You would be forgiven for thinking that the elevator pitch for Daniel Reiter Horn’s latest project sounds familiar. That’s because there’s a good chance you saw it on HBO. In fact, everything about ...

A group of MIT researchers believe they’ve found a way to speed up audio, video, and image compression by improving on the Fourier Transform. They say the new algorithm is up to ten times faster than ...

Compression, as the name implies, squeezes or “compresses” the size of a file or data set. Compression techniques are used for voice, video, audio, text, and program data in hundreds of different ...

Digitized mammograms are actually interpreted more accurately by radiologists once they have been "compressed." Though compression strips away much of the original data, it still leaves intact those ...

Compression is front and center at Facebook’s annual @Scale conference in San Jose. The social networking giant open-sourced a homegrown algorithm called Zstandard at the event today that is described ...

Are you always running out of space on your hard drive? The average number of programs installed on a computer that is used daily has increased over the years. This creates a need for more space and ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - When it comes to the information in a mammogram, Purdue scientists say less is more - and their findings could bring medical care to many far-flung communities. A team of ...