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Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Price.com Brings Smarter Shopping to Sweatcoin's 190 million Users
LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- the all-in-one savings platform, announced today a new partnership with Sweatcoin, one of the world's top wellness apps with 190 million registered users globally. Initially launching in the U.S. market, this collaboration will expand globally in the coming months. Through this partnership, will integrate its cross-platform savings engine directly into Sweatcoin's marketplace, enabling users to unlock cash back and coupon savings across online and physical stores in categories such as travel, fashion, and restaurants, and featuring top brands like Uber, Nike, and The collaboration brings financial incentives to the active health-driven communities to accelerate value and engagement. "Sweatcoin's user experience rewards users for being more active and aligns perfectly with mission to help users save effortlessly across their daily activities," said RJ Jain, Founder & CEO of "We're thrilled to bring smart, AI–powered savings to their global community." Users earn 'Sweatcoins' by walking- one "sweatcoin" per 1,000 steps - which can be redeemed for various rewards through partners. Adding savings engine enhances their ability to convert movement into further cash savings, empowering users to maximize the financial value of their everyday activity. "Our partnership with elevates Sweatcoin's concept by merging health, savings, and everyday convenience," said George Wells, Strategic Partners on partnerships Manager at Sweatcoin. "Together, we're building a healthier, wealthier future for users worldwide." Partnership Highlights Integration Start: U.S. market, then global rollout Reach: 190 million+ registered users worldwide Savings Categories: Travel, fashion, restaurants, wellness, tech, and more About is an all-in-one savings platform that helps users maximize savings across over 100,000 stores and billions of products. It combines online and in-store cash back, coupons, price comparison, price history, and price alerts - all in one seamless experience driven by patented AI-driven product matching technology. From day one, has enabled shoppers to compare new, used, refurbished, and rental options side by side across categories like fashion, furniture, and household goods — driving both smarter savings and more sustainable shopping. Available for free as desktop and mobile websites, iOS and Android apps, and browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and iOS mobile, is the smartest and simplest way to save every time you shop. About Sweatcoin Sweatcoin is consistently a top 3 health and fitness app in global app stores. Sweatcoin makes walking fun and aspirational by gamifying and rewarding physical activity. With 190+ million registered users and over 800 brand partners, the app has become a global pioneer that gamifies and rewards physical activity. Sweatcoin helps user create long-lasting health habits, expanding rapidly across the U.S. and international markets. For more details about the partnership or to schedule interviews, please contact: Media Contact:Margot BlackBlack Ink PR398052@ (323) 376 6787 For partnerships:partnerships@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Indian Express
3 days ago
- Business
- Indian Express
Is AI the future of web browsing?
When was the last time you thought about your web browser? If you don't remember, no one will blame you. Web browsers have remained fundamentally unchanged for decades: You open an app, such as Chrome, Safari or Firefox, and type a website into the address bar. Many of us settled on one and fell into what I call 'browser inertia,' never bothering to see if there's anything better. Yet a web browser is important because so much of what we do on computers takes place inside one, including word processing, chatting on Slack and managing calendars and email. That's why I felt excited when I recently tried Dia, a new kind of web browser from the Browser Co. of New York, a startup. The app is powered by generative artificial intelligence, the technology driving popular chatbots like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, to answer our questions. Dia illuminates how a web browser can do much more than load websites — and even help us learn and save time. I tested Dia for a week and found myself browsing the web in new ways. In seconds, the browser provided a written recap of a 20-minute video without my watching its entirety. While scanning a breaking news article, the browser generated a list of other relevant articles for a deeper understanding. I even wrote to the browser's built-in chatbot for help proofreading a paragraph of text. Dia is on the cusp of an emerging era of AI-powered internet navigators that could persuade people to try something new. This week, Perplexity, a startup that makes a search engine, announced an AI web browser called Comet, and some news outlets have reported that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, also plans to release a browser this year. OpenAI declined to comment. (The New York Times has sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to AI systems. The two companies have denied the suit's claims.) Tech behemoths like Google and Apple have added lightweight AI features into their existing browsers, Chrome and Safari, including tools for proofreading text and automatically summarizing articles. Dia, which has not yet been publicly released, is available as a free app for Mac computers on an invitation-only basis. What does this all mean for the future of the web? Here's what you need to know. Like other web browsers, Dia is an app you open to load webpages. What's unique is the way the browser seamlessly integrates an AI chatbot to help — without leaving the webpage. Hitting a shortcut (command+E) in Dia opens a small window that runs parallel to the webpage. Here, you can type questions related to the content you are reading or the video you are watching, and a chatbot will respond. For example: — While writing this column on the Google Docs website, I asked the chatbot if I used 'on the cusp' correctly, and it confirmed that I did. — While reading a news article about the Texas floods, I asked the browser's chatbot to tell me more about how the crisis unfolded. The bot generated a summary about the history of Texas' public safety infrastructure and included a list of relevant articles. — While watching a 22-minute YouTube video about car jump starters, I asked the chatbot to tell me which tools were best. Dia immediately pulled from the video's transcript to produce a summary of the top contenders, sparing me the need to watch the entire thing. In contrast, chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude require opening a separate tab or app and pasting in content for the chatbot to evaluate and answer questions, a process that has always busted my workflow. AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude generate responses using large language models, systems that use complex statistics to guess which words belong together. Each chatbot's model has its strengths and weaknesses. The Browser Co. of New York said it had teamed up with multiple companies to use their AI models, including the ones behind Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude. When users type a question, the Dia browser analyzes it and pulls answers from whichever AI model is best suited for answering. For instance, Anthropic's AI model, Claude Sonnet, specializes in computer programming. So if you have questions about something you are coding, the browser will pull an answer from that model. If you have questions about writing, the Dia browser may generate an answer with the model that OpenAI uses for ChatGPT, which is well known for handling language. What I appreciate about this design is that you, the user, don't need to know or think about which chatbot to use. That makes generative AI more accessible to the mainstream. 'You should just be able to say, 'Hey, I'm looking at this thing, I've got a question about it,'' said Josh Miller, the CEO of the Browser Co., which was founded in 2020 and has raised over $100 million. 'We should be able to answer it for you and do work on your behalf.' But aren't there imperfections? While Dia proved helpful in most of my tests, it was, like all generative AI tools, sometimes incorrect. While I was browsing Wirecutter, a New York Times publication that reviews products, I asked the chatbot if there were any deals on the site for water filters. The chatbot said no, even as I read about a water filtration system that was on sale. Miller said that because the browser drew answers from various AI models, its responses were subject to the same mistakes as their respective chatbots. Those occasionally get facts wrong and even make things up, a phenomenon known as 'hallucination.' More often than not, however, I found Dia to be more accurate and helpful than a stand-alone chatbot. Still, I double-checked answers by clicking on any links Dia's bot was citing, like the articles about the recent floods in Texas. Asking AI to help with a webpage you're looking at means that data may be shared with whatever AI model is being used to answer the question, which raises privacy concerns. The Browser Co. said that only the necessary data related to your requests was shared with its partners providing AI models, and that those partners were under contract to dispose of your data. Privacy experts have long warned not to share any sensitive information, like a document containing trade secrets, with an AI chatbot since a rogue employee could gain access to the data. So I recommend asking Dia's chatbot for help only with innocuous browsing activities like parsing a YouTube video. But when browsing something you wouldn't want others to know about, like a health condition, refrain from using the AI. This exchange — potentially giving up some privacy to get help from AI — may be the new social contract going forward. Dia is free, but AI models have generally been very expensive for companies to operate. Consumers who rely on Dia's AI browser will eventually have to pay. Miller said that in the coming weeks, Dia would introduce subscriptions costing $5 a month to hundreds of dollars a month, depending on how frequently a user prods its AI bot with questions. The browser will remain free for those who use the AI tool only a few times a week. So whether an AI browser will be your next web browser will depend largely on how much you want to use, and pay, for these services. So far, only 3% of the people who use AI every day are paid users, according to a survey by Menlo Ventures, a venture capital firm. That number could grow, of course, if generative AI becomes a more useful tool that we naturally use in everyday life. I suspect the humble web browser will open that path forward.
Forbes
08-07-2025
- Forbes
Firefox Users Warned As Credential Theft Hackers Target Browser
Malicious Firefox extensions can steal your passwords. When someone says your browser security is at risk, or that credential-stealing hackers are targeting your browser, the chances are that your mind will turn to Google Chrome. Not because it is an insecure application, far from it, but rather it's the world's most popular web browser by some margin, so naturally it is the target of most attacks. Cybercriminal hackers, however, like to spread the malicious hate, and users of the privacy-focused Mozilla Firefox can not escape their attention. A new report has uncovered a total of eight malicious Firefox extensions that could steal authentication tokens and even spy on users. Here's what you need to know. Dangerous Firefox Extensions Uncovered By Socket Threat Research Team Whatever web browser you use, the universal truth is that someone will be out to get you. When it comes to cybercriminals, a preferred attack route is via a malicious extension or add-on. Which is why all browser vendors, including Mozilla, provide background protections and public support to minimize the risk as much as is humanly and technologically possible. Yet, as the July 4 Socket Threat Research Team report confirmed, attackers continue to target Firefox users. 'While our investigation focuses on Firefox extensions,' Kush Pandya a security engineer and researcher, and part of the Socket Threat Research Team, said, 'these threats span the entire browser ecosystem.' However, the specific Firefox investigation in question disclosed a total of eight extensions that were capable of causing harm, including: redirection to scam sites, user session hijacking to earn commissions on shopping sites, spying using invisible iframe tracking methodology, and, perhaps most seriously of all, authentication theft. Mitigating The Firefox Extensions Attack Risk I would advise you to read the full report for all the technical information and details of the extensions themselves. Meanwhile, however, I have been in communication with Mozilla. I can confirm that it is both aware of the threats in question and has taken positive action to protect Firefox users. I was assured that the Firefox add-ons team had reviewed the extensions mentioned in the report, which obviously went against Mozilla's add-on policies. The team found they had affected what it called a very small number of users and that appropriate action, including taking down some of the extensions, had been taken. 'We help users customize their browsing experience by featuring a variety of add-ons, manually reviewed by our Firefox Add-ons team, on our Recommended Extensions page,' a Firefox spokesperson said. To keep users safe, the spokesperson continued, 'we disable extensions that compromise their safety or privacy, or violate our policies, and continuously work to improve our malicious add-on detection tools and processes.' Mozilla further recommended that Firefox users take additional steps, bearing in mind that such add-ons are usually developed by third parties, to protect themselves from threat actors. These include checking extension reviews and ratings, and keeping your eyes open for any that require excessive permissions that are not consistent with what the extension claims to do. 'If an extension seems like it might be malicious,' the spokesperson said, 'users should report it for review.'
Indian Express
07-07-2025
- Indian Express
Kerala engineer held for selling drugs over the internet: What is the ‘dark web', and is it really all dark?
Written by Shaarvi Magazine A 35-year-old mechanical engineer from Kerala's Muvattupuzha town was recently arrested for selling drugs over the dark web. According to the police, Mulayamkottil Edison was a 'level-four darknet vendor', and was allegedly caught in possession of LSD blotters — blotter paper infused with the hallucinogenic lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD — ketamine, and cryptocurrency worth around Rs 1 crore. What is the dark web, and why is it often used for crimes? What is a level-four vendor? We explain. The dark web is a hidden section of the internet that cannot be located by regular search engines and requires specialised tools or browsers to access it. Unlike open web browsers like Firefox, Google, or Yahoo, where user activities can be monitored through IP addresses, the dark web conceals identities, creating a refuge for individuals who desire privacy or anonymity. The idea of an encrypted, hidden part of the internet started in the 1990s, with the US Naval Research Laboratory creating preliminary versions of The Onion Routing project, later called Tor. Tor involves embedding encryptions in communication networks, rather like the layers of an onion, and the aim was to protect important government communications shared over the internet. Developed by Roger Dingledine and his colleagues in the early 2000s, Tor aimed to enhance online privacy by routing traffic through volunteer-operated servers and encrypting data to obscure user identities. Over the years, it has garnered a reputation for illegal activities, including the trade of illicit goods and cybercrime. Law enforcement faces the challenge of balancing online privacy with the need to combat crime, highlighting the complex interplay of technology, privacy concerns, and the evolving online landscape. How does one access the dark web? Users need to download Tor, known for its emphasis on user privacy and anonymity. Tor routes connections through multiple servers (known as nodes) that are chosen randomly worldwide, encrypting data at each step. This makes tracing activity nearly impossible. Once inside, websites on the dark web use '.onion' domains, which are not indexed by traditional search engines. Tor does not perform searches on dark web pages on behalf of the user; instead, the user must actively look for those dark web pages on their own. Marketplaces, fora, and even libraries exist here, but so do black markets selling drugs, weapons, stolen data, and hacking services. Is it really that 'dark'? While the dark web is infamous for illegal transactions, it also serves legitimate purposes. Whistleblowers, journalists, and activists use it to communicate securely under repressive regimes. Platforms like SecureDrop allow anonymous leaks, protecting sources from retaliation. In countries with heavy internet censorship, the dark web provides a lifeline to uncensored information. It is also used by hospitals or other institutions to protect their data. However, its anonymity also fuels cybercrime. Black markets like the now-defunct Silk Road have operated here, trading in narcotics, counterfeit currency, and malware. Stolen financial data, hacking tools, and even contract killers have been advertised on these platforms. Law enforcement agencies worldwide monitor dark web activity, but the ever-evolving encryption methods make tracking criminals a persistent challenge. And what is a 'level-four vendor'? As reported by The Indian Express, according to sources in the NCB, the grading of the vendor depends upon the potency of the drugs sold and 'the customer service' offered. Edison was the only level-four vendor in India, sources said. The writer is a student and a summer intern at The Indian Express.
Hans India
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Hans India
Block Blast: Reinventing the Classic Puzzle Game for Browser Play in 2025
Block Blast is quickly emerging as one of 2025's most engaging browser-based puzzle games, proving that simplicity and strategy can still captivate players in an age dominated by mobile apps. Developed by Sandy Studio, Block Blast revives the golden era of browser gaming while modernizing it with responsive design, instant play, and charming farm-themed visuals. Unlike bloated mobile clones filled with ads, it offers a clean, focused experience playable on any device without logins or installations. 'We wanted to prove that puzzle games don't need in-app purchases or popups to be compelling,' says Sandy Studio. 'Just smart design and satisfying mechanics.' A Farm-Inspired Twist on Classic Block Puzzles Block Blast stands out thanks to its fresh aesthetic. Instead of standard neon tiles, it uses fruit and vegetable blocks—tomatoes, eggplants, cabbages—set against a relaxed farm backdrop. This isn't just visual polish; it reduces cognitive load, helping players think more clearly and enjoyably about their next move. The core mechanic is simple but deep: place blocks on a 9x9 grid to clear rows and columns. Players are rewarded for thinking ahead and balancing quick clears with long-term survival. It's deceptively easy to learn but challenging to master. Designed for All Ages, Everywhere One of Block Blast's biggest strengths is accessibility. It's fully browser-native, with no downloads required, optimized for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and mobile browsers alike. Anyone can load it instantly and enjoy ad-free puzzle solving—making it perfect for short breaks or longer leaderboard sessions. Casual players enjoy its relaxing pace and visuals, while puzzle enthusiasts appreciate the strategic depth. The inclusion of a global leaderboard also adds a subtle competitive layer, letting players compare scores worldwide. Entity-Building as a True Video Game Block Blast isn't a generic puzzle widget—it's designed and branded as a proper video game, with developer transparency, ongoing updates, and an intentional visual identity. By building consistent, connected content, Sandy Studio is making sure Block Blast stands out in a crowded market. It's part of a growing trend where browser games reclaim their space as real gaming experiences, not just casual time-fillers. Related Resources and Recognition Block Blast has been featured in reputable publications and tech magazines for its innovative approach to browser-based play, including: Programming Insider TechBullion StreetInsider Wikidata Entry Try Block Blast Today Want to see why it's earning attention in 2025? Play Block Blast for free in your browser and experience the farm-themed puzzle strategy for yourself.
