Facebook is open sourcing a new compression algorithm called Zstandard that aims to replace the common technology behind the Zip file format. The most common algorithm behind the Zip file format is ...

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Google is no Silicon Valley startup, but it's just as intent on creating compression algorithms as the fictional "Pied Piper." The search giant is about to unleash its latest algorithm, called "Brotli ...

Video compression has become an essential technology to meet the burgeoning demand for high‐resolution content while maintaining manageable file sizes and transmission speeds. Recent advances in ...

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 powered ...

Google saw the truth in the "less is more" saying, so it adapted its compression algorithms to allow its Google Chrome mobile users to spend as little mobile data as possible, when streaming. Two ...

Microsoft today announced that its Edge browser for Windows 10 now uses the Brotli compression algorithm, following in the steps of Chrome earlier this year and Firefox last year. Google open-sourced ...

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I'm working on a very large production system which needs to store many, many small segments of similar, text-like data (think alphanumeric with many similar substrings). If we gzip each segment ...

At the Black Hat convention in Las Vegas, a researcher demonstrated how to brute-force secret information hidden by VPNs while the data was being encrypted. Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide ...