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 ...

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 ...

Other browser makers are unmoved by file-size advantages of the image format, but Google is pressing ahead. And it's saving terabytes of network usage a day on its own sites. Stephen Shankland worked ...

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 ...

Google loves everything that makes the web faster. Given that images typically account for more than half of a web page’s size, it has now been working on its own WebP image format for a few years.

As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format. It's called WebP, and it's based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative Thursday ...

Doing something similar to what Microsoft did with the Office pack, Google has recently released a developer’s preview of a new and lighter image format called WebP. It’s capable of decreasing an ...

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 ...

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 ...

As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format. It's called WebP, and it's based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative Thursday ...