You would be forgiven for thinking that the elevator pitch for Daniel Reiter Horn’s latest project sounds familiar. That’s because there’s a good chance you saw it on HBO. In fact, everything about ...

Q: Can you explain the differences between compression, file deduplication and data deduplication? A: All of these products fit into an overall market and technical concept, which is capacity ...

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 ...

If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are ...

With the Windows 8.1 Update, Microsoft shrank the Windows 8.1 install footprint to make it suitable for low-cost tablets with just 16GB of permanent storage, a reduction from the 32GB generally ...

Algorithm promises faster data transfer speeds and reduced Web page load times by compressing content up to 8 percent smaller than zlib. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been ...

How to use the zip and bzip2 macOS file compression commands Your email has been sent A variety of Mac applications compress files, but two simple commands native to macOS fulfill the same ...

This is what run-length encoding requires. Correspondingly, delta encoding followed by Huffman and/or run-length encoding is a common strategy for compressing signals. LZW compression is named after ...