Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Sochi Could Turn Into Hacker Olympics

  [caption id="attachment_17030" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Sochi Olympics schedule.[/caption] Everyone attending this year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, should be extra careful abo…
• DARPA’s Open-Source Software Is Now Yours

  [caption id="attachment_16976" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Just some of the projects offered for download.[/caption] The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—also known as the U.S. mili…
• FISA Data Release by Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft Means Squat

  Google, Yahoo, and other tech firms are offering some updated statistics about government requests for data. There’s just one problem: under revised guidelines issued by the federal government, t…
• For SAP, It's the Cloud or Bust

  [caption id="attachment_16964" align="aligncenter" width="500"] More companies want to make their on-premises datacenter a thing of the past.[/caption] In a Feb. 4 speech to financial analysts in…
• The Coming War for Artificial-Intelligence Startups

  [caption id="attachment_16931" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google Now is just one example of the increasing need for "smarter" software.[/caption] In late January, Google announced the acqui…
• Facebook 10 Years Later: From Dorm Project to Giant

  [caption id="attachment_16927" align="aligncenter" width="588"] Facebook, v1.0.[/caption] Ten years ago, a Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg launched a social network called The Facebook, tot…
• Satya Nadella Named Microsoft CEO

  [caption id="attachment_16916" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Nadella.[/caption] As widely expected after last week’s rumors, Satya Nadella has been named the new CEO of Microsoft. Nadella is M…
• South Koreans Using Kinect to Monitor DMZ

  The South Korean government is reportedly using Microsoft’s Kinect motion-based game controller to monitor the heavily guarded DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) that separates the country from North Korea…
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  Wolfram Alpha Offers Some Data for Super Bowl XLVIII

  Which football team will win the Super Bowl this weekend? That’s a multi-million-dollar question, given the amount of cash people will bet on either the Seattle Seahawks or the Denver Broncos to…
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  Yahoo Fends Off Email Hacking Attempt

  [caption id="attachment_16820" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Target.[/caption] Yahoo is resetting passwords on Yahoo Mail accounts following an attempted hack. In a posting on its official blo…