Developers of the MP3 Have Officially Killed It
MP3, the digital audio coding format, changed the way we listen to music and drove the adoption of countless new…
This Hypnotic Video of a Snake Race Tells Us Something About PhysicsÂ
In this video, snakes are forced to slither between two boards. The boards are placed successively closer together…
Listen To All The Stuff MP3 Compression Leaves Out
MP3s have become so ubiquitous that we often forget it's a compression format. When music gets trimmed to one-tenth of…
The Century-Old Machine That Gave Us MP3s and JPEGs
Back in 1894, Olaus Henrici invented a machine called the Harmonic Analyzer. Way ahead of its time, it could pick out…
What's the Absolute Minimum You Can Compress Data to?
If you've ever tried to squeeze data down into a tiny file, you'll know that there comes a point where you can't get…
Awful JPEG Compression Turns Romeo & Juliet to LB"8DJ IHR:?S
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo. Even if you failed English class, you'd recognize that phrase anywhere. It's…
The New H.265 Video Format Will Help Chew Up Video So Your Network Can Swallow It
Streaming video is the future. Well, it's the present, but the future too. And as resolutions increase, it's going to…
Sony's Squeezing 4K TV Transmissions So They Can Actually Make It to Your TV
No one's going to drop $25,000 on a fabulous 84-inch 4K TV without something to watch on it. So to get the broadcast…
This 549MB Video Takes 23 Days to Watch
Jonathan Harchick has created what is likely the world's longest YouTube video. It's 571 minutes long and takes over…
These Crappy JPEGs Are Actually Paintings
A compressed, blurry image full of compression artifacts is pretty gross—one of the scourges of the internet. But…
This Is What Happens When You Re-Upload a YouTube Video 1,000 Times
One year ago, someone decided to test the image and sound degradation that occurs when you upload a video to YouTube,…
"American Pixels" Series Makes Art of Artifacts
Jörg M. Colberg, an accomplished astrophysicist and photographer, created a series of images entitled "American Pixels"…
Comcast Compressing HDTV Signals to Fit Three Shows into Two Shows' Bandwidth
Comcast has begun compressing HDTV shows in order to deliver more HD channels to you while using the same amount of…
ADS InstantVideo To-Go Accelerates iPod and PSP Video Encoding
ADS announced InstantVideo To-Go, a nifty little $79.95 widget that supercharges compression of video into that…
Apple Lossless On the Way to iTunes?
Although some of us here at Gizmodo are near-deaf from spending way too much time in musical environments exceeding…