It’s only Wednesday and Android Wear users are already having an eventful week.

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Fossils have revealed that prehistoric mammals were the same color as modern species.

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Because if everything was going well, we wouldn’t need so many black ops supersoldiers, would we? Activision and Treyarch released the official story trailer for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and it doesn’t look like a future anyone but a Call of Duty character would be comfortable in. There’s flooding, drought, riots, terrorist attacks and some ominous sirens. There’s also some birds, which could be good or bad, depending. Luckily, we’ve got all sorts of new cybernetic enhancements to fight against our enemies, though that seems to be part of the problem. Here’s the quote to go with the story:

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Only six months ago, American eSports team Counter Logic Gaming (CLG) was less than fifteen days from declaring bankruptcy.  The team decided to continue pursuing their passion of playing competitive video games despite a gloomy financial outlook.  It has paid off.

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It’s cheap and has some impressive specs – there’s little to dislike in the Nexus 5X, says Forbes contributor Jay McGregor in this hands-on review of Google’s budget smartphone.

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The project Coursera and Udacity are trying to solve is to develop shorter, cheaper and more accessible credentials – badges – that employers will recognize and value as an alternative to the existing, expensive and constantly derided degree-industrial complex.

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Executive game director Jean-Francois Dugas speaks with Forbes contributor Todd Kenreck about how they are improving combat so it is just as adaptive and fun as stealth.

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One of the key components of Oracle’s current value proposition is the idea that the company has not missed the boat when it comes to cloud adoption. The question I want to ask is what does that $1.5 billion really represent? Is it evidence that Oracle has a thriving cloud ecosystem that is attracting customers? Or is it more evidence of discipline and assertiveness in directing client revenue toward cloud spending, through mechanisms such as “cloud credits” without really achieving adoption?

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Not long after she graduated from college, Jackie Weidman moved to Ecuador to teach environmental education with Manna Project International, hoping to focus on the impacts of climate change. After studying the subject in school and watching how the US remained in denial that climate change was occurring, she figured she’d be fighting a similar battle in the communities she worked with.

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