Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Google A.I. Is Getting Better Than You at Gaming
In March, the A.I. platform AlphaGo beat a human champion at the (notoriously complex) game of Go. Later this year, at the 2016 Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) Conference, bots will le… -
Are Subscriptions the Future of Apps?
Do people really download that many apps? New data from Nomura and app-tracker SensorTower suggests the answer is “no,” with top app developers seeing downloads drop by an average of 20 percent y… -
Number of Tech Pros Quitting Their Jobs Rises
More tech professionals voluntarily quit their jobs in April, according to the latest JOLTS data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Some 579,000 professionals left their jobs that mo… -
Google's New App Agency Certification
Are you part of an agency that builds and tests Android apps? Google just introduced a certification that may apply to your shop. In order to become a Google Developers Certified Agency, agencies… -
Top Programming Languages Losing Market Share?
Although top programming languages such as Java, C, Python and PHP remain widely used, their collective market-share has fallen in recent years, according to the latest TIOBE Index. “The set of l… -
Mark Zuckerberg Shows Need for Strong Passwords
You’d think that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg would understand the wisdom of strong passwords. But over the weekend, a group of hackers managed to access a handful of his social media accounts an… -
Google Wants Software to Make Art, Music
Google’s next big artificial-intelligence project: teaching a computer to make art. The project, codenamed “Magenta,” will focus on “developing algorithms that can learn how to generate art and m… -
Elon Musk: Apple Is Tesla’s Competition
Tesla (and SpaceX) CEO Elon Musk sees Apple as a potentially fierce competitor in the electric-car space. “I think they should have embarked on this project sooner,” Musk told the audience at Vox… -
Why Is Python So Popular?
Why is Python so popular? To the surprise of absolutely nobody, the language continued to rank highly on various lists of the world’s most popular programming languages in May, including the TIOB… -
GitHub Claims Diversity Progress
If you’re a developer—or even just someone interested in software—you know GitHub, the enormous software repository. If you’ve been following GitHub for a couple years, you also know the company…