Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Watch Bill Gates Get Wiped Out in Chess

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NwnSltHFo Chess champion Magnus Carlsen can add another notch to his victory belt: checkmating former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in just under 80 seconds. In a matc…
• Google Acquires AI Startup DeepMind

  Google has bought artificial-intelligence startup DeepMind for $400 million, according to Re/code. Google confirmed the acquisition but not the price. The publication’s unnamed sources said Googl…
• Thirty Years of Apple’s Mac

  [caption id="attachment_16555" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Apple's graph of how the Mac is used today.[/caption] On the thirtieth anniversary of the Mac, Apple has released some data showing…
• Apple Planning Major Revamp of Apple TV: Rumors

  [caption id="attachment_16550" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Apple TV.[/caption] Apple has a major revamp of its Apple TV in the works, according to 9to5Mac, which cited unnamed sources for th…
• Lenovo Acquires IBM Server Business

  [caption id="attachment_16500" align="aligncenter" width="500"] With this deal, Lenovo gains a lot of presence in the datacenter.[/caption] IBM will sell its lower-end server business to Lenovo f…
• Amazon Slashes AWS Prices, Adds Instances in Competitive Bid

  In a bid to maintain its lead within the increasingly competitive cloud-storage market, Amazon has slashed prices for its S3 standard storage and Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) customers. For S…
• Verizon Buys Intel TV

  Verizon has acquired Intel’s television business. Wait, Intel had a television business? Indeed it did: the Intel Media division worked on “Cloud TV” products and services. Verizon (which purchas…
• Net Neutrality: What Now?

  [caption id="attachment_16273" align="aligncenter" width="500"] If you believe in net neutrality, everything flowing through these cables is created equal.[/caption] Earlier this week, the U.S. C…
• 

  Beats Music’s Magic Algorithm: Hype or Secret Weapon?

  [caption id="attachment_16258" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Beats Music relies on a number of inputs to curate playlists.[/caption] Streaming music is a crowded market segment: in addition to…
• Google Releases Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop

  [caption id="attachment_16254" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Diagram of Hadoop on Google Cloud Platform.[/caption] Google has released a preview version of a Google Cloud Storage connector for…