The Guetzli project shows there's room to improve the venerable compression tech. Too bad Google's software is slow and not so practical for most sites right now. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Whether you’re running a website or using social media, images are crucial. They provide a visual representation of your brand and its offerings, catching the eye of prospective customers. However, if ...

A group of researchers at Google appear to have taken a leaf out of HBO comedy Silicon Valley’s book for its latest project. The team has developed a way to use neural networks that mimic the workings ...

TinyPNG is probably the most useful and easy-to-use online image size reducer that can compress up to 20 images at a time. However, the maximum file size is 5 MB. Talking about the image format, you ...

The JPEG format is one of the most widely supported ways to create, edit and save images. JPEG files have relatively small file sizes due to the way the format compresses the data that makes up the ...

Image compression is an essential technique for efficient transmission and storage of images. The demands for transmission and storage of multimedia data are increasing exponentially. A gray scale ...

Using compression software such as WinZip or WinRAR shrinks files so they take up less space. This makes zip and rar files ideal for sharing over email or by USB drive. However, some types of files, ...

Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG ...