The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

While high-quality photos can take up a lot of storage space, it's the videos that will get you. Just one minute of 4K footage can take up over 1GB, versus 150 to 340 high-quality JPEG photos in that ...

Spotify has finally launched its long-awaited Lossless feature, offering 24bit/44.1kHz FLAC playback at no extra cost for Premium subscribers. The rollout is happening in over 50 regions, with users ...

WASHINGTON — Spotify has officially launched its highly anticipated lossless audio feature, years after teasing the higher-sound quality option. The music streaming company announced Wednesday that it ...

Over four years after its initial announcement, Spotify is finally rolling out lossless streaming quality to Premium users and, in a fun surprise, it won’t cost anything extra. In a post today, ...

Spotify announced that Premium plan subscribers can now stream lossless audio in up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC. Lossless audio allows people to listen to music without losing information usually lost ...

A new, high-resolution audio format has just launched on Spotify. Spotify announced Lossless Listening on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The new feature allows users to stream music in 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC, the ...

File Compressor v2 is an advanced, user-friendly web application for compressing and decompressing files using both Huffman Coding and Lempel–Ziv (LZ77/LZW) algorithms. Designed with efficiency in ...

What if you could double your frame rates on the Steam Deck without sacrificing the crisp visuals that make gaming so immersive? Imagine playing your favorite single-player titles with buttery-smooth ...

Abstract: The rapid generation and utilization of text data, driven by the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and large language models, has intensified the need for efficient lossless text ...