Innovations in digital audio technology are emerging that could make "high-resolution audio" available to the masses -- and they aren't coming from Apple, Sony, Dolby, or any of the other usual ...

If you’ve used Spotify, you might have noticed a handy little code that it can generate that looks like a series of bars of different heights. If you’re like [Peter Boone], such an encoding will pique ...

When commercial options fail, try using Manchester encoding and other time-tested protocols in low-cost, low bit-rate serial communications. When developing an embedded system that requires basic ...

To answer your question, I reached out to Chris Diorio, the chief technology officer at chip manufacturer Impinj. Chris not only oversees the development of his company’s Electronic Product Code (EPC) ...

On2 Technologies, a provider of video compression software, and Kulabyte, a specialist in audio and video processing technologies, have announced a licensing agreement for On2 VP6 compression schemes ...

Quantum systems can be classified into two categories, depending on the dimensionality of the parameter space that is needed to describe their features accurately. On the one hand, there are quantum ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

The Unicode Consortium (Unicode Inc. ) is a non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard. Its stated goal is to eventually replace existing character encoding ...

If you have young kids, you'll relate to the value of being able to speak in code. For a few years, I was able to use Pig Latin to speak covertly around my kids. It was handy, and surprisingly ...