Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Stephen Wolfram Developing New Programming Language

  [caption id="attachment_14128" align="aligncenter" width="519"] Look! A box![/caption] Stephen Wolfram, the chief designer of the Mathematica software platform and the Wolfram Alpha “computation…
• Why Did Snapchat Turn Down $3 Billion?

  [caption id="attachment_14122" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Would you pay a couple billion dollars for this?[/caption] Would you turn down $3 billion? According to The Wall Street Journal, th…
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  Can You Sue a Spy Agency for Hacking Your Data?

  When the GCHQ agency (Britain’s equivalent of the National Security Agency) reportedly decided to infiltrate the IT network of Belgian telecommunications firm Belgacom, it relied on a sophisticat…
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  Motorola Aims for Midmarket With Moto G

  [caption id="attachment_14073" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Moto G.[/caption] Google’s Motorola subsidiary pinned its hopes for a great 2013 on the Moto X, a high-end smartphone that allo…
• Google Glass Branching Into Music

  [caption id="attachment_14069" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google Glass will allow users to play songs with a simple voice command.[/caption] Who wants to buy Google Glass? Extreme-sports af…
• Yahoo Ranking System Sparks Employee Ire

  [caption id="attachment_14037" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Behind this cute homepage lurks a lot of irate employees, according to a new report.[/caption] Let’s engage in a high-concept fligh…
• GCHQ Responds to Slashdot, LinkedIn Hack

  [caption id="attachment_13937" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Purported slide showing how the GCHQ used fake LinkedIn and Slashdot Websites to infiltrate a Belgian telecommunications network.[/…
• Snowden Social-Engineered His NSA Colleagues

  Government whistleblower Edward Snowden obtained his massive trove of top-secret documents about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs by asking his colleagues for their credential…
• Stephen Elop Would Pull a Nokia on Microsoft

  [caption id="attachment_13884" align="aligncenter" width="615"] Elop: Appetite for destruction?[/caption] Bloomberg is reporting that Stephen Elop, who’s apparently on the short list of candidate…
• Facebook Open-Sources Its Presto Tool

  [caption id="attachment_13870" align="aligncenter" width="563"] A diagram of Facebook's Presto.[/caption] Facebook stores its warehouse data in a set of enormous Hadoop/HDFS-based clusters. That…