Fuelled by caffeine, pizza and adrenaline, sleep-deprived programmers explored high-tech solutions to prevent a repeat of past calamities in the annual haj pilgrimage.
In a cavernous hall in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, thousands of software professionals and students competed in the kingdom's first-ever hackathon, a coding festival ahead of the world's largest pilgrimage later this month.
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