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| Jun 16, 2025 | What is Epogee, the Novel Fat Maker Sparking UPF Controversy & A Protein Bar War? | 5 Mins Read Shortly after acquiring low-calorie fat maker Epogee, David Protein is being sued by other snack brands for allegedly monopolising the ultra-processed ingredient derived from a seed oil.
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| Mar 29, 2024 | 19 former child stars who have opened up about the price of fame | Entertainment 19 former child stars who have opened up about the price of fame
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| Aug 17, 2023 | Masculine Policy: The GOP’s Plan To Outlaw ‘Porn’ And Suspend The First Amendment | Does watching porn threaten your masculinity? Science says it doesn’t. |
| Sep 9, 2022 | How every character in the new Disney live-action movies compares to the original versions | Entertainment How every character in the new Disney live-action movies compares to the original versions
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| Nov 5, 2021 | ‘Dune’ Video Games: No Remake for the 90s Titles Despite Blockbuster Success? | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 05 November 2021, 06:11 am
"Dune" has been around since the early 1990s but as a video game instead of a television show or blockbuster movie that was produced by Hollywood. The game has not had that muc... |
| Nov 5, 2021 | What If The Era Of Video Game Mashups Is About To Begin? | Search the Techdirt pages for the term “mashup” and you will see a metric ton of ink spilled on the topic. Most of those posts deal with the copyright implications of mashup creators, be they for music or literature. It is, frankly, a tortu... |
| Nov 5, 2021 | What If The Era Of Video Game Mashups Is About To Begin? | Search the Techdirt pages for the term "mashup" and you will see a metric ton of ink spilled on the topic. Most of those posts deal with the copyright implications of mashup creators, be they for music or literature. It is, frankl... |
| Jul 7, 2021 | This TikTok Lawsuit Is Highlighting How AI Is Screwing Over Voice Actors | On the Clock
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| Jan 28, 2021 | 14 former child stars who have opened up about the price of fame | Miley Cyrus, Daniel Radcliffe, and Mara Wilson. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Shorty Awards, Theo Wargo/ Staff/Getty Images
Child stars grow up in the public eye under intense pressure.
Disney stars like Raven Sym... |
| Jan 2, 2019 | Netflix Faces Backlash After Agreeing to Saudi Arabian Censorship | The new year is an exciting time for Netflix users, with scores of shows, movies, and specials flooding the service. However, only two days into 2019, Netflix has also shown how it responds to a different audience, at a government level. Th... |
| Aug 7, 2018 | Here’s Twitter’s position on Alex Jones (and hate-peddling anti-truthers) — hint: It’s a fudge | The number of tech platforms taking action against Alex Jones, the far right InfoWars conspiracy theorist and hate speech preacher, has been rising in recent weeks — with bans or partial bans including from Google, Apple and Facebook.
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| Apr 18, 2018 | California tortoise with cracked shell gets $4,000 repair | COURTESY SAN DIEGO COUNTY
A wayward tortoise as it recovers after it cracked its shell when it fell off of a 10-foot wall in San Diego County. The tortoise is recovering after vets used screws, zip ties and denture material to repair it. Co... |
| Dec 15, 2017 | PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Creator Massively Confused And Hypocritical In Rant Begging For More IP For Video Games | The last time we checked in with the folks behind the massively popular video game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the company was complaining about Epic Games “ripping off” its 100 vs. 100 player game mode for its Fortnite title. In that po... |
| Dec 13, 2016 | Embezzler spent $1 million on video game app purchases | The trial of Kenneth Lee Co may be most startling for its lesson on smartphone apps: how addictive “freemium” games can lead to financial and personal ruin.
Co was working for a heavy-equipment company called Holt of California when he star... |
| Oct 15, 2016 | Let’s have a little compassion for (some of) the trolls | Jon Evans Contributor
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| Sep 3, 2016 | Jeg drak mig i hegnet for at undersøge, om sex kan kurere tømmermænd | Denne artikel er oprindeligt udgivet af Broadly USA
Alle de bedste forskere besidder en nysgerrighed, som tangerer en besættelse. De vil vide, hvordan verden hænger sammen og gøre hvad som helst for at finde svarene. Den nysgerrighed får de... |
| Aug 24, 2016 | Can Sex Cure Your Hangover? I Got Insanely Drunk to Investigate | All the best scientists have intense, almost obsessive curiosity. They want to know how the world works, and they'll do whatever it takes to get some answers. This curiosity sometimes leads them to experiment on the closest test subject ava... |
| Jul 19, 2016 | A Fan's Case For Putting Batman & Superman In The Public Domain | Let me start by saying it’s obvious that this isn’t going to happen. Nevertheless, let’s consider the idea: should DC put its flagship superheroes in the public domain? Alex Schmidt over at Cracked (the comedy site that has caught our atten... |
| Apr 16, 2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 4/16/16 | Delivery.com acquired BrewDrop; Airbnb bought ChangeCoin; Logitech purchased Jaybird
Delivery.com acquired on-demand alcohol delivery company BrewDrop. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
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| Apr 15, 2016 | EW Scripps Buys Cracked Humor Website For $39 Million | James Geddes, Tech Times 15 April 2016, 07:04 am
The E.W. Scripps company has purchased the humor website Cracked.com from Demand Media for a reported $39 million. The Cracked brand dates back to the humor magazine that started in the 1950s... |
| Feb 10, 2016 | You’d need a zombie apocalypse to elude Amazon’s terms and conditions | Yesterday, Amazon announced a new tool for developers – a game engine called Lumberyard.
It’s totally free, too.
(‘-’ ) ( ._.) (Well, except that if you want web services, can only buy them from Amazon)
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| Feb 5, 2016 | ‘Cell phone towers cause amputees pain,’ UT Dallas study doesn’t find | As if skeptics didn’t have enough to facepalm about, this recent study published in PLoSOne implies that it has identified a model in which anthropogenic (meaning, human-caused) RF emissions are enough to cause pain in amputees. It also cla... |
| Dec 30, 2015 | 4 Web Design Best Practices to Improve Conversion Rates | In order to improve the conversion rates of your company's website, there are several things that you can do. These are all obvious things that work; however, many people often lose sight of the basics when they are overly consumed with the... |
| Aug 20, 2015 | EA: Complaints About On-Disc DLC Are 'Nonsense' | We’ve long discussed how game downloadable content (DLC) can be done right, but more often than not it’s done very, very wrong. On the positive side you have CD Projekt Red, who recently decided to offer two free pieces of DLC for The Witch... |
| Jul 22, 2015 | Why Isn’t The Inventor Of SMS Better Known? | Nic Denholm Contributor
Nic Denholm regularly exceeds the 160-character limit for SMS marketing outfit EZ Texting.
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| Jun 27, 2015 | This Week In Techdirt History: June 21st – 27th | Five Years Ago |
| Dec 18, 2014 | How Google’s latest game gives a glimpse of our augmented-reality future | Google’s Niantic Labs is doing a transmedia project with novelist and discredited memoirist James Frey. It’s an intriguing partnership that, like Frey’s books, plays fast and loose with notions of what the “truth” is.
The difference is that... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | How Google’s latest game gives a glimpse of our augmented-reality future | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Nov 16, 2014 | The Lesson Of Monument Valley | Tadhg Kelly Contributor
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| Oct 23, 2014 | The Fire Phone May Have Cratered, But It Hasn’t Dented Amazon’s Tech Delusions | If Jeff Bezos has taught us anything, it’s that anything Amazonian is big—including his company’s e-commerce muscles, fodder for comedy and ambitions as a consumer gadgets company.
Apparently, so are its flops, as well as the CEO and founde... |
| Oct 4, 2014 | Us vs. Them: What’s Wrong With You People? | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Sep 18, 2014 | Only Surviving Recording Of The Very First Superbowl Is Because A Fan Recorded It, But You Can't See It, Because Copyright | We’ve written a few times in the past about how the entertainment industry’s woeful job of preserving and archiving old works has resulted in culture being lost — but also how unauthorized copies (the proverbial “damn dirty pirates”) have a... |
| Sep 11, 2014 | Ferguson PD Lies About Why It Released Videotape Of Store Robbery, Lies Some More When Confronted With The Facts | In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown, the Ferguson Police made several ill-advised moves. The biggest was the paramilitary force that greeted protests, looking for all the world like a unit flown in from Kabul, followed shortly ther... |
| Sep 6, 2014 | When Old-Economy Jobs Become New-Economy Gigs | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Sep 4, 2014 | Texas Religious Leaders Try To Get Public Libraries To Ban Vampire Books For Them | Public libraries: they’re important. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, somebody is going to have to explain to me why we occasionally see people attempt to take books out of libraries on either religious or decency grounds. It seem... |
| Jul 22, 2014 | Behind The Book Campaign: How to Sell 30,000 Copies in Six Weeks | Over the last several years, I’ve done dozens of book launches. Among those launches I’ve had the privilege of working with or seeing authors on nearly every major media outlet, mainstream or otherwise, and tried just about every marketing ... |
| Jul 4, 2014 | Facebook’s little social experiment got you bummed out? Get over it | OP-ED — You would think by the reaction some are having to it that Facebook’s recent admission that it experimented with some people’s feeds is tantamount to Watergate.
You would think there had been some terrible violation of privacy or a ... |
| Apr 11, 2014 | German Town Shoots Down Father's Plan To Name His Son 'Wikileaks' | One of the great unwritten rules of parenthood is that the right to name your offspring should be treated as a privilege. The temptation is to give the child a “unique” name that sets him or her as far apart for his/her eventual peers as hu... |
| Apr 6, 2014 | Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt | On Tuesday, as part of a discussion of the future of capitalism, we mentioned the skewed perception (on both sides of the political spectrum) of capitalism caused by extremists, most notably Objectivists. This spurred Mason Wheeler to take ... |
| Mar 28, 2014 | The TSA's Mental 'Coin Flip' That May Keep You From Traveling | I am (TSA Behavioral Detection Officer) Jack’s self-delusion. |
| Mar 18, 2014 | Cracked Writer Questioned By Secret Service Agents Over Humorous Article About Kidnapping President's Daughters | Defenders of national surveillance have often asserted that the government (specifically, its intelligence and investigative agencies) isn’t interested in your “emails/phone calls to Grandma” or your “cat videos.” It’s a stupid dodge which ... |
| Feb 7, 2014 | Indie Rapper Explains How Being A 'One Hit Wonder' Doesn't Have To Mean Obscurity Anymore | A few folks had sent over a recent article on Cracked, supposedly by the rapper Spose, about 7 things a record deal teaches you about the music industry. It’s a decent enough article that basically shows you that, as you suspected, major la... |
| Jan 17, 2014 | Fetuses and other things that should never be 3D-printed | It's a... well it's certainly a... um...
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| Aug 27, 2013 | Cracked Shows How To Respond To Someone Infringing On Their Work | We’ve mentioned for years that Techdirt content is regularly copied and placed on various spam blogs. They’re all over the place, and it’s not hard to find. If we listened to some people, we’d be spending all our time sending off DMCA notic... |
| Jun 26, 2013 | Familiar introduces video to your social screen saver | Your social picture frame just got busier
Anyone who's watched Harry Potter knows that photos are not really photos. They're video-like representations of a time in the past. They reveal more about who a person was than a still shot ever co... |
| Jun 15, 2013 | Can BuzzFeed Be Stopped? | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Apr 10, 2013 | Backed By Twilio, SV Angel & 500 Startups, HealthSouk Brings Affordable Dental Care To California | According to a report published by the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging last year, more than 130 million Americans are living without dental insurance. That means more Americans have smartphones than dental coverage. (And the... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | Cracked Pokes Fun At Simultaneous Invention | It’s no real secret that one of the many problems with the way patents work in the United States is what happens when two or more people produce the same invention independent of one another. Unfortunately, with the USPTO’s seeming inabilit... |
| Oct 17, 2012 | Cracked Lists Examples Of Bad Copyright… Without A Single Actual Example Of Copyright | Sloppy use of the term “copyright” is nothing new. Plenty of people use the word incorrectly, usually by treating it as interchangeable with “intellectual property” and lumping patents and trademarks in with copyrights. While this is often ... |
| Aug 28, 2012 | Fan Fiction: A Revisionist History And Future | For fans, the ability to expand upon and share their understanding of their favorite books is an important past time. People can spend days, months, years talking about their favorite books and eating up any new information that comes their... |
| Jun 6, 2012 | The Top Six Rules for Creating Viral Content | With the recent success of one of my Internet pranks (basically telling the world that Abraham Lincoln Invented Facebook), Tech Cocktail asked if I would share with you some of the elements necessary to create viral content. So here’s what ... |
| Jun 6, 2012 | The Top Six Rules for Creating Viral Content | With the recent success of one of my Internet pranks (basically telling the world that Abraham Lincoln Invented Facebook), Tech Cocktail asked if I would share with you some of the elements necessary to create viral content. So here’s what ... |
| May 16, 2012 | When Games Allow Mods, Beautiful Things Can Happen | Recently, Mike wrote about the importance of externalities and spillovers in economics, and the fact that it’s often best to allow other people to capture pieces of the value you create and build on top of it. Not only does this benefit the... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | Maxim Minimized. Big Layoffs Hit Men’s Mag Web and Editor Staff | The Internet killed the magazine star. There’s been a major round of layoffs at Maxim magazine. Senior Editor Seth Porges is at least one employee who got the axe, according to our sources and confirmed by a recent update to his Twitter bio... |
| Mar 7, 2012 | A Cracked Look At The Impact Of Spam | As you may know, I’m a pretty big fan of Cracked.com. They also share a lot of values with Techdirt. Recently, they published an angry tirade against spammers that’s also an interesting look at how years of steadily-increasing crap have sha... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | How you can be an expert and get paid for it, the Demand Media way | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’re an expert on any subject, you can becom... |
| Oct 7, 2011 | Everything Is A Remix: The Matrix Edition | We’ve discussed, a few times now, Kirby Ferguson’s interesting Everything Is A Remix project. He’s now posted a new video… which isn’t technically a part of the series, but was made by Rob G. Wilson to highlight a variety of things in the m... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | MedGadget’s MedTech Monday: DARPA study combines video games, electrical brain stimulation | DARPA study combines video games, electrical brain stimulation:
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has historically been investigated as a treatment for mental diseases such as depression and rehab therapy for victims of brain i... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Demand Media buys CoveritLive: content farm meets liveblogging | Notorious content farm Demand Media announced today that it has purchased CoveritLive, a popular “liveblogging” tool used to cover events as they happen. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
CoveritLive events reach over 60 million people ... |
| Feb 4, 2011 | Techno-Panic Reporting: The Media Deserves No Mercy | I’ve always felt that the maxim “history repeats” is a little oversimplified. There are countless patterns and cycles in history, but they are simply elements of a whole that is always changing. When history repeats, it’s rarely identical.... |
| Jan 17, 2011 | Cracked Lists Streisand Effect Sufferers, Curiously Leaves Out Streisand | Last year, Mike praised (and raised a couple of small quibbles with) the hilarious explanation of scarcity by Cracked.com editor David Wong. Now Cracked is tackling digital issues once again with a list of their favourite examples of the St... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | Meet the Justin Bieber of Blogging: Danny Vittore | From Cracked.com |
| Nov 12, 2010 | When The RIAA Is The 'Standard' For Evil | BearGriz72 was the first of a few of you to send in this amusing reader contest from Cracked, in which they asked readers to create images that showed “if other industries were as evil as the RIAA.” Some are pretty funny. Here are two of my... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | MIT's Tech Review Comes Out In Favor Of Patent Trolls | Reader David Carter sends in this bizarrely uninformed column by Christopher Mims at the MIT Tech review, praising patent trolls and calling them “the secret heroes of the tech world.” Carter notes that when he first read the article he tho... |
| Oct 20, 2010 | When A Humor Site Understands The Implications Of Abundance Better Than The 'Experts'… | A whole bunch of you* sent over the article from humor site Cracked, all about scarcity and abundance in economics. Wait, what? A humor site? Yeah, a humor site. Of course, they don’t officially claim it’s an article about scarcity and abun... |
| Sep 17, 2010 | Supposed Google-killer Cuil’s reign of terror may finally be over | Cuil. Just writing that ill-begotten search engine’s name again makes me shudder. But hopefully, this may be the last we’ll hear of the site for some time. Cuil.com went down tonight, and according to former employees, it’s down for good, T... |
| Aug 24, 2010 | The problem with Dry Erase Girl: There’s no business in hoaxes | The men who fooled the Internet with their hoax about a woman who quit her job via a dry erase board say it made some money for their site, TheChive.com — but that attention-grabbing stunts don’t make for a reliable business model for their... |
| Jun 16, 2010 | Demand Media Taps Joost For Video Advertising Sales And Technology | Video distribution and monetization platform provider Joost, owned by Adconion Media Group since its assets were acquired in November 2009, is today announcing a global sales and technology partnership with online publishing powerhouse Dema... |
| May 24, 2010 | An Amusing Historical Look At Moral Panics And The Content Industry | PopeHilarius was the first of a few of you to send over the amusing Cracked story on “5 Insane File Sharing Panics from Before the Internet.” If you’re a regular reader of this site, none of these will be all that surprising to you. But, it... |
| Feb 17, 2010 | CNN & Cracked take the piss out of Apple and Jobs | As much as we love Apple products here at CrunchGear, sometimes we don’t particularly care for Apple the company. Realistically, if you look at their track record, there’s quite an interesting list of abuses towards their customers with the... |
| Apr 2, 2009 | Can Plagiarism Add Value? | A bunch of folks have sent in the story in Cracked, entitled 5 Great Men Who Built Their Careers on Plagiarism, showing how Stephen Ambrose, T.S. Eliot, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Owen and H.G. Wells all appear to have plagiarized cert... |
| Apr 3, 2008 | Blast Knuckles self-defense accessory delivers 1.9 million volts (!?) | Raiden?
Cracked.com went out of business in 2010 for being too funny for its own good. But one time, in 2008, it came up with a list of safety-themed gadgets that no self-respecting someone would be caught dead without. You wouldn’t be dead... |
| Mar 14, 2008 | 20 truly crazy supervillain plots in handy flowchart format | [photopress:eddie_lummox1b.jpg,full,center]
A movie with a superhero is nothing without a quality supervillain. What would Spider-Man be like if he didn’t have Doc Ock trying to show them all?
Cracked recently held a contest asking its read... |
| Бухгалтер украл у работодателя $4,8 млн и потратил $1 млн на онлайн-игру | Бухгалтер украл у работодателя $4,8 млн и потратил $1 млн на онлайн-игру
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| Дмитрий Хомак, Lurkmore: В рунете блокируют все, что попадается под руку | Дмитрий Хомак, Lurkmore: В рунете блокируют все, что попадается под руку
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