No one could stand the incessant beeping that kept happening during FOX’s broadcast of the MLB All-Star Game. There’s really no elegant way to lede into this: What in God’s name was that beeping sound ...

There are few things more annoying than an incessant beeping sound in your home that no matter how high and low you search, you can't identify. It could be a smoke detector, appliance, security system ...

I'm not sure if it's Win 7 RC specific-- it looks like the underlying sound engine is similar enough to Windows Vista. I'm running 64-bit on a system with Realtek Azalia audio and in case it matters, ...

A few sound designers reconfigured the beeping sound of a microwave to try and make it less annoying.

OK, this is weird; I am working on a Gateway 300SE, a small form factor desktop, Celeron 1.8 GHz system. The hard drive had failed, so I replaced it & installed Windows XP Home clean. At some point ...

For decades, nearly every microwave has sounded the same. We’ve all grown accustomed to the loud, piercing, alarm-like beep ...

As reported here earlier, someone appears to have installed an anti-loitering device at the top of the escalators at the Gallery Place Metro station, just outside Zengo restaurant. We're still trying ...

Last week we reported on a strange beeping noise being generated by the dual 2 GHz Power Macintosh G5. Several readers have since corroborated the behavior, which appears to be normal - albeit ...