Three years ago Dyan deNapoli, a 57-year-old author and TED speaker who specializes in penguins, was given a 23andMe genetic testing kit for her birthday. Intrigued, she spit in the tube and sent the results to a lab in Burlington, N.C. About two months later she received a pie chart breaking down where her ancestors […]
Read moreThe business of personal genetic-testing kits is booming, with consumers able to learn about their ancestry and health risks at the cost of just $99 to a few hundred dollars. Should you be afraid? Some individuals worry they will discover things about their DNA that will be frightening — namely, the risks they run of […]
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Robots make the food at this Boston restaurant, but the recipes come from vaunted chef Daniel Boulud
Automation is infiltrating the food and hospitality business, from ordering kiosks at McDonald’s to the robotic bartender aboard the Royal Carribean’s cruise ship the Symphony of the Seas. Rather than make technology to be used by other food businesses, one start-up called Spyce has started a fast-casual restaurant with a robot-operated kitchen in Boston. The […]
Read moreInstagram is making its presence known in the Big Apple with its first New York office, where the company plans to eventually house up to 50 percent of its engineering staff. “We were just finding from a recruiting perspective it’s going to be really great to just be able to expand,” said Instagram co-founder and […]
Read moreApple Inc has hired a senior self-driving car engineer from Alphabet’s Waymo unit, Apple said on Friday, a sign that the iPhone maker maintains autonomous vehicle ambitions. Apple hired Jaime Waydo, previously a systems engineer at Waymo, Apple said, confirming a report by The Information, a technology news provider. Waymo did not immediately return a […]
Read moreBitcoin is on the decline, but ethereum might be a better bet in cryptocurrency, Brian Kelly told CNBC. Bitcoin, the most popular digital coin and largest by market cap, was priced around $6,400 on Friday — a staggering decline from its December highs of around $19,500. But cryptocurrency is still a relatively new industry, and […]
Read moreAs stocks turned positive towards the end of Friday’s trading session, CNBC’s Jim Cramer warned investors not to get too cheery about Wall Street shrugging off the escalating trade war. “Many bulls were heartened that the stock market clawed its way back up and at one time was almost even, despite the tariffs. I question […]
Read moreSign up and buckle up: consumers are embracing a new long-term trend that has become so powerful and pervasive that CNBC’s Jim Cramer can’t ignore it. “The best secular trend out there right now? … I think it’s the rise of the subscription economy, the legion of companies that make their money by selling some […]
Read moreRespected geopolitical analyst George Friedman thinks blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, will one day become “obsolete.” “I’ve never known any encryption technology not to be broken,” Friedman told CNBC Thursday on the sidelines of the UBS CIO Global Forum in New York. “I doubt between Russia, China, U.S. intelligence services” that blockchain can’t be decrypted. […]
Read moreElizabeth Holmes, the college dropout who founded the blood-testing company Theranos, and the firm’s ex-president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani were indicted Friday on criminal charges related to false claims they made about the accuracy of their testing devices. Both Holmes, who stepped down as CEO of the financially crippled company earlier Friday, and Balwani appeared in […]
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