To hear the effect of wave field synthesis, you have to be inside a WFS hall, where no matter where you're sitting you're enveloped — but not deafened — by the sound those carefully placed speakers produce.

NPR: IRCAM: The Quiet House Of Sound

Another technique IRCAM is developing uses scores of small speakers lined up around the concert hall to create something called wave field synthesis, or WFS. It was designed to address a problem that's been brought to IRCAM over and over again: dead spots in concert halls.

NPR: IRCAM: The Quiet House Of Sound

Hungering for the kind of revenue needed to field top teams, a wave of stadium construction is sweeping through sports.

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The traits that cause your friends to hoist you on their shoulders and run around a field chanting your name while you wave your hands in the air, making funny faces, can become your undoing in the markets.

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The second field slanted up to the highway, and the wind moved uphill across it, wave after wave.

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D-Wave is advertisting a number of different applications for its quantum computing system, primarily in the field of artificial intelligence.

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Meanwhile it looks like Apple may not include NFC (Near Field Communications) hardware in its next-generation iPhone, which would let consumer wave the phone in front of a device at a retail store to pay for something.

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Imagine the scene: wave after wave of Dakota aircraft swooping through a canyon to land at an improvised airstrip, fashioned from a stony field only days earlier by local women, children and old folk.

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Hyuck Choo seems to think that it can be put to use in short order in the medical field, but it remains to be seen if we'll see this in the next wave of Google Fiber rollouts.

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