More than two decades ago, in 1987, Compuserv developed the Graphics Interface Format, a file that allows users with incompatible PCs to exchange pictures. They dubbed it the GIF, pronounced with a ...

In its continued quest for world social media domination, Instagram announced a new feature. Starting today, September 20, you can now send GIFs in direct messages. This move is one of a number of ...

Facebook is betting on the potency of GIFs by acquiring Giphy, whose technology will be integrated into Instagram, which Facebook acquired in 2012. The price was reported by multiple media outlets to ...

Buzzfeed has bestowed a new kind of GIF upon the Internet that they claim puts the site "at the very top of the GIF game." Is this new technology really an evolution? They call it the Rubbable GIF ...

Is Looper the first movie to release an official poster as a GIF? There have been many fan-made movie poster GIFs in recent years, but our inquiry into prior official examples put out by a film’s ...

2016 was a big year for technology—virtual reality got more hands-on, robots got a lot smarter, and researchers learned how to study individual human cells with unparalleled precision. How best to ...

(NEXSTAR) – Stephen Wilhite, the man behind looping animated images known as GIFs, has passed away. He was 74. Wilhite died last week, according to an obituary from an Ohio funeral home. His wife, ...

— -- GifBoom is a free app for iOS and Android devices that creates animated .gif images out of still photos (or batches of still photos, more accurately). Animated gifs are a mainstay of ...

Hello, beautiful. No, not you. That animated GIF of a wonderfully curvy Coronet Super 12 typewriter. Oh and that one of TEAC reel-to-reel tapedeck and the Bell & Howe Super 8 projector. Actually, all ...

If you've ever tried to post a GIF to Twitter only to be told that the file size was too large, you're in for a pleasant surprise. According to Twitter's Help Center, the company has increased the ...