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 ...

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 ...

Early in the days of the web, when the internet was turning into a mass medium with possibilities for mixing images and sound, a file format known as the GIF was used to create miniature animations on ...

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 ...

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 ...

4Chan, the mysterious, mischief-making message board that has launched many of the Web’s biggest trends, pranks and movements, made a small — but potentially prophetic! — policy change on Monday. From ...

— -- 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 ...

"The reason everyone thought MySpace was going to die was because these (GIFs) are really ugly," says meme-master general Kenyatta Cheese, speaking at the Story Festival in London. Cheese helps to run ...

If you’ve been following Slate’s guide to loving and sharing GIFs, but what you really want is an easy way to make your own, GIF YouTube has you covered. The service has a quick trick for converting ...

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 ...