In this post, we'll explore at a high level the key concepts and defining characteristics of video codecs. Then, to further demystify them, we'll even implement one from scratch in about a hundred lines of Rust.

Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive - dariusk/twitter-archiver

Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.

The company has struggled to earn enough from streaming to make up for losses from its traditional cable business. It is a story widespread in the industry.

We reviewed over 3,100 commits and summarized them, again 😅, so you don't have to!

Nature Reviews Materials - Hydrogels are one of the most promising materials to bridge the stark disparities between traditional machines and biological tissues for successful interfacing between...

As you might have noticed, C23 is scheduled to come out in November 2023 and will have a lot of improvements and new features, in particular for integers. One of the most controversial properties o…

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. will continue to devote about 20% of its overall costs and expenses to Reality Labs in 2023, despite questions about the business division focused on augmented and virtual reality and the so-called metaverse.

Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm. Contribute to facebook/zstd development by creating an account on GitHub.

In my final year of engineering undergrad, I worked under Dr. Moriba Jah to build out an automated orbital debris detection system using machine learning and open-source data. I wrote a bit about t…

Hard SF worldbuilding with the HYG database, Dijkstra's algorithm, and Lisp.

Another weekly beta snapshot for Godot 4.0! Notable changes: String/StringName unification, out of order member resolution in GDScript, OpenGL 3 renderer selectable in the Project Manager, and with improved performance and compatibility on lower end devices.

Cryonics is the practice of freezing your body in the hope of resurrection by future medicine. Some pioneers met a fate grislier than death.

Two people who hacked Yahoo! email accounts to gain access to Ring home security cameras have been charged over a weeklong “swatting” spree that involved placing bogus emergency calls and live-streaming the armed police responses on social media, according…

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/…

Today we are shipping an update for Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 to members of the Windows Subsystem for Android™ Preview Program. This update (2211.40000.7.0) will update WSA to An...

The data is in a new report on EV use from Argonne National Lab.