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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

EGYPT'S deposed president Mohammed Morsi was put in a soundproof glass cage during an appearance in a Cairo court today. The cage, previously unheard of in Egyptian courts, shows the "extraordinary ...