[In our Three-Minute Tech series, we tell you everything you really need to know about a technology in three minutes or less.] The day may come when increased storage capacities and unfettered ...

There things stood until the age of the personal computer and the internet. A three-minute track on a CD (which is the length of a typical pop song) occupies 31,752,000 bytes, or just over 30MB.

Smith Micro Software on Wednesday announced the release of StuffIt Deluxe 12, a major new release of the popular Mac compression and archival software. StuffIt Deluxe 12 costs $79.99, and upgrades ...

It's one of the most popular and controversial file types in the world, but most explanations of its workings are either blindingly simplistic or overwhelmingly technical. Learn about the workings of ...

Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called "EnCodec" that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says ...

Patent number 5,579,430 does not read like a manifesto for a new music business, but its grant to Germany's Fraunhofer Institute on November 26, 1996, marked ...