data compression

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1. A technique in information technology by which the same amount of data is transmitted by using a smaller number of bits; for example, by replacing a string of ten repeated digits with a command to repeat the digit ten times.

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Data compression is essential in technologies that transmit things like digitized movies in real time.

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These included exploring computationally efficient AI algorithms, selecting hardware that requires less energy, using data compression techniques, removing redundant data, implementing tiered storage systems and partnering with providers that use renewable energy.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2024

This in turn means an optimization of the information content, or the most effective data compression.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2023

We manage that by asking users not to be data hogs, and by doing a lot of data compression.

From Scientific American • Jul. 11, 2022

It’s used to provide more efficient data compression for Bluetooth audio, and it can provide a better listening experience with higher-quality or lossless audio files.

From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2022

A proprietary standard of error control and data compression.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd