Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

If you’ve tried to save an image off the web recently, there’s a chance it’s appeared in a strange new format. The AVIF format is growing in popularity online—and there’s every chance that it could ...

The company is optimistic that its HD Photo format will be renamed JPEG XR and standardized by the Joint Photographic Experts Group. Image: HD Photo versus JPEG Turf war between Microsoft's JPEG XR ...

The iPhone 16 Pro models (and only the Pro models, it seems) will support capturing images in the new JPEG XL format. While support from JPEG XL is not listed on Apple’s specifications, both sites ...

For over 30 years, JPG has been the image format we all know and use. It has characterized the beginnings of the internet as well as digital photography. However, technology has overtaken the ...

Back in 2017, Apple introduced a new default photo format for the iPhone, HEIC (or "high efficiency image container"). I've got nothing against this highly efficient format, since it takes up less ...

Bottom line: The JPEG image format was first introduced in 1992. It is widely used on today's internet and isn't going away anytime soon. Despite the availability of modern alternatives, the humble ...

Ever clicked on a website only to wait endlessly as images crawled onto the screen? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Slow-loading websites don’t just test patience—they drive users away. And when users ...

Replay: JPEG is a technologically ancient format. More modern alternatives have appeared, but none have replaced it in popularity. With Apple's HEIC format, will we finally be able to consign JPEG to ...

Microsoft's alternative to the ubiquitous JPEG image format could soon become a standard, a major step in the company's ambitions to spread the technology and boost its Vista operating system. In ...