the... Read more ›
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For all of the money and clout Meta has, it can’t stop the triennial emergence of a whistleblower revealing how awful its leadership is. Careless People, the tell-all memoir from former staffer Sarah Wynn-Williams is the latest, dishing plenty of dirt on the house of Zuckerberg. The book has shot to the top of The New York Times’ bestseller list despite Meta’s attempts to suppress it. Engadget’s Karissa Bell summarized... Read more ›
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Fujifilm has unveiled one of the wilder cameras I've seen in awhile, the 102MP medium-format GFX100RF compact camera. Yes, you read that right — this is a carrying-around street camera with a massive sensor and fixed 35mm f4 lens (28mm full-frame equivalent) that can shoot 11,648 x 8,736 photos. If that wasn't enough, it has features we've rarely seen on compact cameras, like a built-in ND filter and dedicated aspect... Read more ›
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