It goes beyond winning a prize. Here’s a look at how to get the most out of a weekend. Smithsonian visitors demoing the Aira tech for the first time. Hackathons, like the upcoming Baltimore Hackathon, ...

Second place went to the Online Budget Visualization app, which created a more easily digestible map of the School District’s budget data that was just released. Reading Pal — an app designed to track ...

New Mexico boasts multiple deep-tech startups and rich roots in traditional sciences through its national labs and universities. But coming from the world of software development, Vicki Apodaca feels ...

Hackathons are events that bring together computer programmers and engineers to collaborate on developing software, hardware, or other technological solutions within a limited time frame — usually ...

For most manufacturers, OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is still a holy grail metric. But with their new OEE app for the Cumulocity IoT plaform, Software AG hopes to change that. Here's how a ...

What does Facebook’s ‘Like’ button and Microsoft’s mobile group messaging app GroupMe have in common? Both were born from hackathons. The pinnacle of a coder’s calendar, corporate hackathons are ...

OpenDaylight has a steep learning curve for beginners, but it still proved a worthy platform in this small December hackathon, where five teams of SDN beginners got their fingernails Thanks to ...

Young women of Rochester will learn how to use their new coding skills at ROCGirl Hacks, a free all-girl hackathon Nov. 5 at Rochester Institute of Technology. The creative learning event is sponsored ...

Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the on-demand economy and tech culture. She grew up in Colorado, went to school in New York City and can never remember how to pronounce gif. Google ...