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With the former Prince, Andrew, banished and Prince Harry and Meghan across the Atlantic in America, there's increasingly space for a new member of the royal family to come forward.

An anonymous reader shared this report from PC World: It won't whip the llama's ass, but Opera has added a Spotify visualizer to its latest iteration of its free Opera One browser. Known as Sonic, the visualizer will be part of Opera's Dynamic Themes, which use the WebGPU standard to employ a dynamic theme that runs in the background of the browser. It's essentially a shader, which uses your PC's graphics engine to generate the moving background. The browser also comes with a music player, which is set to Spotify by default. Users will have an opportunity to upgrade to Spotify Premium as part of the browser upgrade, Opera said. Opera's Sonic theme... takes the Spotify input and transforms it into a dynamic background. "As any old tech head knows, the original visualizer was found in Winamp, which would sync visualizations to the beat and flow of music being played," the article points out. And 27 years later, WinAmp arrived as an app in Apple's App Store and Google Play and in April of 2024. (The latest version was apparently released this May — and you can also download it to your desktop...) Somewhere along the way, Winamp also announced "Winamp for Creators," which they're describing as a dedicated platform for music artists with monetization and promotion tools, music management services, and other essential resources "to help creators take control of their careers" (including "a powerful social media publishing tool that lets users write a single post and push it to all their social media channels simultaneously.")

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Hunting down a partner just for the colder months-a dating trend known as 'cuffing'-can have serious psychological repercussions, one senior therapist warned the Daily Mail.

The road was completely closed heading southbound

Do toothbrushes need to be stylish? We've tested the trendy Suri electric toothbrush to see if it's really worth the hype, or  just a social media driven gimmick.

Battle lines are being drawn in the fight between President Donald Trump and his former ally, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene - as her supporters express their dismay.

Oasis star Noel Gallagher looked effortlessly stylish on Thursday when he was spotted at Sydney Airport preparing to leave Australia, following his band's sold-out reunion tour.

Tennis star Emma Raducanu and Bridgerton actress Simone Ashley looked fabulous today as they cheered on England's rugby heroes during their All Blacks clash.

In the nineties she graced the cover of men's magazines as a young glamour model before going on to forge a lucrative career as a presenter, putting those modelling days behind her.

From Instagram shout-outs to gifting jars of her jam and even using the same bodyguards, Meghan has formed numerous connections with the famous American clan over the years.

Netflix bosses are said to 'have noted' that the Duchess of Sussex appears to be professionally wooing billionaire Amazon boss Jeff Bezos.

The BBC commissioned Dutch author Rutger Bregman to deliver its flagship annual lectures. Bregman used the events to compare Trump's America and the rise of fascism in the 1930s.

After a week which has veered from farce to tragedy - for Britain's economy and its standing in the world - the field of 'stalking horses' behind the PM has now widened to Grand National levels.

The Home Secretary will unveil the proposals as part of wider plans, based on hardline Danish laws, to curb immigration and reduce the 'pull-factor' bringing migrants to the UK.

Increased costs from children's services, adult social care, and homelessness support mean the council is likely to overspend its budget by millions

It's been trying to measure the popularity of programming languages since 2000 using metrics like the number of engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. And "The November 2025 TIOBE Index brings another twist below Python's familiar lead," writes TechRepublic. "C solidifies its position as runner-up, C++ and Java lose some ground, and C# moves sharply upward, narrowing the gap with Java to less than a percentage point..." TIO CEO Paul Jansen said this month that "Instead of Python, programming language C# is now the fastest rising language," How did C# achieve this? Java and C# are battling for a long time in the same areas. Right now it seems like C# has removed every reason why not to use C# instead of Java: it is cross platform nowadays, it is open source and it contains all new language features a developer wants. While the financial world is still dominated by Java, all other terrains show equal shares between Java and C#. Besides this, Microsoft is going strong and C# is still their most backed programming language. Interesting note: C# has never been higher than Java in the TIOBE index. Currently the difference between the two rivals is less than 1%. There are exciting times ahead of us. Is C# going to surpass Java for the first time in the TIOBE index history? "The fact that C# has been in the news for the successive betas and pre-release candidates prior to the release of C# 14 may have bumped up its percentage share in the last few months," notes a post on the site i-Programmer. But they also point out that by TIOBE's reckoning, Java — having been overtaken by Python in 2021 — "has been in decline ever since." TechRepublic summarizes the rest of the Top Ten: JavaScript stays in sixth place at 3.42%, and Visual Basic edges up to seventh with 3.31%. Delphi/Object Pascal nudges upward to eighth at 2.06%, while Perl returns to the top 10 in ninth at 1.84% after a sharp year-over-year climb. SQL rounds out the list at tenth with 1.80%, maintaining a foothold that shows the enduring centrality of relational databases. Go, which held eighth place in October, slips out of the top 10 entirely. Here's how TIOBE's methodology ranks programming language popularity in November: Python C C++ Java C# JavaScript Visual Basic Delphi/Object Pascal Perl SQL

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Elizabeth Franz, the Tony-winning actress best known for her role in the 1999 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, has died at 84.

Shimon Hayut had faced up to ten years behind bars after being arrested there in September for an alleged £38,000 fraud committed in Germany against a Berlin-based woman.

Nationally, just 9.1% adults in Britain admitted to smoking last year, down from 10.5% in 2023 and just a fraction of the nearly 50 per cent in the 1970s, according to ONS data.

Difrim Metalliri, 25, appeared before Chelmsford Crown Court on Thursday after he was arrested in August.