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 of Bill Watterson’s beloved strips made during the comic’s ten-year run from 1985 through 1995, … Read More “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is a great last-minute Father’s Day gift” »
Redmi apparently has a very interesting plan to make its upcoming K90 Ultra viably compete with much more expensive flagship smartphones, specifically those equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC. According to a new rumor from the prolific Digital Chat Station on Weibo, the Redmi K90 Ultra will pair the older Snapdragon 8 … Read More “Here's how the Redmi K90 Ultra will compete with flagship smartphones” »
Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is a real challenge. That purple category is a tough one, where you must hunt for hidden words … Read More “Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for June 17 #1102” »
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 major computing platform won’t be a phone. To power that vision, Qualcomm is announcing two … Read More “Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end” »
Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s Wordle puzzle isn’t terribly difficult, though one of the letters is one I rarely guess. If you need a new starter word, … Read More “Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for June 17 #1824” »
Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle was a bit challenging, as I kept looking for animal names, which wasn’t today’s point. Some of the … Read More “Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answer and Help for June 17 #836- CNET” »
Slater’s replacement, Acting Assistant Attorney General Omeed Assefi, insisted in an interview with Reuters in March that the Paramount/Warner deal will not be fast-tracked for approval because of political factors. “The idea that somehow enforcement has been politicized is ludicrous,” he said. DOJ says merger will boost competition The DOJ announcement of its approval said … Read More “US approval of Paramount/Warner Bros. deal surprised DOJ lawyers, report says” »
With the higher than usual amount of leaks about the iPhone foldable, it seemed like a done deal that the iPhone Ultra/Fold/whatever-it-gets-called will finally launch this autumn. But maybe it won’t. Companies from the Apple supply chain are now indicating that the launch has been pushed back to early next year: Largan Precision CEO Lin … Read More “The Apple iPhone Fold/Ultra may have been delayed to next year” »
Anthropic’s Claude AI appeared to experience an outage on Tuesday, according to online reports. Users reported a spike in errors to Downdetector, with more than 2,000 reports as of 1:27 p.m. ET/10:27 a.m. PT. The number of reports dropped significantly pretty quickly as Anthropic implemented a fix. (Disclosure: Downdetector and CNET are owned by the … Read More “Is Claude Down? Here’s the Latest” »
SpaceX briefly passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, and nearly eclipsed Microsoft, before the company’s shares pared back those gains before the market closed Tuesday. The newly-public company’s stock had already climbed 20% on Monday — its first full day of trading. Tuesday’s news that SpaceX was acquiring AI coding … Read More “SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon” »
