In the modern day, we're used to being able to send messages to specific people over long distances, usually by way of a phone. But now, scientists at MIT have developed a way to use a laser to beam ...

On the heels of its smash-hit streaming event, Macbeth: A Surround Sound Experiment, Knock at the Gate will return to the space between your ears this May with Caesar: A Surround Sound Experiment, a ...

NPR introduces an experiment today that will bring vivid audio experiences to Facebook users — and produce valuable insights for NPR member stations. As listenership for digital audio increases ...

Sharing audio on social media is hard to do. Stan Alcorn documented many of the struggles two years ago in a widely cited Digg story — and not a whole lot has changed since then. The fundamental ...

On the heels of its streaming event, Macbeth: A Surround Sound Experiment, Knock at the Gate will return to the space between your ears this April with Caesar: A Surround Sound Experiment, a new ...

A team at NPR is the winner of a grant to develop virtual-reality stories that will transport listeners to audio-rich soundscapes. The NPR project is among 11 winners of the Journalism 360 Challenge ...

Though most know Google's AI-powered research assistant, NotebookLM, for its viral features like Audio Overviews and Mind Maps, these features weren’t part of the original launch when the tool first ...

Back in 2016, Mark Zuckerberg was quite loudly labelling the written word as dead. The future rested on video, he and other key Facebook executive would say on numerous occasions. And in fact, ...

Editor’s note: Public radio produces a lot of audio — but it doesn’t always get the attention on sharing platforms that it might deserve. Our friends at NPR Digital Services want to fix that, which ...