Articles by Nate Swanner

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  Amazon's Fight to Keep A.I. Private: Important for All

  [caption id="attachment_138540" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Amazon Echo[/caption] Amazon is fighting a court order compelling it to turn over data potentially gathered via Echo, its voice-c…
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  STEM Jobs Hot in Cleveland and Detroit

  [caption id="attachment_140116" align="aligncenter" width="4000"] Physicists dominate STEM jobs.[/caption] Those in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields are often thought o…
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  UPS Shows Why Drones Can't Replace Humans

  [caption id="attachment_140087" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] UPS drones aren't perfect. Credit: TechCrunch[/caption] UPS has launched a new aerial drone concept, built to deliver small packa…
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  This Video Perfectly Sums Up a Dev's Life

  [caption id="attachment_140053" align="aligncenter" width="1108"] Practical Dev Video[/caption] Sometimes, a video has the power to cut straight to the core of you. The video in question could be…
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  Stop Bad Tech Recruitment Cold with One Question

  Tech recruitment made easy. Many developers and engineers live according to one inalienable belief: they think that tech recruitment is pretty terrible. It’s often worse when big companies such a…
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  Swift 4.0 Still Won't Shake Objective-C

  [caption id="attachment_137468" align="aligncenter" width="2357"] Swift 4.0 is coming.[/caption] As programming-language iteration goes, Swift is moving at a fairly rapid pace. Less than three ye…
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  Google's 'Fuchsia' Is a Grab-Bag of Languages

  [caption id="attachment_139426" align="aligncenter" width="3248"] 'Fuchsia' is a Google-made mix of Android and Chrome (but also neither of them)[/caption] Google’s next big thing is being develo…
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  GitHub Commits Open Source Guides for Devs

  [caption id="attachment_139773" align="aligncenter" width="2858"] GitHub Open Source Guidelines[/caption] GitHub doesn’t think you know how open source works, and it may be right. The company has…
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  Craft 'Freehand' Makes Design Collaboration Fun

  [caption id="attachment_139761" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] InVision Craft Freehand[/caption] Collaboration is important to designers and developers, but the tedium of making changes and ta…
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  Developers: Do We Really Need the Mac App Store?

  [caption id="attachment_138519" align="aligncenter" width="1360"] Mac App Store WWDC 2016[/caption] Do developers need the Mac App Store? It’s a question many are asking themselves these days. On…