Everyone has unzipped files via an algorithm called Deflate that has been used for data compression for 20 years. Now Facebook says it has something better called Zstandard.

Alongside data compression algorithms—which reduce the size of data while preserving essential information—these techniques underpin a range of applications from bioinformatics to large-scale ...

Google is no Silicon Valley startup, but it's just as intent on creating compression algorithms as the fictional "Pied Piper." The search giant is about to unleash its latest algorithm, called ...

Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives data compression libraries provide highly optimized, implementations of all the common data compression algorithms.

Google Chrome is about to get a lot faster, all thanks to a new algorithm called Brotli. Revealed by Google in September last year, the data compression ...

Data Compression Strategies Table 27-1 shows two different ways that data compression algorithms can be categorized. In (a), the methods have been classified as either lossless or lossy . A lossless ...

Even if you use a “real” compression algorithm, they will almost always perform better if the data to compress has more repeating sequences.

Lossy data compression is used in applications where an acceptable amount of data loss is allowed in the compression algorithm. We see lossy data compression predominantly in the areas of imagery, ...

Microsoft is open-sourcing and releasing to the Open Compute Project its 'Project Zipline' data-compression algorithm, plus related hardware specs and source code.