The vehicle Elon Musk sees as the key to fast travel around the Earth and multiplanetary living has only taken short hops so far, but its next trip will reach 50,000 feet. The plan is to test out its aerodynamic capabilities and attempt a landing flip maneuver. SpaceX's stream begins at 7 AM, but stay tuned for more information on exactly when the test will go down if you want to watch live -- this could be historic. After multiple delays, CD Projekt Red's highly anticipated RPG (based on the table-top game of the same name) arrives on PC and consoles, and Jessica Conditt has spent about 20 hours in the world on Night City. The game is too deep for that to give a comprehensive view of what it contains (she took six hours to get beyond the prologue and meet Keanu Reeves) but more than enough to see if its 80s-tinged vision of the future holds up.

Smart speakers like Google Home and Amazon Alexa could be used by criminals to listen to and decipher a password or PIN being typed in on a nearby phone. Researchers from the University of Cambridge built their own version of a smart speaker to closely resemble those which are commercially available. Sound recordings from the gadget were inputted into a computer for analysis and experts investigated if the sound and vibrations caused by typing on a smartphone screen could be used to guess a five-digit passcode. When the phone was placed within 20cm (7.8inches) of the custom-built device, the computer was able to guess the code with 76 per cent accuracy in three attempts. This graphic outlines the general flow of the experiment.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. While the coronavirus pandemic has hindered a fair amount of in-person dates, Tinder users have kept on swiping, according to the app's newly released "Year in Swipe 2020" report. In its data-backed findings, Tinder suggests that Gen Z "never stopped dating" and instead discovered creative ways to stay connected with their potential matches, which included updating their profile bios and sending direct messages. Tinder released its annual "Year in Swipe" report for 2020.

Tinder parent company Match Group is partnering with one of the largest anti-sexual violence groups in the US to audit how it handles reports of sexual assault across its many dating platforms. The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) will "conduct a comprehensive review of sexual misconduct reporting, moderation and response across Match Group's dating platforms and to work together to improve current safety systems and tools," the company said on Monday. The first phase of the review will focus on Tinder, Hinge and Plenty of Fish before moving on to Match's other platforms -- the company owns around 40 other dating brands altogether. The partnership, which Axios was the first to report on, will continue through 2021, with recommend changes rolling out "shortly thereafter." This is an important move for Match, even if there aren't many details at the moment. While you frequently hear of horror stories, it's difficult to put an exact number to the incidents of sexual assault that happen through Tinder and other online dating platforms.

Google and Apple have announced that Apple Music is now available to stream on all Google Nest smart speakers without needing to resort to Bluetooth pairing. To get started, you'll need to make sure you have the Google Home app, which you can download from either the App Store (iPhone/iPad) or the Google Play Store (Android). After you log in to the Google Home app with your Google account, head over to the Assistant Settings inside your account and tap Music. Under More music services, select Apple Music, then Link account on the next screen. Follow the prompts to sign in to your Apple Music account (if your Apple Music account is different than your main Apple ID, you'll need to switch accounts first) and you'll see Apple Music appear in your list of music services.

It's hard to imagine Apple and Google playing nice on a device, but that can be the case starting today. That is, for music streaming, anyway. Google announced today that Apple Music is now rolling out to Assistant-enabled speakers and displays like the Nest Audio, Nest Hub Max, Nest Mini and more. Apple Music subscribers can ask the Assistant to find and play your songs, albums and playlists using their voice after they link their accounts in the Google Home app. You'll be able to set Apple Music as your default music streaming service, and then when you ask your speaker to "play K-Pop Hits playlist," it will stream from Apple's library.

Late last month, Snap released Spotlight, a new part of its Snapchat app that, on first swipe, closely resembles TikTok. The update adds a new tab to the app dedicated entirely to short, entertaining vertical videos. It incorporates some of TikTok's signature features, like vertical swipe and the ability to soundtrack your videos with music that's been uploaded to the platform. It's even powered by a mysterious, personalized recommendation algorithm so that, like TikTok, it serves you an endless stream of content without requiring that you follow or add the creators who made it. All of this amounts to a user experience that almost feels like a TikTok feed inside your Snapchat app, but with one noticeable difference: Unlike TikTok's carousel of delights, the content on Spotlight ranges from limp and joyless to cringey and grotesque. The notoriously confusing-to-adults messaging platform once seemed like a plausible rival to Facebook, until Facebook's Instagram ripped it off with Stories, rendering it obsolete for many millennials like myself.

Even the most advanced Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have no real understanding of what they are really doing. The first autonomous cars had fatal accidents when their human drivers were not paying attention as they were programmed to deal with only a set of cars with pre-determined speeds and could not cope up with the complexity of continuous interactions with human drivers they faced (and if they had tested in India, they would have gone crazy with the vehicles coming headlong, or even on the wrong side of the road!). Similarly, a facial recognition system for identifying criminals failed because the input dataset was skewed by police mug-shots in which no-one was smiling. Over the years, AI has become so ubiquitous that we do not even think we are using it. Web Searches, Google Translate, Voice Assistants like Alexa and Siri, fraud alerts from credit-card companies, Amazon recommendations, Spotify playlists, traffic directions, weather forecasts are all taken for granted.

Amazon's fourth-generation Echo Alexa smart speaker is a complete redesign in form and audio, with the popular device transformed into a ball of sound. The Echo costs £89.99 and is Amazon's mid-range speaker, sitting above the £49.99 Echo Dot and below the £189.99 The first smart speaker on the market, the original Echo set the standard in 2014 with a tall cylinder shape and 360-degree audio – resembling a Pringles can with a speaker in it. Six years later and on its fourth generation, Amazon has now broken the mould with a new spherical shape and directional audio. The plastic and mesh fabric ball has one woofer and two tweeter speakers producing directional, stereo sound – and is designed to sit in the corner of a room rather than the centre of it.

With the recent explosion in popularity of voice assistant devices, there is a growing interest in making them available to user populations in additional countries and languages. However, to provide the highest accuracy and best performance for specific user populations, most existing voice assistant models are developed individually for each region or language, which requires linear investment of effort. In this paper, we propose a general multilingual model framework for Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models, which can help bootstrap new language models faster and reduce the amount of effort required to develop each language separately. We explore how different deep learning architectures affect multilingual NLU model performance. Our experimental results show that these multilingual models can reach same or better performance compared to monolingual models across language-specific test data while require less effort in creating features and model maintenance.