Cracked Archive - Tech
5 Myths About Flying Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
There are a handful of pretty crucial things we've gotten just completely wrong about how people fly and get killed while doing so.
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- By Carleton Forsling
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1008 5 Pieces of Star Wars Technology That Exist Right Now
Sadly, the lightsaber is not on this list. Yet.
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- By Aaron Short, Josh Hrala
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- 475
The 6 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Buildings Ever Proposed
Architectural design straddles a fine line between inspiration and lunacy.
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- By N. Christie
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6 Everyday Things That Look Completely Insane in Slow Motion
Water balloons popping and Slinkies falling from the sky are the reason slow motion technology exists.
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- By Michael Smith
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5 Terrifying Smartphone Hacks You Won't Believe Are Possible
The downside of storing your entire world inside an ass-pocket-dwelling supercomputer is that there are always those who are itching to turn that technology against you in ways you'd never expect.
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- By Teddem Yee
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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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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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