The biggest memory burden for LLMs is the key-value cache, which stores conversational context as users interact with AI ...

That much was clear in 2025, when we first saw China's DeepSeek — a slimmer, lighter LLM that required way less data center ...

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and SLAC have designed a detector chip that compresses X-ray data by factors of ...

Abstract: This paper presents a dataset-level evaluation of six lossless compression and data transformation techniques applied to visual-cryptographic (VC) shares derived from QR codes. We processed ...

Is this a virus?: Classic ZIP bombs and other archive-based tricks have long given cybercriminals a convenient way to sneak malware onto unsuspecting systems. A newly documented technique claims to go ...

Sennheiser’s HD 400U wired headphones deliver strong sound and lossless USB-C audio for under $100. We test their comfort, design and performance.

As various types of data grow explosively, large-scale data storage, backup, and transmission become challenging, which motivates many researchers to propose efficient universal compression algorithms ...

I’ve been sidelined by enough injuries as a runner to learn the value of proper recovery. But while stretching and foam rolling have their place in helping me bounce back after a hard workout, ...

LZHAM is a lossless data compression codec written in C/C++ (specifically C++03), with a compression ratio similar to LZMA but with 1.5x-8x faster decompression speed. It officially supports Linux x86 ...

Lossless is clearly better than a normal Spotify stream, but improvements over ‘high quality’ audio are subtle. Lossless is clearly better than a normal Spotify stream, but improvements over ‘high ...

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 ...