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The Web site Bzzzpeek.com records onomatopoetic animal sounds ("Moo" or "Ribbet") as children from all over the world express them. Interpretations of animal sounds differ from country to country, because the onomatopoeia of languages differs. Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek talk about the site they created.

Investigations are under way into an 88-year-old suspected gunman. Washington, D.C.'s police chief says James von Brunn was critically wounded by security officers Wednesday after he stepped into the Holocaust museum and started shooting. A guard was killed. Von Brunn is a white supremacist and Holocaust denier.

The historic heat began blasting the Southwestern U.S. in June, stretching from Texas across New Mexico and Arizona and into California's desert.

Tech companies like Spotify have announced layoffs due in part to higher borrowing costs. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Boston University's Mark Williams what the future looks like for tech companies.

The chip designer Nvidia is now worth more than Amazon, Meta and Alphabet. New Yorker contributor Stephen Witt talks about how Nvidia cornered the market for the chips fueling artificial intelligence.

It may have started out as an insult, but there's nothing wrong with Dad TV. You can see it all – responsibility-free wish fulfillment, fistfights, romantic fantasy – in the new season of Reacher.

The book chain Barnes & Noble is staging its biggest expansion in over a decade. (Story originally aired on All Things Considered on March 3, 2023. It's been updated for today's broadcast.)

The home improvement chain broke from many other retailers, who say they cannot afford to absorb new tariffs. President Trump recently attacked Walmart for warning of price hikes.

Host Mike Shuster talks with Dan Gillmor, technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, about the increase in 'peer-to-peer computing', where individual computers work together to help process information. Although the technology has been used to run the world-wide-web since its inception, peer computing has not found widespread commercial use. But with the successful use of the technique by high profile Internet companies such as Napster, interest in peer-to-peer computing is growing.

Brooklyn-based historian, author and playwright Charles Mee believes that the greatest plays in human history -- those by the ancient Greeks and Shakespeare -- would never have been written had copyright laws existed to keep the authors from borrowing from the culture around them. Mee puts his money where his mouth is. He makes the texts of his plays freely available on the Web, and forgoes royalties. NPR's Rick Karr reports.