Using an external drive requires more effort than backing up everything to the cloud. You need to wait for your files to transfer from your device to the drive, and then sort everything into folders.

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 ...

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 ...

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

ABSTRACT.We describe a compression method for floating-point astronomical images that gives compression ratios of 6–10 while still preserving the scientifically important information in the image. The ...