Think about someone you’d call a friend. What’s it like when you’re with them? Do you feel connected? Like the two of you are in sync? In today’s story, we’ll meet two friends who have always been in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. The older I get, the more I appreciate listening to music ...

This project made me feel a kind of kinship with Diogenes, although I was searching for the item described in the title rather than for an honest man. Figure 1 “Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man,” a ...

As I have covered in many past articles, the MP3 audio format has been obsolete since 1997. Nonetheless, some people still haven’t read the memo: 27+ years have gone by since the AAC códec (often with ...

For the best listening experience possible, you should familiarize yourself with the sound settings on your audio products. In particular, the equalizer (aka the EQ). Understanding how to operate this ...

A versatile command-line script for downloading audio from YouTube videos as MP3 files. It uses yt-dlp for downloading and ffmpeg for conversion, offering detailed ...

At Google I/O on Tuesday, the big tech company announced even more updates to its latest AI model, Gemini 2.5. Today's updates include new capabilities to 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash: native audio output to ...

Binaural beats are an auditory illusion perceived when two slightly different frequencies are presented separately to each ear. The brain processes these two frequencies and perceives a third ...