Sophie Atkinson
Senior Editor at The Mill
Senior Editor at The Post (Liverpool)
Senior Editor at The Sheffield Tribune
𓆸 Senior editor at @millmediauk 𓆧 ie. @ManchesterMill @LiverpoolPost @SheffieldTrib @BrumDispatch 𓁿 [email protected]
Articles
-
1 month ago |
manchestermill.co.uk | Sophie Atkinson
Dear readers — red-brick Victorian housing is part of this city’s charm, but can come with considerable downsides: draughty conditions, mould creeping up your wall and monstrous heating bills. Your flatmates might tell you to simply stop moaning and put on another jumper, but chilly homes are a serious health risk. Excess winter deaths linked to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases are almost three times higher for those living in the coldest quarter of housing.
-
1 month ago |
readwrite.com | Sophie Atkinson
Samsung is reportedly working on creating its first tri-folding phone and a patent for a new potential device has now been seen online. As reported and found by 91Mobiles, the patent does resemble a tri-folding flip-style device and the publisher noted it had been granted the patent on February 25 by the World Intellectual Property Organization. In the finding, there is an international registration number along with an image which shows different perspectives of the display device.
-
1 month ago |
readwrite.com | Sophie Atkinson
The Instagram team at Meta is reportedly considering turning Reels into a separate app, according to a report. The publisher, The Information, reports that Adam Mosseri who is the Head of Instagram told staff about the potential project this week. They cite an anonymous source who was said to have heard Mosseri speaking.
-
1 month ago |
readwrite.com | Sophie Atkinson
A man in Shanghai, China has been scammed out of almost $28,000 after becoming a victim to an AI romance scam, according to a report from Chinese state media. It was reported that scammers had used a generative AI program to create realistic videos and photos of a young woman who they called ‘Ms. Jiao.’After the man became romantically interested in the fictional persona, he transferred close to 200,000 yuan (around $28,000) to the ‘woman’s’ bank account.
-
1 month ago |
readwrite.com | Sophie Atkinson
Google is making it simpler for people to remove the personal information they find of themselves online as they redesign a privacy hub. In 2022, the ‘Results about you’ feature was announced and was later updated in 2023. Now, the tool and its capabilities have been redesigned once more. It’s through this that people can scan for results containing information like a personal phone number or address and seek ways to quickly remove them. “Take control of results about you,” the feature explains.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 1K
- Tweets
- 1K
- DMs Open
- Yes
RT @McilhaggaSamuel: I recently wrote about one man's plan to build a 51 metre high folly next to the M6. English eccentric, tragi-comic…
are you based in glasgow...or are you elsewhere and simply enjoy a perfect Yarn. May i direct you to today's @theglasgowbell's look at how beef over fencing in Cathkin Park has escalated to court battles; a loo civil war and manspreading allegations 💯 https://t.co/rkh23KfryY
Wrote about retrofitting, which has been sold to us as a luxury extra - but is inevitable, and something that needs to happen at scale!! Especially in Manchester, for all the reasons the article outlines...
"Saying to clients: 'yes, it’s fine to consume as much material as your gloriously Instagrammable open plan kitchen requires' while doing nothing to make the house less consumptive, felt fraudulent": we spoke to architects here about why retrofitting needs to happen NOW. 🧵