Thursday, November 12
Author: Caitlin Rooney
Caitlin Rooney
Caitlin Rooney has been covering Greater Manchester for the best part of a decade. She started at a local paper in Salford, moved to digital, and spent three years on the housing and planning beat before going independent. She has sat through more council cabinet meetings than she cares to count and still reads the planning portal on her phone. She writes about transport, housing, devolution, policing, and the daily grind of how a city actually runs. She has a particular interest in who benefits from regeneration and who gets moved along by it. Caitlin lives in Chorlton. She thinks the Metrolink is both Manchester's best and worst infrastructure, and does not trust anyone who calls the city centre "town".
The Boox Picco tiny e-reader is Boox’s answer to the wave of micro-readers that has been quietly reshaping the market, and it arrives with a handful of genuine advantages over its closest rivals. At $99 and 3.97 inches, it sits squarely in the same pocket as the Xteink X4 Pro (same price, similar dimensions, same screen resolution) but the differences in how it is built and what it runs are worth paying attention to.What Makes the Boox Picco Tiny E-Reader DifferentOn paper, the similarities between all these micro-readers are almost comical. Every screen in this category comes from the same…
The Tapo RV50 Pro Omni deal currently live on Amazon knocks the robot vacuum and mop combo down to $499.99, from a list price of $599.99, a $100 saving that price-trackers confirm is the lowest the RV50 Pro Omni has reached. If you have hard floors, pets, and a general aversion to emptying dustbins on your hands and knees, it is worth a look.The appeal here is mostly in the Omni dock. After each cleaning run, it handles the faff automatically: emptying the dustbin, washing and drying the mop pads, dispensing detergent, and keeping the robot topped up with clean…
Your VPN is not the watertight shield you might think it is, and a WebRTC browser IP leak is one of the more quietly damaging reasons why. Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) is a feature built into Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera and Safari that allows your browser to establish direct, high-speed peer-to-peer connections for video calls, voice calls and screen sharing. The problem is that it can do this by going around the encrypted tunnel your VPN creates, exposing your real IP address in the process.According to TechRadar, WebRTC leaks were first identified back in 2015, making this a vulnerability that…
Through a Material Intelligence approach, industry professionals at Cersaie 2026 were shown the latest innovations and The Code concept by VitrA Tiles. Bologna, Italy: At the International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings Cersaie 2026, held in Bologna, Italy from 21 to 25 September, architects, designers, customers and industry professionals were welcomed by VitrA Tiles. With the Material Intelligence concept as the foundation of its stand, the brand put on display its 2027 collections and innovations. “Every material has a code. Material Intelligence deciphers it.” Such a statement sits at the heart of the design philosophy behind VitrA Tiles,…
Microsoft has extended its Windows 10 security updates programme by a full year, pushing the deadline for Extended Security Updates (ESU) coverage from October 2026 to 12 October 2027. If you have been putting off thinking about this, now is a decent moment to stop putting it off.The city’s full of laptops running Windows 10 in coffee shops, back offices and spare bedrooms, and the honest truth is most of those machines are not going anywhere near an upgrade any time soon. Microsoft has, at least, acknowledged that reality.What the Windows 10 Security Updates Extension Actually MeansMicrosoft officially ended mainstream…
The EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra sat at the centre of one homeowner’s decision to ditch the traditional grid-tied solar contract and build a whole-house battery system himself, and an EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra review of his own experience makes a compelling case for the DIY route. The project came together at the end of 2025, driven by rising electricity rates, the impending expiry of federal tax rebate incentives, and the announcement of a nearby hyper-scale data centre that sealed the deal.The appeal was straightforward. Rather than signing a $30,000 contract or leasing agreement with a door-to-door solar company, the homeowner…
A full programme of football can be a lot to take in. Matches kick off at different times across a single day, team news drips out in the hours beforehand, and scores elsewhere can shift the picture in an instant. For supporters who care about more than just their own club’s result, staying on top of everything takes a little thought. The good news is that keeping track does not require a room full of screens or constant refreshing. A reliable source such as Football Today can provide a solid starting point, but the real difference comes from how fans…
Taylor Swift flashed her Taylor Swift wedding band at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday evening, raising it for the crowd after Travis Kelce scored a touchdown in the Kansas City Chiefs’ week 2 clash against the Indianapolis Colts. She was also heard yelling, ‘That’s my husband!’The pair married at Madison Square Garden on 3 July 2026, according to LiveNow Fox, and Swift has been making her presence felt at Arrowhead ever since the new NFL season kicked off. Marriage, it turns out, has not dimmed the enthusiasm one bit.Back at Arrowhead for Week 2Swift wore a Chiefs tank top from Wear…
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau made a well-dressed evening of it at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opening gala in Los Angeles on Saturday, 19 September, joining a guest list that read like a very confident publicist’s dream.The pair posed together and were visibly affectionate at the event, which also drew Kim Kardashian, Lewis Hamilton, Michael B. Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross, among others. Perry arrived in a white velvet Christian Siriano gown from the designer’s spring 2027 collection, the strapless dress featuring a sculptural neckline. Silver open-toed sandals and a delicate diamond bracelet completed the look. Trudeau kept…
Lioness season 4 renewal is not confirmed yet, but after a season 3 finale that upended almost every major relationship in the show, the case for another run is hard to argue against. Paramount+ has not made a formal announcement, but cast member and producer Jill Wagner is not keeping quiet about her expectations.’We’re going to get a Season 4. We will, we will,’ Wagner said in an August 2026 interview with ScreenRant. ‘When people see what [Taylor Sheridan] wrote for the finale, we are getting a Season 4. Or I will pay you $100.’ That is either very confident…
The Monster season 5 subject remains unconfirmed, with Netflix yet to even renew the anthology for a fifth run, but creator Ian Brennan has given the clearest picture yet of where the series might go next.Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story premiered on Netflix on 17 September, following the events leading up to the axe murders of Lizzie Borden’s parents in 1892 and her controversial acquittal. It is the first season of the series to centre on a female protagonist. Netflix, as is its habit, is waiting to assess viewer response before committing to another season.Luigi Mangione, Ted Bundy and a…
The Zoë Kravitz Harry Styles engagement caught most people mid-scroll: one April week she was photographed in London wearing what looked like a ring, and within days it was confirmed. Not bad going for a couple who spent the better part of eight months insisting, via anonymous sources, they were just hanging out.Here is how it actually went, from a kissing sighting in London to a picnic on Hampstead Heath to a front row at Madison Square Garden.How the Zoë Kravitz and Harry Styles Romance BeganThe first public evidence came in late August 2025. People reported the pair had been…
