OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2 in three versions—Instant, Thinking, and Pro—claiming it is the first AI model to achieve expert-level performance in knowledge work tasks. The most notable progress is in ...

After several leaks, Google has finally debuted its latest Gemini 3 family of large language models. The flagship model, Gemini 3 Pro, replaces the 2.5 Pro model that was first unveiled in March 2025.

The 5.1 Surround audio in Windows allows the computer to fire the audio from front left, front right, center, rear left, rear right, and a subwoofer simultaneously. Even though this enhances the audio ...

With 5.1 audio, you can enjoy a realistic and immersive audio experience with sound coming from different directions adding depth and clarity. This guide will discuss the steps to play the audio in ...

There was an era in the evolution of home audio where choosing a wireless surround system over traditional wired speakers was an act of compromise. Hiding ugly speaker wire in the nooks and crannies ...

Abstract: This paper presents a HW/SW Co-design of an AAC-LC audio decoder implemented on an FPGA. The complexity of each decoding step is analyzed and the decoding modules are classified by their ...

Soundbars are becoming more popular as a middle-ground between relatively low-powered PC speakers and full-blown surround sound systems. While most of their popularity is among TV viewers, gamers have ...

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Does YouTube (not YouTube TV, I don't have that) actually support 5.1 audio? It says it does and I can find posts elsewhere that say it works and there are YouTube videos that claim to be 5.1 but I ...

I've been a contributing editor for PCMag since 2011. Before that, I was PCMag's lead audio analyst from 2006 to 2011. Even though I'm a freelancer now, PCMag has been my home for well over a decade, ...

The field of computer vision has shown great potential for the identification of crops at large scales based on multispectral images. However, the challenge in designing crop identification networks ...