JPEG XL: What It Is And Why You Should Care

JPEG XL: What It Is And Why You Should Care

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This week on The PetaPixel Podcast Jon Sneyers, the Senior Image Researcher at Cloudinary, Editor of the JPEG XL standard, and contributor to the reference implementation of the format explains what it is and why it's important.

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