Month: March 2015

Vlogger Maddie Moate's charing her experience of perioral dermatitis to help others.

Vlogger Maddie Moate shares her struggle with Perioral Dermatitis

This morning, tech presenter and vlogger Maddie Moate posted a video that’s a bit different than her usual smiley fare. Starting with clips of an attempt to film on location which saw her burst into tears, it then cuts to her at home. There, make-up free, she explains that the bumpy rash around her mouth…
bulldog and kitten

8 adorable adoptive animal mothers to melt your cold, cold heart

[nextpage title="Next"] Let's hear it for all the mothers! The biological and non-biological, the female and non-female, the fluffy and non-fluffy... And particularly this lot, a selection of adoptive mothers from the animal kingdom to have you weeping into your Shreddies. Enjoy.   1. The tiger mom who adopted three orphan piglets Whether the tiger was…
Uber's promised to employ a million women drivers in the next five years.

Uber pledges to hire a million women drivers by 2020

Uber has promised to employ a million women drivers around the world by 2020. It’s part of a new collaboration with the United Nations aimed at improving gender equality… and making Uber look good. It’s not clear how many women drivers the ride-sharing app has around the world at present, or how many cities it’ll…
Cats love listening to music, as long as it's composed for them.

Now researchers have made music for cats

Researchers have been looking into whether cats like music and it turns out they do – as long as it’s written specially for them. Psychology professor Charles Snowdon from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleague Megan Savage wanted to see if they could create music that cats would enjoy. Playing music for animals has…

Restaurant defends manager who bit a waitress in terrible TripAdvisor response

You'd think that by now, business owners would have wised up to the fact that insulting their customers on public forums is an extremely bad idea. Only last week, a Manchester restaurant was vilified after branding a party of customers "chav cheap trash" when they had the gall to complain about poor service on the…

Why the Apple Watch is just another way Apple turns its back on new customers

Like many people yesterday, we were forced into downloading Safari to stream the Apple Watch event. There's no technical reason for this, other browsers are equally (more?) capable of livestreaming content. It's purely a power play by Apple, a way of forcing you to use their products. As always, endless people tweeted that they were…
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt still

We binge-watched Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and here’s what we thought

Tina Fey's latest series hit Netflix on Friday, and we've watched all of it. Obviously. Here's everything you need to know to pretend that you have to.  It isn't the new 30 Rock... yet Hey, even 30 Rock wasn't the new 30 Rock straight away. Despite being written by the same Tina Fey and Robert Carlock…

12 cheap laptop sleeves and cases under £30

[nextpage title="Next"] We brought you 12 stylish backpacks to carry your laptop to work in last week, but you're not going to want to throw your laptop straight into your bag without some extra protection from everything else in there. Laptop sleeves don't have to be expensive though. We've found you 12 of our favourites…

9 must-see videos from Mobile World Congress

You know all about the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the HTC One M9. But what did you miss from the mobile world's biggest annual gathering? Here are the 9 videos you need to see from MWC 2015. Hands on with Alcatel Idol 3 We try out the phone you can use any way up. Hands on…