Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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How Pac-Man Might Make Artificial Intelligence Even Smarter
For decades, “Pac-Man” has presented video-game fans with a simple challenge: Navigate an onscreen maze, eat glowing dots along your path, avoid evil ghosts. Swallowing a particular kind of dot (… -
Video Game Designer: Fastest-Growing Tech Job in America?
“Video game designer” was one of the fastest-growing jobs over the past year, according to a new report from IT services firm Cognizant. Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work collaborated wit… -
Open Source Continues to Intimidate Many Developers
The open-source community seems healthy (and expanding), but there are always developers who haven’t contributed so much as a single line of code to a Github repo. According to Digital Ocean, whi… -
4 Tips for Surviving a Toxic Workplace Culture
There are consequences to a toxic workplace culture. It’s a leading cause of employee burnout. It can also impede managers’ ability to hire and retain workers, especially during a period of ultra… -
Automation and A.I. May Take Your Job by 2025
Machines will take over more than half of the world’s current workplace functions by 2025, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum. That’s up from 29 percent of functions today. The… -
Americans Have a Hard Time Trusting Chatbots: Pew Research
Americans don’t trust social media bots, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. Specifically, some 80 percent of those who have heard about bots have a negative impression of them; c… -
Will More Tech Companies Sue Over Trump’s H-1B Visa Policy?
It seems that it was only a matter of time before some tech companies began fighting the Trump administration’s new H-1B rules. On October 11, ITServe Alliance, a nonprofit group that counts more… -
MIT Opening New College for Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is hot—and if you don’t believe that, look at the six-figure salaries paid out to the experts in the field. Now comes the next big step: creating as many A.I. exper… -
'Red Dead Redemption 2' Raises Questions of Dev Burnout
If you’re into gaming, you’ve no doubt heard of Rockstar Games’ “Red Dead Redemption 2,” a massive open-world game that will surely become one of the biggest (if not the biggest) video-game hits… -
Which Tech Employers are Monitoring You Excessively?
Even as tools for monitoring employees proliferate, most tech pros don’t think their employers are excessive when it comes to observing workplace behavior, according to a new survey by Blind. Onl…