Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• "Her": When Your OS Loves You Back, Things Get Messy

  [caption id="attachment_16244" align="aligncenter" width="618"] "Gee, I guess these glasses do make me look a little like Woody Allen."[/caption] In the new movie “Her,” an introverted loner (pla…
• Is Blackphone the First NSA-Proof Phone?

  [caption id="attachment_16200" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Blackphone. Against a black background.[/caption] In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about National Security Agency (N…
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  Minsky's Creators Talk Economic Modeling, Bitcoin, and Chaos Theory

  Over on Slashdot’s sister site SourceForge, the community editors (as part of their regular Project of the Month) sat down with the creators of Minsky, which bills itself as a “system dynamics pr…
• We're Already Cyborgs

  [caption id="attachment_16136" align="aligncenter" width="618"] A Glass rack at a Google Glass studio in NYC.[/caption] The Google Glass studio above New York City’s Chelsea Market is modeled aft…
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  White House Dismissing Key Healthcare.gov Contractor: Report

  [caption id="attachment_16020" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Healthcare.gov.[/caption] Months after a problem-riddled rollout of the Healthcare.gov Website, the White House is dismissing a key…
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  Is Ford Collecting Data About Your Driving Habits?

  Is Ford collecting GPS coordinates (and perhaps other data) on its customers? Comments made by a company executive at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas certainly left that…
• IBM’s Watson Could Intensify Analytics Competition

  [caption id="attachment_16012" align="aligncenter" width="618"] A timeline of Watson's expansion.[/caption] Ladies and gentlemen of the analytics community, we have a platform war on our hands. T…
• IBM Investing $1 Billion in Watson Business Unit

  [caption id="attachment_15967" align="aligncenter" width="618"] IBM's Watson logo.[/caption] IBM believes its Watson supercomputing platform is much more than a gameshow-winning gimmick: its exec…
• Snapchat Finally Says ‘Sorry’

  [caption id="attachment_15971" align="aligncenter" width="618"] New and improved... or at least fixed.[/caption] More than a week after attackers raided personal information on 4.6 million Snapch…
• Sony Launching PlayStation Now Streaming Platform

  [caption id="attachment_15920" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The success of games such as "Destiny" will ultimately determine whether Sony's latest PlayStation platform is a success.[/caption]…