Jeff Buckley’s Legacy Lives On
“Now I think you can stay there. It’s like an Airbnb now,” says filmmaker Amy Berg about the now-famous house where musician Jeff Buckley lived during his three-month stay in…
ChatGPT Is Giving Teens Advice on Hiding Their Eating Disorders
The case continues to build that AI chatbots can be a dangerous, enabling influence in the hands of even full-grown adults. The threat is even more imminent in the hands…
TSMC Secrets Leak Puts Japan’s Tokyo Electron on Hot Seat
A Taiwanese investigation into the possible theft of chip technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is putting a low-profile, lesser-known tech linchpin in Japan under unusual scrutiny.
SoftBank Shares Surge to Record on AI-Fueled Profit Recovery
SoftBank Group Corp. shares surged to a record after it swung to a quarterly profit, an affirmation for Masayoshi Son’s bets on artificial intelligence players such as Nvidia Corp.
The Tiny Giant: How Sony’s MiniDisc Almost Changed Everything
It’s 1992, you’re holding a disc the size of a business card, encased in a protective shell that clicks satisfyingly shut. You slide it into a sleek silver machine, and…
Now Hear This: Aug. 2025
Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music platform Groover.Each month, you can expect a varied…
Eddie Palmieri, Legendary Pianist, Composer & Bandleader, Dies at 88
Eddie Palmieri, the Grammy Award-winning pianist, bandleader, musician, and composer of Puerto Rican ancestry who revolutionized Latin jazz and salsa over a more than seven decades career, has died at…
Tokyo Electron Fires Worker Suspected of Stealing TSMC Tech
Tokyo Electron Ltd. said it’s fired an employee at its Taipei unit, making its first public statement since the island’s government arrested six people suspected of stealing trade secrets from…
Apple Expands 18-Year-Old iPhone Glass Deal in Bid to Avoid Trump Tariffs
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook is using a familiar strategy to stay in Donald Trump’s good graces: expanding existing initiatives to show he supports the president’s “Made in…
Nogizaka46’s ‘Same numbers’ Hits No. 1, ENHYPEN’s ‘Shine on Me’ Follows at No. 2 on Japan Hot 100
Nogizaka46’s “Same numbers” soars to No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, on the chart released Aug. 6. The J-pop girl group’s 39th single dropped on July 30 and…