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Google reinvents JPEG compression, tells Internet to take a load off

With humans capturing and uploading images to the Internet at an unprecedented rate, social media running amok, and image-heavy websites taking advantage of existing broadband connections, Google has committed to improving JPEG image compression. Google has developed a new open-source JPEG compression algorithm, dubbed Guetzli (apparently that means “cookie” in …

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JPEG to be replaced by WebP ? Google hope so

The Joint Photographic Experts Group format (or JPEG as it is more commonly known) has become such a part of our lives in 2010, it is hard to image it ever being replaced. If Google have their way however, their new image format called ‘WeBp' will do just that. Google …

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