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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

Video has worked the same way for a long, long time. And because of its unique qualities, video has been largely immune to the machine learning explosion upending industry after industry. WaveOne hope

Deep Render raises £1.6M for image compression tech that mimics ‘neural processes of the human eye’

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with part

Microsoft open sources its data compression algorithm and hardware for the cloud

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 —

Dropbox’s Lepton lossless image compression really uses a ‘middle-out’ algorithm

The "middle-out" algorithm that has its roots in the most infamous (and probably funniest) scene in HBO's "Silicon Valley" may have been fictional, but something like it can be found in Lepton, a cool

Opera Opens Pre-Registration For Its Data-Savings Android App

Last December, Opera <a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.opera.com/news/2013/12/us-android-users-help-us-test-opera-max-beta-new-data-savings-app/">announced</a> Max, a free app that would use Opera

Google Launches Zopfli To Compress Data More Densely And Make Web Pages Load Faster

Google just <a target="_blank" href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/02/compress-data-more-densely-with-zopfli.html">launched</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://code.google.com/p/zopfli/">

Latakoo Moves HD Video Fast, Works Great For Newsrooms

Austin-based video startup <a href="http://latakoo.com/">latakoo</a> has a funny name (it's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latakoo_Lark">some kind of lark</a>), but a great idea: make it easier

New Startup JPEGmini Reduces Photos’ Size, Not Their Quality

Photographers, take note. A startup called <a href="http://www.jpegmini.com/">JPEGmini</a> is introducing a new photo compression technology for JPEG photos which reduces the overall file size (by up

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<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/rsz_tubetech_protools.jpg" />The <a href="http://www.tcelectronic.com/TubeTechCL1B_PoCo.asp">Tube-Tech</a> is a neat compressor plug-in f

JPEG XR may offer a fix for DSLR users who need a higher burst rate

I’ve never had a problem with my old Rebel XT’s 3-per-second rapid fire rate. Of course, I’m not a press or sport photographer, and it is kind of annoying that I can only take like 8

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If you’ve been patiently waiting for the DivX Pro codec and converter but you constantly find yourself without the $19.99 necessary to purchase said tools, now’s your chance to download Di