Listening to your tunes, but your neighbor is feeling chatty? Ordering a latte but your hands are full so you can't pause your podcast? Conversation detection, a feature on some headphones and ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are investigating the conversations that happen between grandparents and grandchildren in the St. Louis area. The work builds off of the St. Louis ...

Graham Bodie does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Back in September during Meta Connect, the company previewed a new ability for its smart glasses lineup called Conversation Focus. The feature, which is able to amplify the voices of people around you ...

In professor David Leblang’s Politics of Immigration course, the usual chorus of clicking keyboards is nonexistent. Instead, you hear the soft scratch of pencils and pens as Leblang guides students ...

How do you cheat at a conversation? This could have been a Zen koan, in different times. In the unfortunate times we live in, it is the question driving an artificial-intelligence tool called Cluely.

Compliments came up often, showing how a little kindness always makes for easy conversation. At the same time, many users emphasized timing: for instance, choosing between asking about past weekends ...

In Wisconsin, recording a conversation without telling the other person is legal under state law. But there are limits. Here is what you need to know about Wisconsin's "one-party consent" law. What is ...

If you and your partner are in love and having the time of your lives together, marriage may seem like a no-brainer. But even if you both agree that tying the knot is the natural next step for your ...

With each turn of the news cycle, you may wonder how anyone in their right mind, seeing what they’re seeing, could still hold differing political views from your own. I wrestle with some of these ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. At Apple's "awe dropping" event on Sept. 9, ...

I have been working in campus law enforcement for over 40 years; 35 of them as a supervisor or director. When it comes to addressing personnel issues, I have a lot of experience. Managing people is, ...