The iPhone maker becomes the last of tech's biggest companies to endorse compression technology designed to go easy on your data plan. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIF.—For this month’s blog, I thought we’d go over mezzanine video compression. It’s become a hot topic again, especially in the area of moving real time video over IP networks.

Apple has acquired WaveOne, a start-up that has been developing artificial intelligence algorithms for video compression. The company hasn’t officially announced the acquisition, but WaveOne’s former ...

Anyone who was lucky enough to secure a Gmail invite back in early 2004 would have gasped in wonder at the storage on offer, a whole gigabyte! Nearly two decades later there’s more storage to be had ...

Even though nowadays you are mostly trying to directly stream the video content, there are still big advantages of just downloading it to your phone. For starters because in many countries unlimited ...

Because video clips are made up of sequences of individual images, or “frames,” video compression algorithms share many concepts and techniques with still-image compression algorithms. Therefore, we ...