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    You could win $1 million by asking Perplexity a question during the Super Bowl

    SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images Although you may be tuning into the Super Bowl for the football, you’ll also be exposed to the latest in tech. (Remember last year’s Temu and Copilot ads?) This year, Perplexity is getting in on the action, running a campaign that could win you $1 million.  Also: How to watch […] More

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    Why I recommend this Samsung laptop the most for business and creative professionals

    <!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways Pre-orders for the Galaxy Book5 Pro start at $1,349. It sports a brilliant 3K touchscreen and large touchpad, plus Intel’s Lunar Lake chip delivers next-gen performance. Despite the better hardware, this laptop shares some of the design flaws as its predecessor. –> Whenever a new laptop comes out, consumers expect it […] More

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    This $279 iPad deal is a steal – and it’s the model I recommend to most people

    Adam Breeden/ZDNETApple sells some very fancy iPads these days. In fact, several of them now cost over $1,000. But for the things most people do with their iPads — watching streaming content, making video calls, reading books and documents, answering messages, and surfing the web, the best iPad to buy is the standard 10th-generation iPad More

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    This $129 Android phone reminded me of my Google Pixel 9 Pro in the best way

    <!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The NUU N30 is available now on Amazon for $129. This $129 phone would make an amazing first phone for a child or a backup device. The fingerprint scanner on the N30 is in the power button, so there’s no under-screen biometrics and the phone doesn’t support wireless charging. –> Let’s […] More

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    Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly

    Alex Wong/Staff/Getty Images LONDON — Fitting artificial intelligence into open source isn’t easy. Yes, AI foundations rest firmly on open source. And yes, a handful of important programs, such as IBM’s Granite Large Language Models (LLM) and RHEL AI, really are open source. But most of the AI models you’re always hearing about — such […] More

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    I switched to a $129 Android phone for a week, and it was surprisingly capable

    <!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The NUU N30 is available now on Amazon for $129. This $129 phone would make an amazing first phone for a child or a backup device. The fingerprint scanner on the N30 is in the power button, so there’s no under-screen biometrics and the phone doesn’t support wireless charging. –> Let’s […] More

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    Perplexity lets you try DeepSeek R1 – without the security risk

    MirageC/Getty Images Chinese startup DeepSeek AI and its open-source language models took over the news cycle this week. Besides being comparable to models like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s o1, the models have raised several concerns about data privacy, security, and Chinese-government-enforced censorship within their training.  AI search platform Perplexity and AI assistant You.com have found […] More