Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation have developed a method to secure retail transactions using small samples of audio to authenticate devices equipped with Near-Field Communication ...

Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new contractor before she left for the day ...

Classic-gaming archaeology doesn’t always revolve around digging up rare and unreleased games. Sometimes, it’s about taking well-known relics and reconstructing them from newly unearthed and ...

Imagine the following scenario: A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new contractor before she left for the day ...

Stability AI, the startup behind the AI-powered art generator Stable Diffusion, has released an open AI model for generating sounds and songs that it claims was trained exclusively on royalty-free ...

Drones are often created with synths, or perhaps a guitar run through a reverb pedal or two, but we've taken a slightly ...

The latest version of Stability AI’s Stable Audio audio generator now lets users create three-minute-long songs. The latest version of Stability AI’s Stable Audio audio generator now lets users create ...

Drawing upon the potential of Meta‘s open-source MusicGen, an AI-based sound generation suite, TextToSample was developed using the data fed by this advanced algorithm. Adding to its capabilities, the ...

This is the fourth installment in a series of articles about the newly-published SMPTE standard covering elementary media flows over managed IP networks. This month, the focus is on audio transport, ...

USB, the Universal Serial Bus, has been around for decades and is a heavily used standard in the world of personal computers. Memory sticks, external drives, mice, and web cameras are all interfaced ...

The full title of SMPTE ST 2110-21 is “Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks — PCM Digital Audio.” This standard is closely related to, and heavily based on AES67, which is titled “AES standard ...