Microsoft will support hardware-accelerated AV1 codec in latest Windows 10 systems . Back in 2015, numerous companies including Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Amzon, Cisco, Intel, and Mozilla joined forces to form the "Alliance for Open ...

Cisco signs up BT for new service to speed up video streaming . STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Cisco has signed up Britain's biggest telecoms group BT as its first customer for a new service to speed up internet video traffic through its networks as the coronavirus crisis pushes up demand for video streaming.

The new service, developed with U.S. cloud platform company ...

Livestreaming: YouTube, Facebook Destroy Twitch In At Least One Critical Category . We watched almost 7.5 billion hours of live streaming content in the last three months, up 92% from last year. Amazingly, just one company owns a massive 91.1% share of all the hours streamed: the Amazon-owned Twitch.

So Twitch is definitely the 900-pound gorilla of the live-streaming category.

But ...

Streaming provider fuboTV raises $183 million in IPO ahead of NYSE debut . NEW YORK (Reuters) - Streaming provider fuboTV Inc sold shares in its initial public offering (IPO) on Wednesday at $10 apiece, within its target range, to raise $183 million.

The IPO valued fuboTV at $620.2 million. The New York-based company had aimed to sell 15 million shares at a target range of ...

Vimeo acquires Livestream, launches its own live video product . After abandoning its plans to launch a subscription video-on-demand business earlier this year, IAC-owned streaming video site Vimeo announced today that it’s acquiring the live video streaming platform, Livestream, and launching its own live streaming product, Vimeo Live. The move to integrate ...

Intel confirms 11th-gen 'Rocket Lake' desktop CPUs for early 2021 . And they'll finally offer PCIe 4.0 support.

If you’re looking to upgrade your rig or pick up a new desktop, it may be worth waiting until next year. In a Medium post, Intel has confirmed that its 11th generation “Rocket Lake” CPUs will be arriving in the first quarter of 2021. They’ll also finally ...

NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls . NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality.

What the researchers ...

Content Discovery Will Decide the Streaming Wars . With the recent launches of Warner Media’s HBO Max and NBCUniversal’s Peacock, the entertainment streaming landscape is now more competitive than ...

CableLabs reaches key milestone on path to '10G' | Light Reading . The cable industry took another step toward its "10G" future this week with the release of a new set of specifications giving operators and their ...

Google Cloud opens up on its edge strategy - and how clouds, telcos and developers all need to work together - Cloud Computing News . Workloads, data and compute power are all moving closer to the edge. For the largest cloud players, who already hold many of the aces, this ...