Harry McCracken, Fast Company

Harry McCracken

Fast Company

Silicon Valley, CA, United States

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Past articles by Harry:

Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory

Slack kept trying to build a flexible, interactive tool for sharing info–and kept failing. Then it turned to its Salesforce sibling Quip for the answer. → Read More

Twitter really is about to let people edit their tweets

Starting later this month, Twitter Blue subscribers will begin to get the ability to correct those pesky typos—with an audit trail to prevent abuse. → Read More

Google is teaching robots to think for themselves

Giving a robotic assistant a broad-based understanding of how to be helpful at home or work isn’t easy. But Google researchers are making progress. → Read More

This is how Snap is fostering the future of augmented reality

Snap’s Sophia Dominguez, the company’s head of AR platform partnerships, helps developers see what’s possible to create the future of computing. → Read More

This Dell dude helps make the world’s best Windows laptops

Donnie Oliphant’s Dell XPS laptops are lapping the competition. → Read More

6 things I learned by going all in on iPhone photography

For more than nine months, my iPhone 13 Pro has been my only digital camera—and I‘ve missed my fancy FujiFilm camera way less than I expected. → Read More

‘If we grow Reddit, we are going to make the world a better place’

The online community’s first chief product officer talks about his plans to scale it up to new heights—while preserving its essential humanity. → Read More

Microsoft Teams’ new feature goes way beyond passive screen sharing

Instead of simply letting people in video meetings share their screen, Live Share facilitates true real-time collaboration in apps built by third parties. → Read More

This new technology reveals classic iPods from the inside out

For Tony Fadell, Lumafield’s CT scanner helps bring back priceless memories. For product manufacturers, its X-ray vision could solve long-standing problems. → Read More

The Apple Watch is about to get more accessible, in a whole new way

Apple’s smart timepiece already packs powerful features for people with disabilities. Its next act: Leveraging already-popular iPhone accessibility tools. → Read More

Sorry, Apple, the iPod Touch was never really an iPod

The iPod brand may be going away, but what it once stood for ended long ago. And it was pretty wonderful. → Read More

Grammarly writes a new corporate playbook

As business leaders embrace the written word, Grammarly’s AI is smoothing out their prose. → Read More

As Polaroid’s SX-70 turns 50, instant photography is booming

Digital cameras and smartphones are fine. But photo prints that develop before your eyes? That was magical in 1972—and still meaningful today. → Read More

Snap’s AR vision is about Spectacles—and a whole lot more

In the race to create the future of AR—and maybe even make the metaverse real—the Snapchat maker has already made more progress than some tech giants. → Read More

Why Mark Zuckerberg is fixated on creating AR’s ‘iPhone moment’

You thought Facebook was powerful? To Meta’s CEO, the fact that his products have usually sat on platforms he didn’t control has long been a frustration. → Read More

What a 1994 Bill Gates keynote tells us about the metaverse

At tech’s biggest trade show, Microsoft’s CEO previewed the next decade of innovations—just as metaverse seers such as Mark Zuckerberg are trying to do now. → Read More

How Steve Wilhite created GIF, the graphics format that ate the world

In 1987, CompuServe needed to pump crisp graphics over slow dial-up modems. The technology it created to do so is very much with us today. → Read More

Alaska Airlines’ new check-in stations are powered by iPad Pros

Along with all the places you’d expect to find iPads, Apple’s tablet is showing up in enterprise scenarios beyond the traditional domain of consumer tech. → Read More

The metaverse is just an idea, but Adobe says it’s time to prep for it

Though it may be years before metaverse hype gives way to reality, it’s not too early to create 3D content and dip a toe into existing immersive worlds. → Read More

The 10 most innovative companies in artificial intelligence of 2022

How LivePerson, Grammarly, Adobe, Darktrace, and other companies are harnessing AI in innovative ways to improve lives. → Read More