No one wants to be that guy or girl who's causing screeching feedback on a Skype call, but it happens. Worse than that, though, is having it happen and not knowing how to fix it. Skype representatives ...

What would San Francisco do without BART? Have a quieter commute, for starters. For all that the Bay Area depends on the workhorse rail network, the signature, nightmare-inducing noise of train wheels ...

All straphangers get annoyed by the screeching, screaming sound of subways roaring down the track at one point or another, but that doesn't keep many from keeping far from the yellow line. Step back, ...

Today was the day for the US government’s big emergency alert drill, which sent a test message to every TV, radio and cell phone in the nation. Starting at approximately 2:20 pm ET on Wednesday, the ...

Have you heard? BART is loud. Very loud. In the transit agency’s 2016 customer satisfaction survey, riders graded the noise levels on trains as the third-worst thing about the system, ranking behind ...

On an otherwise sleepy block in Brooklyn is a brand-new 15-story building that shrieks on windy days. Residents have likened the sound to a shrill whistling, a maddening screech, and — most colorfully ...

Among the reasons someone might want to avoid passing a semi-truck is to steer clear of that harsh piercing screech it makes when slowing down. That sound is referred to as brake squeal, and although ...

A hard drive that's making loud clicking and screeching noises is trying to tell you something: The hardware is starting to fail and the component needs to be replaced. Failing hard drives typically ...

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Yellowjackets season 3, episode 3, "Them's the Brakes." Yellowjackets season 3, episode ...

He heard the lost F-35 military jet falling from the sky, but the world heard his screeching and whistling instead. Randolph White, a 72-year-old Charleston-area retiree, has gone viral after an ...