When Google, Amazon, Cisco, Microsoft and Mozilla announced their AV1 video compression technology five years ago, the allies were aiming to develop a way to shrink online videos while removing patent licensing barriers, which increase streaming video costs. Now, just as AV1 is set to arrive on mobile phones, a patent licensing company has detailed …
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The most exciting time in college basketball has begun. This week marks the start of college basketball conference tournaments featuring many of the biggest schools. In a whirlwind season that has seemingly had several top-25 teams lose every week, the conference games provide a chance for teams that are near-locks for next week’s March Madness a time to tighten up …
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The most exciting time in college basketball has begun. This week marks the start of college basketball conference tournaments featuring many of the biggest schools. In a whirlwind season that has seemingly had several top-25 teams lose every week, the conference games provide a chance for teams that are near-locks for next week’s March Madness a time to tighten up …
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If you’ve ever lusted after the Apple Watch but are an Android fan through and through, you’ll likely be thrilled by Oppo’s entry into the smartwatch market. The company unveiled its digital timepiece, the Oppo Watch — along with a new flagship phone, the Oppo Find X2 Pro, during a press conference in China, following which it drew immediate comparisons …
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From bank statements to personal letters, and even password reset requests, your Gmail account holds an abundance of personal information. If someone were to access it, they’d effectively have access to the rest of your online identity. Instead of just hoping that hackers don’t find you, take 10 minutes and secure your Gmail account right now. Read more: 6 clever Gmail …
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After years of advising us not to use disinfectant wipes on our iPhones, Apple is giving the thumbs-up to using some wipes to clean devices. The change comes amid heightened concern about the COVID-19 outbreak, with worldwide case numbers now topping 100,000. The iPhone maker on Monday added new language to its page for cleaning Apple products that notes Clorox …
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Apple’s been rumored to be prepping over-the-ear headphones for years. While they have yet to materialize, a new leak in iOS code suggests that they may be inching closer to release. Spotted by 9to5Mac, the site has spotted a couple of placeholder icons featuring white and black/space gray images for over-ear headphones in iOS 14 code. While short on details, …
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The most exciting time in college basketball has begun. This week marks the start of college basketball conference tournaments featuring many of the biggest schools. In a whirlwind season that has seemingly had several top-25 teams lose every week, the conference games provide a chance for teams that are near-locks for next week’s March Madness a time to tighten up …
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An FCC proposal to offer a portion of new radio spectrum for ordinary Wi-Fi use would make car-to-car communications unsafe and could squelch advancements in self-driving cars, Ford warned in comments filed Monday. The automaker wants all the spectrum in a swath of airwaves near the 5.9GHz frequency band to be available for a technology called C-V2X, short for cellular …
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The most exciting time in college basketball has begun. This week marks the start of college basketball conference tournaments featuring many of the biggest schools. In a whirlwind season that has seemingly had several top-25 teams lose every week, the conference games provide a chance for teams that are near-locks for next week’s March Madness a time to tighten up …
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