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 ...

Abstract: There is a strong relation between sparse signal recovery and error control coding. It is known that burst errors are block sparse in nature. So, here we ...

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 ...

Before a car crash in 2008 left her paralysed from the neck down, Nancy Smith enjoyed playing the piano. Years later, Smith started making music again, thanks to an implant that recorded and analysed ...

Facepalm: Users experiencing issues with certain videos not playing on Dell or HP laptops running recent CPUs might not realize that both companies have recently disabled H.265 video encoding and ...

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.

Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain activity sounds futuristic, but it’s now one step closer to reality. A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences ...

Learn how to make sense of key crypto metrics—so you can read the market, not just watch the price. Meagan is a former Series 7 financial advisor and current writer focused on blending straightforward ...

In a nutshell: Streaming and other demanding video applications are growing rapidly, and existing codecs are struggling to keep pace. Fortunately, AOMedia has pledged to finalize a new generation of ...

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As she sang on the song “exile”: “I gave so many signs.” But did she? Did Taylor Swift hint that The Life of a Showgirl, her just-announced 12th studio album, was imminent, or were the fan theories ...

What if you could decode the invisible chatter of wireless networks, uncovering the secrets of off-grid communication systems, all with tools you can build at home? The intersection of ...