Technology
What is Comet, Perplexity’s agentic AI-powered browser? | Explained News
[ad_1] Perplexity, known for its AI-powered search engine, earlier this month introduced its new AI-first browser, Comet, which is designed to help users assign various web tasks to AI agents. The browser is still in early access under the Perplexity Max plan, which costs $200 a month. From user responses ...
Weapons of Math Destruction: What do Olympiad gold medals mean for the AI race? | Explained News
[ad_1] Large language models (LLMs) are widely known for their ability to churn out essays and other forms of text in seconds. But for years, researchers have been using math problems that involve advanced reasoning as a test of what artificial intelligence (AI) systems are truly capable of. The race ...
#arseniclife: Story of a viral study & a contentious retraction | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readUpdated: Jul 26, 2025 10:56 AM IST Fifteen years ago, a group of scientists made the bold claim of having discovered a microorganism that could survive using chemistry different from any known life-form. On Thursday, the journal Science, where these findings were reported, formally retracted the 2010 ...
How Lovable became a successful AI-powered app builder
[ad_1] 2 min readNew DelhiJul 26, 2025 05:39 PM IST Lovable, a Swedish AI startup, has crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, putting it ahead of most other software firms, including OpenAI. Currently, the firm has more than 2.3 million active users, and last reported 180,000 paying subscribers. Here ...
Why the launch of NASA-ISRO joint satellite NISAR matters | Explained News
[ad_1] Earth observation satellites are fairly common these days, with countries routinely deploying them in space for a variety of purposes. But the satellite that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to launch on Wednesday evening is anything but routine. It is a satellite that has been in ...
Google’s AI summaries are driving down website clicks. Can it reshape the way people surf the internet? | Explained News
[ad_1] As Google transitions from AI Overviews to AI Mode, which seeks to replace traditional search results altogether and instead a chatbot effectively creates a miniature article to answer a query, the big looming question is — will this change the way people surf the internet? No, claims Google, but ...
How an earthquake can generate tsunami
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiJul 30, 2025 04:55 PM IST A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves of up to 16 feet, which had started to American shores along Hawaii’s islands and off the coast of northern California on Wednesday morning. Tsunami alerts ...
All about CTE, ‘brain commotion’ caused by sports injuries, that New York shooter claimed to have | Explained News
[ad_1] In a note that police found in his wallet, the gunman who killed four people in New York on Monday claimed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — a result of playing [American] football in high school. CTE is a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated brain trauma. It ...
Why 8.8 magnitude Kamchatka quake is rare but not unusual | Explained News
[ad_1] An 8.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest on record, struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russia’s far-east, about 6,500 km east of Moscow, on Wednesday morning, triggering a tsunami that struck several countries on both sides of the northern Pacific Ocean. The tsunami generated waves as high as 3-4 ...
How a new project plans to curb rhino poaching through radioactive isotope injections | Explained News
[ad_1] A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign on Thursday (July 31) with a unique approach – injecting radioactive isotopes into rhino horns. It claimed that the method is harmless for the rhinos and allows customs agents to detect trafficked horns. After six years of intense research and testing, ...
