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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

To do so, we continuously push the boundaries of streaming video quality and leverage the best video technologies. Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding? Video encoding using a conventional video codec, like AV1.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy.

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Optimized shot-based encodes for 4K: Now streaming!

The Netflix TechBlog

Since then, we’ve developed algorithms such as per-title encode optimizations and per-shot dynamic optimization , but these innovations were not back-ported on these premium bitstreams. We’ve worked hard over the last year to leapfrog to our most advanced encoding innovations?—?shot-optimized 8, 10, 12 and 16 Mbps?—?regardless

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Cryptic Trails to Blockchain Expertise: Exploring Lesser-Known Ethereum Avenues

Tech News Gather

The Ethereum Ecosystem: Beyond the Basics Ethereum, often described as the second generation of blockchain technology, has gained significant attention for its role in enabling smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps). represents a monumental shift in the network’s consensus mechanism. Staking and Ethereum 2.0:

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A Year of Ongoing Excellence for Apica

Apica

When Apica appointed me as its CEO earlier this year, I was excited about the potential — the potential of our technology to help our customers, and also the potential of our company in the market. 2022 has already see a significant uptick in our media coverage as more and more people discover the unique capabilities of our products.