An anonymous reader writes: Netflix’s engineering team has an insightful post today that looks at how the industry is handling video coding; the differences in their methodologies; and the challenges new comers face. An excerpt, which sums up where we are: “MPEG-2, VC1, H.263, H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP9, AV1 — all of these standards were built…

Maybe it’s best to leave your gadgets at home. …read more Source:: CNet

The Vivoactive 3 Music feels like the closest thing to the Fitbit Ionic. …read more Source:: CNet

The creature showed all the prowess and charm of an action-movie hero in a trek to the top of a 20-plus story building. …read more Source:: CNet

Case says facial recognition tech breaches right to privacy, free expression A resident of the Cardiff, the Welsh capital, has launched a legal challenge over South Wales Police’s use of facial recognition technology in public spaces – the first of its kind in the UK.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Microsoft has published a new draft document clarifying which security bugs will get a rapid fix and which it will let stew for a later release. From a report: The document outlines the criteria the Microsoft Security Response Center uses to decide whether a reported vulnerability gets fixed swiftly, usually in a Patch Tuesday security…

European IT shifts its focus Promo Cloud CRM giant Salesforce recently surveyed 1,005 IT leaders in France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK to examine how IT is evolving to meet the needs of an ever more connected customer base. The results of the survey were compiled into a report entitled The State of…

The question remains: for what? …read more Source:: CNet

Is that who we think it is strolling through a very 1980s shopping mall? Gnarly! …read more Source:: CNet

Law firm’s conclusions at odds with UK data watchdog, and critics don’t feel any better An audit of the Royal Free NHS Trust and Google DeepMind’s controversial app to detect kidney disease has deemed its current use of confidential data from real patients lawful – going so far as to suggest findings from other watchdogs…