Apple reportedly added support for JPEG XL to the iPhone Camera app in iOS 18. That’s left many iPhone users wondering, what the heck is JPEG XL? It’s intended to be the replacement for the classic ...

While much of the technology behind digital cameras has changed since the first prototypes, one feature that’s nearly as old ...

JPEG XL is an emerging image file format designed to increase image fidelity while decreasing file size when compared to other popular image formats, particularly the old JPEG format. At present, both ...

What is JPEG file format? The acronym stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and that’s the name of the sub-committee that aided in the creation of the JPEG standard along with other standards ...

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 ...

For over 30 years, JPG has been the image format we all know and use. It has characterized the beginnings of the internet as well as digital photography. However, technology has overtaken the ...

To be fair, it’s only the most recent improvement to JPEG, with JPEG XT being introduced in 2015 and JPEG XL in 2021 to mostly deafening silence, right along that other, better new image format people ...

Windows 11 users can now use the JPEG XL image extension. All you need to do is download JPEG XL Image Extension from the Microsoft Store, which will enable the OS to view and save images in the new ...

Back in 2017, Apple introduced a new default photo format for the iPhone, HEIC (or "high efficiency image container"). I've got nothing against this highly efficient format, since it takes up less ...

The iPhone 16 Pro models (and only the Pro models, it seems) will support capturing images in the new JPEG XL format. While support from JPEG XL is not listed on Apple’s specifications, both sites ...

I got to wondering today, if there was any image format, maybe binary black/white, or greyscale, or even color, that is just raw pixels, with no metadata. Even BMP, while it has pretty minimal ...