I was reminded of this recently as I prepared for a talk on AV1 readiness at the upcoming United Cloud Tech Talk. Though quality is only a single factor, I wanted to nail the quality comparisons for the talk, but didn’t have time to produce all the iterations myself. It’s been a while since I benchmarked H.264, HEVC, AV1, and …

Cookies are gone from Safari and Firefox, and on their way out in Chrome. This leaves many advertisers searching for alternative ways to effectively target high-value prospects. One of the most promising solutions is contextual audience targeting, and leading that charge is Seedtag, an advertising platform using AI to match ads with relevant content. Recently, I spoke with Brian Danzis, …

We’ve all experienced it—you check out a product on Amazon, and before you know it, the next ten websites you visit are showing ads for that same product. It just happened to me (again) when I was looking at a supplement called Qualia Senolytic on Amazon in Google Chrome. Later that day, while browsing the Washington Post, I saw an …