2025-01-06

Mecha Comet is a modular, handheld Linux computer with snap-on extensions

This is not a phone. The Comet by Mecha Systems is a modular, Linux-based handheld computer built for hobbyists, engineers, students, artists and roboticists of all kinds. The Comet is a chunky palm-s [...]

2025-10-25

When your AI browser becomes your enemy: The Comet security disaster

Remember when browsers were simple? You clicked a link, a page loaded, maybe you filled out a form. Those days feel ancient now that AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet promise to do everything f [...]

2025-08-25

Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content

Perplexity is launching a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers that will pay them every time its AI assistants use an article to answer a question, The Wall Street Journal reports. Perplexity is la [...]

2025-07-09

Perplexity's Comet AI browser is available now for $200 per month

Comet, Perplexity's AI-powered web browser, is available now for people paying for the company's $200 per month Perplexity Max subscription. The company offered the browser in a beta form fo [...]

2025-10-02

Perplexity's Comet AI browser is now free for everyone

Perplexity's Comet AI browser is now free for everyone worldwide. The browser had previously only been available to Perplexity Max users at a cost of $200 per month.<br /> The company says [...]

2025-09-24

Keep an Eye Out for a Newly Discovered Comet This October

You might not even need binoculars to see this comet, named SWAN25B. [...]

2025-04-17

The first meteor shower of spring peaks soon, and another is close on its heels

There are several meteor showers we can count on seeing every year as Earth passes through the debris trails of known comets and asteroids orbiting the sun, and two of them are about to be in full swi [...]

2025-06-22

Perplexity's AI-powered browser opens up to select Windows users

Perplexity is planning to open up its Comet browser that's powered by "agentic search" to Windows users, according to the company's CEO. Aravind Srinivas posted on X that the Windo [...]

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 [...]