-
Netflix in Talks to Buy Letterboxd: Report
Could Letterboxd, the popular film-review social network, end up in the clutches of Netflix or another big entertainment corporation? Letterboxd, founded in 2011, has been shopping itself to interested parties in recent months. The app and website (which also recently launched an online video-rental service) is majority-owned by Canadian holding company Tiny, which acquired a…
-
Volkswagen will dramatically shrink its model lineup and factory footprint
It follows reports of 100,000 jobs being under threat at the German automaker.
-
Friends’ frantic search for Poppy Reynolds, 22, before her death – and why her mother says the mental health system failed her after losing her brother to suicide
Poppy Eloise Reynolds, a 22-year-old suicide prevention advocate from Bundaberg on Queensland’s east coast, took her own life on 22 June 2026 after disappearing, with around five close friends desperately attempting to locate her before she could harm herself. Her death follows that of her older brother Harry, who died by suicide in 2022, and…
-
Xbox CEO Joins Fed’s Task Force To Help With Price Stability And Employment After She Raised Xbox Prices And Laid Of Staff
Xbox chief executive Sarah Bond has reportedly been appointed to a US Federal Reserve task force focused on price stability and employment, according to the article’s headline. The move has drawn attention because it comes after she oversaw price increases on Xbox hardware and a round of staff redundancies at the company, an apparent irony…
-
The bulging in-tray of challenges Andy Burnham faces upon entering No 10
Andy Burnham is expected to become prime minister within a fortnight, having promised to reshape Labour’s agenda and deliver improvements across the whole of the UK. However, this Guardian analysis argues he will inherit a daunting set of unresolved problems from his predecessor Keir Starmer, spanning welfare, defence, taxation, immigration, justice, foreign relations and the…
-
Reopening date for The Moor Market in Sheffield after long closure due to cockroach infestation
-
MISS MAY I Announces New Album ‘No Place For Me’, Shares ‘Sanctuary’ Single
American metalcore band Miss May I have announced their new album, “No Place For Me”, which will be released on 2 October via Solid State Records, accompanied by the release of a video for the new single “Sanctuary”. The record follows 2022’s “Curse Of Existence” and marks the group’s first full-length as a four-piece following…
-
Xreal’s new AR glasses are way cheaper and almost just right
Xreal has launched the A01 Plus, a cheaper set of USB-C augmented reality glasses priced at $299, positioned as a pared-back alternative to the company’s $449 1S. Reviewed by The Verge’s Cameron Faulkner, the glasses retain several of the 1S’s strongest qualities — comfort, good looks, and screens that are surprisingly bright and rich in…
-
HP OmniBook Ultra 14 review: HP’s best ultraportable in years
Engadget’s Sam Rutherford has reviewed HP’s new OmniBook Ultra 14, awarding it 9/10 and calling it the company’s best ultraportable in years. The launch matters because HP, having consolidated its consumer laptops (dropping the Spectre, Envy and Pavilion names) into the single OmniBook family, had until now lacked a genuine flagship to rival premium machines…
-
Rotherham council urged to end NHS contract with US firm Palantir