Hi-res audio is the pinnacle for digital music fans, but what is it, how can you get it, and what kit do you need to listen ...

The IP surveillance market has boomed over the past decade with dozens, if not hundreds, of new players emerging and traditional CCTV manufacturers expanding into networked technologies. With the ...

"Lossless" and "lossy" are both types of compression. A zipped file is lossless, because when you unzip it, every original bit is still there from the original file. A JPEG, however, is a "lossy" file ...

A process is used when music is compressed into MP3 to discard all the sounds a machine thinks the human ear can't audibly perceive, thus vastly reducing the amount of storage needed to hold entire ...

One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information. With more than 9 billion gigabytes of information traveling the ...

AI Intel's fancy new AI tool measures image quality in games in real time, so upscaling artifacts and visual nasties have nowhere to hide AI OpenAI's new open-weight reasoning model can be run locally ...

Free is nice, but these music services are absolutely worth paying for. Each one offers ad-free streaming for paid subscribers, plus the ability to save content for offline listening and stream any ...

Apple made headlines in mid-2021 when it announced its Apple Music service would offer lossless audio in June of that year. The audio upgrade would be available to users at no extra cost, but some ...

Spotify's Lossless listening allows users to play tracks at up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC, the company said, which refers to a ...

We all know that we need to compress a large file if we want to transfer or send it to someone. But have you ever thought about what happens to a file when it is compressed? How does the size of a ...