Richard Upchurch began his Brooklyn-based sound recorder business by making a handcrafted audio device for his nephew. A few more were requested by his teachers and then he started selling them online ...

When a plane goes down, one of the first things safety investigators do is search for its black box recorder, which can provide a valuable starting point for determining what went wrong. It's an ...

As part of our 20th anniversary coverage we thought it would be interesting to conduct brand new interviews with some of the artists interviewed in our very first issue way back in December 2001. We ...

TiVo Inc. and Comcast Corp. on Monday unveiled the long-awaited fruits of an agreement to work together: A cable box that runs TiVo's digital-video-recorder software. The collaboration between the ...

If Gary Shinnamon goes on trial for a March 4 crash that killed a child, the most damning evidence against him isn't likely to come from victims or an eyewitness. It will come from his 2010 Dodge ...

What exactly are a plane's black boxes and how do they work? Aircraft manufacturers equip all their planes with two black boxes – a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. A flight data ...