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Harry McCracken is an editor at large at TIME, where he writes about personal technology for the magazine and TIME.com. He’s been a gadget nerd since the late 1970s and is the founder of Technologizer and the former editor in chief at PC World magazine. He's talked tech on everything from the History Channel to Dateline NBC to NPR's Science Friday. Contact him at harry_mccracken@timemagazine.com.

Ex-Googlers come up with a gadget that makes any speaker wireless.

Among the many things that make Amazon one of the most successful merchants in the history of merchandising is the zeal with which it removes every possible obstacle that might stand in the way of you buying something.

Will getting more of its co-founder’s time help Microsoft move past his original vision?

His profile’s been low, but he’s been a key player in Redmond for years

It’s hard to imagine the world without it — but let’s try.

If Facebook were invented in 2014, it would look like Facebook Paper.

A 93-year-old electronics retailer admits that it’s been out of touch with the times.

To preserve a U-matic tape about a 1984 Mac, you need a U-matic VCR and some 21st-century Macs.

When Yahoo — or any big company — buys your favorite startup, worry.

This new note taker can predict your input and syncs with Evernote.

The dominant social network finally rethinks itself for the mobile age

The Googlemoto dream is about to come to an end.

Harry McCracken

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