Online tracking is something we are all aware is happening. And, like it or not - if a product is free - you are not the customer - you are the product being sold. Facebook has gotten in to a load of trouble with how it handles private information... yet it probably has more information … Continue reading Facebook Security: Time for a checkup
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Video content on the the web is increasing - with such an immersive medium - it is pretty much a . no brainer. However, a few months ago, I looked into how the web is using video on the web, and found that slow video startup times and stalls are much more common than we … Continue reading Video Playback Metrics: New Synthetic Testing Tool StreamOrNot
The best way to deliver video that starts up quickly and doesn’t stall is to make sure that the file downloads quickly. Since we cannot control the network our customers are using - this means we need to make the files smaller. In a previous post at Cloudinary, I described three techniques to reduce file … Continue reading Deep Dive: Three Tips for Faster, Easier Video Delivery
In my previous post on image processing shortcuts, I showed how object detection libraries can be utilised to detect objects inside images. But how are these libraries trained to identify objects? In this post, I'll walk through the steps to train an image detection model for specific objects. Why do models need to be trained? … Continue reading Image Processing Shortcuts using AI and ML: Part 2
This week, there was a revelation that the Zoom teleconferencing software runs a localhost server on customer's machines - and this localhost serve can be used to maliciously add your machine to conference calls (with the video active) by malicious websites. About 2 years ago, I looked into how may websites make requests to localhost … Continue reading Using LocalHost in Production
