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Blamin’ Ek
03 Feb 2022 -
Mr 500,000 Chips
26 Jan 2022 -
Live from the Lord Moon of the Mall (Pt. III)
14 Dec 2021
The White House has welcomed Swedish audio streaming giant Spotify’s decision to add advisory warnings to any content discussing Covid-19 – namely The Joe Rogan Experience, in light of the recent ...
We recently saw a TikTok of the new guy on Dragons’ Den explaining the virtues of obtaining enough money to own a private jet: to maximise the number of what he refers to as his 500,000 chips – the ...
Matt Baker once asked David Cameron, “How on earth do you sleep at night?” But for Matt Hancock, a big cup of Horlicks usually sees him spark out by eight o’clock. By nine, he’s stumbling into his ...
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Prime suspect
10 Nov 2021 -
Fully automated luxury community guidelines
28 Oct 2021 -
Another girl, another palate
09 Sep 2021 -
Atlas hugged
19 Aug 2021 -
All my exes avoid Texas
22 Jul 2021 -
Nuisance for a reason
08 Jul 2021 -
Pepper production grinds to a halt
01 Jul 2021
Jeff Bezos was jiffy-bagging copies of William Shakespeare’s plays around the time Leonardo DiCaprio was cast in the leading role for the 1996 Hollywood film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Bring ...
Novara Media has become the latest media outlet to have its YouTube channel removed from the website without warning or any kind of explanation. But just like Talkradio, a channel on the other end ...
The launch of dating app Power of Music (POM), which matches up users who like the same music to spare them from ever having to grow as human beings or have any new experiences whatsoever, has ...
Boston Dynamics’ latest attempt to promote its “most dynamic” humanoid robot, Atlas, has seen the firm release footage showcasing its prowess at parkour. Benjamin Stephens, control lead of the ...
Jeff Bezos has taken his rocket ship, New Shepherd, for its first ride. A ragtag team of Bezos, his brother, wee Wally Funk and the teenage son of a Dutch financier left Earth for 10 minutes and 10 ...
The past week has seen many businesses complaining that the NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app has started sending out too many self-isolate alerts, leaving them short of staff. It’s the new jury ...
While – if one of the most peculiar songs of the 21st century is to be believed – there are upwards of nine million bicycles in Beijing alone, Reuters reports that there are just 27,000 Pepper ...
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Work different
09 Jun 2021 -
The non-fungible kind
05 May 2021 -
The tedium is the message
22 Apr 2021 -
The tracks of National Rail’s tears
14 Apr 2021 -
Bamby on thin ice
24 Mar 2021
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s call for his employees to return to their offices at least three times a week by September has been met with a detailed response that effectively tells him, “Nah.” His initial ...
Not long ago, somewhere in Mebane, North Carolina, Zoë Roth – better known as the Disaster Girl meme – picked up her phone and consulted Kyle Craven – better known as the Bad Luck Brian meme – ...
The president of football’s crumbling European Super League project has cited teenagers’ enjoyment of video games as a reason to constantly pit the continent’s elite teams against each other like ...
To the meme generation he was simply known as the Airplane Mode Prince, but it seems nobody has taken the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh quite as hard as National Rail. Users of the website woke ...
YouTube has claimed it rushed to remove an offensive rap advert before the Advertising Standards Authority’s verdict on it even came in. The promo for Bamby H2O, an artist with fewer Instagram ...