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 ...

Faster loading times can really change how people use a site. They are less likely to leave right away. This activity boosts the metrics that search engines care about. Because of these perks, WebP is ...

Mozilla is bringing support for Google's WebP image format to Firefox 65. The WebP image format was created by Google as a modern format designed for displaying images on the web. "WebP lossless ...

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 ...

Mozilla released today Firefox version 65 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Today's new release contains two new major features, but also improvements to features added in previous releases. Also: ...

After the flashy presentations of WWDC 2020, Apple has now published more details about some of the new features that are coming to some of its products. While Safari didn't get too much of the ...

WordPress.org announced that it will support the advanced WebP image format. WordPress version 5.8 is scheduled for release in late July 2021 and will ship with full support of the (relatively) new ...

WebP is a new image format announced by Google last week which aims at making the web faster by providing the tools to use high-quality, yet lightweight, images. While preserving quality and ...