About Plax

• The news in short. Short summaries of stories from named publishers in India and around the world, in English and Hindi. Every story links to the original, and the headline is the link.
• Topics to follow. Science, technology, space, health, finance, stocks, business, history, philosophy, psychology, books, mathematics, nature, art, physics and language, so that the feed can follow your interests.
• Go deeper and Test yourself. Go deeper adds background to a story on request, and on the website Test yourself asks quick questions on a topic. Both are written by AI, are labelled as AI, and can contain mistakes.
• Saved stories, themes and search. Keep the stories you want to read later, choose a light or a dark look, and on the website search for a story or a topic.
• No account needed. Signing in with Google is optional, and only lets your chosen topics and saved stories follow you to another device. See the privacy policy.

Plax has no reporters of its own. Its stories come from the public feeds of named publishers, such as The Hindu, NDTV, India Today, the BBC, Al Jazeera and NPR, and for some topics from open reference sources such as Wikipedia. The stories, headlines and pictures belong to their publishers, and Plax is not affiliated with them. The editorial policy lists the sources and explains how a story gets onto Plax and how the summaries are written.

The Learn section is the part of Plax that is its own. It holds 23 guides that explain, in plain language, the subjects that come up in the news: how the repo rate reaches a loan, what the Sensex measures, how the monsoon works, how vaccines work, how an AI chatbot can be wrong, and how to read the news with care. They are written and published by Plax Labs with the help of AI writing tools, carry the date they were last updated, and are corrected when a reader or we find a mistake.

Plax is free to read. It is paid for by advertising from Google: Google AdMob in the Android app and, where it is available, Google AdSense on the website. Advertising is labelled as advertising, and advertisers do not choose, rank or change the stories or the guides. You can read about the choices you have in the privacy policy.

Plax is made by Plax Labs. The Android app and the website at plax-rouge.vercel.app/news share the same topics and the same stories; the Learn guides are on the website. To tell us about a mistake, a story that should not be there, a problem with the app, or an idea, write to richardhenryjames64@gmail.com, or use the contact page.