- Here’s the Pitch Deck for ‘Active Listening’ Ad Targeting https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/ 34 comments android
- The Overwatch twitter account is actively listening to feedback. Tell them you want Linux support! https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/with_replies 105 comments linux_gaming
- Chrome activates microphone without user consent (listening to your room). No user notification. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/23/google-eavesdropping-tool-installed-computers-without-permission 8 comments chrome
- Currently active Web Design podcasts to listen to http://theindustry.cc/category/podcast/ 43 comments web_design
- Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fake-mobile-phone-towers-found-to-be-actively-listening-in-on-calls-in-uk-10311525.html 93 comments worldnews
- End of audiobook snobbery as scientists find reading and listening activates the same parts of the brain https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/08/19/end-audiobook-snobbery-scientists-find-hearing-listening-activates/ 875 comments books
- [Garrioch] The most active teams listening on their picks: No. 2 (New Jersey), No. 3 (Arizona Coyotes), No. 7 (Ottawa Senators) and No. 13 (New York Islanders). Lots of moving parts https://twitter.com/SunGarrioch/status/1545049436513898496 69 comments hockey
- 'Listening only to one’s own side can generate dangerous amounts of unrealism' - Jane Mansbridge on right and left activism https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/the-evolution-of-political-scientist-jane-mansbridges-life-and-career/ 17 comments politics
- Australian Police have been legally able to upload malware to suspects’ phones and activate the microphone to listen to conversations as of at least 6 years ago, but nobody seemed to notice http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/vic/VSCA/2015/363.html 15 comments technews
- Australian Police have been legally able to upload malware to suspects’ phones and activate the microphone to listen to conversations as of at least 6 years ago, but nobody seemed to notice http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/vic/VSCA/2015/363.html 92 comments truereddit
- Australian Police have been legally able to upload malware to suspects’ phones and activate the microphone to listen to conversations as of at least 6 years ago, but nobody seemed to notice http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/vic/VSCA/2015/363.html 231 comments worldnews
- Scientists report that listening to white noise seems to improve tonal perception/hearing - background white noise seems to reduce neural activity in the auditory cortex, which led to more precise perception of pure tones https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/s2211-1247(19)31363-4 9 comments science
- The FBI can listen in on your conversations by covertly activating your cell phone's microphone. Even when it's off. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6140191.html 101 comments reddit.com
- How ‘Hacks’ Snuck in Climate Activism Between Jokes | “We hope it's not too much of a fantasy that older people really start to listen to the younger voices about what an emergency this really is.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/hacks-climate-activism-story-line-1235930463/ 3 comments climate
- Study shows the human brain reacts with increased electrical activity after listening to credible information https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/science/researchers-at-nyu-abu-dhabi-explain-how-our-brain-separates-facts-from-possibilities-1.1130744 10 comments worldnews
- Hello I just finished a podcast about the Montauk Project which has some extra terrestrial activity involved. If you’d like to listen the link is below https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/jmcv0a/hello_i_just_finished_a_podcast_about_the_montauk/ 37 comments aliens
- The FBI Warned for Years That Police Are Cozy With the Far Right. Is No One Listening? | I Was an FBI Agent Who Infiltrated White Supremacists. Too Many Local Police Don’t Take the Far Right Seriously – Or Actively Sympathize https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/28/fbi-far-right-white-supremacists-police 2162 comments politics
- Using a brain-computer interface, a team of researchers has reconstructed English words from the brain activity of rhesus macaques that listened as the words were spoken https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-12-12/speech 10 comments science
- Listening to music while exercising activates specific brain region, and could help stave off fatigue, finds a new neuroimaging study. https://www.psypost.org/2018/08/listening-to-music-while-exercising-activates-specific-brain-region-and-could-help-stave-off-fatigue-52035 573 comments science
- Why we dance to the beat of the drum: A new study reports that while listening to music, brain activity becomes synchronized to the rhythmic structure of the sound, specifically the frequency of the beat. https://neurosciencenews.com/bass-music-frequency-9703/ 14 comments science
- USA Today's Bob Nightengale reporting the Diamondbacks are drawing a lot of interest in Shelby Miller and Daniel Hudson, and are "actively listening to offers." https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/758746221452275718 34 comments baseball
- Listening to preferred music during an 'all out' HIIT-B session increases exercise performance and elicits more positive affective responses in recreationally active adult males https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35907471/ 17 comments science
- Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active. Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone – it is constantly trying to guess the next word when we are listening to a book, reading or conducting a conversation. https://www.mpi.nl/news/our-brain-prediction-machine-always-active 712 comments science
- When mice switching from hear to listening, researchers indentify ten distinct types of activity change in neuronal activity and even the detection of a simple sound is a cognitive process that profoundly and extensively shapes the way the brain works, even at very early stages of sensory processing https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/When-the-brain-switches-from-hearing-to-listening.html 8 comments science
- “My phone is listening in on my conversations” is not paranoia but a legitimate concern, study finds. Eavesdropping activity may not be detected by current security mechanisms, and could even be conducted via motion sensors (accessible to third-party apps without user permission in iOS and Android). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6 3 comments technology
- “My phone is listening in on my conversations” is not paranoia but a legitimate concern, study finds. Eavesdropping activity may not be detected by current security mechanisms, and could even be conducted via motion sensors (accessible to third-party apps without user permission in iOS and Android). https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6 5 comments netsec
- Why Obsessive K-Pop Fans Are Turning Toward Political Activism | After claiming some credit for the fizzling of President Trump’s rally in Oklahoma, the online armies of Korean pop music listeners are feeling prepared and empowered. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/arts/music/k-pop-fans-trump-politics.html 49 comments politics
- Phones may listen in on private conversations: The study’s findings suggest that eavesdropping activity would not be detected by current security mechanisms. Not only microphones, but also seemingly harmless motion sensors could be a potential eavesdropping channel in smartphones. https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6 8 comments science
- Is your phone listening in on your conversations? The study’s findings suggest that eavesdropping activity would not be detected by current security mechanisms. Not only microphones, but also seemingly harmless motion sensors could be a potential eavesdropping channel in smartphones. https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6 21 comments privacy
- First Possible Marsquake Detected — You can listen to recording of the marsquake signal in the video below. This is first seismic event recorded on another planet. First earthquakes, then moonquakes, now marsquakes: a robotic lander comes through with the first detection of seismic activity on Mars. https://eos.org/articles/first-possible-marsquake-detected 43 comments space
- When people listen to sounds from natural environments, their physiology shifts in autonomic balance toward parasympathetic (‘rest-digest’) activation, with a reduction in sympathetic (‘fight-flight’) activation, which may help explain reported health benefits of exposure to natural environments. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep45273 7 comments science
- Best YouTube audio for listening while doing a semi brainless activity - prefer learning European history but open to history in general. https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/5i6jdk/best_youtube_audio_for_listening_while_doing_a/ 18 comments history
- Google was downloading audio listeners onto computers without consent, say Chromium users - "We don’t know and can’t know what this black box does. But we see reports that the microphone has been activated, and that Chromium considers audio capture permitted" http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-was-downloading-audio-listeners-onto-computers-without-consent-say-chromium-users-10335111.html 256 comments technology
- Rand Paul’s problem with female interviewers just cropped up again - It is not a college lecture class where you talk and other people listen and take notes. It is an active back and forth between the candidate, voters and, yes, the media. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/04/08/rand-pauls-problem-with-female-interviewers-just-cropped-up-again/?wprss=rss_politics 2 comments politics
- Facebook has been forced to defend a “creepy” new feature that allows it to activate your smartphone’s microphone and listen in. The feature turns on the phone’s mic and picks up on what is happening, such as music or a TV playing in the background. http://www.news.com.au/technology/facebook/users-slam-creepy-new-feature-that-allows-facebook-to-listen-in/story-fnjwvn4n-1226940183022 760 comments technology
- The secret to making a good first impression: Psychologists discovered that the simple, two-syllable sound carries enough information for listeners to draw conclusions about the speaker’s personality. The discovery may help improve computer-generated and voice-activated technologies, experts say http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2014/03/secret-making-good-first-impression 11 comments science
- CA School District Announces It's Doing Round-The-Clock Monitoring Of Its 13,000 Students' Social Media Activities: "Geo Listening is a social media monitoring system that allows school districts to locate and process publicly available social media content." http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130902/13154624384/ca-school-district-announces-its-doing-round-the-clock-monitoring-its-13000-students-social-media-activities.shtml 2445 comments technology
- Talking about the self is intrinsically rewarding--even if no one is listening (self-disclosure activates the mesolimbic dopamine system, which is associated with reward/motivation, and is also activated by food, sex, and cocaine). http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-neuroscience-of-everybody-favorite-topic-themselves 4 comments science
- "people listening to pleasurable music had activated brain regions called the limbic and paralimbic areas, which are connected to euphoric reward responses, like those we experience from sex, good food and addictive drugs." http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130418-why-does-music-make-us-feel-good/2 27 comments science
- I have pasted below a map...showing the cumulative Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank, the land on which most of the future Palestinian State will supposedly be built. Please have a look at it, and while listening to your hearts, tell me whether you see a peace-wanting Israel in it. http://www.iviews.com/articles/articles.asp?ref=iv1010-4312 3 comments reddit.com