There are two categories of data compression. The first reduces the size of a single file to save storage space and transmit faster. The second is for storage and transmission convenience.

Scientists and engineers do this every day—and the resulting data files are so large, they're drowning in it. A new compression format called Spectral JPEG XL might finally solve this growing ...

A compression technique that does not decompress digital data back to 100% of the original ... MPEG video and MP3 audio formats. The greater the compression, the smaller the file.

Researchers from Rice University and startup xMAD.ai have detailed Dynamic-Length Float (DFloat11), a technique achieving ...

Columnar storage has emerged as a game-changer in enterprise analytics, offering unmatched performance gains and storage ...

Anyone, we think, can understand the practical result where removing too much data — high compression — resulted in a poor quality image, but the image quality was pretty good even when 75% of ...