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For computational devices, talk isn't cheap: Research reveals unavoidable energy costs across all communication channels

Every task we perform on a computer—whether number crunching, watching a video, or typing out an article—requires different ...
Education Week

‘Encoding’ Explained: What It Is and Why It’s Essential to Literacy

Ask an early-elementary teacher what the recently popularized term “science-based reading instruction” means, and the response is likely to include something about decoding—the process of translating ...
Electronic Design

Understanding Full-HD Voice Communication On Android-Based Devices

From a technical perspective, sound is little more than continuous-time varying pressure waves, i.e. vibrations of air that our ear absorbs and our brain interprets. As such, sound can be ...
Streaming Media Magazine

Testing the Vitec MGW Ace and MGW D265 for HEVC Encode/Decode

Like the Ace, the MGW D265 offers both HD-SDI and SD-SDI outputs via a single BNC connector, as well as an HDMI output with embedded audio. The MGW D265 isn’t limited to receiving HEVC streams from ...
PC Gamer

Intel Arc GPUs will support AV1 encode and decode

The world of video codecs can be a confusing one. Popular codecs including HEVC (H.265) and AVC (H.264) are widely supported, and will be familiar to streamers. But there's another codec that gaining ...
Ars Technica

Why are there no video encode/decode cards on the market?

I dunno, I thought this would be something that would make sense, but maybe there's no market need? For a lot of users, there's no real need for a full fat graphics card: what they really need are the ...