backon is a modern evolution of backoff — a zero-dependency Python library for retry with exponential backoff. It provides decorator, functional, and context manager APIs for both sync and async code.

Nous Research crossed a categorical architectural threshold on June 15, 2026, when it shipped asynchronous subagent support for Hermes Agent, the open-source autonomous agent that currently leads ...

Commodore aims to combat smartphone addiction with an unusual mobile phone. The newly announced Callback 8020 deliberately omits web browsers, email, and social networks. Instead, the flip phone is ...

The Callback is another bit of gadget nostalgia. It also has a very modern appeal. The Callback is another bit of gadget nostalgia. It also has a very modern appeal. is editor-at-large and Vergecast ...

Commodore is making a phone that isn't a full-on smartphone, nor is it a dumbphone. It straddles the line in a very obviously nostalgia-baiting fashion. Before we talk about the new Commodore Callback ...

Making his second feature in France, the Iranian director meditates on fiction and reality but never draws us into his drama of trickery and deceit. As she starts the writing process, she pecks at the ...

Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa also star in the Oscar-winning Iranian director's drama about voyeurism and imagination, his second French-language feature following 2013’s 'The Past.' By ...

The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for a fifth time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Breaking down the choreographic allusions in “Schmigadoon!” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” two gotta-dance, Tony-nominated shows. Breaking down the choreographic allusions in ...

Parallel Web Systems, the AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation led by Sequoia. Existing investors Kleiner ...