MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The outgoing Republican speaker of the Minnesota House had the power to silence debate with the push of a button. His Democratic successor says one of the first things she’ll do ...

A team has developed a shape-changing smart speaker, which uses self-deploying microphones to divide rooms into speech zones and track the positions of individual speakers. In virtual meetings, it's ...

A group of engineers have now created what they call an acoustic swarm. This swarm of intriguing little robots – which move around like little Roombas – can wheel around an area, helping to control ...