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.

A 20-year old vulnerability in the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) compression algorithm – used in some Android phones, the Linux kernel, and even Mars Rovers – was finally patched this week.

Officially unveiled and released to the world at large today, it's the successor to a different compression algorithm called Zopfli, which Google published in 2013.

Google is introducing a new compression algorithm named Brotli, which it says can reduce file sizes up to 26 percent over existing solutions. The increased density is achieved by “a 2nd order ...

Google's video series for developers explains the theory and use of compression algorithms to help them learn how to build smaller, better apps and Websites.

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Cloud syncing and sharing software company Dropbox today announced that it has released an image compression algorithm called Lepton under an Apache open source license on GitHub. Lepton can both ...

It humorously calls this family the Model Zoo because one is like the size of a fly's brain and the other the size of a ...

Microsoft has introduced a new LE Audio feature in Windows 11, significantly improving the audio quality for game chats and ...

Today, Facebook is releasing its Zstandard compression algorithm into the wild as open source. The lossless compression technology is aimed at replacing existing libraries like zlib that are ...