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.

MIT researchers could speed up file compression using an improved Fourier transform algorithm A group of MIT researchers believe they’ve found a way to speed up audio, video, and image ...

Not every compression method works for every file, and you can increase efficiency by changing the file type, codec, or program used.

A team of engineers at Dropbox's Hack Week re-created the fictional compression schema from HBO's Silicon Valley.

Q: What accounts for the difference in yield between compression and file deduplication? A: With compression you are using some algorithm or other to reduce the size of a particular file by ...

A compression improvement up to ~15% is also observed when natural images are scanned along a Hilbert curve instead of the normal raster order. The QOI Algorithm QOI stands for Quite OK Image Format ...

A blockchain startup is claiming it has developed an algorithm that can reduce the size of digital files by 10,000 times.

Windows 10 shaves off gigabytes with selective system file compression It'll do away with space-burning recovery partitions, too.

A variety of Mac applications compress files, but two simple commands native to macOS fulfill the same functionality--often more quickly and for less expense.