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On Dec. 2, QuickTime turned 34, and despite its origins in Apple’s chaotic 1990s (1991 to be exact), “it’s still the backbone of video on our devices,” writes Macworld’s Jason Snell. That includes MP4 and Apple’s immersive video formats for Vision Pro. From the report: By the late ’80s and early ’90s, digital audio had been thoroughly integrated into Macs. (PCs needed add-on cards to do much...
AI startups say the promise of turning dazzling models into useful products is harder than anyone expected. Three founders discuss what it takes.
Two Virginia brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, previously convicted of hacking the U.S. State Department, were rehired as federal contractors and are now charged with conspiring to steal sensitive data and destroy government databases after being fired. “Following the termination of their employment, the brothers allegedly sought to harm the company and its U.S. government customers by...
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The deal to acquire the Hollywood giant’s television and film studios as well as HBO Max will bulk up the world’s biggest paid streaming service.
Netflix says its open AV1 video codec now powers about 30% of all streaming on the platform and is rapidly becoming its primary delivery format thanks to major gains in compression, bandwidth efficiency, HDR support, and film-grain rendering. TVTechnology reports: The blog by Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford and Jeff Watts comes at a time when AV2 is on the horizon. […] The blog revisits...
This nimble, compact ebike packs plenty of punch, but doesn’t offer a wide range of sizes.
Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: New research reveals that AI chatbots can shift voters’ opinions in a single conversation — and they’re surprisingly good at it. A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support...
Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros Discovery’s TV and film studios and streaming division for $72-billion, excluding debt.
Netflix has announced a definitive agreement to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, which will likely cause significant disruptions in South Africa’s pay-TV landscape.
Melvyn Lubega heads the team in the Presidency tasked with developing digital IDs and driving licences.
Solve the problem of cooking and chewing food with these full-meal replacement drinks.
“For OpenAI to realize its ambitions, it is not going to be enough for them to make a model that is as good as Gemini 3. They need to be able to leapfrog it again.”
Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.
The case over online transparency has become a flashpoint between the European Union and the Trump administration.
Optimize your sauna session by listening to the experts and, more importantly, your body.
An AI image generator startup’s database was left accessible to the open internet, revealing more than 1 million images and videos, including photos of real people who had been “nudified.”
Huawei, Microsoft, Apple, and Samsung are competing for the top spot in the latest South African media sentiment rankings.
SATNAC 2025 was recently held and featured talks from South Africa’s foremost ICT leaders.
Vula Medical connects healthcare workers to specialists via an app, bringing specialist care to patients in remote areas.