For years we heard that smartwatches were coming and they were going to be awesome. After the iPad was a thing, analysts started talking about the iWatch being the next big thing. Google was heavily rumored to be working on wearables too. Then, Pebble beat them all to the market …

Update:  Evernote has reversed course on its previous plan to make machine-learning an opt-out system. Instead, they company will allow customers to opt-in to allowing their notes to be used for machine learning. “[W]e will make machine learning technologies available to our users, but no employees will be reading note …

Curiosity has been on Mars for more than four years now, much longer than the primary mission of about 23 months. NASA builds ’em to last, though. Curiosity has sent back a wealth of data from Mars, but it can’t last forever. Indeed, it’s wheels are getting banged up, the …

Google today officially announced that it’s rebranding its Google Keyboard application for Android users to “Gboard,” the name sported by its newer keyboard app that sports a fully integrated Google Search engine, emoji and GIF search, and more. The keyboard’s Android launch had been spotted earlier this week by a number of media sites and …

Healthy Matcha Green Tea Almond Shortbread Cookies — sweet, buttery, sophisticated, and seriously delicious!  You’d never know these are sugar free, gluten free, dairy free, and vegan! I’ve made two shortbread recipes so far — Classic Shortbread Cookies and these Matcha Shortbread Cookies — and I am LOVIN’ ‘EM ?? They’re just so …

As many as 33% of autism cases could be explained by a scarcity of a protein called nSR100 in the brain, a new study in the journal Molecular Cell has revealed. Mathieu Quesnel-Vallières et al induced autistic-like behavior in mice by lowering the levels of nSR100 protein, which is important …

A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School, Indiana University and Brown University reports an association between higher alcohol intake and incidence of invasive melanoma in white men and women. White wine carried the most significant association, and the increased risk was greater for UV-protected parts of the body. Andrew …

A new Delaware filing for Airbnb, identified by CB Insights, suggests that the travel service has authorized another $153 million in Series F shares. This implies that they might be raising an extension to their financing $555 million round from a few months back. The filing prices the shares at …

Self-driving cars could be as fundamentally transformative to the American way of life as, well, cars. But they’ve always felt like a pie-in-the-sky technology rather than a product that could be right around the proverbial corner. Today, they took a significant step closer to widespread introduction, courtesy of Uber and …

Update: That didn’t take long. Sources have told Bloomberg that Verizon is exploring either paying significantly less for Yahoo or walking away from the deal entirely. Verizon is reportedly seeking a way to ensure that any future legal liability or disclosures fall solely on Yahoo in the event that Verizon …