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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 ...

It used to be that memory and storage space were so precious and so limited of a resource that handling nontrivial amounts of text was a serious problem. Text compression was a highly practical ...

Fig 5. Lossy compression creates decompressed data that still provides sufficient detail for images and data processing. Multicore central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) ...

Lloyd Chambers has an very interesting post up describing the Sony A7 & A7R & other Sony camera raw file format. Apparently it uses "11 + 7-bit lossy compression scheme". Lossy compression. Seriously ...

Google Photos' default Storage Saver uses lossy compression, downsizing photos to 16MP and 4K videos to 1080p. Compression is often invisible on phones, but you'll notice it if you're trying to edit ...