7 guilty pop music pleasures everyone enjoys

Two of pop’s guiltiest pleasures, Madonna and Blue, have new albums out today. To celebrate, we’ve decided to reveal 7 pop guilty pleasures that literally everyone, from your mum to your best mate, enjoys. Warning: this post is littered with earworms. Play the videos at your own risk. Never Gonna …

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09/03/2015
Chris Smith
TV ad

7 warning signs that its time for a serious declutter

Clutter is a silent menace, building up over the years and only revealing itself when we’re buried under a mountain of DVDs. Fortunately, there are a number of warning signs that its time to declutter before things get out of hand. 7 – You’ve considered chucking everything into a black …

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06/03/2015
Chris Smith
Wall-E

The 6 Greatest Movie Robots of All Time

Chappie, Neill Blomkamp’s latest film, hits our screens tomorrow. Focusing on a self-aware robot, the film examines how humanity will react to robots with thoughts and feelings. It also gives us the perfect opportunity to revisit some of our favourite movie robots of all time. Hooray! 6. TARS (Interstellar) Matthew …

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05/03/2015
Chris Smith
Citymapper

The Surprisingly Easy App of the Week: Citymapper

Every week, we bring you an app that’ll make your life surprisingly easy. Today, we’re conquering public transport with the excellent Citymapper. What is it? Citymapper is a real-time transport planner designed to MAKE CITIES EASIER (their caps, not ours). To do this, it provides a journey planner, timetables and …

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05/03/2015
Chris Smith
Utopia in Progress

The Best of Mobile World Congress 2015 (so far)

The Mobile World Congress is one of the biggest events in the tech calendar, with the world’s biggest tech companies descending on Barcelona to reveal their new products to the world. The event is actually still ongoing, but there’s been so much cool new stuff announced already that we had …

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03/03/2015
Chris Smith
Home Alone

5 actors who formed incredibly weird bands

Every now and again, famous actors get the urge to form a band. Most of them are pretty forgettable – Russell Crowe’s 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, Keanu Reeve’s Dogstar – while others are actually okay – Jared Leto’s 30 Seconds to Mars, for example. Some, though, are just plain …

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03/03/2015
Chris Smith
Vinyl

March’s New Releases: Music

2nd March Chasing Yesterday – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds The ex-Oasis man returns with his hotly anticipated second solo album. Piece By Piece – Kelly Clarkson The American Idol winner’s 7th (!) album is her first collection of original material since 2011. It features a collaboration with John Legend …

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02/03/2015
Chris Smith