Addressing early criticisms, Google finalizes how its image file format will handle metadata and color profiles. Also new: faster encoding and animation support. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Google is obsessed with speeding up the Web, and the company hopes sprucing up its image format will help. It's got a lot of convincing to do, though. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Image formats rarely become a topic of discussion unless something breaks or slows down. As websites compete on speed, usability, and mobile performance, image optimization has moved from a technical ...

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 WebP was developed by Google to replace the outdated JPG, PNG ...