Cracked Archive - Tech
If Crowdfunding Sites Were Honest (VIDEO)
What would happen if crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Indiegogo and others were actually honest?
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- By Ryan Menezes
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3 NFTs Are So, So Dumb
NFTs do nothing and accomplish nothing, but people snap them up.
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- By Mark Hill
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How TikTok Tics Totally Became A Thing During The Pandemic
You can add TikTok tics to the list of new things humanity has acquired since the advent of the year 2020.
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- By Zanandi Botes
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An Artist's Poop Predicted NFT Hype 60 years ago
Before everyone was up in arms about provable scarcity, Piero Manzoni made a great piece of cr-- uh, art about it.
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- By Stephen Buckley
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When Twitter Went Public, Confused Investors Bought The Wrong Stock
They bought "Tweeter Audio and Video," whose stock was worthless.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Years Ago, Street Lights Sold Soup, Texted The Cops
They had little keyboards (and also beef broth on tap).
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- By Ryan Menezes
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3 Dumb Everyday Things Big Tech Accidentally Reinvented
From Lyft to Elon Musk, it happens more often than you'd think.
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- By Carly Tennes
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If Dating Apps Were Honest (VIDEO)
What would happen if dating apps like Tinder, Match.com, Bumble and others were actually honest?
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- By Zanandi Botes
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Why We Shouldn't Make A Metaverse
For everyone who hasn't read 'Snow Crash,' it's not exactly a utopian future
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- By Stephen Buckley
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5 Early Controversies That Foreshadowed Today's Terrible Internet
Modern tech problems have been around for basically forever.
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- By Michael Dawson
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Twitter (And Others) Still Having Issues With Bigoted AI Cropping
It's been three years since Twitter got called out for biased AI cropping. Has anything changed?
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- By Stephen Buckley
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3 Unspoken Truths Of Social Media Nobody Wants To Acknowledge
What if we replaced this entire system with a few cans and some string?
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- By Stephen Buckley
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3 Lessons From The Right's Social Media Ventures
In honor of TRUTH Social, here are some important lessons we've learned over the past several months.
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- By Carly Tennes
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A Forgotten Neon Bulb Burned For 77 Years
Maybe it helped that this bulb stayed totally untouched and sealed away all those decades.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Bones Day or No Bones: This Pug Can Predict What Type Of Day We'll Have
If you need us, we'll be melting back into bed like Noodle the pug.
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- By Carly Tennes
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