From Geek to Chic: a decade of smartphone evolution: Over the past decade, the smartphone has gone from a large, belt-holstered badge of geekiness to mass-market mobile computing platform. In this photo gallery, we survey the last ten years or so of smartphone history with a look at two important smartphones from each year.

Google’s new VP8-based image format could replace JPEG: Google has announced a new format for lossy images called WebP that uses compression techniques from VP8. Google’s tests show that it delivers an average reduction in image file size of 39 percent.

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