Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Here's Your Chance to Build Nintendo Games
If you ever harbored a childhood dream of building games for Nintendo, now’s your chance: the gaming behemoth has launched a unified developer portal that gathers all of its tools and documentati… -
'Pokemon Go' Proves AR Apps' Future
Last week, Nintendo (in conjunction with Niantic Labs and The Pokémon Company) released Pokémon Go, an augmented-reality game for mobile devices. Players must walk around the real world, trying t… -
Try Out the iOS 10 and MacOS Public Beta
For many years, Apple preferred to keep its software products shrouded in relative secrecy: developers got early glimpses, but actual users needed to wait until the release date to play around wi… -
Tech Unemployment Ticks Up to 2.2 Percent
The technology industry’s unemployment rate ticked up slightly in June, hitting 2.2 percent, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It stood at 2.0 percent i… -
Management Tips for Growing Startups
Despite some signs that the current “unicorn bubble” is deflating, funds are more than willing to give money to startups trying to solve practical issues through technology. That’s good news for… -
How Open Source Projects Grow Huge
One of the core benefits of open-source projects is how anyone can contribute to the code or documentation. And as demonstrated by a series of visualizations produced by GitHub, when a project is… -
The BlackBerry Classic Meets Its End
Even as Apple’s iPhone and a galaxy of Google Android smartphones swallowed up the mobile market over the past decade, a group of diehard users continued to cling to the iconic BlackBerry device.… -
Assembly Language Keeps Rising
Assembly language is a very low-level programming language for niche platforms such as bootloaders, device drivers, and embedded devices. In the minds of many, it’s the sort of language that comp… -
Will Tesla Crash Slow Autonomous Driving Tech?
In a blog posting on the Tesla website, the electric-car company revealed that a Model S owner was recently killed in a traffic accident while the vehicle’s autopilot was active. “This is the fir… -
Amazon's Elastic File System Out of AWS Beta
Take note, cloud-infrastructure professionals: Amazon’s Elastic File System (EFS) is now out of beta. EFS is a file system designed to complement Amazon’s SAN-style block storage, also known as t…