Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Facebook Offering a Way to Manage Accounts After Death
Facebook now allows its users to choose “legacy contacts” to manage their accounts after they die. Legacy contacts will have the ability to post messages atop the deceased user’s timeline, respon… -
JavaScript Tops GitHub's Most Popular Languages
What are the top programming languages on GitHub? According to GitHut, a website that attempts to estimate and visualize the repository’s most popular languages, JavaScript topped the list in the… -
Creating a Drone 'No Fly' Zone Over Your House
Have you ever wondered whether a drone will crash-land into your house? Does the idea of unmanned aerial vehicles buzzing over your yard make you nervous? NoFlyZone wants to calm those fears by c… -
Apple's Next Big iOS Feature: Stability
What’s the must-have feature in Apple’s next big iOS update? Stability. According to the Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac, Apple has listened to user complaints about its mobile platform’s recent perfo… -
Forget Standing Desks: Here's the Office Swing
Some startups blow their capital on thousand-dollar designer chairs; others line their offices with standup desks, which supposedly confer health benefits. But what if today’s office designers to… -
Google Android, iOS, and... Ubuntu?
In January 2013, Canonical (a company that works with the open source community on Ubuntu, a free operating system) announced that it would build a version of Ubuntu for smartphones. A few months… -
Finding Silicon Valley's Heart of Entrepreneurship
Over the past several decades, Silicon Valley has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. But not all entrepreneurs are created equal: As suggested by a new study in Science magazine, those star… -
Tesla Poaching Apple's Top Talent
Apple employees are getting poached… but the chief culprit isn’t Google, or another smartphone maker like Samsung. According to a new Bloomberg report, Tesla has hired more than 150 former Apple… -
Twitter CEO Pledges to Curb Trolling
In an internal memo leaked to The Verge, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took responsibility for the social platform’s rampant problem with trolls and cyberbullying. Check out the latest social network-… -
The Future's Biggest Programming Languages
Ask your average developer to name the most popular programming languages, and they’ll likely rattle off a list that includes JavaScript, PHP, C#, Python, Objective-C, and a handful of others—all…