Google is open-sourcing a new general purpose data compression library called Zopfli that can be used to speed up Web downloads. The Zopfli Compression Algorithm, which got its name from a Swiss bread ...

The hit show Silicon Valley revolves around the creation of a powerful compression algorithm that can make multimedia files much smaller, potentially speeding up both streaming video and file ...

Finding efficient ways to compress and decompress data is more important than ever. Compressed data takes up less space and requires less time and network bandwidth to transfer. In cloud service code, ...

Microsoft is open-sourcing its cloud-compression algorithm and optimized hardware implementation for cloud storage. Microsoft is contributing that algorithm, known as ""=""> plus the associated ...

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Data compression is critical to cloud and data streaming applications by reducing data transfer times and storage utilization. But compressing and decompressing data consumes processor resources and ...