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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is a great last-minute Father’s Day gift

Father’s Day is nearly here. Hopefully, you already got a gift for dads you care about, but if not, here’s a quick, easy recommendation for anyone who enjoys a good comic strip. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes contains every one…

Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices — including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches — a sign of how aggressively the chipmaker is betting that the next…

Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump’s Renovation

On Wednesday morning, workers poured hydrogen peroxide into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC. The treatment is the latest attempt by the Interior Department to control an algae bloom that has turned the pool bright green, despite President…

Autism may have two distinct subtypes that vary by brain activity

Brain scans suggest that some autistic people have strong connections between their brain regions, while for others, this activity is weak Puwadol Jaturawutthichai/Alamy Some autistic people seem to have unusually strong connections between different regions of their brain, while others…

Young humpback whale freed from fishing line near Cape Cod

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NASA spots giant ocean swell that could signal El Niño’s return

NASA and its European partners are tracking a major buildup of warm water in the Pacific Ocean that could signal the arrival of El Niño later this year. Data collected by the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite shows a broad area…

India Temporarily Blocks Telegram, Claiming It Was Done To Prevent Exam Fraud

The platform will be unavailable until June 22 after a key test paper was purportedly leaked. Matt Cardy/Getty Images India has temporarily blocked Telegram for a strange justification: test cheating. The government recently annulled the results of a…

Commodore’s Callback 8020 is a retro flip phone with modern ideals

When Christian Simpson, a retro gaming YouTuber also known as Peri Fractic, bought the remains of an early PC company called Commodore in 2025, he decided to pick up right where the original Commodore left off. Which meant starting product…

Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions

In 2017, Respond.io set out to solve a simple problem: businesses couldn’t keep up with customers who had moved to messaging apps. Today Respond, with its customer conversation management software, has become one of the tech success stories of Malaysia….

Qobuz Is the Anti-Spotify Music Streamer You’ve Been Waiting For

When Dan Mackta, Qobuz’s New York–based managing director, was looking for musicians to endorse the music streaming service after its US launch in 2019, he tapped up a friend—the manager of the Flaming Lips. It was mid-pandemic levels of tricky….