The Guetzli project shows there's room to improve the venerable compression tech. Too bad Google's software is slow and not so practical for most sites right now. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Yes, I understand why the initial compression of a bitmap (not necessarily a .BMP) to a JPEG is lossy, via the quantization step after DCT. But if I decompress a JPEG back to a new bitmap, and then re ...

JPG was developed to compress photos with lossy compression, which greatly reduced file sizes–a decisive advantage in the early days of the Internet when storage space and bandwidth were still scarce ...

Whether you’re running a website or using social media, images are crucial. They provide a visual representation of your brand and its offerings, catching the eye of prospective customers. However, if ...

In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers has drawn inspiration from physics and the arts. The result is a new data compression method that outperforms existing ...