At a growing number of restaurants, your money — or your cash at least — is no good. For a variety of reasons, more eateries are refusing to allow cash payment, and only accepting debit and credit cards. One of them is fast-casual chain Sweetgreen, which went cashless last year. Separately, burger giant Shake Shack […]

On February 4th, Facebook celebrates 14 years of coming online. For me, I’ll celebrate 11 years on the network, and take stock of my love-hate relationship with the platform that’s now going through a sea-change. I remember when Facebook’s attraction was that it had a better interface than Orkut (remember that?), and allowed users to […]

House calls from doctors may be a throwback idea, but this year health-care firms are making a hard push to engage patients more where they live: On their mobile phones. It’s a matter of savings and building customer loyalty. “Our health clients are now talking a lot about … [digital] technologies that can enable customer […]

As more people seek to find out more about their ancestry, genetic test sales have become a growing businesses for companies like Amazon. But it’s not just humans who can search for the code to their past. Dog DNA tests have emerged on the market as a way to find out about more about your […]

Near the entrance to the Palace of Fine Arts, a woman was handing out fliers promoting the initial coin offering for RecordGram, a project that’s aiming to put song rights on the blockchain. She was pitching to dozens of people who were trying to get into the Blockchain Connect Conference, but were held up because […]

Tesla owners driving between San Francisco and Los Angeles can now take a break while recharging their cars. CNBC took a drive down to Kettleman City, California, to check out Tesla‘s first charging station with a lounge. The Kettleman City location has 40 high-speed chargers and the rest area is open 24/7. To get in, […]

A recent Google Home blunder highlights one of the search giant’s next big challenges with its smart speaker device. Anger broke out on social media Thursday afternoon when people started creating videos that showed that Google’s smart speaker, Home, couldn’t answer the question “Who is Jesus?” but could provide responses for Buddha, Muhammad, and Satan. […]

When CNBC’s Jim Cramer wants to remind himself what a fabulous quarter looks like, he goes back to the earnings reports from manufacturing colossus 3M. “Every earnings season, 3M, the old Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing, puts on a clinic, showing you exactly how it’s done,” the “Mad Money” host said. “3M gives you everything you […]

My editor recently asked me to imagine Apple’s 20-year vision. I can’t read Tim Cook‘s mind. But if I were the CEO of Apple, my vision would be just that — it would, literally, be my vision. Many people see the future of technology as a world where we are surrounded by technological devices, overwhelmed […]

When Mark Deppe, the acting director for University of California, Irvine’s esports program, thinks of esports, he doesn’t think of traditional sports games like NBA 2K. It may sound ironic, but compared to high-profile competition games like Overwatch and League of Legends, Take-Two Interactive’s basketball-themed series doesn’t stack up, Deppe told CNBC. “I’m a little […]