Yelp adds feature that lets customers report businesses for not following COVID safety measurements

Yelp is giving customers the power to report whether or not a business is following coronavirus precautions. Companies observed following guidelines on masks and social distancing will receive a green check, while those not following protocol will get an orange question mark. Ratings will only be assigned to businesses when a consensus is reached from … Read more

BorrowBox lets users hire eBooks and audiobooks for free

Missing the library in lockdown? BorrowBox lets users read audiobooks and eBooks for FREE – here’s how to take advantage The app lets users sign up through their local library  They will then have access to thousands of eBooks and audiobooks online  It will be ideal for parents homeschooling their children & those bored at … Read more

Venmo adds check cashing feature that lets users deposit the latest stimulus check without fees 

Venmo, the increasingly popular mobile payment app, has just announced a new check-cashing service. Offered to select US users on Monday, the Cash a Check option can be used to cash printed, payroll and U.S. government checks without visiting a bank, including the latest stimulus checks. There is a fee attached to the service, though … Read more

Fury as South African animal sanctuary lets a CrossFit gym owner do pull ups on an elephant’s TUSKS 

Fury as South African animal sanctuary lets a CrossFit gym owner do pull ups on an elephant’s TUSKS Gym owner was pictured doing pull-ups on an elephant’s tusks in South Africa  The incident sparked outrage online, with people calling the move ‘abhorrent’  Emma Roberts later released a statement defending her actions By Sophie Tanno For … Read more

Our share tips for the New Year… and let’s hope it’s a better one!

After a rollercoaster year on the stock market, The Mail on Sunday’s City team reveal which shares they will be following in 2021 – and assess whether their hunches from 12 months ago delivered the goods… or got hammered by the Covid lockdowns. Hamish McRae has picked Rio Tinto, the Anglo-Australian mining and minerals giant … Read more

Apple files patent for customizable keyboard that lets users out change keys

Apple files patent for customizable keyboard that lets users change keys for different alphabets or gaming controls Each key would have a digital display providing ‘visual feedback’ on its current function   Per the filing, they could be made of glass, ceramic, polymer or even sapphire The tech could also be used to reconfigure keys to address … Read more

The Bachelorette’s Dale Moss lets fiancee Clare Crawley cut his hair calling it a ‘monumental step’

Bachelorette star Dale Moss lets fiancee Clare Crawley cut his hair for the first time as he says his ‘trust level’ in her is ‘100’ By Sarah Abraham For Dailymail.com Published: 19:11 GMT, 29 December 2020 | Updated: 19:11 GMT, 29 December 2020 The Bachelorette stars Dale Moss and Clare Crawley are taking a ‘monumental … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: A deal at last, now let’s focus on the UK’s growth

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: A Brexit deal at last… now let’s focus on the UK’s growth By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 26 December 2020 | Updated: 23:01 GMT, 26 December 2020 At last, after four and a half years of brinkmanship and tortuous negotiations, we have a post-Brexit trade deal – … Read more

Let’s leave this culture war, it’s time to move on, writes former MEP DANIEL HANNAN 

A health warning! Today the airwaves will be full of people pronouncing with total certainty, and often in outraged tones, on a possible trade deal text they have not yet had the chance to read. The mooted UK-EU trade deal is necessarily long – and that is a good thing. It is long because it … Read more

KFC launches bucket-shaped gaming console that lets users play video games and keeps chicken warm

KFC launches bucket-shaped gaming console that lets users play video games while keeping their tenders warm in a ‘chicken chamber’ The KFConsole was first teased in June  but fans thought it was just a gag A working gaming system, it has a compartment that keeps fried chicken warm The console offers a 240 FPS frame … Read more