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UK switches COVID-19 contact tracing app to Apple and Google framework
Skittles Giants are the Giant Skittles We Didn’t Know We Needed
If you ask me and my sweet tooth, the only thing better than candy is bigger candy. Thankfully, the sugar gods are shining down upon us with a new blessing today, in the form of Skittles Giants.
The new candy is the same as regular Skittles, only three times larger! So no longer do you need to stick three Skittles in your mouth to get that effect, you just need one. Skittles Giants recently started turning up on shelves in the UK, and are making us here in the States and other countries very jealous today. Just look at these things. The packaging alone makes them look three times as appealing as regular Skittles.
The Mars Wrigley company hasn’t announced any plans to bring Skittles Giants stateside yet, but I plan on bringing a case of them home the next time I travel to England. In the mean time, keep your eye out on eBay for enterprising importers willing to ship them overseas.
[via Packaging of the World]
YouTube will reduce conspiracy theory recommendations in the UK
YouTube plans to tweak its recommendation algorithm to cut back on conspiracy theory videos in the UK, eight months after it conducted a similar experiment in the US. The platform is in the middle of rolling out the update to its British users, a spo...
Scotland will build a massive battery to store excess wind power
UK energy supplier Scottish Power plans to launch a massive battery-storage system to capture renewable power from its 214 wind turbines. The 50 megawatt lithium-ion battery will allow Scottish Power to store energy when wind speeds are high and rele...
UK will track thousands of criminals with GPS tags
It's not a novel idea to make criminals wear GPS bracelets, but they could soon be relatively commonplace in the UK. The country's government plans to use them for around-the-clock monitoring of criminals across England and Wales by the summer, with...
Premier League wants video referees starting next season
The wheels are in motion for the Premier League to roll out the video assistant referee (VAR) system starting in 2019-2020. Teams have agreed in principle to the plan, and the league will formally request approval from FIFA and the International Foot...
Even the World Cup couldn’t escape the ‘Fortnite’ fever
Now that England is out of the 2018 World Cup, there's one thing we're really going to miss about its team: The goal celebrations from midfielders Dele Alli and Jesse Lingard. While professional athletes creatively expressing themselves after scoring...
Social media made the World Cup fun again
Like a lot of England fans, I have a complicated relationship with our national football team. Nobody fetishizes a noble failure like, or hold a grudge for anyone deemed too successful, like we do. Tournament football is therefore an exercise in viol...
‘Alexa, is football coming home?’
You've gotta hand it to England's football fans -- what they lack in World Cup wins they more than make up for in boundless optimism. It's been 52 years since the team won the World Cup, but after their unbearably tense win against Colombia earlier t...