Greater Manchester Police has launched an iOS app, which uses location-based services to fill users in on local events, missing people bulletins and even features the unsettling option of browsing any wanted appeals in your surrounding area. Read More >>
Featured comment by aenimiac:
"I hope this guy has an iPhone then...
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/video-weeding-out-evil---866700" More »
Tests on EE's new 4G network in Manchester have found it to be a rather patchy experience in these early days, with fewer than half of the city centre test locations able to connect to the new LTE service. Read More >>
Ever wondered who pirates the most in Britain? According to the latest figures it's the Mancunians. Yes, Manchester is the capital of pirating Britain, with more illegal downloads per person than any other town or city in the UK. Read More >>
Featured comment by royal_navy_dan:
"Queery, as a member of the water based armed forces, my job is to fight pirates, but then again if I can't find a song on iTunes I'm after I use other..." More »
We're still waiting for London and other major cities in the UK to get 3D-ified, but in the meantime, Apple's latest iOS 6 beta has brought with it glorious views of Birmingham and Manchester. It's just a shame "Duncaster" isn't quite the correct spelling. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"170 Million users is hardly nobody and before you question the validity of the figures I should point out the recent report about how many of facebook..." More »
If anyone has ever said that health and safety isn't just a little overreaching in the UK, this should put that to bed. NHS Manchester has "prohibited" the use of metal paperclips "due to recent incidents", issuing a demand that they must be "disposed of immediately" -- Clippy must be turning in his grave. Read More >>
Featured comment by Cloudfire:
"I appreciate that my scenario isn't watertight, but I was just putting forward one of many possible reasons why they might have decided that metal pap..." More »
Who’d have thought that glass-equipped 3D TV would be more than just a nauseating, headache-inducing experience and would actually be useful? Surgeons from the Manchester Royal Infirmary used a 3D display for the first time in the UK to help successfully robotically cut out a man’s prostate. Read More >>
Featured comment by mbeadle:
"That is exactly the place I saw it being done. 3D surgery isn't new I agree, it was just the robotic arms for urological surgery that was new. Obviou..." More »
Following Sweden and Germany’s lead, we have our own branch of the Pirate Party attempting to swashbuckle its way into power here in the UK; now it’s drawing a broadside on May’s local elections in both Scotland and Manchester. The Pirate Party UK aims to fight anti-piracy laws (and ACTA); reduce copyright to just 10 years, and allow non-commercial file sharing -- hollywood, the BPI and their lawyers are really going love them. Read More >>
Featured comment by Titor:
"10 years is way too short. Trust me, as a recording artist myself, I'm trying to feed my children on royalties from releases that are already older th..." More »
In Manchester Airport’s Aviation Viewing Park sits Concorde G-BOAC, known as ‘Alpha Charlie’. It is an engineering marvel; a feat of Anglo-French avionic brilliance that could cross the Atlantic in under three hours. Yet since 2003, it and the other 19 Concordes once in service have become tourist exhibits leased to airports and museums by British Airways and Air France. Read More >>
Just in case you hadn't got the message yet, film photography is far from dead -- in fact, Lomography is about to open its first UK store outside of London, in Manchester. Located at 20 Oldham Street in the northern quarter, they're throwing an opening party for fans of the brand on the 16th of December from 6pm. Read More >>
Featured comment by LeftofNever:
"Yeh, we have a couple of places down here in Portsmouth/Southsea but an official shop with all the trimmings would be ace. I'm sure the Portsmouth Uni..." More »
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