Harry McCracken 🇺🇦✡️
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The first good NFT.
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Lalisa fans are the best.
Where's
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While you're mourning the loss of Bob Einstein, take a moment to savor this brilliant bit from his brother Albert Brooks' MODERN ROMANCE.
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Good news, computer users: No need to worry about privacy.
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Fact: No candidate has ever won New Nevada and New California but lost the presidency.
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Should we call her Lalisa or Lisa? I'm confused.
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Here's hoping Animoji karaoke becomes a thing.
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Steve Bannon is only the second president of the United States, after Richard Nixon, to be forced to resign.
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The forgotten backstory that explains why she later pulled away the football.
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I hereby proclaim this the greatest PC World cover of all time.
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Yes, I've tweeted this image before. But it will never, ever stop being wonderful.
http://t.co/OTN8BNEtwh
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Radio Shack's first smartphone, test-marketed for two weeks in late 1982 in Fort Worth and Boston, has been unfairly forgotten by history.
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The “H” is for “Hydrox.”
At this point, I'm not even sure Ben Carson knows what HUD stands for.
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Batman & Robin managed their calendar online before most of us, but at the time, it required an entire Batcomputer.
http://t.co/zsFQ1YdfTR
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Side note: United CEO Oscar Munoz used to work at Pepsi.
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In high school, I wrote and sold a buggy TRS-80 adventure game set in the Arctic. Forty years later, I’ve debugged it (at least a little), expanded it, and made it run in your web browser. And I’ve written about the whole experience.
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A staffer at another company in our coworking space keeps wandering into our office and distracting me.
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Here's how something called "NetFlix"--like Kozmo for Blockbuster!--was pitched to me in 2001, after I apparently ignored a call about it.
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Slack has no ping-pong tables. Better to be productive at work & go home at a sane hour, says
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I am NEVER going to get in a Google self-driving car on April Fools' Day.
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Bill Gates' resume, from an era when he aspired to make 15 grand.
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The biggest news today is that Apple Vision Pro is fifty bucks cheaper than the Apple-1.
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Very sorry to hear of the death of Will Vinton, the Claymation genius who gave us the California Raisins and a whole lot more, including an amazing feature film about Mark Twain.
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The best, most dazzling demo I ever witnessed at CES—by an order of magnitude—was the 2009 unveiling of the Palm Pre and WebOS. So sad in retrospect.
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I for one am glad that Nintendo let Wario write the new WarioWare game’s press release.
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Adobe also has a room themed in honor of 1990, when Photoshop launched--complete with a 1990 Mac running Photoshop 1.07.
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Your 2000 tech news update: Blockbuster signs 20-year deal with Enron to deliver VHS-quality video over DSL lines.
http://t.co/I4yMAvIU1V
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I'm sorry. No BlackBerry CEO will ever beat this soundbite for sheer, glorious incoherence, ever.
http://t.co/IkUHuj11y5
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I'm at a reunion of folks who worked on Apple's Lisa, which was announced 36 years ago today.
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Very early in her career, Mary Tyler Moore kept busy posing for record covers.
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I still marvel at the fact that Fry’s, which treated every customer as a possible shoplifter, didn’t notice that a Ferrari-driving VP had embezzled $65 million.
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I hate having to wait for a gas pump to boot up.
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This is the first smartwatch design I've seen that actually makes sense to me.
http://t.co/K7QqAVEIxv
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It was a better world when a kid could learn to code from Joey Ramone.
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Harry Truman, who responded to a WashPo review of his daughter's piano recital with this, would have been a piece of work on Twitter.
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I need some sort of ring with a display and net connectivity, so I can stop checking my watch so often.
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First they came for
@ElonJet
, and I did not speak out because I was not a bot posting publicly-available flight data.
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I’m watching the pilot episode of THE CRITIC, from 1994. I’d forgotten this.
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More tech companies are still planning to support the Trump GOP convention than I realized.
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This is the most uncanny example of Photoshop's new generative fill feature I've experienced so far.
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In 2005, I visited Universal Studios Orlando and took photos with my Treo smartphone. Last week, I went to Universal Studios Hollywood and took them with my iPhone 14. See if you can see tell which photo is which.
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A little personal news:
I just invented Animoji Barbershop Quartet.
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Your 1998 tech update: one-month-old Google aspires to be the next Yahoo.
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If you’re upset with the idea of Apple pricing a new iPhone at $1000 and above, you must LOATHE, LOATHE, LOATHE Radio Shack.
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Some good stuff here that had escaped my attention.
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I somehow never saw this amazing June, 1976 document concerning Apple Computer Corp. until tonight.
http://t.co/8Fd2HpOVfj
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I tried Apple Vision Pro. Unlike some VR/AR gear, it was much neater in a real demo than as a canned presentation on a flat screen. A recognizably polished Apple experience and easily the most sprawlingly ambitious thing it's shipped in the Cook era. More thoughts to come.
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Your employer wanting your support from the outside is the new wanting to spend more time with family.
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Robert Grossman has died. You know his Airplane! poster, but he did so much more, all of it wonderful.
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I am sorry to report that the last two publications recognizable as computer magazines in the classic sense have abandoned print. (You probably didn’t notice unless you were a subscriber.) I was moved to write a eulogy for the whole era.
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Your 1979 tech news update: The New York Times helpfully explains that home computers turned out to be a fad.
http://t.co/9S7Dk4iEFn
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In 1988, I saw Steve Jobs demo the NeXT computer in Boston. I assumed the memory was all I had. Then I learned that Charles Mann had recorded the event—and dozens of others featuring computing pioneers. Here’s my story, along with some remarkable audio.
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In the 1980s, Superman and Supergirl sewed pockets into their capes to carry pocket TRS-80s. Smart!
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The best thing about being a journalist is the sincerity of the compliments you get.
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I happened to be near the Fry’s Electronics in Roseville, CA today, so I stopped by to check out the current state of the chain, which is going through some bizarre trauma that has left it largely unstocked.
Warning: This is going to be heartbreaking.
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Pssst: Here's my story from our April issue on how Kevin Systrom led Instagram into a new era of rapid evolution.
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This doesn't report whether anyone in the room burst out laughing.
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I talked with Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa and Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser about the company’s move in theme parks, movies, and more.
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I never thought I’d say this, but: Oh no, not Teen Vogue.
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Pssst, this
@JRRaphael
extravaganza just went live and will change how you think about Google Search.
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In 1995, Radio Shack rebranded as RadioShack. Perhaps it can reboot itself again, with a focus on iPhone jailbreaking, as Rad iOS Hack.
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When PC World reviewed email in 1996, we covered all the key factors--such as how much it cost and how long it took to get there.
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This is the biggest news day in like the history of forever.
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Courtesy of the Internet Archive, here's Apple's original January 2007 iPhone site.
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It’s a beautiful day out and I’m spending it at the park.
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My mother,
@nabigail645
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Awright, here’s my final story of the decade—a look at Twitter’s ambitious plans for topics (a new feature) and lists (a very old one in the midst of a major expansion). See you in 2020!
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Here’s Paul Allen’s pre-Microsoft resume from 1974—when he aspired to make $15K a year—as displayed at his own wonderful Living Computers museum.
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Forbes' Apple and Samsung headlines have entered a bizarre Fantasyland phase.
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Boston TSA guy: "No matter how often Microsoft says the Surface is a tablet, tablet, tablet, it's a laptop, laptop, laptop. Take it out."
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Your 1998 tech update: One month-old startup Google wants to be the next Yahoo or Excite, keeping intentionally low profile.
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Just found some papers my grandmother tucked away more than 70 years ago.
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My Treo still has vintage Mapquest driving directions cached on it.
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1968 letter from Snoopy congratulating Hillary on winning the presidency (of Wellesley's student government).
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Radio Shack had a secret internal anthem, and here it is. (Watch this until the end, or you'll miss the Shack employees forming the words "Radio Shack" on a hilltop.)
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Twitter not explaining or even acknowledging what’s going on shows a certain contempt not just for developers of third-party apps but also a percentage of its own users, including some pretty influential ones.
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I don’t remember anyone expressing concern about the feelings of George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, or Jerry Ford.
To soften the blow of defeat Fox's Geraldo proposes naming the vaccine after Trump. "It would be a nice gesture to him and years from now it would become kind of a generic name. Have you got your trump yet, I got my trump, I'm fine. I wished we could honor him in that way."
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The fake tractor-feed holes on AARP’s letter are a nice touch.
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Bugs Bunny started going to Coachella 65 years ago (or at least tried).
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Tim Cook has always been outstanding in his field.
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In a way, it’s unfortunate Giuliani wasn’t more actively involved in planning today’s events. They would have ended up storming a Capital One branch.
NEWS: An hour before Congress reconvened, President Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, left a voicemail for Sen. Tommy Tuberville, imploring him to delay & promising new information tomorrow.
The problem? Giuliani left his msg on another senator's voicemail.
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What do you call a bucket list item you never dreamed of having? The buggy adventure game I wrote in high school is the top news story in the new issue of PC GAMER.
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Thank God the president-elect is an expert on cybersecurity.
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I'm glad he's so open about it. Absolutely nothing embarrassing and he deserves our respect and sympathy as he tries to conquer it.
The Times of London is reporting that Theresa May's team says she held hands with Trump at Trump's request, because he is afraid of stairs.
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@AdamSerwer
My parents always claimed that my older feline brother Orlando and I were best friends when I was a baby, and I recently found several pieces of photographic proof.
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This AR-enabled Minecraft Earth for iOS looks pretty spectacular.
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The EU wants iPhones to have USB-C and removable batteries, and maybe at some point they’ll wonder if they should also run Android instead of iOS.
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Quick test of the iPhone 7 Plus's two cameras.
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Today is the fifth anniversary of me writing a 10th anniversary feature about the origin of Gmail, a story I loved telling.
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