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Articles tagged hackathon (13)

Shafik QuoraisheeJanuary 17, 2024

How The New York Times is building experimental handwriting recognition for its crosswords app

“Aside from handwriting, there’s also potential for interactive features like ‘scribble-to-erase’ detection, in-app self-training mechanisms, and a whole host of other doors that on-device ML in the Games app can open.”

Joseph LichtermanSeptember 7, 2016

With its Maker Week, The New York Times is trying to foster teamwork and, possibly, new products

“Hundreds” of staffers worked on about 85 different projects — including a new Apple TV interface, a restaurant review visualization, and internal tools — at the Times’ annual weeklong event this summer.

“Early and often”: Considering accessibility at Vox, and beyond

Ricardo BiltonJuly 25, 2016

At Vox Media’s latest hackathon, devs focus on the distributed web, brand identity, and user accessibility

“The general question we presented everyone with was: What does it look like to build our brands and do storytelling on all of these new places?”

Madeline WelshJune 24, 2015

Here are some of the best projects from Vox Media’s annual hackfest

Here’s a look at some of the 24 projects that came out of this year’s Vax.

Caroline O'DonovanJanuary 27, 2015

At Datalore, data plus storytelling means empathy, humor, and games

At the MIT Media Lab, teams of designers, developers and storytellers pulled stories from eight different data sets.

Justin EllisJanuary 20, 2015

Hacking Journalism spent the weekend reimagining video — here’s what they came up with

A hackathon last weekend brainstormed new ideas for video — and tried to build early working versions of those ideas.

Justin EllisAugust 25, 2014

The Verge threw a hackweek and invited everyone they know

Developers, designers, and writers from across the Vox Media family are getting involved in building new storytelling tools for the tech site and plotting its next phase of growth.

Caroline O'DonovanApril 1, 2013

Shaping technology to the story: The Brown Institute for Media Innovation is finding its niche

“Sometimes the technology leads, and sometimes, the journalism has to lead.”

Justin EllisMarch 20, 2013

Homemade code: Vox Media invests in its own tech through a three-day hackathon

The company cut its developers loose to build the next round of apps and tools to enhance SB Nation, The Verge, and Polygon.

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