Cracked Archive - Tech
Something Called Science Claims the Internet Makes Us Dumb
A new study has shown that our mental abilities may be deteriorating thanks to the easy access we have to online search engines. Bits of knowledge that we intuitively know will be available via Google or wikipedia (pornography and lists of Rainbow Brite episodes, respectively) don't get remembered, and instead essentially get replaced with mental l
- By Chris Bucholz
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- July 19, 2011
6 Scientific Reasons Social Networks Are Bad for Society
Some smart people decided to study social networks, and found that they're a bigger threat to society than Skynet. At least the rise of those machines forced us to band together and do things.
- By Luke McKinney
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- July 18, 2011
The Smartphone Owner's Paradox [COMIC]
Sometimes you can love your smart phone too much.
- By Scott Meyer
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- July 16, 2011
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.
- By Scott Santens
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- July 14, 2011
The Lunatic's Guide to Hacking Into Anyone's Voicemail
A simple steel headed fire axe is capable of hacking into many things
- By Chris Bucholz
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- July 12, 2011
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
- By Robert Evans
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- July 09, 2011
5 Inventions That Prove 'The Terminator' Is Upon Us
Allow us to detail five real technologies that, according to our calculations, are 100 percent certain to drag us into a nightmare future infested with killer machines shaped like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- By Fletcher Wortmann
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- July 02, 2011
5 Advanced Technologies Still Catching Up to Invertebrates
Even the smallest, slimiest creatures employ tech that will some day revolutionize everything from solar panels to TV screens.
- By Brian Thompson
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- July 01, 2011
5 Ways Your Telecom Company is Screwing You
FYI: Many of the annoying things your cellphone provider does happen behind the scenes, and you'll never find it spelled out on your bill.
- By M. Asher Cantrell
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- June 25, 2011
6 Shocking Ways Robots Are Already Becoming Human
Did you know you can engineer a soul?Scientists have already gotten a running start at it with these six robots that are treading all over the formerly exclusive domain of mankind.
- By Eric A., Karl Smallwood, Dennis Hong
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- June 24, 2011
The 6 Most Ill-Conceived Weapons Ever Built
There are plenty of weapon designs submitted every year. Thankfully, we have folks who make sure the ridiculous ones never see production. Sometimes, though, even they screw up.
- By Ben Adelman
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- June 10, 2011
5 Reasons Twitter Isn't Actually Overthrowing Governments
The media loves to breathlessly cover 'The Twitter Revolution.' Unfortuantely, the only place it actually exists is in newspapers and blogs.
- By Mark Hill
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- May 31, 2011
The 6 Most Badass Weapons Ever Improvised in Battle
War is a terrible thing: Sometimes you have to take the life of your fellow man in the most brutal and extravagant ways...and you just don't have a good enough weapon to do it as hard as you want. That's when you start strapping every weapon you have to every other weapon you have, and hope that physics is in a good enough mood today to let you fir
- By Tony Pilgram
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- May 30, 2011
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