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How I used Codex, computer vision, and football intuition to measure a UEFA Champions League goal

Can AI compress decades of design expertise into a prompt?

A weekend project that turned into discovering how Netflix is quietly revolutionizing streaming efficiency with AV1.

How do Calibri’s replacements compare?

Apple M1 is an amazingly efficient piece of silicon.

Apple M1 is an amazingly efficient piece of silicon.

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Netflix put some serious design resources into its Annual Reports pre-2010.

When most people hear Apple in a sentence, their next thought is likely the color.

Getting 4K 60 Hz output on a Macbook is more challenging than it needs to be.

I ran into a very weird error today.

The release of Apple M1 Silicon has laid to rest many questions about whether ARM CPUs can go toe-to-toe with the best of the bunch from Intel and AMD.

These are the words used by the user holdagold on reddit to describe their experience with the new Apple Silicon M1 Macbook Air.

Earlier this year, when Spotify announced that “The Joe Rogan Experience” would stream exclusively on Spotify, it sent shockwaves throughout the podcast ecosystem.

January is usually a big month for tech because the Consumer Electronics Shows kicks off every year in Las Vegas.

Introduction It’s not often you see so many logos of tech giants on one page backing the same technology.

dav1d 0.5.2 ‘Asiatic Cheetah’ released dav1d ended the year with another performance improvement release.

What is LinkedIn?

I recently discovered the importance of being in control of the notifications on your smartphone.

The Tale of Two next-gen SOCs - Snapdragon 865 and MediaTek Dimensity 1000 Last month, we saw the release of SOCs expected to power next-gen flagship smartphones.

Let’s start this month’s roundup with a faster decoder!

Let’s start this month’s roundup with the release of two of our favorite encoders - rav1e and SVT-AV1!

This is a 3-part blog covering how to build a scalable shot-based serverless video encoder in Azure.

Motivation While trying to try out the latest features for the libaom AV1 encoder, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get a hold of the latest binary.

AVIF in Spectrum lib While browsing for AV1/AVIF updates, I noticed this commit to Facebook’s open source Spectrum library that adds support for AVIF format. https://github.com/facebookincubator/spectrum/commit/89b87bee831d3c7aabd0ad327fb118ce699df55d Spe…

If May and June were F1 race cars in terms of speed of AV1 development, then July would probably be a Honda Civic.

This is a 3-part blog covering how to build a scalable shot-based serverless video encoder in Azure.

It’s been a pretty busy for me professionally which is why this month’s AV1 ecosystem update is coming in pretty late.

This is a 3-part blog covering how to build a scalable shot-based serverless video encoder in Azure.

May was another amazing month for the AV1 codec!

Bitstream spec https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-spec/ Encoder Implementations SVT-AV1 Homepage https://01.org/svt Source repo https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-AV1 User-Guide https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-AV1/blob/master/Docs/svt-av1_encod…

It’s been an exciting time following the progress of the royalty free video codec AV1 over the past year and April might just be the most exciting active month in the amount of news we got about AV1!

In Azure, every VM has a persistent OS Disk that is used for booting the VM and contains the operating system.

It is 2019 and we need to make a decision about GIFs (no, not that one!

Azure Video Indexer is one of my favorite services!

We’re living in a golden age of web browser choice.

When you need to create a lot of instances from a custom VM image, VM Scale Sets and Shared Image Gallery are the services you need to use.

Managed Disks make the managedment of disks a breeze in Azure.

Azure Resource Manager stack has been released for almost three years now.

Sharing custom images within an organization to different subscriptions globally has been a long standing ask from Azure customers.

Video encoding has always been a fairly compute intensive task.

Often when I’m working on this blog, I work over multiple days and end up working on multiple devices.

In the world of cloud, horizontal scaling is well understood these days.

Azure recently introduced its first burstable VM size - the B-series.

Problem One of the challenges I have come across the last few days while working with Azure Automation & Logic Apps is how to integrate the output of the Automation Runbook in the Logic Apps workflow.

I’m a big fan of typography!

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