Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  Google Boosts Language Recognition Tools

  Google has upgraded certain aspects of its artificial-intelligence tools. Those upgrades include a major one to the open-source SyntaxNet (Github link), giving the platform a keener understanding…
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  Companies That Don't Use Whiteboarding Interviews

  Let’s admit it: there’s not a whole lot of love out there for the whiteboard interview. Maybe it’s because programmers and other tech pros are used to typing code, and so writing it out longhand…
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  Trump Giving H-1B Visas 'Comprehensive Look'

  Will President Trump reform H-1B visas? Even if he plans to do so, it likely won’t happen in the short term. During a March 8 press conference, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the au…
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  How Long Does It Take to Become CTO?

  How long does it take a tech pro to become a company’s CTO? Agil8, a consulting and training group based in London, recently analyzed the careers of tech’s most prominent CTOs and technology head…
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  Google Unveils Cloud Video Intelligence API

  Google continues to make inroads into developer tools for artificial intelligence. At this week’s Google Cloud Next ’17 conference, the search-engine giant unveiled the Cloud Video Intelligence A…
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  Google Acquires Kaggle, Data-Scientist Hub

  Google is acquiring Kaggle, which hosts competitions for data scientists. That report comes from TechCrunch, which was the first tech publication to report that Google was exploring such an acqui…
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  Google Cardboard Might Conquer the VR World

  While the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Sony PlayStation VR battle to dominate the upper tier of the nascent virtual-reality market, Google has quietly tried to win the rest of it. According to Amit…
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  Fixing the Tech Job Interview with Cold, Hard Cash

  Although the job-interview process might seem lengthy to your typical candidate—especially if they have to go through round after round of interviews, interspersed with whiteboarding tests—it oft…
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  Bots: Overhyped and Ineffective, or Just New?

  Were chatbots a half-baked concept pushed to market too quickly? According to a February article in The Information, chatbots on Facebook Messenger could fulfill only “about 30 percent of request…
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  H-1B Premium Processing Temporarily Suspended

  For months, the tech community has wondered what, if anything, President Trump will do to alter the H-1B program. H-1B visas, which are distributed via a lottery system, allow American firms to h…