If you were given one week to build something new or innovative that would benefit people or your company, what would you create? Here at Business Insider, our tech team was given that opportunity in our first-ever hack week in December 2016 – and it was such a success that we recently held “Hack Week 2: The Unhackening.” As a way to kick off our hacking, we hold a team meeting to pitch ideas, review some suggestions for projects, and form teams. All participants are then given four days – Monday through Thursday – to work on their passion project, concluding with presentations on Friday. Each participant/team is able to use technologies they prefer, which really allows for creativity and gives everyone a chance to stretch their legs and work on something cool they may not have had time for otherwise. Our first hack week, held last December, was a fun experiment that culminated in the whole team gathering in our building’s … [Read more...] about Insider Inc. held its second-ever hackathon — these are some of the top ideas our tech teams came up with
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Trump: Democrats ‘don’t really wan’t’ DACA, they just want to take ‘money away from our military’
President Donald Trump railed against Democrats and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Sunday. He said Democrats “don’t really want [DACA],” but just want to take “desperately needed money away” from the military. The tweet came one day after the Trump administration resumed processing young undocumented immigrants’ applications to renew their DACA protections. President Donald Trump lashed out at the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) in a Sunday morning tweet. “DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military,” he wrote. The tweet came one day after the Trump administration, citing a recent court order, resumed processing young undocumented immigrants’ applications to renew their protections under DACA. Trump has railed … [Read more...] about Trump: Democrats ‘don’t really wan’t’ DACA, they just want to take ‘money away from our military’
Our gambling guide to the best bets for the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs
After an exciting weekend of Wild Card action, just eight teams remain in the battle to become Super Bowl champions. More importantly for the gambling public, there’s just seven games of professional football remaining before we have to resort to gambling on basketball and baseball as we wait for the 2018 preseason. Thankfully, as the slates get shorter, our gambling options grow far wider, with props and side bets available on every game remaining on the NFL schedule.Last week we went 3-1 against the spread as every underdog was able to cover the number, with two of them winning outright. Unfortunately, our prop bet picks were slightly less successful, resulting in our winnings being cut down to a meager $65. That said, had Marcus Mariota completed one more pass and Tyrod Taylor gained just one more yard rushing, we’d be sitting pretty with $275 in our pockets. I’m not crying over lost wages, but rather trying to take comfort in the fact that it feels … [Read more...] about Our gambling guide to the best bets for the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs
In-N-Out has added its first new menu item in 15 years — here’s our review
In-N-Out has added hot cocoa to the menu in at least some locations. This is the first new menu item that the chain has added in 15 years. We gave it a try. In-N-Out has added its first new menu item in more than a decade: hot cocoa. Made with hot water and Ghirardelli chocolate and topped with (optional) marshmallows, the drink began cropping up on menus in late December. An eight-ounce cup costs $1.60. The West Coast burger chain has a noticeably slimmer menu than McDonald’s and Burger King, with few options beyond burgers, fries, and shakes. The chocolatey addition could be a hint that In-N-Out is more seriously considering expanding into chillier regions. In November, news broke that the chain will open a distribution center for operations in Colorado. In-N-Out’s hot cocoa isn’t exactly new, but returning. It debuted on the menu in the 1950s, shortly after the first In-N-Out location opened outside … [Read more...] about In-N-Out has added its first new menu item in 15 years — here’s our review
Stephen Colbert proves he doesn’t have Trump fatigue with new show, ‘Our Cartoon President’
PASADENA, CALIF.—Trump fatigue? No such thing in comic Stephen Colbert’s world.“He is president of the United States,” Colbert said Saturday. “There is no escaping it. It’s like having oxygen fatigue.”Colbert and his CBS Late Show vaulted to the top of the late-night comedy heap with his sharp, topical humour about U.S. President Donald Trump. Now he’s expanding into the world of animation with a Showtime series, Our Cartoon President, that debuts later this month.The series is an outgrowth of an occasional feature on Late Show. Colbert and his executive producer, Chris Licht, developed it into a stand-alone series and hired a team to execute it that works out of the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York, where the Late Show is filmed.While the late-night show finds comedy out of day-to-day news, Our Cartoon President seeks to develop characters of the president, his family and administration figures. Each episode takes two to three months to … [Read more...] about Stephen Colbert proves he doesn’t have Trump fatigue with new show, ‘Our Cartoon President’