Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio

For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from ...

You need to listen to Laurie Spiegel’s masterpiece of early ambient music

Tracks like “Patchwork” and “A Folk Study” dabble in the sort of bouncy arpeggios that beg comparisons to The Who’s “Baba ...

How NPR reporters built an archive to document January 6th

Five years ago, a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol with the goal of stopping the certification of the presidential election. NPR's Tom Dreisbach wanted to preserve a record of the moments before, during, ...
American Library Association

2026 Odyssey Awards for Excellence in Audiobook Production for Children and Young Adults announced

CHICAGO — Live Oak Media, producer of the audiobook “Clack, Clack! Smack! A Cherokee Stickball Story,” has won the 2026 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production for Children. Listening ...
Good e-Reader

Anna’s Archive no longer has its primary domain name

Anna’s Archive has just lost its primary ORG domain name in a surprise suspension and has been placed on ServerHold status, an action typically taken by the domain name registry. Users will not be ...
The New York Times

NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out. By Eric Niiler The ...
IEEE

Detecting Deepfake Audio Using Spectrogram-Based Machine Learning Approaches

The increasing ability of deep learning models to produce realistic-sounding synthetic speech poses serious problems for privacy, public trust, and digital security. To c...Show More The increasing ...
IEEE

Detecting Deepfake Audio Using Spectrogram-Based Machine Learning Approaches

Abstract: The increasing ability of deep learning models to produce realistic-sounding synthetic speech poses serious problems for privacy, public trust, and digital security. To counter this danger, ...
IJNet

7 audio and video editing tools for journalists

Editing multimedia content is challenging, especially when you’re not working with the right tools. As demand among news audiences shifts to video and audio, newsrooms, journalists and content ...
KQED

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...
WGBH

Broadway for everyone: How audio description brings live theater to blind audiences

In the back of the Boston Citizens Opera House, Laura Pailler prepares for a matinee of “Funny Girl,” the revival musical about an aspiring comedian and Broadway star. Pailler is here to provide audio ...