News Archive

January 29

• Derren Brown: "I own a gremlin from Gremlins 2"
• The McDonald's Big Mac sauce bottles have just sold out, but here's where to get one
• Peter Serafinowicz has redubbed Donald Trump as a cockney and it's hilarious
• This life-sized Batman model is outrageous
• Which feature do you want to see on the iPhone 7?
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 60 seconds
• House of Cards confirmed for a fifth series
• Everyone needs to sign this petition to get Snoop Dogg narrating Planet Earth
• The ShortListen: Zayn (no. 241)
• London's first driverless cars are coming sooner than you think
• Nintendo's new console could launch with Super Smash Bros.
• You can now send GIFs on Tinder
• Man has the most awkwardly British encounter ever, recounts it on Twitter
• Tony The Tiger has started blocking fans on Twitter after they started getting creepy with him
• Ex-Apple employee reveals what it's like to work in an Apple store

January 28

• Martin Shkreli has hit back at Ghostface Killah in smugly threatening video
• The doughnut cinnamon roll hybrid is real and our stomachs need it
• England great Stuart Pearce signs for the UK's 'worst' football team
• These movies are dramatically changed by adding "ing" to their title
• Does this AI breakthrough herald the beginning of the end?
• DeLorean to build new cars for the first time in 30 years
• You can now rent a 'Neflix and Chill' room on Airbnb
• 12 fashion essentials for your week
• Young man films himself climbing Great Pyramid of Giza and takes unbelievable photos
• You need to watch this stunning mashup of Oscar nominees for best visual effects
• It's now cheaper to travel from Sheffield to Essex via Berlin
• These sketches of Michael Caine's style down the years are wonderful
• The ShortListen: Massive Attack (no. 240)
• These are the insane numbers behind Facebook's community
• Get ready for Disney and Marvel to make films together for “forever”
• Top European clubs want to make the Champions League a closed shop
• These are the greatest inventions of the 21st century (apparently)
• Here are the highlights from the insane Kanye Vs Wiz Twitter showdown
• The iPhone 7 Plus could have a pretty insane camera trick
• Dermot O'Leary: highly driven

January 27

• 10 easy ways to pimp your meat
• See the excellent Triple 9 for free with ShortList Film Club
• 7 foods that are far more dangerous than you think
• Savages: the angriest band in showbiz
• Dimitar Berbatov goes full-scale Partridge & conducts an interview with himself
• 25 brilliant style quotes from incredibly well dressed men
• The locations that Google Earth doesn't want you to see
• The Game posted his bank balance on Instagram and it's ridiculous
• What the inside of Mark Zuckerberg’s depressing wardrobe looks like
• The Chickening is the craziest remix of The Shining you will ever watch
• Drone racing is the 'sport of the future' - and it looks amazing
• This awesome Pokémon commercial is going to air during the Super Bowl
• Arnie is beefed up & ready to go for Conan The Conquerer
• This condom machine will have a massive impact on drunken one night stands
• This might be why your iPhone 6S battery keeps dying
• Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson in 9/11 film you won't believe is a true story
• The ShortListen: Pet Shop Boys (no. 239)
• Scientists preparing to announce how close we are to the apocalypse (and it doesn’t look good)
• This guy built an exoskeleton that can lift a car
• Harrison Ford is definitely going to be in Blade Runner 2 with Ryan Gosling
• How to build your own life-sized BB-8 for under £100
• If you send someone this link it will crash their iPhone instantly

January 26

• Adele's face fits perfectly on to every famous album cover (and you never even noticed)
• 10 ways gaming can make you super rich
• Sinister new trailer for House Of Cards
• What we learnt about the CIA's declassified UFO files
• The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game actually looks ace
• Football player’s heartbroken reaction to being nutmegged is priceless
• Nerf's new Blaster range is genuinely intimidating
• The ShortListen: Iggy Pop (no. 238)
• Rapper B.O.B. is genuinely convinced the world is flat
• This jet concept could fly from New York to London in 11 minutes
• CIA release a heap of UFO files including one about Sheffield
• Here are all the new Emoji set to arrive in 2016
• Latest Batman V Superman trailer is brilliantly menacing

January 25

• Here are all of the drugs people think should be legal (and what would happen if they were)
• Hollywood are remaking 5 of your favourite movies for 2016
• The 50 worst pieces of video game box art ever
• This 'map of every city' is absolutely perfect
• Insane scientist risks his life in the coolest way ever to prove a physics law
• A grandson just transformed his 85-year-old farmer grandfather into an absolute style icon
• 6 videos that prove Thierry Henry is the sassiest man on TV
• Does this prove that the new iPhone won't have a headphone jack?
• Here's how to get free entry to The View from the Shard for the entirety of 2016
• Another photo leaks of Apple's new iPhone
• Someone made a robot that writes new episodes of Friends and it's kind of brilliant
• These two maps show why you need to move to Germany right now
• Here's how to get rid of those annoying 'Be Like Bill' Facebook posts
• The ShortListen: Klangstof (no. 237)
• Watch this crazy genius turn Coke bottles into a gatling gun
• What's on the inside of a NES cartridge will surprise you
• Jeremy Clarkson has said something offensive about trans people, because obviously
• Video games reimagined as pulp novels look amazing
• This man just destroyed the world’s stupidest conmen in the most perfect way
• You know you want to buy a floating bonsai tree

January 22

• According to Woody Guthrie, this is what it was like to live in Donald Trump's racist dad's apartment
• Watch this guy try to retrieve his GoPro from a pit of viscious rattlesnakes
• The man braid is a thing and it’s a disaster even worse than the man bun
• This is the best hotel in the world according to Trip Advisor
• QUIZ: Can you spot the real Tatler headline from the fake?
• The reason we haven't found any alien life yet is pretty upsetting
• You can take a virtual reality tour of The Shining hotel and it's terrifying
• There's going to be a Jeremy Corbyn musical and it looks AWESOME
• A video has leaked showing the new iPhone
• 9 easy ways to pimp your tomato ketchup
• Someone made a portable N64 and it's 100% awesome
• This genius used Google Autocomplete to fill in his dating profile (and it's hilarious)
• David Bowie doing perfect impressions of Springsteen, Dylan and Lou Reed will make your day
• Is this the creepiest iPhone case in the world?

January 21

• 10 fashion trends that need to die right now (according to science)
• A guide to the secret (awesome) menu that McDonald's and Burger King don't want you to know about
• Is this notorious serial killer the real man behind the Making A Murderer case?
• This Star Wars fan theory is brilliant and pretty damn bulletproof
• According to scientists, your beard could save your life
• This guy just gave the creepiest gameshow answer ever, and now we need a cold shower
• This is how many of your Facebook friends actually like you
• A surgeon claims he's just successfully carried out a head transplant
• Girl gives out wrong number instead of her own - random man responds brilliantly instead
• Luton isn't the worst place in Britain - it's Grimsby (according to ShortList readers)
• Viewers spot crucial new Making a Murderer evidence that could change everything
• This awesome bike can turn into a jet ski in 5 seconds
• Far Cry Primal looks absolutely brutal
• Danny Dyer paid tribute to his mum and dad's sex life at the National TV Awards
• Does this video show us what to expect with the new iPhone 7?
• You're going to have to wait a painfully long time for Star Wars: Episode VIII

January 20

• Kevin Hart on stardom, stand-up and stretching
• David Bowie: Fashion's patron saint
• John Niven: In Memory Of The Thin White Duke
• Design us a poster for The Walk and win a big prize
• Someone has made the world's most difficult Rubik's Cube
• Listening to J R R Tolkien read 'Lord of the Rings' is amazing
• Leading astronomer believes alien babies will replace us all by the year 2100
• John Boyega on Bafta nods, speech writing and Finn/Poe
• Guy receives Hannibal Lecter quotes from a girl over text and doesn't notice
• 6 Far East style pieces you need in your wardrobe
• VW fibs about car performance again (with brilliant prank video)
• Prepare for weirdness – five planets are about to align
• You can buy Luke Skywalker's blaster pistol
• McDonald’s is launching chocolate covered fries called the McChoco Potato
• Swedish authorities don't see the funny side of this giant ice penis
• The worst ever game show contest ever just appeared on The Chase
• What You Should Eat If You Want To Live To 100 (Based On The People Who've Done It)
• David Bowie rejected a Coldplay collaboration, saying "it's not a very good song, is it?"
• The weirdest things Sarah Palin said in her Donald Trump endorsement
• The new trailer for The Suicide Squad will blow you away

January 19

• The hilarious first trailer for Bad Neighbours 2 has landed
• This is how much you spend charging your smartphone every year
• Video of man attempting to say 'specifically' will have you in bits
• North Korea claims to have invented "hangover-free alcohol"
• The ShortListen: The Coral (no. 236)
• 40 pieces of wisdom from the GTA series
• 2015's movies recapped spectacularly in LEGO
• 10 things nobody tells you about getting married
• Racing car travels a quarter of a mile in 5.7 Seconds
• Slightly worrying news: burglars can 3D print your house keys
• Everyone still has '1234' as their password
• Jaws is real and living in Australia
• This is what the Ferraris of the future could look like
• Edward Snowden is being creepy about how many nude photos he gets
• Steve Coogan and John C Reilly to play Laurel & Hardy
• Even Apple fans should be seriously worried about Donald Trump
• A fan is remaking Metal Gear Solid and it looks incredible
• Kanye West is recording a Bowie tribute album - and believes he is his successor
• Tarantino confirms his films are all part of the same universe. Sort of
• Russia has plans to stop Earth-bound asteroids with nukes

January 18

• Spike Lee responds to #OscarsSoWhite backlash with brilliant open letter to Academy
• A London toilet is on the market for £1m
• This is an ingenious solution to surviving a plane crash
• Deadpool has been banned in China - and that's good for us
• Forget about seeing the Apple Watch 2 any time soon
• The stupidest questions submitted to libraries before the internet
• The most outrageous banned apps from the App Store
• Revealed: the 15 most edited articles from Wikipedia’s first 15 years
• These are the sweariest artists, songs & genres in music
• Could this wheel design revolutionise the bike?
• Hipsters Ruin Coffee Forever
• The ShortListen: Chairlift (no. 235)
• The world's richest 62 people are as wealthy as half the globe's population
• You'll never take a selfie as good as Tim Peake's
• This hypnotising ‘spot the panda' puzzle is the most difficult yet
• New Trailer For X-Files Reboot
• This failed rocket landing is the most epic thing you'll watch all week

January 15

• This poster brilliantly demonstrates just how influential N.W.A. were
• The best features coming to Apple's iOS 9.3 update
• Leo DiCaprio’s secret twin found working for the Russian government
• Recaptured drug lord El Chapo 'wanted to buy Chelsea'
• SOLVED: How to read Whatsapp messages without your friends knowing
• You can now see the world's largest model train set on Google Maps
• One of the world's deadliest snakes is loose in London (and it's faster than a horse)
• Porn comments mixed with LEGO is childishly brilliant
• 5 things you need to know about Tim Peake's spacewalk
• The ShortListen: Nina Nesbitt (no. 234)
• Netflix wants to stop you watching American shows
• The amazing instant bread from Force Awakens wasn't done with CGI
• The Simpsons' tribute to Alan Rickman is absolutely perfect
• Your favourite character could be returning to Star Wars
• Cloverfield 'sequel' trailer arrives out of nowhere
• Rooney or Ronaldo? Guess the player from their transfer history

January 14

• Whitechapel station is getting £110m transformation and it looks incredible
• Hoverboard bursts into flames during unboxing test
• The Oscar 2016 nominations revealed
• 10 great quotes from the legendary Alan Rickman
• Alan Rickman: "It’s too frustrating watching yourself"
• Actor Alan Rickman dies aged 69
• Here's a video of Alan Rickman making a cup of tea
• The 20 Greatest (Fictional) Style Icons Of All Time
• This driver just trolled Star Wars fans in the cruelest way possible
• Twitter Gaming is now a thing and it's odd
• Amazing Star Wars: The Force Awakens special effects reel goes behind the scenes of visual tricks
• Forget Netflix & Chill, it's all about Netflix & Cringe
• This man's Twitter rants about pizza are more intense than Making a Murderer
• The one where Friends came back for a two-hour special

January 13

• James Corden doing Carpool Karaoke with Adele is the best thing you'll see all day
• Harry Kane: "I don't want to just go to the Euros, I want to be starting"
• Beatboxing, zero divided by zero and 10 other things that makes Siri lose her mind
• This is what snowboarding in a frozen waterpark looks like
• One of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century might have been solved
• Michael B Jordan on how to take on Rocky
• Your employers can now legally read your private messages at work
• 11 Secrets from airline employees (including why you definitely shouldn't drink the coffee)
• Jimmy Kimmel just got Mulder and Scully back together ahead of their comeback
• Excellent posters re-imagine Deadpool as a slushy valentine’s day rom-com
• These are the lies that you should genuinely tell in job interviews
• Here's the first trailer for the new Aaron Paul TV series
• Former Star Wars actor confirms they won't return if asked. Ends loads of fan theories
• The ShortListen: Mogwai/Explosions in the Sky (no. 233)
• People are petitioning God to bring Bowie back from the dead
• This mysterious phone number is driving GTA players nuts
• Britain's first red light district has officially opened
• One of the worst games ever made is getting a VR remake
• This is what GoldenEye 64 would look like if it was made today (clue: awesome)

January 12

• These are the 8 actors lined up to play ‘young’ Han Solo
• Lou Dalton x River Island: equestrian-meets-urban
• The stand out shows from London Collections Men AW16
• Watch this mesmerising supercut of every F word in Tarantino films
• This woman posted reviews of her dates on Yelp and it was brilliant
• There's a Tumblr for Wetherspoon’s carpets and it's weirdly fascinating
• 10 things you didn't know you could do with YouTube
• This is what it's like to have 8 million Instagram followers
• This 1967 letter from Bowie to a fan is excellent
• The next Apple update is get to help you get more sleep
• Here’s the first minute of the new X-Files Premiere
• Giant metal 'space balls' fall from the sky in Vietnam
• The ShortListen: The Last Shadow Puppets (no. 232)
• 90 per cent of smartphone users suffer from this (and here's why)
• Can you complete the lyrics to Bowie's most famous songs?
• Ranked: The 10 worst ways to commute in London
• Aaron Paul teases Jesse Pinkman appearance in Better Call Saul Season 2
• Tinder has been secretly ranking how hot you are (which could explain a lot)

January 11

• Underground workers to stage three further strikes
• The coolest tech of CES 2016
• How Bowie predicted the future of music in 2002
• The next generation of electric car
• The most checked-out book at the UN library is a bit awkward
• Bowie Unseen: An incredible life in pictures
• 25 Bowie looks that proved he was the ultimate style icon
• Experience a day in the life of Berlin Bowie
• You’ve been cutting pizza wrong your entire life
• The Martian wins 'Best Comedy' Golden Globe and totally confuses Twitter
• Ricky Gervais's 5 most cutting gags from last night's Golden Globes
• This Chinese promotional song for The Force Awakens is crazy
• Watching Lady Gaga brush past DiCaprio at the Golden Globes is hilariously hypnotic
• The ShortListen: David Bowie (no. 231)
• Kodak has revamped its Super 8 camera
• The latest Simpsons couch gag is utterly insane
• You'll be able to 'summon' this car from across the country in 2 years
• Netflix releases brutal new House of Cards teaser
• Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter account was hacked last night and it was hilarious
• A superfan writes about his hero
• Music legend David Bowie dies at the age of 69

January 08

• A Finn/Poe love storyline in Star Wars would be great - but not for the sake of it
• The 20 games you'll want to play in 2016
• New trailer for Better Call Saul Season 2
• Ricky Gervais told Conan O'Brien how to go viral last night - and it's worked
• The ShortListen: Sunflower Bean (no. 230)
• You'll soon be able to turn your sperm off at the flick of a switch
• Here's your first glimpse of the iPhone 7 (apparently)
• Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach has written a song about Making A Murderer and it’s really, really good
• These Blair & Clinton phone conversations are hilarious
• Famous Movie Babies: Where Are They Now?
• Future iPhones might be able to 'heal' themselves

January 07

• The 20 albums you need to hear in 2016
• Lemmy’s funeral will be streamed on YouTube
• The Conservative press office tweeted a superb typo
• Pop culture icons unmasked will make you question everything
• Did a LEGO set just spoil a major plot detail of Batman Vs Superman?
• 12 weird things we learnt about you from PornHub's year in review
• Oculus Rift founder admits they messed up when they said it would only cost £240
• This stunning Swiss watch will almost certainly be sued by Apple
• The ShortListen: Craig David (no. 229)
• The full 4 hour confession video of Making a Murderer’s Brendan Dassey is now on YouTube
• The $300 iPhone lens that’ll turn you into a pro mobile photographer
• Burglars hand themselves in after feeling guilty when someone else is blamed
• You can now 3D-print your own head for LEGO models
• This tennis player produced one of the greatest acts of sportsmanship we've ever seen
• Israeli TV reporter accidentally stabbed in demonstration of stab-proof vest

January 06

• Send your Valentine a personalised potato
• 20 classic movies that turn 20 years old in 2016
• Confirmed: 3 of the 5 original Guns N' Roses lineup to reform for Coachella
• Study finds Wayne Rooney now valued at less than £20m - while Harry Kane's worth £91.3m
• Samuel L Jackson saying the classic movie lines of other actors makes them 1000% cooler
• Britain is hooked on watching people cross a puddle in Newcastle
• Twitter boss hints at changing the 140-character limit
• 5 up and coming menswear designers that you need to know about
• New Top Gear 'already facing problems'
• This excellent tube map reveals the hidden secrets of London
• Genius Dad manages to name daughter after his favourite football team without his wife noticing
• Someone has finally created a genuine hoverboard that works anywhere
• Let this website use facial recognition to tell you how attractive you are
• The ShortListen: The Hunna (no. 228)
• If Zidane is going to succeed as a manager he needs to look further than his glory days on the pitch
• You can use the Force to control this Star Wars toy
• Toyota is spending $1 billion on making a car that can't crash
• North Korea claim first hydrogen bomb test - not worrying at all then
• Here's how to tell if someone is muting your Tweets

January 05

• An 11-year-old wrote to Sir Alex Ferguson in 2005 critiquing his tactics and it was brilliant
• Some good and bad news for obsessive video gamers
• 10 simple ways to beat stress without even trying
• Brace yourself - the UK is running out of premium coffee
• Here's how to hide Apple's indestructable default apps
• 10 best YouTube fitness channels that'll get you in shape for free
• This incredible gadget can tell you how healthy your food is
• Get ready for the worst bad loser in the history of Come Dine With Me
• The Donald Trump internet filter is here at last
• The ShortListen: Cubicolor (no. 227)
• Brilliant website tells you which films you definitely shouldn't watch with your parents
• The insane 1,000 horsepower electric car that looks like the Batmobile on steroids
• Forget the MacBook - this convertible laptop is even thinner
• Slash and Axl look certain to reform Guns N' Roses for Coachella
• This is what the universe looks like in a single image

January 04

• Your tube station may have changed zones without you realising
• Is this the world's most boring calendar?
• Leaked Star Wars: The Force Awakens screenplay answers heaps of questions
• This Simpsons fan theory explaining Bart’s prank calls to Moe is the saddest yet
• Crazy defender recreates legendary Zaire free-kick
• 170,000 people have signed petitions to pardon Making A Murderer's Steven Avery
• George R R Martin has some bad news about the next Game of Thrones book
• The biggest style trend for men in 1716 was definitely not what you'd expect
• This neat App Store trick will speed up your iPhone
• Liam Gallagher just shot down rumours of a solo album with the best tweet ever
• 2016 could see the end of e-cigarettes
• The ShortListen: Retro Culture (no. 226)
• Kill Bill 3 is probably, almost definitely happening
• How to get a six pack without going to the gym
• Windows 95 working on a 3DS looks really weird
• The most important message of 2016 has been delivered by a gorilla
• Mark Zuckerberg is building his own robotic butler (just like the one in Iron Man)

January 01

• This is the story behind that Bowie mugshot (and what happened next)