The amount of data that the big cloud computing providers now store is staggering, so it’s no surprise that most store all of this information as compressed data in some form or another — just like ...

LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, has been awarded a U.S. patent for the compression of lidar point clouds (US 9753124). The patented ...

Brother and sister team Peter Ma and Nancy Ghaly presented Piper Pied, a lossless compression algorithm for online images, at the Disrupt NY Hackathon today. The startup is a “creative spin” on Pied ...

We've been waiting for changes to Google Photos RAW backup support for months, and the new system looks nearly complete.

You come back from vacation and find that you've taken more than 1,000 pictures. What do you do with them? I used to upload all of my images to Google Photos. When the service debuted in 2015, Google ...