Google built the royalty-free WebM video format with the sophisticated VP8 compression technology that it obtained in its 2009 acquisition of On2. In addition to advancing the goal of open video for ...

WebP is a relativly new image format that provides lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Google is an advocate for it since it helps speed up browsing and such. But do WebP images get ...

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 ...

Google Chrome Labs has released Squoosh, a web app that can compress and reformat images to make lighter web pages. The tool is aimed at helping web developers quickly compress images and reduce image ...

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 WebP was developed by Google to replace the outdated JPG, PNG ...