In 2012, the photograph of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his re-election was 'liked' over 4 million times. That photo, like the 250 million other images uploaded to Facebook every day is ...

At nearly 30 years old, the JPEG was created around the same time as the very first web page went live. But while web pages look nothing like that very first plain text web page, images are still ...

And that’s the key word: “invite.” As the article’s author (Philadelphia-based graphics programmer Omar Shehata) admits up front, you could do the same thing with that cat JPEG on your own, simply by ...

Google has developed and open-sourced a new JPEG algorithm that reduces file size by about 35 percent—or alternatively, image quality can be significantly improved while keeping file size constant.