Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support

When the companies disabled HEVC support built into the CPUs of select PCs, it raised uncomfortable questions: Why remove a ...
eLife

mRNA Imprinting: transcription apparatus can remotely control cytoplasmic post-transcriptional mechanisms by dozens of proteins

In this valuable study, the authors develop new approaches to investigate mRNA imprinting, a phenomenon in which RNA-protein complexes form in the nucleus to influence the fate of transcripts in the ...

Slanguage: Why AI’s stylistic negation — ‘it’s not X, it’s Y’ — is both annoying and doesn’t work

Negation-based language is cognitively ineffective. And when amplified by AI-generated writing it distorts how people engage ...
InfoQ

Pretext.js Bypasses DOM Layout Reflow, Enabling Advanced UX Patterns at 120 FPS

Cheng Lou, a Midjourney engineer, recently released Pretext, a 15KB open-source TypeScript library that measures and lays out text without browser layout reflows, enabling advanced UX/UI patterns like ...