The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Welcome to our end-of-year Decoder special! Senior producers Kate Cox and Nick Statt here. We’ve had a big year, ...

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.

For centuries, humans have drawn a line between themselves and other species, initially claiming that other animals couldn’t feel pain. Science proved they could. Then the argument shifted: Animals ...

Decoder is now a video podcast. We’re very excited to announce that Decoder is now officially on YouTube. So if you prefer to watch and not just listen to your podcasts, you can head over to ...

This is an excellent tool! I find myself flicking between the UTF-8 and hexadecimal output types when decoding base64 blobs. It would be great if there was a combined way to show printable and ...

A new brain-computer interface can decode a person's inner speech, which could help people with paralysis communicate. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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 ...

Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...

IF YOU WANTED to read an ancient Roman scroll, you might reach for a dictionary, and perhaps a magnifying glass. You would probably not think of using a particle accelerator. But that is what is ...

With AV1 hardware decode on mo­bile devices stuck in the mid-to-low teens as of 2025, and with VVC at zero, it’s clear that the race to supplant H.264 and HEVC will be contested with software-only ...