is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Your bag of potato chips can hear what you’re saying. Now, researchers from MIT are trying to ...

The latest breakthrough in surveillance technology proves that it’s possible to eavesdrop on a target behind soundproof glass using a mere potato chip bag, household plant, or anything at all. Wait, ...

Watch what you say around that discarded potato chip bag (shh it’s listening). Researchers have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct intelligible audio that's spoken in a different room just by ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they ...

You've been through your counter-espionage check list and scanned the room for hidden microphones and other kinds of surveillance devices. You've even gone as far as making sure you are in a room with ...

Now even the cameras have ears. Engineers at MIT have discovered a way to listen in on conversations simply by filming objects near someone talking loudly and measuring the tiny vibrations that sound ...