Animated stamps from USC celebrate 14 builders of the modern internet, from DNS and video calls to JPEG, encryption, and the algorithms inside phones

USC is celebrating America's 250th anniversary with animated digital stamps honoring unsung heroes of computing. These stamps ...

In 1991, Cliff Kushler developed T9, making keypad typing faster on early mobile phones

Even before mobile phones started taking photos everywhere, digital images suffered from a very simple problem. They looked ...

In 1989, Phil Katz introduced the ZIP format, making large computer files easier to store and share

Back in the late 1980s, using a computer required a lot of patience. In a time before cloud storage, fast internet, and multi ...
GitHub

LZ4 - Extremely fast compression

LZ4 is lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed > 500 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU. It features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, ...
techtimes

Advanced Algorithm Development Reshapes 4K Video Compression Technology with GPU-Accelerated Processing Breakthroughs

"Optimization demands understanding hardware constraints at the silicon level," reflects Shaibujan Thankappan Kamalamma, whose career spans video codec work, streaming systems, and enterprise security ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why Google’s TurboQuant Algorithm is Disrupting the AI Memory Chip Market

Google’s TurboQuant is making waves in the AI hardware sector by addressing long-standing challenges in memory usage and processing efficiency. Developed with components like the Quantized ...
Network World

Google Research touts memory-compression breakthrough for AI processing

Memory prices are falling, and stock prices of memory companies took a hit, following news from Google Research of a breakthrough that will greatly reduce the amount of memory needed for AI processing ...
The Motley Fool

Google Just Announced Really Bad News for Micron and Sandisk

In a blog post published last week, Google announced that its scientists had developed an AI memory-compression algorithm, dubbed TurboQuant. "We introduce a set of advanced, theoretically grounded ...
Digi Times

In-depth: Google TurboQuant cuts LLM memory 6x, resets AI inference cost curve

Google has introduced TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces large language model (LLM) memory usage by at least 6x while boosting performance, targeting one of AI's most persistent ...
Android

This Google AI Breakthrough Could End the Global RAM Crisis Sooner Than Expected

Google has unveiled TurboQuant, a new AI compression algorithm that can reduce the RAM requirements for large language models by 6x. By optimizing how AI stores data through a method called ...
TechSpot

Google's TurboQuant compression tech cuts LLM memory use by 6x with no accuracy loss

The big picture: Google has developed three AI compression algorithms – TurboQuant, PolarQuant, and Quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss – designed to significantly reduce the memory footprint of large ...
Forbes

Google’s TurboQuant Compression Could Increase Demand For AI Memory

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. On March 24, 2026 Amir Zandieh and Vahab Mirrokni from Google Research published an article ...