Harry McCracken

Yes, these new MacBook Pros thoughtfully integrate touch support. It’s just not that huge a deal—not yet, anyhow.

CTO Kevin Scott, AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, and other top execs share how an accelerator, code generation, and bespoke models and agents are transforming the way Microsoft makes software.

Foursquare’s Swarm has slowed way down, but it still has a pulse. I’m hoping the recently acquired app lives on.

Doppler Labs folded before it could revolutionize hearing. Then its ideas came to life one by one in Apple’s AirPods and their rivals.

Two very different companies worked together to make Meta’s Muse Spark Open LLM run well on Mac Studio hardware.

This Google lab is making quiet, collaborative progress on fronts from quantum computing to understanding how fruit flies think.

OpenAI’s Dots and other agents don’t just respond to your prompts. They actively figure out how to help you get stuff done.

AI that can interpret data from the physical world, run on small devices such as smartphones, boot up in milliseconds, and more.

These companies are creating immersive new experiences for product designers, museums, and medical professionals treating some of the world’s most remote patients.

Agents that design chips, a workstation designed for tomorrow’s GPUs, a better way to move AI data, and more.

The tech industry loves to slather AI in anthropomorphism. What if it was proudly mechanical?

Xteink’s e-readers are so small you might forget you stuck one in your pocket. A free alternative operating system unlocks their true potential.

John Ternus’s first Apple event featured a strikingly new iPhone—and hints at where he wants to take the whole company in the AI age.

Apple's new CEO may never lead the company into the post-smartphone era—and that's just fine.

The man who gave us ‘FarmVille’ has a new book informed by his long career’s successes—but also an early failure he’s still learning from.

After the metaverse bust, Zuckerberg is spending billions to reinvent Meta as an AI giant. First, he’ll have to translate his vision of “personal superintelligence” into products people actually want.

Divine is rekindling the quirky humanity of the long-gone fan-favorite short-video service Vine—but in a decentralized form designed to remain viable without having to rake in billions.

Tiny plastic smartphone keys have never gone away—and Clicks' Power Keyboard is the best thing to happen to them in years.

Even OpenAI and Anthropic don’t understand the magic they created well enough to anticipate the trouble it may cause.

X, formerly Google X and the most ambitious innovation lab of our time, isn’t content just to watch its hits like Waymo and Wing take off. An exclusive look inside how Astro Teller and company are reinventing themselves—and what might be their next big thing.