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Source: Stephen Warwick / iMore UK carrier Three has confirmed that its customers can now add their Apple Watch to their existing iPhone plan for the first time. Customers can set up a new eSIM 'Smartwatch Pairing' plan, the carrier has confirmed. While Three hasn't officially confirmed the plan as such, users have just begun to report that they were able to to configure new Three eSIMs on their cellular Apple Watches. ISPReview reports that Three says the plan is currently part of a soft launch, but a full announcement…

One of the Nova Twins’ most vocal celebrity supporters, guitarist Tom Morello, has a story he regularly tells about the peculiar phenomenon of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave fans who simply refuse to believe that he’s Black, even after he repeatedly tells them that his father is Kenyan. “I think it disrupts the false narrative that music like mine can only be made by people who look like them,” he said to the Guardian last year.It’s a subject addressed, more forcefully, in the opening two tracks of the Nova…

Dinosaur attractions across the UK are braced for a fresh wave of visitors following the release of Jurassic World Dominion this weekend.The sixth film in the franchise is expected to offer a boost not only to UK cinemas – the series’ box-office takings so far top £200m – but to the country’s many dinosaur-themed attractions.Most of these were founded over the past 30 years to capitalise on the popularity of paleontology inspired by the first Jurassic Park film in 1993. Roarr!, the UK’s largest dinosaur attraction, was…

Actor Johnny Depp who recently emerged victorious in his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard, was spotted dining at an Indian restaurant named Varanasi in UK's Birmingham. Now in an interview, Mohammed Hussain, operations head of the restaurant, has spoken about the actor and how after Johnny's visit, the restaurant saw a ‘massive surge in the number of bookings’. Also Read: Johnny Depp turns into Willy Wonka for kids during dinner at Indian restaurant in UK, spends over ₹45 lakh on mealJohnny indulged in…

For all the promise of gender equality on lineups, UK music festivals are still dominated by male artists – a BBC study last week found that only 13% of headliners at top festivals this year are women – and many of them are white, straight and cisgender. But down a gravel path in St Albans lies an alternative.Hosting house and techno artists, Flesh festival – held last weekend – bills itself as the UK’s first queer camping music festival, with a lineup where women, trans and non-binary artists make up more than 90% of the…

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a new investigation into Google’s advertising business over fears the company is unfairly freezing out competitors. It’s the second open probe the CMA has on Google, following the announcement in March of a joint investigation with the EU over alleged collusion between Google and Facebook-owner Meta. The new investigation will dive deep into the “ad tech stack” — the collection of tools that make up the complex online ad market. The CMA notes that Google…

Altice founder Patrick Drahi, left, and co-founder Armando Pereira pose for photos outside the New York Stock Exchange, before the company's IPO, Thursday, June 22, 2017.Richard Drew | APThe U.K. has launched probes into two major technology deals under its new National Security and Investment Act as it moves to protect its most prized technology assets from foreign takeovers.In a note to shareholders Thursday, BT announced that U.K. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is "calling in" its deal with Altice, which is owned by…

Europe doesn’t hate the UK after all, it was just waiting for a decent song. This is what seasoned Eurovision watchers concluded after seeing Sam Ryder take a triumphant second place on Saturday night.It was a runner’s up slot that felt like a victory, given it had been widely expected that Ukraine would and – in the wider scheme of things – should win the contest.After a long, emotional evening in Turin, Kalush Orchestra won for Ukraine with their anthemic folk/hip-hop song Stefania. The band members had received special…

Orbex has publicly unveiled the full-scale prototype of its reusable Prime rocket on its pad at Space Hub Sutherland in northern Scotland, where the first-ever vertical launch of a satellite from UK soil is set to be carried out in the coming months.Despite being a major player in space technology, Britain hasn't launched a space rocket since 1971 and has never launched one from UK soil. Now, with the booming market in CubeSats and other small satellites, Scotland-based aerospace company Orbex has developed Prime. This is…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain UK and international representatives from civil society and beyond are calling on the UK Government to better support refugees coming from Ukraine, in a report by UCL experts for the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (IASC). …