greenSTEM Network, a soil-monitoring kit designed to teach students about STEM, started like many other hackathon projects do. Someone had an idea, pitched it at a hackathon and found a team of ...

UpTrend, a mobile app focused on employment access for youth of color, won last weekend’s Thriving Cities Innovation Showcase + Hackathon. The hackathon aimed to tackle issues facing the Black ...

At a two-day hackathon, techies help nonprofits build tools to fundraise, go through public documents and connect people to ...

Science in Machine Learning and Data Science master students Wuyou Shu, Zeyu Zhang and Xiaoxiao Huang won first place Monday ...

The VR Hackathon hacks in progress at the University of Washington last weekend. The Seattle VR Hackathon was held this past weekend in the University of Washington’s Center for Education and Research ...

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models Join the 60,000 who get the freshest future-of-journalism news in our daily email. A ...

Here’s a weird confession: Until last week, I’d never been to a company hackathon. Obviously, I’ve been to hackathons, including the ones TechCrunch hosts before our Disrupt conference. But I’ve never ...

Unlike something like Evernote, which helps you store and reference information, Memstash helps you actually memorize stuff. For example, if you want to memorize a famous quote, you just highlight the ...

Facebook is ending 2016 by naming its favorite projects and products that came out of all the hackathons its offices worldwide hosted this year. One is a richer, more robust Safety Check: a team ...