Text compression was a highly practical application of computing power. Today it might be a solved problem, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t attract new or unusual solutions.

There are many claims in the air about the capabilities of AI systems, as the technology continues to ascend the dizzy heights of the hype cycle. Some of them are true, others stretch definitions a ...

In 1977, IBM scientists Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv developed a text compression algorithm with a powerful text redundancy remover that still works well for computer files such as spreadsheets ...

Brotli is a compression algorithm developed by Google and works best for text compression. Gary said on Twitter he spoke with the Googlebot team and they confirmed with him that Googlebot does ...

Compression of images and video fundamentally works the same way as compression of text. Compression software looks for statistical patterns in an image—colors or shapes that occur much more ...

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Compression can be used by search engines to detect low-quality pages. Although not widely known, it's useful foundational knowledge for SEO ...

Better than JPEG? Researcher discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images Lossy compression bypasses text-to-image portions of Stable Diffusion with interesting results.