Read a story about dogs, and you may remember it the next time you see one bounding through a park. That’s only possible because you have a unified concept of “dog” that isn’t tied to words or images ...

A study from the University of East Anglia is helping scientists better understand how our brains remember past events - and how those memories can change over time. A new paper published today ...

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America’s 660 million acres of public land now have a news organization devoted entirely to them. Launched this week by former Outside editor-in-chief Christopher Keyes, RE:PUBLIC plans to deliver ...

TL;DR: Valve updated Steam's video player to be more bandwidth-efficient and compatible across devices like Steam Deck and mobiles by re-encoding 400,000 game trailers in multiple resolutions. This ...

Telestream, the veteran digital video software and workflow tech provider, is fighting a lawsuit brought by two former employees which may have salutary lessons for company owners planning a sale to ...

I've been transcoding videos on handbrake using AV1 which I think is the latest encoder. AV1 on the Mac is often incredibly efficient. I'm talking 3gb -> 300mb efficient. Even tougher material with ...

This pangolin split 5,000,000 years ago - and we’re just finding out now? This discovery didn’t come from a jungle expedition - it came from smuggled scales seized in Hong Kong. Genetic testing showed ...

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

A lot of language experts will tell you to avoid the word “re,” as in, “I’d like to speak to you re scheduling.” It’s pretentious, they say, to use this Latin derivative instead of good old plain ...

We have reached a tipping point in the format wars, with UHD poised to overtake standard definition DVDs for first place. Now, there’s a new species of reply guy—one who responds to every Blu-ray ...