One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information. With more than 9 billion gigabytes of information traveling the ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. File compression works because the data in many everyday document files is usually stored quickly and inefficiently - a bit like someone ...