Whenever you're space-constrained with your files, whether that's for storage purposes or for sharing them online, it's important to know what types of compression are available and how these ...

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.

There are generic compression algorithms available, including Google’s open source Brotli. Lepton, written primarily in C++, is tuned to work with images, and it cuts off 22 percent of file size ...

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 ...

It was written by Igor Pavlov, who also designed the LZMA algorithm that forms the default compression mode. The 7zip code also includes other compression methods, such as bzip2, so it can support ...

Music streaming and image / video transfer are technologies that are indispensable in modern society, but in order to use these technologies, it is indispensable to 'compress a huge file size to a ...

Windows NTFS file system can compress your file system using the built-in compact.exe tool. Use CompactGUI to compress installed software & applications and save Disk Space.

ZIPmagic’s 100% free file compression is plug-in extensible, having no innate knowledge of any particular data compression type. ZIPmagic ships with two plug-ins: The first is built on the ...