All [Hannah Robertson]’s Birduino needs is for one to tap an NFC-enabled card to the reader, and the device plays one of the vocalizations associated with the bird shown on the card. It ties together ...

A reverse-engineered decoder for the .pdb picture files of the Veo Photo Traveler for Palm Handhelds, a small SD-card camera for Palm OS devices from the early 2000s. The camera stored every picture ...

Image encoding and decoding (codec in short) are very common and important operations in Internet applications. The Vitis Codec library provides a set of acceleration APIs to accelerate image encoding ...

On October 6, 2026, Google announced that Chrome 155 will officially support decoding the JPEG XL (.jxl) image format. Users will be able to view JPEG XL images directly in Chrome without enabling an ...

Google Chrome 155 adds native JPEG XL support, offering better compression, HDR, and a memory-safe Rust decoder without sacrificing performance.

In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters. New episodes come out every two weeks.