With a breakthrough that sounds more like the plot from the latest instalment of James bond than an academic research paper, engineers at MIT have managed to recover speech by analyzing the tiny ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Your bag of potato chips can hear what you’re saying. Now, researchers from MIT are trying to ...

Watch what you say around that discarded potato chip bag (shh it’s listening). Researchers have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct intelligible audio that's spoken in a different room just by ...

Yale scientists have shown how to enhance the lifetime of sound waves traveling through glass — the material at the heart of fiber optic technologies. The discovery will be described in the January ...

You've been through your counter-espionage check list and scanned the room for hidden microphones and other kinds of surveillance devices. You've even gone as far as making sure you are in a room with ...

Boffins at MIT, Microsoft and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can bring audio to silent videos by reading vibrations that are not visible to the naked eye on objects. In one example, the team ...