Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Challenge and Triumph of Older Tech Workers
Ten years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a pronouncement that would soon become infamous: “Young people are just smarter,” he told an audience at Stanford University. Despite the outcry o… -
Google's Jamboard Aims to One-Up the Whiteboard
A whiteboard is nothing fancy, but it gets the job done. A team armed with erasable markers can use it to plot out everything from algorithms to UX. Take a photo of your work, and you can preserv… -
Which Tech Pros Face a Shrinking Job Market?
It’s impossible to predict with absolute certainty which jobs will grow over the next decade or so, but we can make some pretty good guesses based on current trends. For example, it’s a near-cert… -
Google Assistant Bulks Out Features, Dev Tools
At Google’s annual I/O conference last week, the search-engine giant announced the availability of Google Assistant for iOS. The voice-activated digital assistant, which heavily leverages the use… -
Mobile App Devs See Revenue Skyrocket
You might find it hard to believe this, but people spend a lot of time on their smartphones. According to new data from App Annie, worldwide mobile-app downloads increased by 15 percent between 2… -
Kickstarter Offering Toolkit to Hardware Startups
Hardware is hard. Just ask any tech pro who had a great idea for a device and tried to bring it to life. Costs associated with manufacturing can skyrocket; and any error in the build can result i… -
Earning Cash Off Artificial Intelligence
There’s a simple reason behind the explosive growth of mobile-app ecosystems: with a good idea, a solid development team, and a bit of luck, tech pros can make a lot of money off building apps fo… -
Microsoft Tries to Make 'Mixed Reality' a Thing
Last week at its annual Build conference, Microsoft executives kept using the term “mixed reality.” “Mixed reality” (a term that has existed for years) is Microsoft’s attempt to redefine the curr… -
Google's Owlchemy Buy Hints at Battle for VR Content
Google has acquired Owlchemy Labs, a maker of virtual reality (VR) games, for an undisclosed sum. As corporate cultures go, Owlchemy Labs is already pretty “Googly”: the company prides itself on… -
Will Amazon Echo Show Allow Third-Party Apps?
For months, rumors have percolated through the tech media that Amazon was working on a digital assistant with a screen. On May 9, that scuttlebutt came true when the e-commerce giant unveiled the…