Filmmaker Raoul Peck examines the prophetic messages of George Orwell in “Orwell: 2+2=5.” A Neon release in select theaters Friday, the film connects Orwell's writings to modern totalitarianism.

In late 1994, controversy was brewing over royalties being imposed on GIFs due to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression ...

Your iPhone uses the HEIC file format by default, but it isn't universally supported, making it a hassle to convert these images to JPG. That's where Apple's Shortcuts app comes in. I've written for ...

For years, tech companies (well, certain tech companies) tooted their horns about a future in which files didn’t matter. You don’t even need a file manager of any sort, they told us—and, in fact, we ...

If you’ve ever encountered HEIC files on your Windows device and found them tricky to work with, you’re not alone. HEIC, or High Efficiency Image File Format, is popular for storing images but can be ...

Sometimes you need to quickly convert an image, audio file, or video, so you search for an online tool. The problem: many online conversion tools aren't safe to use, putting you at risk from malware ...

RAW files are ideal for professional photography and post-processing, but they’re not easy to open, edit, or share. Converting RAW to JPG allows you to quickly transform high-resolution camera files ...

If you’ve ever searched for a free way to convert a PDF to Word, or combine a few images into a PDF, there’s a good chance you’ve used an online file conversion tool. But according to a recent warning ...

The FBI is warning that fake online document converters are being used to steal peoples’ information and, in worst-case scenarios, to deploy ransomware on victims' devices. The warning came last week ...

While downloading images from the internet, you may have come across one of the relatively newer image formats called WebP. It is a file format launched by Google back in 2010. What makes WebP special ...