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Besides feverish excitement, hackathons really can spur innovation

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imageA 360 of a hackathon in full flight.Carbon Visuals/Flickr, CC BY-SA

It’s 26 hours into the Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon, and I am on my ninth cup of coffee. We have just over five hours until “show and tell” time, when we need to have a working mobile app.

Among the screwed-up butcher’s paper diagrams, leftover...

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Demagoguery the American way

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Is it time to think the unthinkable? Could Donald Trump actually become the next president of the United States? He already looks a certainty to become the Republican nominee – something not many pundits were willing to concede until recently. Unfortunately, as Trump might say, he is “winning, winning,...

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