Cracked Archive - Tech
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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782 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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6 Sci-Fi Technologies You'll Soon Have on Your Phone
Impressive new cellphone technologies are being developed each week, and there's no telling what wonderful procrastination possibilities our portable speak-boxes will have in a few years. Because we're telling you right now, some of this stuff borders on magic.
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- By XJ Selman
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The 8 Creepiest Cases of Identity Theft of All Time
Identity theft is one of the most widely committed crimes in the world. Sometimes the crimes are so elaborate and the consequences are so strange and unpredictable that it almost makes us want to cancel all our credit cards.
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- By Amanda Hahn, Chris Holmes
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The 5 Most Baffling Things About Pinterest: Explained
On Pinterest, people are free to share your pinned recipes, crafts, inspirational photos, etc. on their boards, and so on, at a rate of several billion times a second (probably). Got it? Okay, now here's where it gets weird.
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- By Kristi Harrison
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The 5 Most Terrifying Sci-Fi Upgrades to Deadly Weapons
We do not necessarily approve of the use or even the manufacture of any of the following devices; we only feel a duty to alert you to their existence. Because they're insane.
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- By Michael Record
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The 9 Most Hilariously Irresponsible Old-Timey Weapons
It turns out that fighting real-life crime back in the day was more like a James Bond movie, if Q designed the weapons while drunk.
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- By R. Jason Benson
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The 9 Most Unnecessary Gadgets Money Can Buy
It's hard to comprehend how people poker-facedly try to sell us gadgets that actually manage to complicate the task they're intended to help with. And we'll buy them.
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- By Tracy V.
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5 Ways Your Nerd Gadgets Are Killing You
While standard warnings turn out to be alarmist garbage, our geek toys are wreaking havoc in completely unexpected, and amazingly stupid, ways.
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- By Justin Crockett
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