Author: Holly Brockwell
Editor Holly worked on some of the tech industry's most high-profile smartphone launches before coming to us, and is a self-confessed Android fangirl. She's currently lusting after the Galaxy S6 Edge, and is never seen without her Misfit Shine.
Review: Technology Will Save Us’s super-simple DIY Thirsty Plant Kit
This is my desk plant, Ivy: (Get it? Holly and the Ivy? I'm a genius). She sits on my desk at Shiny Towers, and occasionally I remember to douse her with a bit of drinking water, some leftover tea, or even Diet Coke. Despite this flagrant mistreatment, she actually seems to be doing quite well.…
Bye bye, bank balance: Sephora now ships to the UK
If you've ever been to the States, or even read a US-based beauty blog, you'll more than likely be aware of the beauty behemoth that is Sephora (actually a French company, but most successful in America). Selling absolutely everything your makeup, skincare, nailwear and perfume wardrobes could ever need, we've been very jealous of the beauty superstore ever…
Acer Aspire Switch 10 review: this convertible laptop offers excellent value
After briefly trying the Acer Aspire Switch 10 at Acer's Edinburgh liveblogging event, we were keen to get a closer look at this super-lightweight laptop-tablet hybrid. We suspected it'd be perfect for working on the go, so we took it to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to really put it to the test. Here's our Acer Aspire…
We tried I Am Bread – a game about becoming toast – and it was awesome
The premise of I Am Bread - a PC game by the makers of the stratospherically popular Surgeon Simulator - might be our favourite ever. You play a piece of bread whose sole ambition in life is to become toast by any means possible. You can use a toaster, of course, but there are endless more creative (and funny)…
Recruiter sends jaw-droppingly sexist email to female engineer – then claims it was a stunt
Sexist harassment of women on the internet - especially women in tech - is far from new. But usually, the trolls have the sense to use a fake name and a throwaway email address so they won't get caught. Not so in the case of Justin D'Agostino, a tech recruiter based in San Francisco, who…
Microsoft’s working on a smart ring that matches your clothes
Owning a whole wardrobe of jewellery to match your various outfits might soon be a thing of the past. Microsoft's research arm, Microsoft Labs, is working on a range of jewellery that can sense the colour it's placed on, and turn the same shade. Called Blush, the range includes brooches and a ring. We gave the ring a…
Just how breakable is the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge screen? We asked Samsung
When we live-tweeted the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge last week at Mobile World Congress, the number one question we heard about that beautiful double-curved screen was, "But will it break?" Screen breaking hasn't been much of a problem in the last couple of generations of smartphones, thanks mostly to the advances in…
Meet the one-man team behind Big Pharma, a PC game set to be the new Theme Hospital
Theme Hospital is my favourite PC game of all time, so you can imagine how my eyes lit up when I saw screenshots of the upcoming Big Pharma game: It's a pharmaceutical-themed PC game where the objective is to manufacture your own drugs, either to make people well or to make money. It's a sandbox-style…
The LG G Flex 2 is now available in the UK – price, availability and freebie details
Hooray! The phone we tried and loved at Mobile World Congress has gone on sale in the UK earlier than anticipated. You can now get it from Vodafone, EE and O2 if you go via Carphone Warehouse (it's not showing on EE or O2's sites at the moment), and get a free LG Circle case and…
TripAdvisor deletes review because a manager biting a waitress is ‘not relevant’ – Update: TripAdvisor respond
Update: we've had a comment from TripAdvisor, skip to the end of the article to see it. Yesterday, we wrote about a restaurant's disgraceful response to a TripAdvisor review that mentioned witnessing the restaurant owner biting, spanking and generally harassing a female member of staff: Christina F's review [caption id="attachment_201398"…