Month: August 2026

His family said it was “in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son” after the academic was found dead in London on Friday. ...

The Scene Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl joins Mixed Signals — with Semafor business editor Liz Hoffman filling in for Ben — to explain what a record label actually does in a world where anyone can upload a song to Spotify. Max and Liz ask Robert why Warner struck ...

The Scoop Phillips 66 and Marathon Petroleum held merger talks earlier this year in a deal that would have created a $180 billion oil-and-gas giant, according to people familiar with the matter. The talks ultimately fizzled out and are unlikely to be resurrected anytime soon, the people said. Spokespeople for ...

The “region cannot remain in a state of neither war nor peace indefinitely,” Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, warned this week. But this limbo looks likely to persist. US President Donald Trump is taking a “low-key” approach to squeezing Iran economically, while his energy ...

Stressed out, endlessly scrolling and never satisfied? Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, the Buddhist monk with off-the-charts levels of contentment, may have the answers … By some metrics, Buddhist monk Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is the happiest man on Earth. In brain scans, researchers noted that Mingyur’s neural activity showed off-the-charts levels of ...

What’s it like to live on the set of a soap opera? Or above Ted Lasso’s favourite pub? The residents of the homes made famous by hit TV shows tell all Half the world recognises the apartment that Carrie Bradshaw lives in. Or the New Jersey mansion where Tony Soprano ...

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the mainstreaming of Flock, media appearances, and Spotify’s AI move. EMANUEL: The news that Spotify will start tagging artists on its platform ...

Meta has filed a patent for its AI smartglasses that uses facial recognition to automatically detect who is in the frame, creates a video clip whenever one of those people does something — like picking an item up or walking around — and then generates a highlight reel of what ...

Police arrested a man in Texas early Wednesday morning for saying “bullshit” at a public city meeting a week earlier. Police in Fort Worth, Texas pulled over local radio host and political activist EJ Carrion just outside of his home and arrested him for “tumultuous behavior” related to a Commissioner’s ...

BBC’s Top Comment podcast has found a network of Instagram profiles glamourising the swim around the Morocco-Ceuta border fence. ...