You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people have streamed high-resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which ...

Forget the cartoon dog collars and sci-fi translators. The real science of understanding animal communication is advancing faster than most people realize, and AI is the driving force behind the shift ...

The idea of a device that decodes animal sounds — turning squeaks, clicks and meows into human language — has been a staple of science fiction for decades, popping up in everything from Pixar’s Up to ...

Abstract: In this brief, the encoding-decoding-based state estimation problem is investigated for a class of state-saturated systems under buffer-aided mechanism where the wireless communication is ...

Fig.1 Schematic of the experimental setup for continuous-variable entanglement-assisted quantum comumication.Alice encodes classical signals on the ancilla beam by an amplitude modulator (AM) and a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. With some estimates placing the number of Hawaiian monk seals left in the wild at just 1 ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

A candy-colored story collection, sisters who lust after Hitler and harrowing reportage from a riot in India. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Sam Thielman Sam Thielman is ...

We teach communication skills at Stanford University. We’re also parents, coaches, and consultants in Silicon Valley. We’ve been worried about adolescents’ diminishing writing and speaking skills for ...

After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist Gasper Begus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project ...

Valve has a new VR gaming headset – and a clever feature for high-res graphics Valve – which runs the Steam game store and made the legendary Half-Life series – already makes a VR headset for hardcore ...