The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it interact with your files, but asking it to write software that handles them ...

Cloud image editors are now much harder to justify.

Apple has announced PICO, an image compression codec that uses machine learning. Compared to AV1, AV2, VVC, ECM, and JPEG-AI, PICO can produce images of the same quality with up to one-third the data ...

TensorFlow Compression (TFC) contains data compression tools for TensorFlow. You can use this library to build your own ML models with end-to-end optimized data compression built in. It's useful to ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

Imagine working with special cameras that capture light your eyes can’t even see—ultraviolet rays that cause sunburn or infrared heat signatures that reveal hidden writing. Or perhaps using ...

A tiny Python package that forces lossless compression in matplotlib when saving WebP images. Otherwise, matplotlib's .webp exports are somewhat low quality unless you add specific PIL parameters.

Why change the size of an image? Being able to change the image size is essential in many areas. The size of an image significantly determines its quality, loading time, and display. Smaller images ...