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Comment Re:Why should JPEG be replaced? (Score 2) 271

by gwlesher on Monday January 22, 2018 @01:45PM (#55979049) Attached to: Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs?

WebP is great. Better lossless compression than PNG. Better lossy compression quality than jpg for comparable size. Support for lossy compression with alpha (and even lossy alpha). Unfortunately, it is not supported by IE, Edge, Safari or Firefox (although the last two are "experimenting with supporting WebP images"). See caniuse.

https://caniuse.com/#search=we...

Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half 414

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 09, 2010 @04:57AM from the not-so-bad-after-all dept.

bonch writes "A new study on Greenland's and West Antarctica's rate of ice loss halves the estimate of ice loss. Published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the study takes into account a rebounding of the Earth's crust called glacial isostatic adjustment, a continuing rise of the crust after being smashed under the weight of the Ice Age. 'We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at approximately half the speed originally predicted,' said researcher Bert Vermeeersen."

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