Google will make a fresh foray into the smartwatch market by releasing two new devices in early 2017, a company product manager said in a report published Thursday. Google, which has lagged behind smartwatch rivals Apple and Samsung, will begin selling Android Wear 2.0 watches in next year’s first quarter, Jeff Chiang told The Verge. “We are working with a partner OEM on flagship watches for Android Wear 2.0,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement.

Walmart is dropping the online sale of T-shirts and hooded sweatshirts bearing the message“Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter,” it announced Tuesday night, following a complaint from the country’s largest police organization. The national Fraternal Order of Police had called the message “offensive” in a letter to the giant retailer earlier that day.

SAN FRANCISCO ― Uber’s self-driving cars will continue to ply the streets of San Francisco despite growing threats of legal action by state officials if the company refuses to obtain proper permits. Uber plans to defy the California Department of Motor Vehicles demand that it seek autonomous vehicle permits, because company executive Anthony Levandowski said Friday that the cars are not truly driverless and therefore not subject to the regulations.

This article is part of HuffPost’s “Reclaim” campaign, an ongoing project spotlighting the world’s waste crisis and how we can begin to solve it. Perhaps you’ve come across a seemingly clever T-shirt that suggests you“Save water. Drink beer.” Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. For every pint of beer you drink, a bucket of waterbasically goes down an expensive drain. A laboratory in Colorado is trying to change that.

Because of the ridge, motorists didn’t see the cones as quickly as they would on a flat road ― and in footage going viral online, multiple cars slide off the icy road, with some slamming into each other. Comcast is investigating what some motorists are calling unsafe conditions after the company’s ‎Xfinity workers blocked part of an icy road at the bottom of a blind ridge in Indianapolis.

Americans almost universally believe that success and prosperity are achieved through initiative, hard work and perseverance. If only it were that simple. Today there are obstacles facing young people in lower-income communities that only widen the opportunity gap. Urban youth lack access to quality education and to basic technologies, such as the Internet. The significance of technology access and knowledge in establishing a positive career trajectory can’t be underestimated.

Last year, Chipotle Mexican Grill fired a manager and an employee at a Boston-area restaurant where an outbreak of norovirus infected roughly 140 people. Now, as the food giant struggles to recover its sales, one of the Denver-based burrito chain’s two CEOs― who is among the highest-paid executives in the food industry ― is out. Montgomery Moran, who oversaw daily employee operations, stepped down on Monday and plans to retire from Chipotle next year, the company said.

In an effort to combat income inequality, Portland, Oregon, on Thursday became the first jurisdiction to adopt a tax penalty on companies with excessive CEO-worker pay gaps. Under the new law, companies doing enough business in Portland to pay the city’s business fee will be taxed an additional 10 percent if their CEO makes 100 times what median workers earn ― and an additional 25 percent if they make 250 times more.

A team of four graduate and undergrad students recently created “FiB,” a Google Chrome extension that verifies the authenticity of posts on Facebook to combat the circulation of fake news. What’s more, the group created the prototype in under 36 hours at a hackathon last month at Princeton University in New Jersey.

Workers at Roberta’s, a popular pizza joint in Brooklyn, received threatening phone calls last week from people who apparently believe a debunked online hoax claiming Hillary Clinton is tied to a child sex trafficking ring that operates out of pizza restaurants. In one such call placed on Dec. 1, police say, the caller told a 24-year-old employee, “You are going to bleed and be tortured.” According to DNAinfo,Roberta’s received a similar call the next day.