Animated stamps from USC celebrate 14 builders of the modern internet, from DNS and video calls to JPEG, encryption, and the algorithms inside phones

USC is celebrating America's 250th anniversary with animated digital stamps honoring unsung heroes of computing. These stamps ...

In 1989, Phil Katz introduced the ZIP format, making large computer files easier to store and share

In the late 1980s, sharing computer files was a painstaking process. Phil Katz's 1989 invention, the ZIP file format, ...
The Tech Edvocate

How to export video for YouTube

Spread the love“`html When you’re ready to share your creative vision with the world, exporting video for YouTube is a crucial step in the process. Whether you’re a seasoned content creator or just ...
The Tech Edvocate

How to enable GZIP compression WordPress

Spread the love“`html 1. Understanding GZIP Compression GZIP compression is a technique that dramatically reduces the size of files sent from your web server to a user’s browser. This compression is ...
BGR

AAC Vs. MP3: Which Is The Best Audio File Format?

Offline music is coming back with a vengeance, and if you're on the brink of shaking free from streaming platforms and storing your music locally (or just looking to use your soundbar's USB port to ...
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Real-time X-ray compression shrinks file size by 8,000 times

Researchers led by Takaki Hatsui at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center (RSC) in Japan and collaborators have developed a new approach to compressing X-ray imaging data in real time, reducing the size of data ...
IEEE

Quality Scores Compression of Genomic Sequencing Data: A Comprehensive Review and Performance Evaluation

Abstract: Advanced sequencing technologies have profoundly revolutionized biology and produced vast amounts of raw sequencing data during the past decades. The enormous amount of sequencing data ...
Mashable

Google AI breakthrough shows why we don't need more data centers

We have seen the future of AI via Large Language Models. And it's smaller than you think. That much was clear in 2025, when we first saw China's DeepSeek — a slimmer, lighter LLM that required way ...
TechCrunch

Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...
VentureBeat

Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...
TechSpot

How JPEG Image Compression Works

In today's world of AI and machine intelligence, it sometimes skips the mind that the primary end-user of many computing systems are … human. And, as humans, we are far from perfect – not just in our ...