ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) recently announced machine learning capabilities to tackle some of the biggest problems in IT today. With ServiceNow Intelligent Automation Engine, companies can now prevent outages before they happen, automatically categorize and route incidents, predict future performance and benchmark performance against IT peers. Capability will also bring machine learning to ServiceNow cloud services…
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This chart shows the 17 US companies with the biggest piles of cash
American companies are hoarding cash like crazy. In the second quarter of 2017, twenty-four of the largest American companies are holding on to a whopping $1.01 trillion in cash reserves, up 1.63% from the first quarter, according to analysis of second quarter earnings reports by Bank of America. Of the $1.01 trillion, just over 80%…
Millennials have very different spending habits than their parents
Reuters Millennials are using less credit than their parents did when they were younger, according to TransUnion. But two categories are different: personal and auto loans. Millennials’ needs are not vastly different from those of the generation before them at their age, but modern technology offers a huge opportunity to lenders. Millennials are using credit…
Essential, the New Startup of Android Creator Andy Rubin, Just Made a Huge Privacy Slip-Up
There’s a lot of excitement around Andy Rubin’s new smartphone company, Essential–the Android creator has the pedigree, more than $300 million in funding, and a $700 phone to sell. However, Essential, which has been taking preorders for its new handset, just made a big slip-up. Earlier this week, it shared the personal details of dozens…
ERICSSON CAPTURES CRUCIAL STEPS TO PREPARE FOR A WORLD POWERED BY IoT – InBusiness
by inbusiness 15 billion Internet of Things (IoT) connections worldwide by 2021 IoT to address global challenges including climate change and fast urbanization Ericsson is showcasing its latest solutions in the Internet of Things (IoT) space during IoTX, the biggest IoT event in the Middle East powered by GITEX, between March 29 and 31 at…
HBO’s ‘Insecure’ has the hottest music on TV — we talked to the guy who puts it together
HBO HBO’s original series “Insecure,” known for its humorous portrayal of life in LA, has been quietly gaining recognition as a beacon of hot tracks. The series has a popular Spotify playlist that contains season one and two’s soundtrack, with new songs added weekly as season two progresses — the playlist is currently at 137…
Hurricane Harvey’s Massive Flooding Also Destroyed Hundreds of Thousands of Cars
Hurricane Harvey’s massive flooding has displaced tens of thousands of people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes across southeast Texas and Louisiana. Now, Wired reports Harvey’s devastating path has also left as many people without cars. Insurance companies have received at least 100,000 claims for cars impacted by Harvey, according to Wired. Seventy-five percent…
A pitiful Labor Day box office ends a historically awful summer movie season
Lionsgate We’ve been leading up to a big crash at the box office this summer and that’s just what happened over the Labor Day weekend. For years now studios have all gone on break over the long holiday weekend, as most audiences skip the theaters and instead venture on vacations or the beach. But this…
Universal Basic Income Could Grow the U.S. Economy by an Extra 12.5%
A team of economists from the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute conclude in a new research study that implementing a guaranteed income of $1,000 a month for all Americans would accelerate U.S. economic growth by an additional 12.56% over eight years if it were financed by increased federal debt. If the same program were financed by increased…
Red Hat and Microsoft Simplify Containers to Help Enterprises Accelerate to the Hybrid Cloud
DUBAI, UAE, 3rd September, 2017 – Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) today announced an expansion of the two companies’ alliance with plans for new initiatives aimed at enabling enterprises to more easily adopt containers. This includes native support for Windows Server containers on Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated…
This is the new, cheaper Nest Thermostat
The rumor mill has been buzzing for a while now about a new, more affordable Nest Thermostat — and sure enough: it’s now official. They’re calling it the Nest Thermostat E. As rumored, they’ve shaved off a good chunk of the price tag; whereas the original Nest Learning Thermostat will continue to sell for $250,…
Pium’s smart diffuser wants to design a new user experience for your nose
When Google Home was unveiled, many people immediately noted the smart speaker’s striking resemblance to a home fragrance diffuser. Now there’s a smart home fragrance diffuser that looks like a smart speaker. Pium, a self-described “next-generation smart diffuser,” is currently participating in Samsung Electronic’s Creative Square incubator program. Visitors to… Read More
Guy makes a Polaroid camera which instantly ‘prints’ GIFs
Ever wished your Polaroid could print out GIFs instead of just photos? New York-based developer Abhishek Singh did. SEE ALSO: Turn your iPhone photos into polaroids instantly with this printer The “InstaGif NextStep” works similar to a Polaroid camera, simply power up your camera, press a button — and a “picture” pops out. Each snap…
Sony’s Xperia XZ1 will ship with Android Oreo and a camera that doubles as a 3D scanner
It’s hard to shake the feeling that Sony’s Xperia line exists primarily as a method for getting its camera technology out in the world. It’s not that they’re not solid phones, it’s just the company doesn’t seem particularly concerned with selling a lot of them, or doing much innovating outside of the imaging side of…
Nest Doesn’t Want You to Notice Its New Smart Thermostat
Alphabet’s Nest Labs has expanded its smart thermostat line with a new model designed to not be noticed in the home. The company on Thursday unveiled the Nest Thermostat E, the latest installment in its line of thermostats. Like its predecessors, the Thermostat E can be controlled via the company’s Nest smartphone app, but comes…
This Iconic Mobile Computing Brand Is Poised for a Comeback
Palm, one of the iconic brands in the development of what we today know as smartphones, is reportedly poised to make a comeback. There was a time–as in, two decades ago–when the Palm Pilot represented the cutting edge in mobile computing. The personal digital assistant (PDA) could help people manage their contacts and calendar items,…
Olympus makes a bid for beginners with the E-M10 Mark III
Olympus makes extremely good mirrorless cameras. I’ve been using a first-generation OM-D for a number of years now, and I know a couple of TechCrunch staff members who swear by theirs. Two years after releasing the last camera in the E-M10 line, the company is back with the Mark III, which brings a couple of…
Sony made the perfect wireless earbuds for all you crazy distracted music lovers
Wireless earbuds, like AirPods and Bragi Dash, are all the rage these days, but they all have one common problem: You can’t hear ambient sounSupportd around you. But with Sony’s Xperia Ear Open-style concept wireless earbuds, you can hear all the wonderful (and terrible) sounds around you while looking like someone straight out of a…
The 29 highest-paid MLB players of all time
Mark J. Terrill/AP Alex Rodriguez hasn’t played a game in a year and yet he will still be paid $21 million this season from the New York Yankees, adding to what is already his status as baseball’s highest-paid player of all time. Thanks to a pair of contracts worth more than $250 million, Rodriguez has made…
WALL STREET PAYDAY: Banks could reap $90 million in fees from the Gilead-Kite deal (GILD)
Henny Ray Abrams/AP Wall Street investment banks are set to make as much as $90 million in fees from Gilead Sciences’ $11.9 billion acquisition of Kite Pharma. Gilead, the maker of blockbuster hepatitis C and HIV treatments, announced Monday it had acquired the cancer-immunotherapy company at a 29% premium, breaking a long hiatus from major dealmaking….