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.

Google is no Silicon Valley startup, but it's just as intent on creating compression algorithms as the fictional "Pied Piper." The search giant is about to unleash its latest algorithm, called ...

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.

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 ...

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. Lepton can both ...

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.

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It humorously calls this family the Model Zoo because one is like the size of a fly's brain and the other the size of a chicken's.

No new compression algorithm required (depending on the nature of the data you might get the compression you want for free by using compressed tables with this approach) and it is easy to do with ...