84 m. ago Best alternative advent calendars of 2025: Stationery, sex toys, coffee and pinball machines

The countdown to the most wonderful time of year starts here

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4 h. ago If you like piña coladas: how to make slushies at home without a machine

While slushie machines are going viral on social media, a blender, or elbow grease, can achieve similar resultsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt promises icy, refreshing drinks, and for a cool $179, this slushie maker is yours – if you can find one.Australian TikTok users have become fixated on a Kmart slushie machine, apparently a budget version of the equally viral Ninja slushie machine (RRP A$499), with users posting videos and reviews of their frosty, fruity extrusions. One Australian video has racked up 2.7m views, and the appliance has sold out online. But with Kmart supply chains under scrutiny and the knowledge that culinary trends and the very specific appliances needed to make them are passing fads, not everyone wants to – or has to – buy a machine to make slushies this summer.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Quad bikes, trailers and a generator... inside the units where police uncovered £90k worth of stolen property

The vehicles and machines had been stolen from across three different counties

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11 h. ago Dunelm's £15 milk frother is 'game changer for morning coffees' in cold weather

"Amazing wee machine. Easy to follow instructions and creates lovely hot frothy milk in minutes."

Economics

14 h. ago ‘I’m having a great day’: AWS outage offers some a brief glimpse of a tech

There was a different side to the chaos of the Amazon outage that affected crucial services around the world, such as no exams, light switches not working, and less work to doWorkers were sent home, exams were delayed, coffee machines had to be turned on manually and language app users feared their hard-won progress was lost as a result of the global outage of Amazon Web Services on Monday, as some made light of their briefly tech-free existence.A glitch in the AWS cloud computing service brought down apps and websites for millions of users around the world affecting more than 2,000 companies, including Snapchat, Roblox, Signal and language app Duolingo as well as a host of Amazon-owned operations. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Starmer vows to work with allies to ‘cripple Putin’s war machine’

The Prime Minister will work with the ‘coalition of the willing’ to put pressure on ‘tyrant’ Vladimir Putin.

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29 h. ago Woman learns vital lesson after leaving house with washing machine cycle on

The mum warned others of a near disaster after leaving her washing machine on while heading out for a school run. She shared a clip of the problem on her TikTok page

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31 h. ago M&S boss urges Rachel Reeves to 'change course' to escape 'economic doom loop' of high taxes and weak growth

n a stinking rebuke ahead of next month's Budget, Stuart Machin hit out at the Chancellor's 'catastrophic' £25billion increase in national insurance and called for 'no more' tax hikes.

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3 d. ago Pride of Britain winners keep on saving lives by providing defibrillators

The Mirror has campaigned for more defibrillators in public places. Our Pride of Britain winners Sergio and Emma Petrucci's Red Sky Foundation raised £180,000 to pay for the latest machines.

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3 d. ago There's magic brewing in Breville's Barista Sense Espresso Machine

Can the Breville Barista Sense Espresso Machine deliver café-worthy coffee to my kitchen? A coffee worshipper tests the brand new bean to cup machine from Breville

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3 d. ago Insults and drum battles as Busted vs McFly rock their ‘favourite place’ in Manchester

Busted and McFly take fans on a pop-punk time machine for a night of nostalgia

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3 d. ago Amazon beats Nespresso's coffee machine price and dishes out 50 free pods in rival deal

This coffee machine works with Nespresso Vertuo pods, with over thirty blends available for coffee lovers.

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4 d. ago Drugs gang boss found with machine gun, grenade and pistols jailed for 27 years

Shaun Monaghan, 45, was in charge of a "professional and busy" underworld gang who shipped cocaine, heroin, amphetamine and cash.

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4 d. ago Rush(es) by Alexandra Bachzetsis review: this performance art revels in the strange and sensual

Touching on subjects like desire, the commodification of the body and machines, Bachzetsis constructs a fascinating tension between performer and audience

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4 d. ago Simple washing machine rule helps clothes dried at home smell fresh

One simple rule can help fend off musty smells and prevent mould and mildew forming on clothes

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5 d. ago Age against the machine: what I learned after stripping down for a full body scan

Spa-like health centres scour every inch of our bodies in an attempt to extend life. But is this just another way of delaying the inevitable?A few months ago, I was invited to get a full-body scan in east London. Neko Health is one of several diagnostic clinics that, for a price, uses electrocardiograms, blood tests and a talking skin-scanner to examine you. The company claims it can detect various underlying cardiovascular and metabolic issues, assess your risk of developing pre-diabetes and identify suspect moles.From the outside, the centre looks like a vast glass mausoleum. Inside, it’s more of a curve-walled spa with pleasant changing areas, private examination rooms and pot plants. Sadly, there’s no swimming pool. The whole process takes less than an hour, and includes (among other things) a mostly nude scan, various blood draws, a test for grip strength and, at the end, through some swift data-crunching, a GP consultation. Most patients (me included) leave with a relatively c...

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5 d. ago How to get Arc Raiders free items by playing the Server Slam test and pre

Arc Raiders is set to launch soon, but there are a few cosmetics that players can get their hands on before they officially begin their adventure across this machine-infested world

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5 d. ago Horror as road worker loses leg after being trapped in resurfacing machine

Brandon Belshaw required an emergency blood transfusion by air ambulance doctors after his leg became trapped in a resurfacing machine while working in Coventry

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5 d. ago Black Phone 2 review – hit horror sequel lumbers toward Elm Street

Ethan Hawke’s child-killing murderer returns from the dead to become a joke-free, low-rent Freddy Krueger in a follow-up that leaves us coldArriving as the re-activated Stephen King machine was still churning out adaptations, quality be damned, The Black Phone felt like a lazy fanboy tribute. With its 1970s small town setting, high school cast, psychic kids and gnarly neighbourhood villain, it was close to pastiche and, like the very worst of King’s stories, it was also inelegantly overstuffed.Funnily enough the call came from inside the family home, as it was based on a short story from King’s son Joe Hill, over-extended into a film that was a surprise $161m hit. It was the story of the Grabber, a sadistic killer of young boys who would revel in elongating the ritual of their deaths. While sexual abuse was never mentioned, there was something inescapably queer-coded about the character and the historical touchpoints/moral panics he was clearly supposed to refer to, reinforced by Et...

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5 d. ago Head of South Carolina elections fired after voting machine contract had unexplained $4M overrun

The South Carolina Election Commission is investigating why a $28 million contract for new voting machines ended up costing $4 million more

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