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How many Coinbases is FTX worth?

Welcome to Chain Reaction, where we unpack and explain the latest in crypto news, drama and trends, breaking things down block by block for the crypto curious. For our Thursday episode focused on majo

Upstream’s new vault could help NFT holders sleep at night

Imagine paying millions of dollars for a JPEG of a monkey just to have it stolen from your digital wallet. That’s exactly what happened to actor Seth Green, who ended up pleading with the hacker

Crypto winter is coming

Hello and welcome back to the Chain Reaction podcast, where we unpack and explain the latest crypto news, drama and trends, breaking it down block by block for the crypto curious. You’ve proba

Americana’s chip turns physical objects into NFTs

NFTs are being used for far more than just proving you own a JPEG on the internet. Americana Technologies, a startup founded early last year by designer Jake Frey, allows brands and creators to turn p

Twitter launches NFT Profile Pictures — but only for Twitter Blue subscribers

Twitter today is introducing a new feature that will allow users to show off their NFTs, or non-fungible tokens — a way to certify digital assets stored on the blockchain. The company is rolling

Google launches the first developer preview of Android 12

Almost exactly a year after Google announced the first developer preview of Android 11, the company today released the first developer preview of Android 12. Google delayed the roll-out of Android 11

Twitter will now preserve JPEG quality for photo uploads on the web

Twitter is changing the way it processes uploaded images, and the new way of doing things will be much-appreciated by any photographers sharing their work on the platform. Twitter engineer Nolan O&#82

Can a dreaming AI fix low res digital photos in the edit?

Let's Enhance is an Estonia-based startup that's using a so called 'hallucinating AI' deep neural network to power a freemium photo upscaling service. Find out what happened when we fed it some photo

Mozilla Launches Improved JPEG Encoder

Mozilla today announced the launch of the latest version of its mozjpeg image encoder for JPEG files. The new version is already being tested on facebook.com, and Facebook donated $60,000 to Mozilla

New Startup JPEGmini Reduces Photos’ Size, Not Their Quality

Photographers, take note. A startup called <a href="http://www.jpegmini.com/">JPEGmini</a> is introducing a new photo compression technology for JPEG photos which reduces the overall file size (by up

XDepth Raw works as both JPEG and RAW

Interesting. I’ve always wondered when a lossless compression scheme for RAW shots would become popular — there’s already Rawzor, but it’s not the same idea. This XDepth Raw fo

JPEG XR may offer a fix for DSLR users who need a higher burst rate

I’ve never had a problem with my old Rebel XT’s 3-per-second rapid fire rate. Of course, I’m not a press or sport photographer, and it is kind of annoying that I can only take like 8

Microsoft Attempts To Overtake JPEG, Almost There

Microsoft’s HD Photo file format is one step closer to being accepted by JPEG. The standardization of HD Photo or JPEG XR will make certain that software, display, printer and camera companies will