We have two stories this week: first, the surprising history "elevator music." Turns out, Muzak was a real company. And then we reveal how much Amazon's Alexa and other smart speakers are really ...

Under a standard of recency that allowed me to review a 40-year-old book in 2023, I want to celebrate the very recent publication, over a year ago, of two articles on the law of eavesdropping.

Everyone has eavesdropped on a stranger's conversation. Whether you've done it in the local Starbucks, a restaurant or simply while walking down the street, secretly listening in on the details of ...

Sometimes, you feel your phone is just eavesdropping on your conversations. As bizarre as it looks, your favorite shoes or toys, which you searched for on the web a couple of minutes ago, are already ...

Have you ever found yourself secretly listening in on a conversation? What if we told you that eavesdropping might actually be a surprising way to enhance your understanding of others' minds, also ...

Snooping, listening in, conducting important research. Whatever you want to call it, we all eavesdrop from time to time. In bathrooms stalls, at café tables, on the bus – sometimes, you hear a nugget ...

Listening In at Goldman SachsWell, just outside their lobby. In our new series, The Eavesdropper, we visit ultraspecific spots to see what people are chattering about.