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The Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Fund (UTF) is a high-quality infrastructure closed-end fund that is currently trading at a very attractive valuation and monthly yield after a recent pullback. In ...

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I’ve been doing some transcoding of videos from x264 to x265NVENC. So far some of the results have gotten really good compression ratios but I end up being disappointed by a lot of the banding that ...

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A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from the ...

The story of compression in live broadcast production is a long, complex and ongoing one. But a new white paper from Sony Group company Nevion, entitled Video Encoding in Live Broadcast Production, ...

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kotlinx-io uses a custom UTF-8 encoder and decoder implementations. As part of library stabilization, we need to ensure that these implementations are fully UTF-8 conformant. Unfortunately, UTF-8 does ...