Every day humanity creates billions of terabytes of data, and storing or transmitting it efficiently depends on powerful ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Google has developed a new open-source image compression algorithm that it says can reduce the size ...

Facebook is open sourcing a new compression algorithm called Zstandard that aims to replace the common technology behind the Zip file format. The most common algorithm behind the Zip file format is ...

Digitized mammograms are actually interpreted more accurately by radiologists once they have been "compressed." Though compression strips away much of the original data, it still leaves intact those ...

Efficient data compression and transmission are crucial in space missions due to restricted resources, such as bandwidth and storage capacity. This requires efficient data-compression methods that ...

A group of MIT researchers believe they’ve found a way to speed up audio, video, and image compression by improving on the Fourier Transform. They say the new algorithm is up to ten times faster than ...

File compression software is becoming increasingly important again as both individuals and businesses find themselves storing larger and larger amounts of data on local drives and cloud storage ...