Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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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… -
What Tech's Biggest CEOs Earn
How much do tech CEOs make? The amount can vary. A lot. And it’s not tied to company performance: as a new report from the Associated Press and Equilar makes clear, chief executives at some of th… -
The Coming War Over Home A.I.
The battle of home A.I. is nigh. At its annual I/O conference earlier this month, Google unveiled Google Home, a stubby device equipped with a speaker, a set of microphones, and (via the cloud an… -
How Infrastructure Can Wreck Tech Firms
Over at TechCrunch, Mohit Aron, a former staff engineer at Google, tries to dissect why the search-engine giant succeeded while Yahoo, at one point its biggest competitor, failed so spectacularly… -
Tech Must Become More Diverse: EEOC
The tech sector must become more diverse, suggests a new report from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). “Discussion of the lack of gender, racial and ethnic diversity in the… -
Chromebooks Outpacing Mac Shipments
Google Chromebooks have begun outselling Apple Macs in the United States, according to an analyst from research firm IDC. Nearly 2 million laptops running Chrome OS shipped during the first quart…