The WebP image format developed by Google for the past eight years has found a home this week in Microsoft's Edge browser, and will also be added in Firefox next year. WebP is a lossy and lossless ...

Anyone trying to save images from websites these days is increasingly stumbling across the new WebP image format. But what is it actually? WebP was developed by Google to replace the outdated JPG, PNG ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

You may have noticed an online image format appearing in your browser lately, especially if you have a blog or like to save images you find online. It’s called WebP ...

One of the biggest challenges of the web is the adoption rate of new technologies. It’s not enough to develop a great idea, a new format or a technology in general if the majority of people can’t use ...

WordPress has put its efforts into improving lossless and lossy compression for images on the web with the WebP image format. With the promise of improved quality image hosting on its websites, ...

Google Chrome Labs has released an open-source web-based image editing app with a silly name, Squoosh, but a very significant purpose: It shows off how images can load faster using Google’s WebP image ...

The image accompanying this post is encoded with JPEG compression, a standard which, while it has been improved somewhat, has been more or less in its present form for almost two decades now. Over ...

Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG ...