“When Bad Does Good,” the new music video by Chris Cornell, is an emotional journey — quite literally — for the late Soundgarden frontman’s fans and family, as it stars Cornell’s 12-year-old son, Christopher, playing a young Chris Cornell on a paper-boy route through the singer’s hometown of Seattle.

The way Siri typically works is that it listens to the user command when prompted, sends anonymized received speech data to Apple's servers, first converting from audio to plain text, then interpreting the command and sending the result back to the user's iPhone or iPad. The process of performing speech recognition is intensive, and is offloaded from devices to Apple's servers as it isn't necessarily capable of being performed on an item like an iPhone.

Spanish police are asking for help naming a rescued puppy that they plan to train as a new member of the force. Responding to a call, the authorities in Granada found a man kicking a German shepherd on the street. After stopping the man and rushing the dog to hospital, the officers decided to adopt and recruit the puppy.

For years I have dreamed of getting a Toyota Cressida, a rear-drive four-door sedan that shared its heart with the Supra of its day. Now with the Supra coming back, done in partnership with BMW, I have to wonder: The new four-door Toyota Supra is the BMW M340i, right?

Facebook faces a new controversy over alleged tactics it used to discredit its critics, embarrass rival firms and downplay problems at the company. The New York Times has published a wide-ranging account of the methods Facebook and a public relations firm used to "deny and deflect" criticism. The report has led US lawmakers to call for tighter regulation of social networks. Facebook has denied several of the claims.

Recently Elon Musk was asked to step down from the chairman position of Tesla. After this, the board of directors of Tesla chose a new chairman for the electric car company. Taking the position of Elon Musk will be Robyn Denholm who was holding the position of the Chief Financial Officer for the company Telstra. Telstra is a telecommunications company based in Australia.

2018’s wildfires are already proving to be more destructive than last year’s. The Camp Fire near Chico, California has already claimed at least 29 lives, destroyed more than 6,400 structures, and burned more than 111,000 acres since it began last Thursday. It is now the deadliest and most destructive fire in California’s history. Meanwhile, the Woolsey Fire continues to ravage Los Angeles County, burning 85,500 acres. This essay, published during last year’s brutal fire season, tackles m...

The future is now! Apple’s once-neglected Mac mini is coming in hot with a brand new, cutting edge, long awaited … processor upgrade? And a couple more ports? There has to be more, and we know how to find it—time for a teardown!

Subscription services are the future of gaming according to most major publishers. Companies like Microsoft and EA have already taken the plunge with services like Xbox Game Pass and Origin, and they won’t be the last. It seems Square Enix are among those hungrily eyeing the subscription model – the Japanese RPG publisher has released their latest earnings report, and it contains some interesting statements about where the company sees their core “HD games” business going.

Even if you don't agree with Ajit Pai's stance on some important issues, you might still want to hear about his latest campaign against robocalls. The FCC chairman has demanded (PDF) the adoption of a robust call authentication system to prevent caller ID spoofing, telling American carriers to implement the technology no later than 2019. Pai has sent letters to the CEOs of 14 voice providers to ask them to conjure up concrete plans to adopt the SHAKEN/STIR framework, which would valida...

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds comes out on PlayStation 4 in December - one year after it hit Xbox One as a timed console exclusive. Video game analyst Daniel Ahmad took to ResetEra to say the battle royale game was coming to Sony's console next month, and Eurogamer understands this to be true.

The 1918 Spanish flu outbreak killed more people than both world wars. Don’t imagine such a thing could never happen again, says the Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

London’s unpredictable pedestrians are teaching driverless cars to avoid hitting people. Software is being developed by a start-up based at Imperial College to scan and analyse footage of people walking along the capital’s busiest streets. It is then used to help autonomous vehicles better predict human behaviour and decision-making just before they dart across the road.

A new study provides evidence that smartphones can be more reinforcing than food for college students.

Musk fired SpaceX managers, aims to stay on schedule for mid-2019 launch.

Mr. Bowers, accused of killing 11 congregants, arrived in a wheelchair in a federal courthouse. Prosecutors said they would pursue the death penalty.

Google and a group of game cetologists have undertaken an AI-based investigation of years of undersea recordings, hoping to create a machine learning model that can spot humpback whale calls.

A now-suspended Twitter account that appears to belong to Cesar Sayoc Jr. — who was arrested earlier today on suspicion of mailing bombs to several prominent Democratic politicians, as well as CNN’s New York headquarters — previously sent graphic threats to a political commentator. When she tried to report the offending tweets, Twitter said they did not violate its terms of service, but later claimed they were abusive following public outcry.