Cracked Archive - Tech
The 5 Most Terrifying Robot Advances in Recent History
Robots are terrifying. And they are only getting worse.
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- By Aaron Short, XJ Selman, Ivan Farkas
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644 5 Amazing Advances That Are About to Make Hard Work Obsolete
You industrious types who take great joy in doing difficult tasks -- go clean your gutters. For the rest of our lazy brethren who are still reading this, probably from bed, we're here to tell you that the future is bright.
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- By Hamish MacDonald, Jeff Sloan
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5 Modern Technologies That Are Way Older Than You Think
It turns out that many of the technologies we automatically peg as modern are actually way older than we think.
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- By Mike Floorwalker
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The 5 Most Stupidly Disastrous Military Computer Glitches
Highly trained military personnel, despite the whole 'highly trained' part, are oftentimes just as bad with computers as we are.
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- By Erik Germ
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5 Advanced Technologies Nature Does Better Than Scientists
Sometimes we need to man up and admit that we're not always the best at what we do. In some cases, nature just rolls its eyes, pushes the scientists out of the way, and shows us how it's done.
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- By Micah Duke
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6 Awesome Easter Eggs Hidden in Programs You Use Every Day
It turns out some of the programs and websites you use every day are filled with hidden jokes or secret features that prove that programmers are even nerdier than we had assumed.
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- By Erik Germ
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6 Simple Products That Advertisers Pretend Are Complicated
How do you make people buy your mundane product instead of your competitor's? With pure BS, of course.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Reasons to Be Terrified That Computers Can Now Read Faces
Recognizing you is just the beginning -- the goal is to create software that can all but read your goddamned mind. Don't believe us? Guess what -- the technology exists.
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- By Monte Richard
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8 Insane Vehicles You Won't Believe Are Street Legal
As long as there are wheels to spin and jet engines to slap on things that should not have jet engines, mankind's irrepressible need to go ungodly speeds while looking completely ludicrous shall not be sated.
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- By Robert Brockway, Matt Machmuller
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5 Clues Hidden in Computer Files That Can Get You Busted
You leave digital fingerprints all over everything you do on a computer, and unfortunately for bad guys, it doesn't exactly take a CSI team to find them.
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- By Diana McCallum
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The 12 Most Ridiculous Old-Timey Transportation Innovations
Nobody was ever more batshit crazy than old-timey inventors. Ever.
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- By Jesse Clark, R. Jason Benson
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5 Weapon Myths You Probably Believe (Thanks to Movies)
You might want to put on some comfy pants and get out a tub of consolation ice cream, because we're about to let you way, way down.
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- By Robert Evans, Chris Radomile, Emir Hadzimuhamedovic
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6 Real Cyber Attacks Straight Out of a Bad Hacker Movie
n movies, computers can blow up houses, shut down highways, release plagues and make Matthew Lillard appealing to women. However, our collective groaning about how laughably unrealistic these movies are may have been premature ...
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- By Danny Vittore
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5 Military Weapons Clearly Designed by a 5-Year-Old
There's a pretty big difference between what works in a cartoon and what works in real life. But military generals and weapons designers both have an inner child who still likes to draw super awesome weapons on the back of a notebook.
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- By Elsa Moriarty
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5 Ways the Modern World Makes You Extremely Easy to Stalk
Almost every advanced gadget we use presents another crack that a creepy or malicious person could pry open if they got the urge to stalk us.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Lee Phan, Itzhak J. Czukor
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