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URSY.NEWS / The day in headlines
Friday 28 August 2026
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Need To Know Kent
Visitors to a popular park have been warned to take care after 5 dead ducks were found.
I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar
My trip to China revealed an AI race that looks less like a clash of competing visions, and more like two countries racing toward a similar future.
The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young —Antonio Regalado I knew I’d officially become a “longevity influencer” when a company called Generation Lab offered me the…
Live Album of the Week: Pulp’s Live!
Pulp's post-comeback material was always rooted in live performance, says Claire Biddles, who finds them at their freest, most organic and untethered in a new document of their triumphant London gigs The magic of pop music is catalysed in its melding of twin elements: sound and lyric; intellect and emotion; heart and head. Pulp have been making perfect pop music since the mid-1980s, but their bri…
How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies increasingly want to treat them like one. A virtual power plant, or VPP, is a collection of household devices (such…
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of August 2026
tQ's staffers select the best albums and tracks of the last four weeks Writing this introduction to the glorious sound of hammering rain, it feels as if this long and brutal summer is finally nearing its end. Here, then, is our roundup of the greatest music that got us over the finish line. Everything featured below, as well as all the other knockout music we’ve covered at tQ this month, will be…
The Roaring Boys: An Interview with Echo & the Bunnymen
Ian McCulloch speaks to Richard Foster about the return of Echo & The Bunnymen and a whole lot more, from a gift of smoked salmon on the Estonian-Russian border to his belief that Bill Oddie erroneously claimed credit for the allied victory in World War Two Ian McCulloch Sometimes transcribing an interview can be a chore. Very occasionally, the process, as with this interview with Echo & The Bunn…
What went right this week: the good news that matters
A ‘historic’ fall in US violent crime, Europe’s right to repair law, and a conservation triumph for Kazakhstan, plus more The post What went right this week: the good news that matters appeared first on Positive News.
Anyx – Starlink
Anyx Starlink A streak of hope threads through the sombre tones of this arresting solo debut by the former Anchoress singer Starlink by ANYX When Anna Lucia Nissen titled her debut album as Anyx Starlink, she knew it would elicit some reactive grimacing. Inspired by mistaking the branded satellites for stars, the title comes with the complicated associations of genuinely useful infrastructure who…