Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576 get mainline Linux support for H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) hardware video coders thanks to work from Collabora.

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...

Here’s a cheat sheet for decoding this year’s A.I.-driven tech lingo, from RAG to superintelligence. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of ...

The experimental change adds a Rust-based audio decoder to Chrome, with FFmpeg still in use. After resuming work on JPEG XL in Chrome, Google is now testing another media-related change behind the ...

I’m seeing an issue in Liquidsoap 2.4.0 where a particular MP4 file causes playback to stall when used via a request.queue style setup with the ffmpeg decoder. The ...

H.265/HEVC comes as the successor to H.264/AVC which tries to offer the same level of picture quality as AVC, but with better compression. It becomes gradually the standard codec for 4K videos and ...

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...

A new study tested a device trained to translate four participants' inner thoughts. Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images In recent years, scientists have been working on technology that could help ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...