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harrymccracken, 1 month ago to random

This is ridiculous:

1. MKBHD is as fair as they come

2. Honest reviews are a huge favor to any company smart enough to pay attention

3. If Humane has its act together, it paid someone with reviews experience to evaluate the product and knew what to expect

https://www.businessinsider.com/youtuber-mkbh-dtrashes-humane-ai-pin-firestorm-over-damage-startup-2024-4

harrymccracken, 1 month ago to random

I forgot to celebrate the 60th anniversary of BASIC yesterday. But in 2014, I tried to pull out all the stops in my 50th anniversary story. https://time.com/69316/basic/

harrymccracken, 6 months ago to random

At age 15, Marques Brownlee began making YouTube tech videos. He just kept going until he became our era's leading gadget critic. And the media empire he created is still taking him to new places. Here's my cover story from the new issue of Fast Company! https://www.fastcompany.com/90978935/marques-brownlee-mkbhd-youtube-tech-review

harrymccracken, 8 months ago to random

It's the 73rd anniversary of Charles Schulz's PEANUTS. Here's a hardly-seen article on Schulz's cartooning from more than two years earlier, from the magazine of Art Instruction, Inc, which was founded by my great grandmother's half brother.

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harrymccracken, 10 days ago to random

I wrote about why Google search telling us all to eat rocks isn’t as serious an issue as it claiming there’s a non-existent Dr. Seuss book. https://www.fastcompany.com/91132217/google-ai-overview-errors

harrymccracken, 22 days ago to random

Hey, I just met @Gargron. (Photo by @mike.)

harrymccracken, 8 months ago to random

It's been 12 years.

harrymccracken, 3 months ago to random

I'm very pleased to be editing @glennf's upcoming book on the history of how comics have been reproduced. It's going to be great! Check out Kickstarter to learn more and help it become a reality. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made

harrymccracken, 2 months ago to random

I swore off April Fool's pranks long ago. But the Wayback Machine still has PC World's Save DOS campaign, a parody of our sister publication InfoWorld's then-current campaign to save Windows XP. Our version included a spontaneous DOS reboot. https://web.archive.org/web/20080424031435/http://www.pcworld.com/ic/savedos/

harrymccracken, 4 months ago to random

First one I've seen in the wild. I can't look at it without remembering Bob Lutz's comment on the Pontiac Aztek: "It looks like an angry kitchen appliance."

harrymccracken, 6 months ago to random

Meanwhile in AI news, Alexa just spontaneously asked me if I'd like it to alert me when it's going to snow. Here in San Francisco.

harrymccracken, 6 months ago to random

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

harrymccracken, 5 months ago to random

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

harrymccracken, 6 months ago to random

Time Inc. doesn't even exist anymore, and yet AI is somehow accelerating its sad decline. https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

harrymccracken, 3 months ago to random

I talked with Apple's Eddy Cue about the new Apple Sports app, which is just trying to do a few things in a simple, Apple-esque way. https://www.fastcompany.com/91033272/apple-sports-app

harrymccracken, 4 months ago to random

This is ridiculous. Again. https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/heyja_vu_hey_cal

harrymccracken, 3 months ago to random

Happy to see the Kickstarter for @glennf's book How Comics Were Made—which I'm editing—pass the halfway mark. Will be even happier when it's fully funded! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made

harrymccracken, 2 months ago to random

One of the people who acquired Deadspin has a bid in to buy a defunct Santa Barabara newspaper's digital assets. Locals are worried. (By @ernie) https://www.fastcompany.com/91077421/santa-barbara-news-press-bankruptcy-sale-max-noremo

harrymccracken, 6 months ago to random

AI companies CAN'T insert code to prevent every theoretical copyright violation one by one. Can they? https://www.thewrap.com/microsoft-cracks-down-disney-logo-ai-dogs-social-media/

harrymccracken, 13 days ago to random

This was completely normal in 1994.

harrymccracken, 3 months ago to random

For those of us that were once part of outfits that poured millions into product testing and STILL weren't satisfied with the results, this is all as appalling as it is unsurprising. https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

harrymccracken, 4 months ago to random

The reunion at the end of tonight’s Mac 40th anniversary event at the Computer History Museum (yep, Woz is in there).

harrymccracken, 1 month ago to random

For my Plugged In newsletter this week, I wrote about why the Humane Ai Pin and Rabbit R1 feel so similar to ... the BlackBerry PlayBook and Motorola Xoom. https://www.fastcompany.com/91118796/humane-ai-pin-rabbit-r1-reviews

harrymccracken, 6 months ago to random

I am not predisposed to like new movies involving old cartoon characters, but if Amid says this is good, it's good. https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/i-saw-coyote-vs-acme-and-its-as-wonderful-as-everyone-says-it-is-234963.html?fbclid=IwAR0gs9vBKVaZXmuOnzBuQnfVCvomaaEGhbLYFWZTtEuQUaTeCbWy2dQulww

harrymccracken, 4 months ago to random

Happy Mac 40th anniversary day! For this week's Plugged In newsletter, I wrote about why the original Mac's iconic compact all-in-one case is so interesting even though it didn't turn out to make sense for all that long. https://www.fastcompany.com/91013403/40-years-later-the-original-mac-is-more-amazing-than-ever