Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.

Apple has made advancements to its Siri personal assistant in every version of iOS, but it’s still looks and acts nearly the same as it did back when it was introduced in iOS 5! Finally, with iOS 14, Siri is getting a much-needed redesign. Here’s what you can expect from Siri when you upgrade to iOS or iPadOS 14.

Three Tesla workers say they’ve been fired after opting to stay home from the Fremont, Calif., factory rather than risk being potentially exposed to the coronavirus. The company, which reopened in May in defiance of county orders at CEO Elon Musk’s direction, told workers they could remain home if they had reservations about working during a pandemic. If “you feel uncomfortable coming back to work at this time, please do not feel obligated to do so,” Musk told workers in an email as he ...

Nintendo’s Wii and Wii U platforms will get a new game this summer: Shakedown: Hawaii, developer Vblank Entertainment’s 2019 sequel to Retro City Rampage. Both versions will be released this summer, but as you can probably expect when a modern game is ported to a nearly 14-year-old console, there’s a catch.

Just four locations will remain open. The rest are closing.

One of the questions that the crypto community asks experts is whether Bitcoin will be as easy to use as the U.S. dollar. If so, the next question is when it may happen and how soon the public will be able to feel the change. The leading developers claim that the cryptocurrency will inevitably surpass gold and become a more valuable asset.

In 2013, Steven Spielberg – the most popular filmmaker of all time – explained to an audience at the University of Southern California why video games don’t move audiences in the same way as Hollywood blockbusters. “The second you pick up the controller, the heart turns off,” he said, ruminating about the “great abyss” in empathy that opens up between the player of a game and its characters.

Is there intelligent life out there in the Milky Way beyond our own Solar System? If so, how many alien civilizations are there presently within our own galaxy, and how far away is the closest one? It's a question that's mystified humanity for as long as we've looked up at the stars and wondered about perhaps the greatest of all the existential questions we could possibly ask, "are we alone?"

A B.C. archaeologist is digging through the garbage of a gold rush restaurant to unearth the history of the several thousand Chinese miners who used to dine there, 150 years ago.

The audio team traveled to the desert and blew stuff up to create explosion sounds for Halo Infinite.

Police in riot gear swinging batons. Plumes of tear gas. Protesters on their knees, pepper-sprayed in the face. Rubber bullets shot from moving cars. Such scenes have played out in some 75 cities across the US after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. US president Donald Trump has called for authorities to shut down protests with tougher policing, but he’s wrong. Decades of research show the right way to police a protest is to avoid excess force, remain calm, ...

Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in "private" mode.

Magnetic fields present in the early universe may have shrunk the volume of our galaxy by nearly 30 per cent. These fields seem to concentrate matter in the centre of galaxies, which might help explain why some black holes in such locations grow so fast.

A North Texas Holocaust survivor is celebrating reaching the century mark. "I was born in 1920, now it's 2020," Heinz Wallach told CBS Dallas. His daughter, Tamar Leventhal, organized a parade for her father's birthday with the help of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. "I've been emotional the last two weeks putting it all together and realizing how many people love my father," said Leventhal.

Phillip Lafayette Gibbs met Dale Adams when they were in high school, in Ripley, Mississippi, a town best known as the home of William Faulkner’s great-grandfather, who ran a slave plantation, fought in the Mexican-American War, raised troops that joined the Confederate Army, wrote a best-selling mystery about a murder on a steamboat, shot a man to death and got away with it...

Two federal agencies this week took steps to increase hunting and trapping on several national preserves in Alaska and in the popular Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The moves drew alarm from conservation groups who said the new rules will support extreme measures to kill predators and their young in national preserves in Alaska. They said a proposed rule change would allow brown bear baiting in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge for the first time.