Consumer & Gadgets
For years, the Sonos Wi-Fi speakers have been beloved by music fans for the ease of listening to streaming music at home with great sound. Also, add the ability to add multiple speakers for even better sound without having ...
Aug 07, 2019
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Engineering
A University of Sussex research team have demonstrated the first sound projector that can track a moving individual and deliver an acoustic message as they move, to a high-profile tech and media conference in LA.
Aug 05, 2019
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Engineering
Say what? Laser plasma balls that can talk? The Pentagon? How, and for what? The answer is that instead of beaming a flashing light or shouting over a loudspeaker to keep people away from sensitive areas, new technology is ...
Aug 03, 2019 weblog
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Engineering
The way barn owl brains use sound to locate prey may be a template for electronic directional navigation devices, according to a team of Penn State engineers who are recreating owl brain circuitry in electronics.
Aug 01, 2019
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Software
When we watch movies or play video games, the right sound effects can help make scenes more realistic: When a grizzled gambler rolls a silver dollar across a card table in a silver screen saloon, the sound seems to travel ...
Aug 01, 2019
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Security
You type, hacker deciphers, your password is doomed. That is the grim scenario being discussed in a paper that is now on arXiv. "Hearing your touch: A new acoustic side channel on smartphones," is by authors Ilia Shumailov, ...
Jun 07, 2019 weblog
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Engineering
A sister company of Google, Alphabet's Wing Aviation, just got federal approval to start using drones for commercial delivery. Amazon's own drone-delivery program is ready to launch as well. As drones take flight, the world ...
May 03, 2019
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Engineering
If you've ever been to an air show, or lived near an air force base, you're familiar with sonic booms.
Mar 12, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Harman international is a known player in the marketplace for audio systems. This month, Harman is making news over a patent filing proposing how to make virtual reality sounds more realistic.
Mar 11, 2019 weblog
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Machine learning & AI
Advances in the field of AI have enabled the development of tools that can understand a variety of languages and communicate with humans. However, there are still aspects of human communication that AI systems struggle with, ...
Feb 26, 2019 feature
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Machine learning & AI
Orchestrating traffic is a crucial component of operating a data network. Modern networks may interconnect thousands of servers, storage units or switches that in turn run tasks like device booting and configuration, anomaly ...
Dec 20, 2018
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Engineering
A miniaturised version of a musical instrument that could be used to improve the quality of medical images has been manufactured by researchers at the University of Strathclyde.
Nov 08, 2018
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Hardware
Digital audio files for broadcast are typically created to suit particular combinations of loudspeaker type and position. Performance may suffer if playback conditions do not match the intended combination. Nevertheless, ...
Oct 17, 2018
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Robotics
A fully autonomous bat-like terrestrial robot, named Robat, can use echolocation to move through a novel environment while mapping it solely based on sound, according to a study published in PLOS Computational Biology by ...
Sep 06, 2018
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Engineering
Harvard University researchers have developed a new printing method that uses sound waves to generate droplets from liquids with an unprecedented range of composition and viscosity. This technique could finally enable the ...
Aug 31, 2018
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Sound is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.
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