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Mary Branscombe

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omnivorous UK tech journalist; girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries ☕ lnkiy.in/IV9SD. she/her. marypcbuk@hachyderm.i

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After completing an MSc in Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems in 1990, Mary Branscombe was convinced that promising as the AI techniques she’d been studying were, they weren’t even close to being ready. Since then, she’s been a technology journalist for more than three decades (and has to keep updating this figure), specialising in Microsoft but covering the rise of Windows, the birth of the web, smartphones and the cloud – and most recently, the arrival of AI as something mainstream developer…

What was your first job as a journalist?

While I was doing my masters in Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems, I was news editor on a new magazine for developers, Program Now

What's your favorite social network?

Bluesky

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

The series of articles about web standards I've done for The New Stack, culminating in a deep dive into the Web Platform Tests project.