In 2026, you’ll see a lot of focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and making smart tools, exploring blockchain for secure ...

Hackathons, those one- or two-day innovation sprints in which teams of like-minded, well-intentioned, super-excited people gather to develop solutions to a designated challenge, can often be less ...

It seems that almost every major feature on Facebook started as a hackathon project. Hackathons are all-night coding sessions where engineers get amped up on caffeine, brainstorm ideas, and build ...

Seven strangers from different generations, cultures, jobs and even continents came together with a winning idea for Microsoft’s Global Hackathon when they discovered they’d all had the same ...

Hackathon prize money keeps rising each year as organizations learn to take advantage of their value. Runner-up cash prizes are now in the thousands, and grand-prize payouts are as high as $1 million.

As the gospel of Silicon Valley-style disruption spreads to every sector in the economy, so too have the industry’s favorite competitive ritual, hackathons. The contests, where small teams of “hackers ...

Queen's "Under Pressure" blasts from the speakers in Facebook's Building 18 Cafe. A DJ spins on one side of the room, and on the other end there are two kegs of beer next to a rack of granola bars, ...