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Auro Technologies, the Belgian company behind the Auro-3D immersive-surround format, says it will demonstrate the “first and only truly scalable next-generation audio codec” at CES 2024, which opens in Las Vegas a week from today. The new Auro-CX codec is designed for streaming but has applications in broadcast and is said to offer many advantages over existing codecs, including the need for less storage space and fewer encoding passes. Auro-CX is designed to scale sound quality, channel count/audio objects, and sample rate in a single bitstream.

Fin whales can live up to 90 years in the wild, but biologists say the whale found late last month on Kodiak Island was between 10 and 14 years old.

A fin whale washed up in the Pasagshak State Recreation Area, near the end of Kodiak Island’s road system, late last month. It’s unclear how it died, but

Volunteer researchers on Sunday collected parts from Kodiak’s second accessible beached whale of the year.

Cenovus employees stopped by Safe Haven with truckloads of hygiene products, diapers, and other necessities for women and kids.