Geekbench 7 will push your computer or phone even harder for better benchmarking

Geekbench is one of the mainstay synthetic benchmarks we use in reviewing laptops here at The Verge. I’ve always liked how ...
Nanowerk

Terahertz chip combines vision through visual barriers with built in memory and signal encoding

A programmable terahertz chip combines penetrative sensing, nonvolatile optical encoding, and hardware preprocessing, classifying vehicle motion with 92.3% accuracy and recovering encoded information ...
InfoWorld

Base64 encoding and decoding in Java 8

Java 8 will be remembered mainly for introducing lambdas, streams, a new date/time model, and the Nashorn JavaScript engine to Java. Some will also remember Java 8 for introducing various small but ...
Hackaday

Encoding NTSC With Your Hands Tied

Generally, when trying to implement some protocol, you are constrained by your hardware and time. But for someone like [EMMIR], that’s not enough. For example, NTSC-CRT is a video signal ...
Hackaday

Decoding The Netflix Announcement: Explaining Optimized Shot-Based Encoding For 4K

Netflix has recently announced that they now stream optimized shot-based encoding content for 4K. When I read that news title I though to myself: “Well, that’s great! Sounds good but… what exactly ...