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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...
...detailed the passive, loveless affair between a young man and his girlfriend's mother, and daringly mixed physical comedy with the most desperate romance. His boldest film was 1971's Carnal Knowledge, which traced 30 years in the sexual lives of two perpetually immature men. The excoriating chatter in Jules Feiffer's screenplay would be familiar to anyone who has sat at a bar while the guy three stools down pours out his little black heart, but it was new for mainstream movies. Its echo can be heard in Closer...