It’s not Pied Piper, but there are similarities. The “middle-out” algorithm that has its roots in the most infamous (and probably funniest) scene in HBO’s “Silicon Valley” may have been fictional, but ...

The discrete cosine transform (DCT) remains a cornerstone of modern image and video compression techniques, enabling the decomposition of visual data into frequency components that can be efficiently ...

Xz is another piece of software that aims to replace gzip by offering similar options and syntax. It works using the LZMA algorithms, as also used in 7z, so the results should be rather similar. The ...