Spotify expand kid-friendly app that personally curates music and stories for children to the US

Spotify’s kid-friendly app that curates music and stories for children launches in the US The app is expanding to the US and Canada after being rolled out in the UK Spotfiy says that the app is still in the beta phase, however Spotify Kids has music curated for kids by human experts   By James Pero … Read more

Britons share their Houseparty horror stories about uninvited guests

Britons today urged fellow users to delete Houseparty after claiming hackers had used the app to access their Spotify and Netflix accounts.  Angry users of the social video app took to Twitter to complain their accounts had been compromised, with one writing: ‘Everyone delete your Houseparty account as they have hacked my Spotify and Netflix … Read more

Couples who are cohabiting during coronavirus lockdown have shared their stories

Rise of the coronavirus cohabiters! Couples take the plunge and move in together to avoid being separated while the world is on lockdown – including lovebirds who have only been dating for a WEEK Couples living apart were told to move in together if they want to see each other Social media users shared posts … Read more

SHORT STORIES – Nov 21, 2019

SHORT STORIES By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 SUDDEN TRAVELLER by Sarah Hall (Faber £12.99, 144 pp) SUDDEN TRAVELLER by Sarah Hall (Faber £12.99, 144 pp) Sarah Hall’s seven short stories are death-haunted; grief and loss are indelibly etched on to … Read more

Rob Brydon takes new risks for his ‘Songs & Stories’ tour

Rob Brydon is getting ready to take a big risk. ‘I will be nervous on the first night,’ says the comedian and actor as he prepares to change style and go out on the road as a singer like his hero Sammy Davis Jr, performing straight songs alongside jokes with a highly accomplished eight-piece band. … Read more

Shoebox in Grandma’s cupboard that revealed one of the Holocaust’s greatest survival stories

House Of Glass Hadley Freeman Fourth Estate £16.99 Rating: The dedication at the front of this remarkable book is short and sweet. ‘For my father, Ron Freeman,’ it reads, ‘and my Grandma Sala.’ But like so much else in House Of Glass, those simple words contain a universe. Twelve years after her grandmother’s death in … Read more

Reporters Without Borders opens a new virtual library inside Minecraft to share banned news stories

A new virtual library in Minecraft will let people in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Russia and Vietnam read stories from banned journalists Reporters will be able to use Minecraft as a workaround for censorship The popular videgame will host a new virtual library filled with censored news stories in both English and the language they … Read more