Compression algorithms, such as LZ77 and Huffman, analyze data for redundancies and patterns, allowing them to represent those patterns more efficiently with fewer bits.

Google has released a new data compression algorithm it hopes will make the Internet faster for everyone. Dubbed Zopfli, the open-source algorithm will accelerate data transfer speeds and reduce ...

Everyone has unzipped files via an algorithm called Deflate that has been used for data compression for 20 years. Now Facebook says it has something better called Zstandard.