Everyone has unzipped files via an algorithm called Deflate that has been used for data compression for 20 years. Now Facebook says it has something better called Zstandard.

Officially unveiled and released to the world at large today, it's the successor to a different compression algorithm called Zopfli, which Google published in 2013.

All lossless compression algorithms for computer files exploit character redundancy and locality. LZ-based algorithms build a dictionary of frequently-used letters, words, and phrases and then replace ...

Google's video series for developers explains the theory and use of compression algorithms to help them learn how to build smaller, better apps and Websites.

Video Compression Algorithms and Memory Efficiency Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Video Compression Algorithms and Memory Efficiency.

A 20-year old vulnerability in the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) compression algorithm – used in some Android phones, the Linux kernel, and even Mars Rovers – was finally patched this week.

Microsoft today announced that its Edge browser for Windows 10 now uses the Brotli compression algorithm, following in the steps of Chrome earlier this year and Firefox last year. Google open ...

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, promises twice the compression possible with Blu-ray’s best video compression methods. But how does it work, and is it enough to get us ...

Interframe algorithms typically show improved video compression rates, but at the expense of propagating compression losses to subsequent frame predictions which often creates temporal artifacts.

Today, Facebook is releasing its Zstandard compression algorithm into the wild as open source. The lossless compression technology is aimed at replacing existing libraries like zlib that are ...