News tagged with audio
Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, scientists built a loudspeaker made of carbon nanotubes that produced sound and music based on the thermoacoustic effect. Now, a different team of scientists has built a loudspeaker ...
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Stanford computer scientists find Internet security flaw
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford Security Laboratory create a computer program to defeat audio captchas on website account registration forms, revealing a design flaw that leaves them vulnerable ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 24, 2011 |
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Mogees project delivers haptic symphony (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Creative sound-making is as fluid and changing as it implies, incorporating everything from troupes that bang on every hard surface imaginable to creators of electronic music, to musicians ...
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Jawbone releases 'Big' speakers for smartphones
Jawbone began rolling out an even louder version of its portable wireless speakers, which have caught fire among smartphone and tablet users.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 01, 2012 |
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Build music with blocks: Audio d-touch
Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new way to generate music and control computers.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 24, 2011 |
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Wall Street Journal launches WikiLeaks rival
The Wall Street Journal launched a WikiLeaks rival called "SafeHouse" on Thursday, calling for online submissions to help uncover fraud and abuse in business and politics.
May 05, 2011 |
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'Talking dictionaries' document vanishing languages
Digital technology is coming to the rescue of some of the world's most endangered languages. Linguists from National Geographic's Enduring Voices project who are racing to document and revitalize struggling languages are ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Getting families and friends together again, virtually
(PhysOrg.com) -- A fireside chat, sharing photos with granddad, a family get-together to play Monopoly on a Sunday afternoon? Digital media designed for the individual has hastened the demise of collective ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 26, 2010 |
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Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIP
(AP) -- Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Trumping the trumpets: How audio engineering helps tone down vuvuzela disruption (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to researchers at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary, University of London, anyone watching the World Cup on their computer can now filter out the droning sounds of vuvuzela ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Speech Synthesizer Helps Movie Critic
The voices you hear on message services are often created artificially by fitting together short audio snippets from a large library of vocalized words and sounds. Scientists are now moving beyond the older ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 15, 2010 |
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New flat flexible speakers might even help you catch planes and trains
(PhysOrg.com) -- A groundbreaking new loudspeaker, less than 0.25mm thick, has been developed by University of Warwick engineers, it's flat, flexible, could be hung on a wall like a picture, and its particular ...
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Playback: 130-year-old sounds revealed
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early 1880s, three inventors—Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, collectively making up the Volta Laboratory Associates—brought together their ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Happy 30th birthday, Walkman
Thirty years ago Sony launched the Walkman, a gadget which revolutionised the way people around the world listened to music but has since been overtaken by an icon of the digital age -- the iPod.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Amazon lets authors mute Kindle books read-aloud feature
Amazon is yielding to concerns of authors by letting them selectively silence a read-aloud feature in Kindle 2 electronic book readers that hit the market in February.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 01, 2009 |
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