Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Will Business Spending Save PC Jobs?
PC shipments will continue to dive through the end of the year, suggests new data from research firm IDC. That decline will be a steep 8.7 percent, the research firm added. For hardware manufactu… -
'Angry Birds' Shows Startup Need to Pivot
Many startups never see any sort of growth. Their big project—the one designed to catapult everybody involved to fame and fortune—fails to make much of an impact in the marketplace, and the busin… -
Google API Lets You Play With Faces
Facial-recognition technology might become the Next Big Thing in security and social networking. Windows 10 already offers it on select PCs with infrared cameras (a feature known as Windows Hello… -
3-D Printing... With Molten Glass
Tech pros have used 3-D printing for everything from prosthetics to toys. It could hit the mass market in coming years thanks to a combination of cheap at-home printers and e-retailers like Amazo… -
How a Top Apple Exec Hires
As senior vice president of Apple’s retail arm, Angela Ahrendts needs to do a lot of hiring, often for mission-critical positions. That places a lot of pressure on her interviewing technique: If… -
JavaScript Tops GitHub's Popular Languages
GitHub recently published a breakdown of the most popular languages on its site, and the results are wholly unsurprising. For the second year in a row, JavaScript tops the site’s rankings, follow… -
Job-Seeking Tips for Older Tech Pros
In recent years, it seems as if tech has evolved into an industry that lionizes the young. Despite all the press about 21-year-old rock-star developers and 30-year-old CEOs, though, there’s still… -
Sysadmins, Check Out Google's Data Center Papers
If you’re an enterprise architect or systems administrator, you know how a data center works—and if your career spans several years, chances are good that you’ve dealt with some pretty massive sy… -
Amazon Article Sparks Work-Life Debate
This weekend, The New York Times published a lengthy report about working conditions for white-collar workers at Amazon. Describing the e-commerce giant as a “bruising workplace,” the report pain… -
What Are the Top Languages of 2015?
What are the most popular programming languages of 2015 (so far)? A few weeks ago, IEEE Spectrum combined data from a variety of sources—including GitHub and its own digital library—in order to r…