Why does sound startle these caterpillars even though they don't have ears?

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it ...
Decrypt

Google Brings AI Music Generation to Gemini—We Tried It, and It's Too Little Too Late

Google AI music generator Lyria 3 is now available on the Gemini app. It works—mostly—but the competition has a big head ...
Macworld

ChatGPT is your iPhone’s secret superpower

Image Playground is Apple’s own AI image generator, featuring multiple illustration styles, doodle polishing support, offline access, and more. To elevate the quality of outputted images, you can rely ...
Dot Physics on MSN

Learn how to model a mass and spring using Python

Learn how to model a mass-spring system using Python in this step-by-step tutorial! 🐍📊 Explore how to simulate oscillations, visualize motion, and analyze energy in a spring-mass system with code ...
IEEE

Environmental Sound Recognition (ESR) with Python

Abstract: Environmental Sound Recognition (ESR) is an essential task in audio analysis, involving the identification and classification of sounds from various environmental contexts. This study ...
YourTango

People Who Try Too Hard To Sound Smart Often Use These 11 Phrases When They Talk To You

Many people who try very hard to sound smarter than they are and rely on overconfident behaviors to convince people chronically overpromise and underperform, according to a study from the Journal of ...
Tom's Guide

You can use Audio Sharing to connect two AirPods to the same iPhone — here's how to do it

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Wired

Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers. Today, security researchers at Belgium’s KU ...
Tom's Guide

I'm an audio editor — here are the headphones, earbuds and speakers that I actually use

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The Business Journals

How Sonic Fire Tech is using sound waves to put out fires in Los Angeles and beyond

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Cleveland-based Sonic Fire Tech ...
SlashGear

'Invisible Grabbers' Let You Move Objects Using Nothing But Sound Waves

Physically, sound is just pressure moving through a medium. If you harness that pressure correctly, you can actually push things around using nothing but sound. That's exactly what researchers at ...
Digital Trends

You Asked: Best TV picks for heavy daily use and are all-in-one soundbars a good idea?

In this episode of You Asked, we tackle three common home entertainment questions. First, we break down whether all-in-one soundbars are worth buying, especially for smaller rooms and simpler setups.