Cracked Archive - Tech
7 Mind-Blowing Structures Built in Secret
Why would anyone build something impressive and keep it a secret? Plenty of reasons. Just know the next time you look out your window you could be staring straight at a secret.
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- By R. Jason Benson
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546 6 Companies That Are Clearly Catering to Supervillains
Thanks to the magic of the free market there are companies that sell sexy female bodyguards.
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- By Benjamin Buso
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How to Prevent the End of the World [COMIC]
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- By Scott Meyer
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The 7 Creepiest Old School Robots
Robots are terrifying, we all know that. And the creepily advanced ones have been around forever.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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8 Things You Won't Believe Can Be Hacked
If movies are to be believed, hackers are mostly kept busy kickflipping over the pentagon before sleeping in Mom's basement. But neither assumption is true.
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- By Colin Murdock
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The Top 8 Unintentionally Hilarious Vehicles Ridden Into War
When the brilliance of military weaponry shines through, entire wars can be swung in one nation's favor. When the insanity wins, their designs wind up in a Cracked article.
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- By Patrick Riordan
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6 Shockingly Affordable Sci-Fi Inventions
Who would ever deny you a loan to get one of these?
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- By Kenny Thompson
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5 Aerial Battles That Put 'Top Gun' To Shame
The most badass things ever done in, or to, a fighter jet.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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8 WTF Aircraft Designs That Actually Caught Air
Aircraft designers can think outside the box just like everybody else. And what's most surprising of all is that all of the insane designs herein actually flew, with varying degrees of success.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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5 Projects You Won't Believe the US Government Is Working On
The mad inventor from the James Bond movies, Q, is real. Only there are lots of him, and they have a lot more money at their disposal.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Technologies Conspicuously Absent from Sci-Fi Movies
To make sci-fi stories work, the writers often have to add completely arbitrary and pointless limitations to whatever futuristic technology turns up. But in the name of plot and drama, they sometimes wind up giving the people of the distant future gear that doesn't even work as well as ours does now, in the boring old present.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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6 Pieces of Office Equipment (For the Incredibly Paranoid)
For those who envision office-wide knife fights or think the lunch room is the most likely Ground Zero in the upcoming robot-zombie apocalypse, rest assured certain entrepreneurs have stepped forward to meet your needs.
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- By Benjamin Buso
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The Smartphone Owner's Paradox [COMIC]
Sometimes you can love your smart phone too much.
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- By Scott Meyer
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6 Mind-Blowing Discoveries Made Using Google Earth
Since Google Earth hit the Web in 2005, besides instantly turning all office desk globes into decorative accessories, it has opened the world up to global exploration at the click of a mouse. But it's not just a neat toy; some extraordinary things have been discovered with its one-click access to satellite imagery.
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- By Scott Santens
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5 Seemingly Innocent Ways You Risk Your Identity Every Day
We tend to think of identity theft as a crime perpetrated exclusively on stupid people. Sure, you don't fall for that Nigerian prince schtick and you don't send your login information to ‘official’ emails that misspell ‘PayPal.’ Well, you'd best take a slice of humble pie, because there are lots of things that you do every day, that you're
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- By Robert Evans
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