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# Compression

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How Higher Compression Can Give An Engine More Power While Saving Fuel - CarScoops

How Higher Compression Can Give An Engine More Power While Saving Fuel More power typically hurts fuel economy, but higher compression breaks the rule. Here’s how modern engine design squeezes out both.

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Tom's Hardware ·7 days ago

New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup — new CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads

A new compression model, called CRAM, offers a different path to compression that avoids swap entirely by keeping the compressed data in memory, and it offers up to 452x the performance of ZRAM.

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SlashGear ·23 days ago

Why Are Mazda's Four-Cylinder Skyactiv-G Engines So Reliable? - SlashGear

Why Are Mazda's Four-Cylinder Skyactiv-G Engines So Reliable? Launched more than a decade ago, Mazda's Skyactiv-G engine involves a unique approach to traditional compression ratios. Take for instance the Skyactiv-G 2.

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Tom's Hardware ·2 mo. ago

Gamers compress 80TB map of Minecraft's oldest anarchy server down to a 15TB download — custom .zvcr compression format and 28 bots map 1 million blocks on infamous 2b2t server

Despite the storage shortages, a brave team of Minecraft players has successfully mapped the entirety of 2b2t, arguably Minecraft’s oldest and most notorious server, and have now shared it as a 15TB download of highly…

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Pcgamer ·2 mo. ago

Manually update your 7-Zip to version 26.02 to fix a vulnerability

If you use 7-Zip for your file compression and decompression you might want to update, as there's been a pretty big vulnerability patched. And yes, I mean manually update, as 7-Zip doesn't auto-update.

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Petapixel ·3 mo. ago

This Photographer Got So Tired of Compression He Built a Photo-Sharing Website Without It

As camera megapixel counts keep rising, the limitations of online photo sharing only become more apparent. Most photographers share photos online via platforms that use heavy-duty compression, making images look…

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SlashGear ·3 mo. ago

Why Do Some Engines Require Higher Octane Fuel? - SlashGear

Why Do Some Engines Require Higher Octane Fuel? Octane really is just a measure of how well fuel resists lighting itself under pressure.

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Housebeautiful ·3 mo. ago

These Compression Packing Cubes Doubled My Suitcase Space—and They're at Their Lowest Price EVER

In my book, Prime Day is the best time for two things: travel essentials and refills. It’s the time of year that I stock up on all of my consumables, like humidifier filters and my favorite lip gloss.