Category: Lifestyle

The sausage roll chain has lodged plans to transform the former Pharmacy 2 U and Bright House store, off the Tubwell Row entrance to the complex.  The store will have two entrances, one from inside the shopping centre and another direct from the street, which will have a ramp inside.  Work is already underway on…

Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Sarah Skidd Sarah Skidd makes good money improving copy written by AI AI is making me extra money, says Sarah Skidd, a product marketing manager who writes for tech and start-up companies. In May Ms Skidd was approached by a content agency to urgently rework website copy that had been produced…

A band called The Velvet Sundown has had its tracks played hundreds of thousands of times on Spotify since appearing several weeks ago – without anyone knowing for sure what it is. The band has a verified page on the music streaming platform, with more than 850,000 monthly listeners. However, none of the four named…

Graham Fraser & Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters Brittany Watson Brittany Watson started the petition calling for Meta to answer for banning people’s accounts Meta blamed a “technical error” when, last week, it admitted wrongly suspending some Facebook Groups. Since then, users of the world’s most popular social media platform have got in touch with the…

Microsoft has confirmed that it will lay-off as many as 9,000 workers, in the tech giant’s latest wave of job cuts this year. The company said several divisions would be affected without specifying which ones but reports suggest that its Xbox video gaming unit will be hit. Microsoft has set out plans to invest heavily…

Rowntree’s Bursting Bugs were first introduced in 2000 and were shaped like bugs with a gummy shell and deliciously gooey filling. They formed part of Rowntree’s iconic range on supermarket shelves, including Jelly Tots and Fruit Pastilles. Why were Bursting Bugs discontinued? Bursting Bugs disappeared just a few years after they were released, in around…

Elon Musk’s Tesla has reported a 14% decline in vehicle deliveries in the second quarter of the year, as the electric car-maker’s problems show no sign of abating. The just over 384,000 vehicles it delivered between April and June represents the second quarterly drop in a row. Tesla faces increasing competition from rivals, including China’s…

Councillors on Sunderland City Council’s planning and highway committee have granted approval for STACK Seaburn to become a long-standing addition to the Sunderland seafront. The popular container village entertainment hub has welcomed three million visitors since its opening in 2020.(Image: Supplied) Initially planned to remain until 2027, the approval secures the site indefinitely. The decision…

Police in Singapore can now seize control of a person’s bank account and block money transfers if they suspect the person is being scammed, under a new law that kicked in on Tuesday. The move is aimed at addressing a common issue faced by the police where victims often refuse to believe they are being…

Tabby Wilson BBC News, Sydney Reuters The airline says there will be no impact to Qantas’ operations Qantas is contacting customers after a cyber attack targeted their third-party customer service platform. On 30 June, the Australian airline detected “unusual activity” on a platform used by its contact centre to store the data of six million…