Spoilers follow for Alien: Earth. One of the most controversial – or thrilling, depending on how you look at it – aspects of FX and Hulu’s Alien: Earth is that, for the first time on film, at least… ...

Across the soundscape of Star Wars, the mosaic of alien languages is as important as John Williams's brass horns. But the Ghorman tongue heard throughout Andor season 2 is unusual, even in a galaxy ...

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be C3PO and interpret R2-D2’s whines, bleeps, and bloops? Audio-Technica shipped in a range of special-edition ATH-CKS50TW2 earbuds ahead of Star Wars ...

A technology straight out of science fiction is coming to your video calls, provided you're willing to pay for it. Since Star Trek debuted in 1966, the many iterations of the franchise have leaned on ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Shawn Heinrichs. As my colleague Ross Andersen reported in a recent feature for The Atlantic, an international group of scientists called Project CETI is working ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from First Contact Join the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life. Embark on an immersive adventure as you analyze strange radio signals, decipher hidden ...

If you've ever boiled with inner turmoil at the failure of your Android device to recognize an “OK Google” command, you know AI speech recognition and natural language processing still have a long way ...