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 ...

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 ...

Google's image format started as a rival to JPEG, but new features mean it could take on Portable Network Graphics, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...