A minimalist home screen isn’t easy to achieve, especially for people like me who rely on dozens of apps every day. I tried it multiple times, but didn’t quite get the outcome I wanted. At one point, I stopped trying because I had to break the deeply ingrained smartphone habit each time I did something…
norman lebrecht July 08, 2026 From a review by Lotte Thaler in the heavyweight Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: If the German national team had a coach like Yannick Nézet-Séguin, they would have easily reached the World Cup final. The fit Canadian is a conductor and wherever he appears with his orchestras, imaginary flags are waved. Orchestras…
The 2026 Wimbledon Championships kicked off this week, with tennis pros traveling from the clay courts at Roland Garros in Paris to the pristine grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. Known as world’s oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament, Wimbledon not only welcomes the best in the sport…
Tiffany Haddish‘s jab at Megan Thee Stallion on Jimmy Kimmel Live! drew murmurs of disapproval. It came during her talk about the US’s loss against Belgium in the FIFA World Cup. The popular comedian guest-hosted the chat show recently, as Kimmel is on a 2-month summer break, as announced last month. Tiffany Haddish’s Megan Thee…
Southampton are set for a cash injection following Mateus Fernandes’ £85million ($113.5m) transfer from West Ham United to Tottenham Hotspur. If Monaco sell USMNT striker Folarin Balogun this summer, Premier League champions Arsenal will take a cut of the fee. Just last summer, Queens Park Rangers received £6.5m as a result of Eberechi Eze moving…
Three things decide whether a mushroom coffee is worth your money: how it tastes, how many functional mushrooms it actually delivers, and what each cup costs against what’s in it. Apply those three lenses across the field and the contenders sort themselves out quickly. The marketing pitch — a more functional swap for your morning…
Key Points Warren Buffett retired as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO on Dec. 31, and his successor, Greg Abel, wasted little time transforming the company’s investment portfolio. Abel has been aggressively purchasing a virtual monopoly that has strong artificial intelligence (AI) ties. Additionally, Abel’s first letter to shareholders highlighted Berkshire’s largest investment holding as a multidecade compounder….
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomes President Trump upon his arrival at Etimesgut Air Base near Ankara, Turkey, on July 7 before attending the NATO summit. Abdullah Guclu/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Abdullah Guclu/AFP via Getty Images President Trump said Wednesday he believes the current ceasefire with Iran is over following an…
When Josh Barth, 46, consistently found himself missing out when his favorite food trucks were near him, he didn’t just grumble and move on. He started a business. That frustration with pop-up schedules became the inspiration of FoodTrukt, an app designed to connect customers with nearby food trucks. “In the back of my mind I…
Sides from Europe have really built up a head of steam as this World Cup has gone on, but there were some eyebrows raised at their initial slow start as seven of the first 10 European sides to play their first group stage games failed to win. The heat in North America had been a…