One of the problems with most technologies is that they are jargon filled, and if you don’t know the secret handshakes, you won’t be welcomed into the club. The field of communications is certainly ...

Millions of Android phones were exposed to an easily exploitable flaw in an audio codec used in chips from MediaTek and Qualcomm. Millions of Android devices were vulnerable to a remote code execution ...

Bluetooth is perhaps one of the most enigmatic technologies around. Fittingly symbolized by Scandinavian runes and named after a king who likely had a nasty dental problem, this mysterious technology ...

Audio codecs dictate the quality, stability, and power use of a headphone's Bluetooth connection. But they're hide-and-seek champions on Android. That said, we’re not always shown our audio codec ...

Something sounds wrong. Calls come through thin, music is muffled, one earbud is quieter than the other, or the speaker crackles once you pass half volume. The instinct is to book a repair or order ...

You can stream lossless music using platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, or Tidal, but the quality of the source files was never the problem. Instead, the real bottleneck is Bluetooth. Even if you ...

As part of Radio World’s latest ebook about trends in codecs, we asked a sampling of industry engineers and users for their perspectives on the evolution of codec designs and applications, from remote ...