Cracked Archive - Tech

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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February 28, 2013

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21 Web Browser Features We Desperately Need

There are web browser plugins and settings that do everything from block ads to convert every page to Klingon. But they still don't touch most common we annoyances. We asked you to show us what features would make browsing the web, videos etc truly tolerable. The winner is below, but first the runners up ...

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By Cracked Plasticians
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February 20, 2013

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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February 19, 2013

3 Despicable Internet Behaviors (That Are Really Your Fault)

Hey, did you hear? Humanity is doomed. Everyone on the Internet is saying so.

By Soren Bowie
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January 19, 2013

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If Gadgets Talked S#!% Behind Your Back

Examining the terrifying existential implications of 'Toy Story's sentient dolls and action figures. But gadgets are the species of sentient inanimate object that would probably make things the most powerfully weird for the modern world.

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By Cracked Plasticians
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January 18, 2013

4 Reasons the Internet Has Made Everyone an Entitled Dick

Why is it that you and I and everyone else on the Internet are so convinced the world owes us everything, quickly, of the highest quality, and free? How did we get to be such self-entitled little bastards?

By Chris Bucholz
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January 15, 2013

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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January 15, 2013

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18 Fictional Technologies That Would Suck in Real Life

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By Cracked Plasticians
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January 13, 2013

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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January 08, 2013

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20 Tiny Changes That Would Ruin Famous Technologies

What would've happened if tech developers called it a day half way through creating our most iconic devices?

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By Cracked Plasticians
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December 23, 2012

5 Videos That Will Brighten Your Day

There's a lot of negativity in the world, some of it even coming from me. Allow to make up a tiny bit for that.

By Daniel O'Brien
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December 14, 2012

4 Things You Learn Quickly About Internet Hate

After a decade knee-deep in e-opinion, this is what the Internet has taught me about the Internet.

By Gladstone
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December 06, 2012

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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November 29, 2012

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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