Data compression works so well that popular backup and networking tools have some built in. Linux offers more than a dozen compression tools to choose from, and most of them let you pick a compression ...

A few weeks ago, I was invited to visit the New York City office of XLABS, a group that claims to have achieved 99% compression for videos being streamed over the Internet. If the claim is valid, its ...

Facebook Inc.’s software team has spent the last two years working on a way to compress application code with a view to keeping app sizes more manageable, ultimately coming up with a new technique ...