Data Compression is one of the most important components of this world, driven by petabytes of data daily. We, as humans, are generating data every second. From walking to running, eating to drinking, ...

People mix up the two types of audio compression all the time. Dynamic range and lossy compression are very different things. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a ...

AT A GLANCE If double-digit compression is your goal, lossy codecs are the only way to go. Even if lossy compression artifacts exist, they might be ...

The IP surveillance market has boomed over the past decade with dozens, if not hundreds, of new players emerging and traditional CCTV manufacturers expanding into networked technologies. With the ...

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It’s very likely you’ll have seen the term ‘lossless audio’ bandied around in the music space in recent years, but is it ...

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Lossless audio is higher quality, but most listeners won't be able to notice a difference compared to high-quality lossy formats. Compression makes audio files easier to store and transfer, and most ...

Lossless Listening is available on Spotify mobile, tablet and desktop apps. When Lossless Listening is enabled, an icon will ...

A team of researchers at ETH Zurich are working on a novel approach to solving increasingly large graph problems. Large graphs are a basis of many problems in social sciences (e.g., studying human ...

Most people have downloaded large files, such as music or video, from the Internet. Because of the large size of these files, downloading them can take hours. To solve this problem, and make better ...

We all know that we need to compress a large file if we want to transfer or send it to someone. But have you ever thought about what happens to a file when it is compressed? How does the size of a ...