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11-year-old wins $20,000 at AT&T hackathon for creating app that discourages texting while driving
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-09-24 05:58
Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark.Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark.
That's the sound of Rode Dog, an app designed by sixth-grader Victoria Walker in collaboration with David Grau, a creative director and designer at WLDG, an interactive agency in Santa Ana. All that barking is designed to get you to stop texting and driving.
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Indian hackers sweat to add zing to SMS platform
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-07-16 04:05
About 100 hackers from across the country are taking part in a ‘hackathon’ from early Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon. Rest assured, they are not planning something sinister like, say, breaking into top secret government documents and the like; instead they are developing new applications that could be used in an SMS platform.
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Mozilla Blog: The #HackWEEKDAY Contest at #HITB2012AMS
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-07-04 01:57
At the end of last May, Mozilla sponsored the HackWEEKDAY contest at the third annual Hack In the Box conference in the Netherlands. The contest ran alongside the rest of the HITB conference which featured presentations on security topics including new iPhone jailbreaks and a second day key note from Bruce Schneier.
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Bad Hackers Turned Good Get Top Spot in Facebook Manhunt
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-06-29 02:15
Spend your Saturday night in a dimly-lit room crowded with hackers and you may well land a job in recession-hit Europe. Recruiters are scouring hackathons -- venues for self-trained computer geeks to meet and train -- to find those who could help fend off cyberthreats.
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