Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Unity Makes Its Educational Portal Free for Game Builders
Interested in video game development? Trapped inside due to the COVID-19 outbreak? Unity has decided to make its Unity Learn Premium educational platform free for the next three months. Until Jun… -
Weekend Roundup: Slack Faces a COVID-19 Spike; Next iPhone Delayed?
It was a hugely eventful week thanks to COVID-19, and many of you are no doubt overloaded on the news. It’s okay to take a step back, shut everything off, and do whatever it takes to regain your… -
Majority of Technologists Worried About COVID-19 Layoffs
A majority of technologists are worried about layoffs due to COVID-19, according to survey data from Blind. Bind, which conducts anonymous surveys of technologists, found that 57.1 percent of sur… -
E-Commerce Web Designers: Rising Demand During COVID-19?
Is now the time to become an e-commerce web designer? However long the COVID-19 pandemic lasts, it’s clear that many businesses will need to adjust to a new reality in which millions of people ar… -
Will COVID-19 Change the Fate of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality?
With millions of people forced to work remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the very nature of how companies do business is changing rapidly—the only question is whether these changes are perma… -
5 Tips for Better Video Conferencing During COVID-19
As COVID-19 sweeps the globe, homebound workers everywhere are turning to video-conferencing and collaboration software in order to get things done. For some (especially those used to remote work… -
As COVID-19 Rages, USCIS Locks Down Immigration Processes
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has temporarily suspended all in-person activities at its offices. That lockdown, which is related to the current COVID-19 pandemic and scheduled… -
Waymo Open Dataset Challenge: Test Your Autonomous-Driving Skills
If you’re interested in self-driving cars as a career (but aren’t quite sure where to begin), Waymo has an interesting “virtual challenge” that you should explore. Waymo began life as an internal… -
Will COVID-19 Create a Big Moment for A.I. and Machine Learning?
COVID-19 will change how the majority of us live and work, at least in the short term. It’s also creating a challenge for tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google that ordinarily rely… -
Most In-Demand Skills, February and March 2020: Python, SQL, and More
A new analysis of data from Burning Glass, which collects millions of job postings from across the country, reinforces what many technologists may already know: That older and much-used languages…