Researchers have created a headphone prototype that allows listeners to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 feet. Voices and sounds outside the bubble are quieted ...

In a restaurant or at a party, background noise can make it hard to hear people talking, even up close. But soon we could be ...

Shyam Gollakota, a University of Washington computer science professor and Seattle-based health tech startup founder, won a ...

What if you want to mute your co-workers’ chatter in the office, but you need to know when your boss is talking? New AI ...

You're at an office job, wearing noise-canceling headphones to dampen the ambient chatter. A co-worker arrives at your desk and asks a question, but rather than needing to remove the headphones and ...

New research suggests that plants seem to be emitting sounds and engaging in unheard conversations, especially when they're ...