Apple Is Ramping Up Its Medical Tech Workforce

Apple is hard at work on something related to health and biosensors, a handful of new hires and job postings suggest.

Lumosity To Pay $2 Million To Settle Claims Its Brain-Training Is Bogus

The Federal Trade Commission accused Lumosity of preying on consumers’ fears of cognitive decline.

Apple And Fitbit Sued Over Wearables Patents

A company is accusing Apple and Fitbit of investigating its biometric sensor tech with the underlying purpose of copying it for their own devices.

12 Times People In Tech Apologized In 2015

#Sorry.

Here’s Why Weight Watchers Is Struggling To Thrive Online

The 52-year-old weight-loss pioneer is attempting to reinvent itself on your smartphone. It isn’t easy.

The Data Whiz From “Moneyball” Is Getting Into Medicine

Big data at work in baseball — and biology.

These Were The 11 Biggest Wearables Stories In 2015

The year in wrists.

Just Mayo Can Keep Calling Itself Just Mayo

For Hampton Creek’s popular mayonnaise substitute, an identity crisis comes to an end.

The Inside Story Of How A Food Startup Cracked

For all of Good Eggs’ noble intentions, big money, and tech bells and whistles, reinventing the grocery store turned out to be much harder than anticipated. What does its stumble mean for the future of ordering food online?

A HIV-Positive Dating App Leaked 5,000 Users’ Data

More than 5,000 members of Hzone may have had their personal information compromised thanks to an unsecured database.

No One But Apple Really Knows How The Apple Watch Is Doing

More than six months after the Apple Watch became available to the public, people who buy it seem to like it a lot. But how many people are buying it?

Google’s Ambitious Biology Lab Gets A New Name: Verily

Goodbye, Google Life Sciences.

People Are Mad Because Weight Watchers’ App Has Glitches

A technical upgrade caused the popular food- and activity-tracking app and website to go glitchy on Thanksgiving, of all days.

The Uber Will See You Now

Uber-delivered flu shots are just the beginning.

Some iPad Pros Are Freezing And People Are Mad

Apple’s suggested solution: Turn it off and on again.

With $200 Million, Andreessen Horowitz Hopes To Digitize Biology

The decreasing cost of computing has made it easier than ever to make advances in life sciences.

Wearing This Bracelet Could Lower Your Stress Levels

Can this bracelet help you meditate and focus? The company that makes it, Caeden, sure hopes so.

The Story Behind Sean Parker’s $10 Million Donation To Autoimmune Research

BuzzFeed News talked to the ex-Facebook president and Napster co-founder, who’s passionate about combating immunological diseases, about his gift to the University of California, San Francisco.

Say Hello To The Apple That Never Browns

On his tiny family farm, Neal Carter invented an apple he thinks can help improve global health, minimize food waste, and change the agricultural landscape forever. But will anyone actually eat it?