Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Weekend Roundup: Quantum Battles, WeWork Buyouts, and Musk’s Space Tweet
It’s been a very long week in tech. NordVPN confirmed that it was hacked hardcore, and millions of Android users apparently have a phone full of bad, bad adware, and Facebook’s Libra crypto-curre… -
Artificial Intelligence Projects Face Huge Barriers to Success
What’s the biggest barrier to successful artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine-learning projects? Earlier this year, Arvind Krishna, IBM’s senior vice president of cloud and cognitive softwa… -
San Francisco Faces Huge Time-to-Hire Tech Crunch
San Francisco (and its immediate environs) is one of the nation’s premier tech hubs, home to any number of great companies—and great technologists. However, that primacy comes at a price: the cos… -
5 Ways to Really Screw Up Your Job-Hunting Chances
The job hunt is always a complex, often prickly process. It’s hard to fire off applications and wait for a response, and even harder to negotiate your way through a job interview (as well as the… -
Steve Jobs' Tips for Running a Better Meeting
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was known for many things: A keen awareness of how the tech industry would evolve, a keen design sense, and a willingness to never take "no" for an answer when he real… -
For Artificial Intelligence to Succeed, It Needs Empathy
The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank, once asked 979 researchers, tech pros, and policy leaders about the future of artificial intelligence (A.I.). The results weren't exactly comfor… -
Is Samsung Developing an Augmented Reality (AR) Headset?
For years, critics have accused Samsung of slavishly copying Apple’s hardware. The two tech giants even went to court over it, with Apple insisting that its rival had violated numerous design and… -
Here's the Degree Employers Really Want You to Have
You need education to land a suitable job in tech. But should you obtain that education via a traditional route (such as a four-year college degree) or a combination of online courses and self-te… -
9 Non-Technical Skills Most Businesses Demand
When it comes to in-demand skills, most conversations focus on the technical side—which makes sense, because without those skills, most projects would never even get off the ground. However, “non… -
Tech CEO Compensation: Big, and Only Getting Bigger
The technology industry’s top CEOs make a lot of money. That’s not surprising to anyone. Nonetheless, it’s worth examining how much the CEOs at tech’s biggest firms are pulling down every year—af…