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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On2 Technologies, a provider of video compression software, and Kulabyte, a specialist in audio ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Advances in broadcast technology have brought the relative cost of implementing high-quality ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...