Director's new series stars Andre Holland as a once-famous American jazz pianist who has been unable to play since his son died

The service will facilitate streaming of established radio stations as well as the new Sonos Sound System station

Tapes of conference calls of FEMA and HHS officials across the country reveal widespread worries about new waves of Covid-19 infections.

Veteran tech journalists Mike Malone and Scott Budman celebrate their 50th episode in the latest installment of their podcast, The Silicon Insider. This week, the topics include: Not every company is suffering these days: consider the video game industry. Game companies from our remote past – Electronic Arts? Activision? Zynga? – are enjoying spectacular profits, stock prices and usage as bored and quarantined Millennials revisit their past. And don’t even ask about Peloton: every 1 percenter…

Whenever baseball returns after the delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, there’s an element that might come into play like never before: the sound of silence.

At 8pm, applause rings out from our neighbours' balconies, punctuating the night. It's a new tradition, but when the applause dies down, the jarring reality of our situation is brought home.

The Microsoft co-founder said halting funding for the World Health Organisation during a world health crisis was "as dangerous as it sounds".

The new Arc sound bar adds Dolby Atmos compatibility for a price.

Hollywood pros share user-friendly video chatting tips to make your video conferencing look and sound its best.

The Seattle rock icons filed a countersuit Wednesday accusing Vicky Cornell of withholding money raised through a star-studded benefit concert held last year in the late singer’s honour, instead using it for personal purposes — an accusation Cornell denies.

AWARD-WINNING musician and singer Vince Jones is among the top-notch jazz talent set to entertain audiences at the Tanks Arts Centre this year.

Stephen Mott, the author of a new book about a tiny north-west Tasmanian town, is hoping to capture "the atmosphere of 50s motor racing".

Your Zoom or Skype meetings don't have to look like hostage videos. Here's what some experts advise.

Tekashi just streamed from in-home incarceration, setting an Instagram Live record with 2 million people tuning in. 6ix9ine trolled off the bat, bumping "Bad Boys" while toying with a pair of handcuffs. Tekashi got a lot off his plate ... admitting…

Is data integrity music to your ears?  Ours, too!

ALCOA, GAMP, Part 11, GIGO, we cover it all.
(Sung to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence.")

As the coronavirus pandemic prompts unprecedented job losses across the country, one of the first problems for many households will be how to pay next month’s rent or mortgage. The poorest 20% of U.S. households—including many workers in low-wage industries such as retail and food service—were spending more than half their income on housing costs…

Over at the Sietch Blog, an environmental site that I respect a lot, a roofer named Leo defends PVC roofing as one of the greenest roofs. He isn't wrong; it comes in white, and white roofs are all the rage, it lasts a long time and is a

I wrote my first TreeHugger post more than seven years ago. Since then, there's been a lot of water under the bridge. Here are some of the many highlights.

Made with simple materials, this extraordinary instrument creates experimental acoustic sounds that sound eerie yet beautiful.

Touch the trees, hear them hum and murmur.

A NYC-based artist and programmer makes music out of pollution; listen to it here.

Like a gadget from a superhero's gizmo-kit, two engineering students have invented a device to battle blazes with noise – water and toxic chemicals not required.

Sound healing is based on the idea that pure, deconstructed sound can rebalance the body's energy.

Canadian birch hauled out of Canada's Ottawa River adds resonance and tone.

With crickets in decline, some scientists say that the insects' summer crooning may become a thing of the past.

Nanotechnology breakthroughs have lead to a successful prototype of a device that could charge your cell phone with ambient noise or the conversations of users.

and lessons in management from Renaissance Florence

Nature's acoustic environments are wild, haunting and beautiful. As this online educational project shows, these wild soundscapes are in danger of disappearing too.

Along with her large-scale drawings, artist Zaria Forman has recorded the eerie song of a warming planet.

Consumerism is still ingrained, which is why we need to fight back with the 'Buy Nothing' movement.

Nature gets digitized in these vibrant animations that feature audio recordings from the rainforest.

Watch this English golden retriever named Storm rush in to help the fawn and bring it back to shore.

Think kitten-meets-lamb in the latest installment of 'gratuitous cuteness distraction.'

A new solar-power kit from BRIGHT Products is like the Swiss Army Knife of solar gadgets.

If your cat passes out from the sound of crinkling tin foil, she’s not alone.

Paying homage to Denmark's historical relationship with wind, these public art sculptures would generate music and power from wind.

Using a customized printer, these designers combined new technology with low sounds to create this modern collection of ceramics.

Did you know honey has its own sound? Using honey and other tools, this bee enthusiast wants to raise awareness about bee colony collapse disorder through music.

Broll footage and soundbites from a Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF) event at the George Bush Presidential Library on Thursday, April 14, 2016, in College Station, Texas. RBFF is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase participation in recreational angling and boating, thereby protecting and restoring the nation’s aquatic natural resources.

Get a sneak peak at the industry’s smallest and smartest bone conduction sound processor. Now the first hearing implant with Made for iPhone® technology.

A group of state AGs are raising concerns about the meat industry. CNBC's Ylan Mui reports.

Women and children bear brunt as drought and extreme weather leave tens of millions short of food

Southern Africa is in the throes of a climate emergency, with hunger levels in the region on a previously unseen scale, the UN has warned.

Years of drought, widespread flooding and economic disarray have left 45 million people facing severe food shortages, with women and children bearing the brunt of the crisis, said the World Food Programme (WFP).

Related: Zimbabwe on verge of 'manmade starvation', warns UN envoy

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