Cracked Archive - Tech

Why We Shouldn't Make A Metaverse
For everyone who hasn't read 'Snow Crash,' it's not exactly a utopian future
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- By Stephen Buckley
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5 Early Controversies That Foreshadowed Today's Terrible Internet
Modern tech problems have been around for basically forever.
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- By Michael Dawson
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Twitter (And Others) Still Having Issues With Bigoted AI Cropping
It's been three years since Twitter got called out for biased AI cropping. Has anything changed?
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- By Stephen Buckley
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3 Unspoken Truths Of Social Media Nobody Wants To Acknowledge
What if we replaced this entire system with a few cans and some string?
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- By Stephen Buckley
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3 Lessons From The Right's Social Media Ventures
In honor of TRUTH Social, here are some important lessons we've learned over the past several months.
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- By Carly Tennes
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A Forgotten Neon Bulb Burned For 77 Years
Maybe it helped that this bulb stayed totally untouched and sealed away all those decades.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Bones Day or No Bones: This Pug Can Predict What Type Of Day We'll Have
If you need us, we'll be melting back into bed like Noodle the pug.
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- By Carly Tennes
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Feels Like Amazon's Turning Homes Into A Dystopian Nightmare
Their new lineup of home defense and nanny robots are as scary as any 'Terminator' film dreams it could be.
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- By Michael Dawson
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The First Guy To Receive Bitcoin Spent His Final Bitcoins Freezing His Body
He went from cypto to cryo.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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One Time, Pakistan Accidentally Brought Down YouTube Worldwide
It was in 2008, and it was because Pakistan wanted to delete a YouTube video.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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One Company Sold The Same Contact Lenses For $3 Each And Also For $70 Each
They had an excuse, but investigators weren't buying it.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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What Took Down Facebook And Instagram
Unless you deleted all social media, you definitely noticed that Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp all went down this week.
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- By Stephen Buckley
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What The Hell Is Going On With The Twitch Leaks?
From million-dollar streamers to spiting Jeff Bezos, here's what you need to know.
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- By Carly Tennes
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5 Medical Innovations That Are Straight Out Of Sci-Fi
These innovative avenues are leading us into a wackier but healthier future. At least until the robots take over.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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If Cryptocurrency Was Honest (VIDEO)
Who wants to exchange those boring green presidential napkins for sexy computer cash?!
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- By Mark Hill
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