Today, we’re going to talk about lossless compression. So last episode we talked about some basic file formats, but what we didn’t talk about is compression. Often files are way too large to be easily ...

The act of "zipping" a computer file or directory into a smaller format has become routine, even though the practice may seem like some dark art of wizardry. Compressing a stack of blankets for ...

A compression technique that decompresses data back to its original form without any loss. The decompressed file and the original are identical. All compression methods used to compress text, ...

Remember fear of stuffing? Or fear of zipping, depending on your platform? It may never have been as big as fear of flying, but the fear of compressing your data, then not being able to unstuff, unzip ...

[In our Three-Minute Tech series, we tell you everything you really need to know about a technology in three minutes or less.] The day may come when increased storage capacities and unfettered ...

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Speech, audio, and video compression algorithms are too specific to be useful for general-purpose numerical compression. In HPC and cloud computing, 32-bit single precision and 64-bit double precision ...

Joins LZ4/Snappy Decompressor for a fast, efficient, end-to-end accelerated lossless data compression solution supporting both algorithms. Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey — June 27, 2025 — Semiconductor ...

Compression is, as every schoolchild knows, bad. Even so, there are more reasons than the obvious why it can be a questionable idea to involve a lot of mathematics in the storage of images With the ...