The Hackaday Prize is an award handed out each year since 2014 by Hackaday to designers who craft innovative solutions to problems. In the prize’s first year over 800 designers competed for recognition. Last year, that number grew to almost 1,000. The most recent batch of winning ideas will be discussed at an upcoming SXSW […]
When it comes to education there is Finland and there is everybody else. Finnish students are ranked as the highest performers in the world and their success has captured the attention of educators around the globe. Accordingly, this year’s SXSWEdu conference featured a panel with two Finns sharing big ideas for improving education on a massive […]
Machines that can learn are becoming more integrated into our lives at every turn. Drone delivery is already available to us and humorous stories about self-driving cars being pulled over are already circulating. The future is, as they say, here. With artificial intelligence already so present, important changes in technology are on their way. Among […]
The road to this year’s SXSW conference has been paved with some particularly potent discussion of various underrepresented identities. The voices of women in tech are being heard, as are those of POC. We have, in fact, discussed each of these issues here and here. Queer voices are being raised as well and, as we’ve mentioned, SXSW […]
Queer fashion is on the rise. It has garnered substantial media coverage, made waves at New York Fashion Week, and now it is, for the first time, the subject of a SXSW Interactive panel. One of the panel’s speakers is Anita Dolce Vita, the owner, creative director, and editor-in-chief of DapperQ, a queer, highly-trafficked style website […]
Anybody who was using Facebook in or after 2009 is likely to remember a little game named “FarmVille.” For every person who used and enjoyed “FarmVille” there is another person whose Facebook experience was riddled with annoyance at the constant stream of notifications it sent their way. Eamonn Carey was decidedly in the latter group […]
Libraries are bastions of culture that enable learning of all sorts. In 2016, however, libraries are also institutions that find themselves at a crossroads. While it is still too early to declare a free fall, library usage has declined in recent years and public opinion regarding the role of libraries has evolved. This moment requires […]