Articles by Nate Swanner
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Ford, Toyota Create Connected Car App Platform
[caption id="attachment_139070" align="aligncenter" width="2118"] SoftwareDeviceLink Consortium forConnected Car apps[/caption] If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the auto industry over the… -
The High, High Cost of Recruiting Developers
Employee turnover is a problem for any company, and the issue becomes exacerbated with long on-boarding times and equally long interactions with recruiters. A new study shows the real cost of hir… -
New Year's Resolution: Work Remotely in 2017
Work remotely from home[/caption] Offices aren’t fun. Though companies such as Steelcase and Fatboy do a great job of making office spaces both ergonomically sound and comfortable, many of us don… -
CyanogenMod Forks Itself as 'The Inc,' Screws Users
[caption id="attachment_138928" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] CyanogenMod is DOA Image Credit: FXP Blog[/caption] Android ROM CyanogenMod is now offline, and dead forever. In a blog post on G… -
What We Learned from Apple's First A.I. Paper
Siri has long been the A.I. that people didn't envision as an A.I., thanks to Apple’s PR department (the company framed Siri as a “personal assistant,” without emphasizing its machine-learning as… -
White House: Education Will Save Jobs From A.I.
The arrival of artificial intelligence (A.I.) means faster data processing and more efficient automation, but it could also mean massive job losses for human beings. In a study of the impact of A… -
Recruiting Devs Can Cost More Than $60k: Study
Employee turnover is a problem for any company, and the issue becomes exacerbated with long on-boarding times and equally long interactions with recruiters. A new study shows the real cost of hir… -
Russia, China Top Worldwide Developer Rankings
[caption id="attachment_127949" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Developer Environment[/caption] Have you ever wondered where the best coders on Earth come from? Is it a country, or a particular… -
New UX Course Wants to Land You Design Jobs
User experience (UX) designers are important to tech, but the path to becoming one isn’t always so clear. To help those passionate about UX achieve their career goals, InVision and General Assemb… -
Should Developers Care About Wearables?
[caption id="attachment_134099" align="aligncenter" width="683"] Fitbit wearables[/caption] Wearables are still around, although events such as Jawbone’s implosion and the sell-off of Pebble some…