The scanner also successfully collects shoppers’ emails, with current retailers experiencing up to a 55 percent email capture rate, allowing for enhanced customer service and email marketing opportunities after the shopper leaves the store.
Other agentic coding tools, such as Cursor and Codex from OpenAI, have also found success among programmers; AI browsers including ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet browser seek to give AI models the ability to take actions for the user on the internet.
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Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
15 Jan. 2026
Most browsers are now also underpinned by Chromium, a free and open-source web browser project, which was primarily developed and maintained by Google.
Why would a promising young researcher accept a faculty offer of $120,000 with uncertain employment prospects when a technology company or defense contractor offers $180,000 on the first day?
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Francisco Ruiz,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2026
The war in the Middle East has made cargoes more scarce and, in turn, more expensive, raising the prospects of another energy crunch.
Moreover, because the Sears catalog did not racially discriminate, economic historians credit the catalog as a major tool for Black consumers to side-step the indignities and discrimination of Jim Crow commerce.
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Harold Pollack,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2026
Social media moves rapidly and multiple trends are cycled through social feeds, and doomscrolling consumers can take in enough.
Spyware — The iPhone Risk Spyware has targeted iPhone users many times in the past, with notable strains including NSO Group’s Pegasus, Coruna and Darksword.
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Kate O'Flaherty,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2026
Though the exact number of Polymarket users isn’t publicly disclosed, estimates indicate there are thousands of people that bet daily on the site.
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