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I read every single day, and I split my times in books between Kindle and Audible. Here are my favorite books and audiobooks of 2023.
Note: I can’t explain why previous compilations were only for audiobooks, but here they are for comparison: 2022, 2021… Continue reading My Favorite Books and Audiobooks of 2023
Amazon today announced Your Books, a hub for all of your print, Kindle, and Audible books that competes with Goodreads.
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In the 1990 movie The Hunt For Red October, a stealth submarine is located by what a computer thinks are seismic sounds, but when sped up, they are clearly mechanical. …read more Continue reading The Hunt For The Voice of Utah’s Arches
Amazon today announced the preview availability of Audible Plus, a lower-cost tier of the firm’s audiobook subscription service.
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Here’s a look back at the audiobooks and podcasts—especially podcast serials—that I enjoyed in the second half of 2019.
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Speaker cone materials can be a deep rabbit hole ranging from inexpensive paper to kevlar. We’ve all cut apart, or blown out, the cheapies to see their inner workings, but the exotic material list does not stop at audiophile-quality models. It can include mirrors, microwave ovens, and a European hacker’s …read more
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In a move guaranteed to send audiophiles recoiling back into their sonically pristine caves, two doctoral students at ETH Zurich have come up with an interesting way to embed information into music. What sounds crazy about this is that they’re hiding data firmly in the audible spectrum from 9.8 kHz …read more
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We’re only halfway through 2019, but I’ve already listened to some great new audiobooks plus a growing collection of serial podcasts.
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Lasers work by emitting light that is “coherent” in that it doesn’t spread out in a disorganized way like light from most sources does. This makes extremely focused beams possible that can do things like measure the distance from the Earth to the Moon. This behavior isn’t just limited to electromagnetic waves, though. [Gigs] via [CodeParade] was able to build a device that produces a tightly focused sound wave, essentially building an audio laser.
Curiously enough, the device does not emit sound in the frequency range of human hearing. It uses a set of ultrasound speakers which emit a “carrier …read more
2018 was an unusually good year for audiobooks, so I had to split my normal wrap-up into two parts.
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