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 ...

AVIF, standing for AV1 Image File Format, represents the cutting edge in image file technology. This innovative format employs the advanced AV1 video codec to compress images, showcasing a remarkable ...

JPEG XL (JXL) is a next-generation JPEG format that uses a unique compression algorithm to compress images, illustrations, and screenshots. Such JPEG XL not only reduces the file size by about 11% ...

Video-streaming giant Netflix has released an update to a new image file format called AVIF, or AV1 Image File Format, which it believes can be a superior replacement to the 27-year-old JPEG ...

Google announced that images in the AVIF file format will now be eligible to be shown in Google Search and Google Images, including all platforms that surface Google Search data. AVIF will ...

When it comes to the loading of websites, images take a long time because of the size. Past few years, a lot of effort has been made, and WebP has become popular. Compared to JPEG, WebP format is 30% ...

Google Search finally supports the AVIF file format in Google Search, Google Images and all locations Google Search shows images such as Google Discover, Google News and so forth. “We’re happy to ...

An increasing number of websites are adopting 'WebP' and 'AVIF' as the format for images inserted into pages. However, many image viewers and image editing software do not support WebP or AVIF, ...

Starting with Windows 10 Insider build 18305, Microsoft has started to add support for the AVIF image format. This support is first being added to Microsoft Paint and File Explorer, but can be ...