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How does Windows 11/10 manage to run using smaller space on local storage in tablets, laptops, etc? Windows uses two distinct factors to ensure that the operating system takes up as little space as ...

In a tiny office in West Palm Beach, Fla., a handful of clunky computers are crunching through a software problem that many consider unsolvable. These are the offices of ZeoSync, a start-up that made ...

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 ...

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Smplify CEO Al Wegener reviews the many ways files are compressed in personal computer systems, including the "x" extension on Windows files, Windows "Disc-Compress," Lempel-Ziv (LZ) for OpenXML, MLC ...

FREMONT, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) introduced the industry's first hardware-accelerated backup-to-disk data ...

Optimizing data compression methods has become more critical than ever for cloud storage, data management, and streaming applications. Working with compressed data reduces network bandwidth, data ...

A novel technique rethinks hardware data compression to free up more memory used by computers and mobile devices, allowing them to run faster and perform more tasks simultaneously. A novel technique ...

The ‘CRIME’ attack announced last week exploits the data compression scheme used by the TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SPDY protocols to decrypt user authentication cookies from HTTPS (HTTP Secure ...

Effective compression is about finding patterns to make data smaller without losing information. When an algorithm or model can accurately guess the next piece of data in a sequence, it shows it’s ...