I wrote about why Google search telling us all to eat rocks isnโt as serious an issue as it claiming thereโs a non-existent Dr. Seuss book. https://www.fastcompany.com/91132217/google-ai-overview-errors
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Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ (harrymccracken@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 03:55:39 JST Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ Google is showing lots of cool stuff at I/O, though plenty of it doesn't involve any specified launch dates and it's unclear how far along it is. The AI race has prompted more vague pre-announcements of things than I can remember in a long time.
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Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ (harrymccracken@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 06:24:14 JST Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ For this week's Plugged In newsletter, I wrote about Kagi, a Google alternative with a lot to offer, especially to search nerds like me. For something from a tiny company, it's downright amazing! https://www.fastcompany.com/91038374/kagi-web-search-engine-google-alternative
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Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ (harrymccracken@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 14:35:55 JST Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ Fair warning: I have two favorite Christmas songs, and I may be sharing multiple versions of them over the next few days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4jcq5dkXfU
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Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ (harrymccracken@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 01:27:32 JST Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ The Adobe-Figma deal is off, which is is a positive development for competition in in the creative-software market. Last month, I wrote about Figma and what its overarching strategy moving forward might look like, regardless of who owned it. https://www.fastcompany.com/90939386/figma-dylan-field-dev-mode-future-ai-adobe
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Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ (harrymccracken@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 16:28:20 JST Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ I thought this was a parody, but it's real.
(I ended up getting a refund on my OfficeJet 7740, which kept crashing and had built-in Dropbox support that didn't actually work.) https://www.pcmag.com/news/hp-ad-campaign-printers-are-annoying-but-ours-are-made-to-be-less-hated
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Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ (harrymccracken@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 01:53:50 JST Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ I spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about its plans to leave invite-only status and launch its AT federated social networking protocol. https://www.fastcompany.com/90996044/bluesky-twitter-alternative-jay-graber-ceo
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Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ (harrymccracken@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 02:20:04 JST Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ To mark this anniversary, I'll reshare an article I wrote about JFK riding in a limo in a parade in happier times. https://techland.time.com/2013/01/14/kennedy-polaroid/
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Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ (harrymccracken@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 06:54:59 JST Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ If you're trying to get up to speed on OpenAI's new interim CEO, Mira Murati, read my colleague Ainsley's profile of her from earlier this year. https://www.fastcompany.com/90850342/openai-mira-murati-chatgpt-dall-e-gpt-4
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Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ (harrymccracken@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 00:46:01 JST Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ I wrote a big story about Figma and Dylan Field. Yes, including the Adobe deal, from both companies' viewpointโbut also how Figma came to be, what AI means for design, and Field's ambition to make creativity the new productivity. https://www.fastcompany.com/90939386/figma-dylan-field-dev-mode-future-ai-adobe
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Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ (harrymccracken@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 10:40:07 JST Harry McCracken ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ It's been 12 years.
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