AV1 compression technology from companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Netflix is here. And it's blowing up the video industry's patent rules, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

' AV1 ' is a video compression codec promoted by major tech companies such as Netflix, YouTube, and Google. It is expected to be about 30% more efficient than conventional HEVC (H.265) and VP9, and ...

Besides research, Alphabet’s artificial intelligence lab is tasked with applying its various innovations to help improve Google products. DeepMind today detailed three specific areas where AI research ...

Graphics Cards Behold the future of PC gaming: Upscaled 77p potatovision—and it's not quite as awful as you imagine Graphics Cards 'It is basically DLSS. That’s the way graphics ought to be': Nvidia's ...

Anyone who was lucky enough to secure a Gmail invite back in early 2004 would have gasped in wonder at the storage on offer, a whole gigabyte! Nearly two decades later there’s more storage to be had ...

I'd like to call it H.265, because it sounds cool, but its full name is High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). It's the new successor to Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also known as H.264, which is one of ...

The MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards are now at a relatively mature stage. At the same time, new implementations of MPEG-4 are still on the rise, especially using H.264/AVC. Both ATSC and DVB-T support ...