Sounds play an important role in troubleshooting a computer. Computers have pre-programmed beeps and sounds that notify you of clear hardware issues. Then there are the subtler sounds: a high ...

Ignore them for too long, and you might find yourself facing corrupted files, dead components, or even a fried PC. The first time I heard a faint ticking coming from my desktop, I assumed it was one ...

The type of beep your computer makes when starting up is meant to explain your computer's status. One long, continuous beep generally means that there is a hardware problem – often memory ...

Both Windows and macOS let you customize your machine's appearance and sound. Here are 12 ways to adjust your computer's visual and audio settings.

Despite advances in computer-generated image technology, most sound effects for films and virtual reality experiences are still recorded manually. Doug James, associate professor of computer ...

Sounds accompanying computer-animated content are usually created with recordings. Now, a new system synthesizes synchronized sound at the push of a button.

Although movie and game producers can now create computer-animated images of just about anything, the sounds made by those onscreen items still typically consist of recordings of real-world ...

The sound effects for computer-generated movies are still recorded from real life, but modelling the physics of the real world could change that – see and hear the results for yourself ...