Cloud syncing and sharing software company Dropbox today announced that it has released an image compression algorithm called Lepton under an Apache open source license on GitHub.

Google is introducing a new compression algorithm named Brotli, which it says can reduce file sizes up to 26 percent over existing solutions. The increased density is achieved by “a 2nd order ...

The compression technique they ended up implementing is based on the F5 algorithm that embeds binary data into JPEG files to reduce total space in the memory.

People store large quantities of data in their electronic devices and transfer some of this data to others, whether for professional or personal reasons. Data compression methods are thus of the ...

A blockchain startup is claiming it has developed an algorithm that can reduce the size of digital files by 10,000 times.

Not every compression method works for every file, and you can increase efficiency by changing the file type, codec, or program used.

To compress a file using bzip2 (which dates to the mid 1990s and uses a compression algorithm named after inventors Michael Burrows and David Wheeler), open Terminal and enter the following command: ...

The README goes into a bit of detail about how the code tries to avoid the effects of YouTube’s compression algorithm.