Tom's Hardware: Last month, the HEVC/H.265 standard was officially published. We recently got our hands on a pre-alpha build of x265, an HEVC encoder project from a company called MulticoreWare that's going to be licensed in much the same way as the famed x264 library.
So much of what we do at Tom’s Hardware depends on an evolving benchmark suite. Sometimes I put up news stories or Twitter posts asking for what you want to see from our reviews, and we’ve added a ton of testing based on that feedback. But we also keep up with industry trends and adopt testing for taxing new technologies as soon as we can.
Now, you’re already familiar with the H.264 video codec, which is instrumental in compressing high-definition video for distribution. Most of the devices you watch movies on employ fixed-function logic to accelerate decoding of H.264-based content, minimizing the host processor workload and, at least on mobile devices, extending battery life. But high-quality software-based en...
According to Bloomberg, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has expressed concern regarding the potential misuse of platform content by OpenAI’s Sora, an AI-driven video creation tool.
And, for once, some of what it can do looks genuinely useful.
As the election approaches,Meta plans to activate an Elections Operations Center to identify potential threats and put mitigations in place in real time.
