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Jacqui Maher of The New York Times Talks About News Interactives in Austin

On October 26, Hacks/Hackers ATX welcomed Jacqui Maher of The New York Times Interactive News Technology group to discuss data-driven news interactives. The event was held at the offices of the Texas Tribune, with food sponsored by delicious Home Slice Pizza. Jacqui demonstrated projects, including the award-winning Toxic Waters, and then discussed ways in which programmers and journalists could collaborate. See her entire talk in the video below.

How Apple AI signals the decline of apps and the web itself

And what this might mean for news publishers Reflecting on Apple WWDC 2024 on Monday, my thoughts turned to the ill-fated Humane AI Pin. In bending over backwards to build a device without a screen, while also trying to ignite their own platform, Humane sold a cringe-inducing gadget that seemed

How Apple AI signals the decline of apps and the web itself

And what this might mean for news publishers Reflecting on Apple WWDC 2024 on Monday, my thoughts turned to the ill-fated Humane AI Pin. In bending over backwards to build a device without a screen, while also trying to ignite an entirely new platform, Humane sold a cringe-inducing gadget that

Building tools for journalism and civic information by prototyping with open source AI

Updates from the open source AI hackathon More than 100 journalists, coders, and product designers spent a weekend together in New York earlier in April to participate in the first of a series of hackathons convened designed to push the limits of the technology for journalism. To kick off the

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