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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

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The other major change was beginning to rely on hardware acceleration of said codecs — your computer or GPU might have an actual chip in it with the codec baked in, ready to perform decompression tasks with far greater speed than an ordinary general-purpose CPU in a phone. Just one problem: when you get a new codec, you need new hardware.

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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

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The report added that this was the highest number it had recorded since it began tracking relocation trends in 2013. Peloton is a good example of this, with the at-home fitness hardware giant skyrocketing through the pandemic before falling back to Earth with an almighty bump when people ventured into the great outdoors again.