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.

MIT researchers could speed up file compression using an improved Fourier transform algorithm A group of MIT researchers believe they’ve found a way to speed up audio, video, and image ...

Not every compression method works for every file, and you can increase efficiency by changing the file type, codec, or program used.

Q: What accounts for the difference in yield between compression and file deduplication? A: With compression you are using some algorithm or other to reduce the size of a particular file by ...

A blockchain startup is claiming it has developed an algorithm that can reduce the size of digital files by 10,000 times.

A compression improvement up to ~15% is also observed when natural images are scanned along a Hilbert curve instead of the normal raster order. The QOI Algorithm QOI stands for Quite OK Image Format ...

File Compression Can Expand Mammography's Power Date: December 20, 2005 Source: Purdue University Summary: Digitized mammograms are actually interpreted more accurately by radiologists once they ...

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 ...

Windows 10 shaves off gigabytes with selective system file compression It'll do away with space-burning recovery partitions, too.