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- April 29th
- Marvel's The Punisher Gets Netflix Spin-off Series
- This satirical web game lets you kick Jeremy Hunt
- Scientists claim ginger gene makes you look two years younger
- A list of the catastrophic events threatening humanity
- Here are the first two set shots from Star Wars: Episode VIII
- This home-made hoverbike is bonkers
- Google wants to inject this gadget directly into your eyeball
- If you need one reason to be scared of Donald Trump, this is it
- Supermarket absolutely destroys customer trying to blag free avocados
- Terrifying video of Dad saving son on rollercoaster when seatbelt breaks
- The way you see these melons says a lot about your personality
- The UK’s six best alternative music festivals
- This neat trick makes your iPhone folders round
- Ricky Gervais just showed off some incredible improvisation skills
- This billionaire just dumped all his Apple shares
- The ShortListen: Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna (no. 303)
- This new VR climbing game looks beyond terrifying
- April 28th
- The new 'Deus Ex: Mankind Divided' trailer is seriously badass
- Jack Garratt's Ultimate Playlist
- You might as well give up at LEGO now because this Star Destroyer wins
- Ricky Gervais: "With art you have to be a complete fascist"
- The ShortListen: Man Made (no. 302)
- Stephen Merchant has joined Wolverine 3
- Londoners are shaming their landlords on Twitter and it's tragically brilliant
- Manchester United youngster pulls off brilliant rainbow flick golazo
- You can watch the whole of Oasis' 1994 Glastonbury performance online
- Bran is going to change everything in Game of Thrones this season
- Future computers could pull energy out of thin air
- Just a cow that thinks it’s a dog
- NASA's 4K video of a solar flare is utterly hypnotising
- Facebook are our overlords & there's nothing we can do about it
- 20 things nobody should ever do in London
- This robot is much better at iPad games than you
- April 27th
- Sir Ian McKellen: "There are lots of wizards around, aren't there?"
- Nintendo fans are going to have to wait until 2017 for the NX console
- The thrilling first trailer for Snowden is here
- Tom Daley and Jessica Ennis-Hill unveil Team GB's new Olympic kit
- There's an app for getting booze delivered to your house
- 10 reasons every man should miss Prince
- Here's what the new Pokémon app game looks like
- Welcome to the world of Jake Gyllenhaal
- You can listen to Beyoncé’s new album Lemonade for free right now – here’s how
- Game of Thrones is more popular than porn
- This psychologist doesn't think we should hug dogs
- The ShortListen: COLOUR (no. 301)
- There's a new free level for the original DOOM video game
- Dyson launches new hair dryer
- Top Gear's getting a new spin-off show
- McDonald's is tinkering with the Big Mac formula
- Turns out this animal is as intelligent as chimps
- This guy has stronger fingers than you
- You can throw meatballs around in this IKEA VR kitchen game
- Phone zombies run rampage in first trailer for Stephen King's Cell
- Someone is trying to sell rainwater from the day Prince died on eBay
- Things aren't looking good for Twitter
- 12-year-old girl runs half-marathon by mistake
- Check out Mark Hamill's Joker in this twisted new Batman film
- April 26th
- 10 animals you never knew were recruited by the military
- This is why sleeping in your own bed is best according to science
- This workplace safety video is the most terrifying thing you’ll ever watch
- Did HBO make a huge mistake in last night's Game of Thrones?
- Scientists are legitimately using AC/DC to improve cancer drugs
- Scientists have discovered how to make phone batteries last 'forever'
- Big Ben will be silenced in 2017 for 'urgent' repairs
- This BTTF hoverboard factory animation is amazing
- The Russian military has bought 5 dolphins but won’t say why
- Here's what we learnt from a 5K run with Paula Radcliffe
- Latest X-Men: Apocalypse trailer teases a huge cameo
- These artists are using optical illusions to make roads safer
- The ShortListen: Stormzy (no. 300)
- A visual history of Prince’s hair from 1978 to 2013
- Where to go to watch a rocket launch into space this summer
- Reebok is bringing back the Stomper for 'Alien day'
- The royal family just came seriously close to offending Obama
- Someone built Captain America's shield and then tried shooting it with real ammo
- Bryan Cranston wants to play Walter White again in Better Call Saul
- School asks the internet to choose its new name. Instantly regrets everything
- Does this picture reveal the biggest Kylo Ren secret of them all?
- This city has installed traffic lights in the pavement for smartphone users
- iPhone users are going to love this new keyboard app
- The 31 coolest t-shirts for summer 2016
- April 25th
- The final Uncharted 4 trailer looks bloody gorgeous
- Game of Thrones: 5 biggest moments from episode one
- How many of these commonly misspelt words can you get right?
- Things don't look good for Apple and the iPhone 7
- This is the world's first anti-ageing gin
- The ShortListen: Band of Horses (no. 299)
- New Top Gear trailer shows Matt LeBlanc having a Joey moment
- This woman recreating celebrity selfies is brilliant
- This is the script for the Prince episode of The Simpsons that never happened
- Anonymous is in the midst of a serious cyber attack on the Ku Klux Klan
- These crazy Star Wars Episode VIII title & script rumours could change everything
- This 360 horror video you can play on your computer is genuinely terrifying
- This is how terrifying VR horror games are
- Prince's insane house is being turned into a museum
- Kanye interrupts wedding speech with 'Imma let you finish'
- April 22nd
- 12 expensive comic books you should want to invest in (and they're not what you think)
- The Martian author’s next novel is a crime story set on the Moon
- 13 things not to do when running a marathon
- 20 Game of Thrones outfits you'd get away with wearing in real life
- Chris Evans & Robert Downey Jr fighting over the last doughnut is the funniest thing you'll watch today
- NASA cuts live stream from International Space Station after this appeared
- The ShortListen: Prince (no. 298)
- The best Prince tributes and reactions on social media and beyond
- This video of James Brown, Michael Jackson & Prince on the same stage is insane
- Idris Elba and Richard Madden talk weird fan gifts and US accents
- Robert Downey Jr to appear as Iron Man in the new Spider-Man flick
- 30 times Prince dressed like the coolest man in music
- This headphone patent could piss off a lot of Apple fans
- Here's your first look at Hitman's next mission
- London comes in for a pounding in the new trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence
- April 21st
- Musician Prince dies aged 57
- 20 sophisticated stag dos
- The best reason to stay in the EU so far has been given by an unlikely source
- London is getting its first naked restaurant, and 12,000 people have already joined the waiting list
- The slickest sunglasses for Summer 2016
- Eliza and the Bear's Ultimate Playlist
- 15 pieces of wisdom from 12 Monkeys
- The 10 closest Football League finishes
- The ShortListen: Hotei feat. Richard Z. Kruspe (no. 297)
- This crazy superhero movie is Russia’s answer to Guardians of the Galaxy
- NASA just made the best timelapse video ever
- This chocolate chip cookie-topped chocolate chip cookie will haunt your dreams
- Snatch is getting a TV series remake
- Aston Villa have just won a trophy - hurrah!
- This is how much it would cost to actually be Captain America
- Watch a young Mark Zuckerberg explain the purpose of The Facebook
- We wish this Schwarzenegger commentary to Star Wars: The Force Awakens was real
- Can you find the Queen in the corgis?
- Netflix might finally bring you the feature you've always wanted
- Sega is launching a free hub to play all your old Mega Drive games online
- Jason Bourne returns in badass new trailer
- April 20th
- EXCLUSIVE: Downey Jr. confirms Sherlock Holmes 3 shooting this year
- Five-storey super slide opens in Shanghai shopping centre
- Chris Evans: “I don’t think anyone is close to being a good guy”
- Jessie Eisenberg: “No, I have not watched ‘Sad Affleck’"
- The scary but exciting world of freediving
- These are the questions the public REALLY want to ask the Queen
- Putting cats in iconic film scenes makes them 100 times better
- This basketball mascot just had a painful mid-game incident
- The ShortListen: New Atlas (no. 296)
- Who said it: Donald Trump or Zlatan Ibrahimovic?
- Beat the burn and join Gillette Club for blades delivered to your door
- Amazing video shows daredevil backflip over speeding race car
- This guy is the funniest troll on the internet
- People are freaking out about this 'ghost' at The Shining hotel
- This watch will turn you into a morning person – with pain
- Scientist claims human limbs evolved from shark gills thanks to 'Sonic The Hedgehog gene'
- One man's struggle with depression and why more people need to open up
- Berlin airport PR man sacked for being too honest
- Don't fall for this latest Apple ID scam
- This is what happens when construction workers have a fight in bulldozers
- This is what your future computer will look like
- The first trailer for the Magnificent Seven remake rides in
- April 19th
- Watch the world’s longest ever trailer - all seven hours of it
- Robert Downey Jr: “I like Chris Evans more than he likes me”
- This black smudge optical illusion is messing with our minds
- This is the real history that inspired Game of Thrones
- George R R Martin is open to a Game of Thrones spin-off
- The ShortListen: The Daydream Club (no. 295)
- If film characters used Trip Advisor
- Incredible footage shows firefighters fleeing a fire tornado
- How to master Call of Duty's new Eclipse DLC
- YouTube is about to change the future of live music
- This is how & where you'll be killed in London
- One man is writing a song for all 700 Pokemon
- Amazon denies overpaying for Clarkson, Hammond & May
- Bill & Ted 3 is definitely happening and will be set in the UK
- Kanye & Tidal are being sued over the 'Pablo' exclusive
- Director for Jurassic World 2 Revealed
- April 18th
- A McDonald’s in the US is set to offer all you can eat fries
- London's biggest gin bar just opened for business
- Blossoms' Ultimate Playlist
- 100 years of film history celebrated with the best shot from each year
- Ricky Gervais has a stand-up routine so offensive it 'could end career'
- A journalist filed a freedom of information request to watch Obama's GOT episodes
- The 20 best platformers of all time
- This is the unexpectedly interesting story of Zero
- This is why you shouldn’t wear underwear in bed
- The ShortListen: Luna Shadows (no. 294)
- This coloured heart optical illusion is freaking people out
- Stephen King reveals plans for potential 11.22.63 sequel
- Someone has made Doom's BFG gun out of LEGO
- This one question will reveal if you're a narcissist
- Dave Franco has opened up about his Han Solo audition
- 15 men who dressed brilliantly at Coachella
- David Cameron made a joke about rough sex and it was terrible
- Apple is changing everything for the next big iPhone
- April 17th
- April 15th
- This Shakespeare-themed London Tube map is 100 times better than the normal Tube map
- Man types the wrong piece of code & accidentally deletes entire company
- You can now buy a private island for the same price as a London flat
- Disney has begun work on Star Wars Land & teased us with a 360 glimpse
- This is who Game of Thrones fans think will die next
- New Zealand hotel bans Lycra because it finds the ‘bumps’ and ‘bulges’ offensive
- 20 important style lessons from '90s cartoons characters
- The ShortListen: Turin Brakes (no. 293)
- Snooker's Steve Davis is a techno DJ and he's bloody good
- This is how much Google knows about your life
- 100 greatest one-liners: after the kill
- Pepsi has just invented a fizzy drink for hipsters
- London's disused Tube stations and hidden tunnels set to open to the public
- The Death of Glastonbury? Muse want Adele to duet with them
- The 10 funniest films on Netflix
- Football's Greatest Comebacks
- The coolest coffee gadgets every caffeine addict needs
- Buying these apps will help save the planet
- April 14th
- Modern albums in old paintings are just awesome
- Game of Thrones' most unpleasant moments to date
- Did the Paris terror attackers also plan on targeting a German nuclear facility?
- This is the year virtual reality changes everything
- Iwan Rheon on playing Game of Thrones’ biggest bastard
- Incredible paper art inspired by The Shining & other classic horror films
- The ShortListen: Bry (no. 292)
- Attention Bradbury fans: HBO is making a new Fahrenheit 451 film
- Teenagers are proving how stupid they are with the Banana Peel Challenge
- These special edition Jaws shoes are great (white)
- Phone-friendly 'cinemas for millennials' are coming & there's nothing you can do about it
- Twitter user waits seven years to tell the perfect joke
- These are the best areas in London to use a dating app
- We put Microsoft's new photo caption AI bot to the test (with hilarious results)
- You can watch the Game of Thrones opening credits in 360 degrees
- April 13th
- Jared Leto sent Suicide Squad co-stars anal beads and used condoms
- The three most popular theories surrounding Jon Snow’s return on Game of Thrones
- Homefront could be your new favourite tactical video game
- How you answer this question reveals everything about you
- Why we love Game of Thrones
- 10 style items to keep you dry this Spring
- Watch this incredible VR video of a man nearly being hit by a landing plane
- This is who will be playing Darth Vader in Rogue One
- Here's everything you need to know about Amazon's new Kindle Oasis
- Maverick octopus escapes from aquarium to freedom
- Can you match the obscure screenshot to the Pixar film?
- The ShortListen: Katy B/Chris Lorenzo (no. 291)
- Daniel Radcliffe’s next role is NSA turncoat Edward Snowden
- This is how to give the perfect apology (according to science)
- Here's how the FBI hacked the San Bernardino iPhone
- Bono wants to send Chris Rock and Amy Schumer to fight ISIS
- Goalkeeper spear tackles opponent in funniest professional foul ever committed
- Brothers trick girl high on dentist drugs into thinking she’s in a real life zombie apocalypse
- Google's new calendar could change your life
- Chris Evans & Matt LeBlanc 'have fallen out already'
- Zombies are coming back to Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- Benedict Cumberbatch takes a twisted trip in the first trailer for Marvel's Doctor Strange
- April 12th
- Don Cheadle's jazz playlist is your new commuter jam
- The best new smartphones that aren't made by Apple
- Brilliant IKEA-esque instructions teach you how to eat 'hard-to-eat' food
- Jared Leto’s Joker could be inspired by Endgame – and here’s why you need to know about it
- This is what it's like to support the craziest football club in the UK
- Netflix has bagged Chris Evans' Top Gear show
- Here are the odds for who will claim the throne by the end of 'Game of Thrones' Season 6
- Force Awakens-themed family portrait (with baby BB-8) beats all other family portraits ever
- The ShortListen: The Boxer Rebellion (no. 290)
- The HTC 10 could be your favourite Android phone
- Facebook has big plans for its Messenger app
- The Pac-Man suit is here to redefine style
- Why former Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein tried to ban Pokemon
- Second trailer lands for Ricky Gervais' Special Correspondents
- There's a serious problem with this emoji
- An ancient mummy has been found wearing Adidas trainers
- A brilliant side-by-side comparison of first & last scenes of classic TV shows
- You're going to want a set of these stunning new Shakespeare books
- April 11th
- 10 Donald Trump scandals the world really needs to know about
- Watch every single 'Fatality' from the Mortal Kombat series
- Someone unearthed a picture of young Keanu Reeves sitting on a rock and the internet reacted brilliantly
- This is the twisted story behind Kylo Ren's ash table
- The intro of Netflix's Daredevil in pixels is utterly wonderful
- This is why you do actually need to switch your phone to flight mode
- Tinder and Instagram are apparently your new drug dealers
- Marseille fans protest against own team by playing the Benny Hill theme tune
- This is the greatest McDonald's drive-thru story you will ever read
- Is this the most pumped-up linesman ever?
- 10 things you need to know about golf's new hero: Danny Willett
- Watch this metal foam turn an armour piercing bullet into dust
- The ShortListen: Jorja Smith (no. 289)
- The world's longest python has been caught & it's monstrous
- Twitter reacts to the early screenings of Captain America: Civil War
- Someone finally made a working hoverboard
- Mark Hamill sends Daisy Ridley a birthday message she won't soon forget
- Someone modified a real gun to look like a Nintendo Duck Hunt zapper
- Watch this utterly glorious impossible angle own goal in Fiji
- Mark Zuckerberg has a special 'yellow' version of Facebook on his phone
- There's been another sighting of the Thames monster
- The new Gears of War 4 trailer is a haunting classic
- New Suicide Squad trailer may have just given you the Batman you deserve
- April 8th
- Reading this will make you never want to use free weights in the gym ever again
- Everything you didn't spot in the Star Wars: Rogue One trailer
- Science has worked out how to deal with your psychopathic boss
- J.K. Rowling's rickety chair is probably worth more than your house
- Reddit is now available as an app - say goodbye to real life
- 10 DIY skills all great men know
- The ShortListen: Tegan and Sara (no. 288)
- Someone dropped a KFC meal and it moved the internet to tears
- This man had plastic surgery to look like Superman and we don’t even know anymore
- Maisie Williams thinks you should stop using the word feminist & this is why
- These are the things that Brits do better than Americans according to Reddit
- This depressingly real tube map shows just how pricey London living really is
- Good news: you'll soon be able to remove your default iPhone apps
- Can an iPhone SE survive a 100 FT drop frozen in ice?
- David Attenborough has probably made his last 'proper' documentary :(
- House Of Cards is trolling David Cameron over his tax scandal
- This spider has a secret superpower that is baffling scientists
- These are the best games of 2015 (according to BAFTA)
- April 7th
- Meet Mr Burberry: Josh Whitehouse
- 14 things you didn't know you could do with your Android phone
- When British locations stand in for far-flung Hollywood locations
- Millennium Falcon spotted in live NASA footage
- Tinder man freaks out over spelling mistake, sends 100 days of Panda facts
- This incredible Rembrandt painting was 'painted' by a computer
- The first teaser trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One looks epic
- A former A&R man on why the mid-noughties indie era has no need for an #amnesty
- This incredible Toys vs Toys animation was made entirely on Vine
- 15 #IndieAmnesty Tweets that were way too real
- The FBI has told US congress how it hacked an iPhone
- 5 weird things that Brits abroad have asked the Foreign Office for advice on
- The White House just took an important stance on 'legal' hacking
- The first trailer for the David Brent film has landed
- It's cheaper to live on a cruise than rent in London
- Shakespeare's First Folio has been discovered on a Scottish island
- This Game Boy can play any retro Nintendo title
- 14 style accessories all men must own
- Here's your first look at 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
- April 6th
- EXCLUSIVE: Zlatan Ibrahimović on Premier League offers, head-butting teammates, and other silliness
- The Force Awakens may have subtly revealed something very important about Rey
- Woman mistakes Kevin Hart for Chris Rock and he brilliantly plays along
- This mirror & ball video is freaking out the internet
- Brilliant clip sees small children hilariously parodying UK politicians
- 7 great sci-fi films you probably haven’t seen
- The ShortListen: EKKOES (no. 286)
- Suge Knight just made a serious allegation against Dr. Dre
- Amazon is about to release its best Kindle yet
- Did someone just film a giant monster in the Thames?
- Samsung is working on a 'smart contact lens' with inbuilt cameras
- 'Oi d*ckheads': Ronnie Pickering is back in another sweary rant video
- Stephen King reveals his love for British TV
- HP has made a laptop that makes every other laptop look like it's got an obesity problem
- This trailer teases our VR entertainment future
- Man City player Fabian Delph claims he sees ghosts in the weirdest interview ever
- Facebook keeps banning posts about this UK town and here’s why
- HMRC rents its HQ from a company registered in a tax haven
- This man just shot a giant alligator that was eating his cows and the photo is terrifying
- This is what WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption message means
- April 5th
- Here’s why the Internet has been staring into a red dot all week
- New trailer lands for Spielberg's The BFG
- Mark Hamill went to the Disney Offices in London and nobody had a clue who he was
- This hilarious mother/daughter texting fight has turned into all-out war
- This man’s rant about an abandoned dog in Skyrim is the most epic thing you’ve ever read
- Matt LeBlanc is already taking time off from Top Gear after near miss
- This incredible new Viking discovery could literally rewrite history
- Benedict Cumberbatch dropped into a comic store dressed as Doctor Strange
- Watch Bastille Day for FREE with ShortList Film Club
- Someone gave their fish a Viking burial and it's amazing
- Astronomers just wasted almost ten years staring at something they didn’t realise was an optical illusion
- These antique Ouija boards are dead cool
- The ShortListen: Ry X (no. 285)
- Why Justin Long (not Steve Jobs) is the real reason for Apple's success
- You might have missed a bunch of messages on Facebook
- New Making a Murderer evidence could prove Teresa Halbach left Avery’s property alive
- John Boyega & Daisy Ridley rapping on the set of Star Wars is brilliant
- You can now Google animal noises. Obviously.
- Blade Runner 2 just added a ‘massive’ actor to the cast
- This Slo-mo footage shows how cats always land on their feet
- If you say these words to Siri she'll hack into an iPhone for you...
- This website will let you play Zelda on your computer for FREE
- 11 things you didn't know you could do with Spotify
- April 4th
- This is what happens when you attach a chainsaw to a drone
- The name of the new Spider-man film has been revealed (and it hints at 4 very exciting things)
- Fast Food workers reveal the things you should definitely never order
- A pastor has been selling photos of ‘heaven’
- Jeremy Corbyn is going to play Glastonbury
- Scientists have created artificial 'Terminator' skin that can grow hair and sweat glands
- Costa admits that they don’t give you an extra shot in a large latte
- Use this weird trick to get an absolute ton of extra space on your iPhone
- The ShortListen: Broods (no. 284)
- The triple sized Big Mac is now a thing
- Reddit might be letting the US government spy on you
- 15 famous paintings made 15 times better by adding in cats
- Girl sends boyfriend to buy makeup. The greatest text conversation ever ensues
- Tom Daley asked the internet to Photoshop him, got more than he bargained for
- The biggest data leak in history has just landed loads of politicians in hot water
- Here’s the trailer for your next big Netflix fix
- Google Maps lets you wander around the Batcave from Batman V Superman
- The original Guns N' Roses have played a gig together and here's the footage
- New Zealand has made the world's funniest 'Don't text and drive' campaign
- April 2nd
- April 1st
- We are experiencing a pencil famine thanks to your stupid adult colouring books
- Star Wars and six other films Michael Jackson almost starred in
- Scientists have created 'living computer-bug hybrids'
- If you have one of these jobs you’re probably an absolutely awful driver
- The Mountain from Game of Thrones definitely won April Fools' Day
- The ‘sexy’ lawyer from Making A Murderer is getting his own series
- This Restaurant owner is absolutely destroying 'bad' reviewers on TripAdvisor
- Tom Hiddleston presented the weather in Chicago, blamed Thor for storms
- Someone has already completed Dark Souls 3 in under two hours
- If you own any of these VHS you're sitting on a fortune
- #WeirdthingsAmericansdo was trending on Twitter and we demand answers
- 10 things you should never Google (according to Reddit)
- This is either the worst April Fools ever or proof that the Hipster Apocalypse is here
- This incredible website will scan your face and turn it into a song with a trippy music video
- The best (and worst) April Fools' gags from around the web
- Tesla just unveiled the most important car in the world
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