Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

Polar codes are a channel coding technology and all channel coding technology works in basically a quite similar way. Communication links are susceptible to errors due to random noise, interference, ...

Channel coding, aka, error control codes, is a foundational building block in almost all modern communication systems. Over the decades there has been a long list of ...

YouTube now features QR codes to streamline the process of sharing channels. Accessible from a channel's main page, these codes can be shared through social media, messaging apps, or printed materials ...

YouTube unleashed an influential generation of new internet celebrities in 2007 when it started to share ad revenue with select video creators. For the past couple of years, a snippet of code on ...