Word: chatteringly
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...nears 11 p.m., Leverett dining hall buzzes with chatter about electromagneticism and gravity. At the center is Georgi. Three students—just a handful of the many who will seek his signature or advice during his office hours—tip-toe in a line to his side, problem-sets in hand. They’re confused about a charge. Georgi flattens his hands to illustrate the problem, but then tells them to wait for more answers in lecture the next morning...
With Patrick Radden Keefe’s Chatter, the results are in: no, voice recognition technology probably isn’t up to the level where it could recognize and filter speech to this degree. However, the UK/USA alliance—a joint intelligence operation including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, whose existence has yet to be confirmed or denied by member states—does indeed have the capacity to intercept phone calls, faxes, e-mails, and almost all imaginable forms of electronic communication. This interception is called “signals intelligence?...
...Keefe himself describes how he met with only smug disregard when he tried to leverage his own investigative work in order to get interviews with NSA officials. Which begs the question: if the NSA doesn’t care that we read this, how secret can the information in Chatter really...
Hundred is immediately bombarded by chatter from the machines all around him; somehow, he can understand them and they can understand him. If he tells a gunman’s weapon to jam, it misfires; if he says “lights to half,” the bulbs around him obey. He can even converse with microwaves...
...side of Loker Commons, away from the strains of the jukebox and the chatter of math students preparing for tests, a local resident known as “The Miracle Man” showcases the right way to sink the eight-ball...