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If you’re deploying a shopping or support agent and ask it what a product costs, it answers confidently, drawing on its training data. The price is months old, the item may be discontinued, and there is no timestamp on the answer to warn anyone. Turn on native browsing, and the agent reads a rendered retail page into its context window, then hands back a paragraph of prose. N...

Web unblockers promise roughly the same thing: send a URL, get the page back, and let someone else worry about proxies, CAPTCHAs, and browser fingerprints. Most quote a success rate without saying much about how they got it.

Here's what happened when the Apify team ran four of them through the same 384 URLs, chosen to be harder than average: news sites behind paywalls, ...

Instagram has no download button. The Save bookmark looks like it should do the job, but it only files the post away inside the app. Nothing in the interface will download Instagram photos to your machine, yours or anyone else's.

For a single image, that's a minor annoyance, and a browser trick gets you the file. The problem changes shape at volume. Aud...

When you create a new Actor in Apify Console, you can now pick GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. Apify sets up the whole Git workflow for you: it creates the repository, pushes the Actor template code into it, and configures the build. From that moment, every push to the repo builds your Actor...

A nearby apartment may advertise a higher rent and still be the cheaper option.

Suppose one property lists a one-bedroom apartment for $1,445 and offers one month free. Another charges $1,525 but offers eight weeks free. The second appears more expensive on Apartments.com, yet its disc...