AVIF (AV1 Image File, derived from the AV1 video codec) files are relatively new compared to more well-known types such as GIFs, JPEGs, or PNGs, but support for them has been steadily growing. Many of ...

If you’ve tried to save an image off the web recently, there’s a chance it’s appeared in a strange new format. The AVIF format is growing in popularity online—and there’s every chance that it could ...

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Humans have long admired the sound of birdsong, but to fully appreciate how technically amazing it is, you need an ultrasonic microphone. [Benn Jordan] recently created a video about using these ...

JPEG XL (JXL) is a next-generation JPEG format that uses a unique compression algorithm to compress images, illustrations, and screenshots. Such JPEG XL not only reduces the file size by about 11% ...

iOS and macOS have actually supported the open AVIF format for years. However, the implementation in the Messages app is still broken. AVIF is actually a common image format: the open specification ...