In the late 1980s, viewers across Chicago saw something they weren’t expecting. Their screens cut to static, then to a figure ...

Jim Henson trained him to be a puppeteer, and he also worked on ‘Sesame Street’ and appeared as Big Bird on ‘The Ed Sullivan ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's ...

High-end computer mice can be used to eavesdrop on the voice conversations of nearby PC users, researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have shown in a new proof-of-concept demonstration ...

Most states only require one party to consent for a conversation to legally be recorded. Is Illinois one of them? Here's what you should know. Is it legal to record a conversation in Illinois? It is ...

The takeaway: Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have shown that the sensors in high-resolution optical computer mice can detect tiny desk vibrations and translate them into speech.

Many cartoon characters are wildly over the top, with exaggerated expressions and hilarious voices, so it might surprise you that a lot of them are actually inspired by real people. In some cases, ...

On a Friday morning in July, lawyers representing Wells Fargo convened in a New Mexico hotel conference room for their latest bargaining session with employees seeking to unionize. But the day's ...

An unsettling new technique for surveillance can make use of the most minute scraps of data to listen in on cell phones calls. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

Nowadays, it seems that the limit to government surveillance is neither the law nor technological capabilities; it's storage space. In the 1990s, the U.S. National Security Agency was "annually ...

Have you ever thought about why almost all TV shows made for kids are animated and vice versa? There’s probably all kinds of science on that, right? We’re not qualified to even google it, but it’s ...