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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rejoice lovers of all things GIF and 140 characters or less, Twitter is finally supporting animated GIFs in tweets. They announced the development today, with a GIF ...

Imgur's new GIFV format means animated images load faster, look better and play when shared on social networks. Will the 1987-era GIF format finally fade from use? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

The first 3-D printer able to squirt molten glass through a nozzle (read more) A device keeps hearts alive and beating outside the body (read more) VR headset lets man inhabit teddy bear (read more) ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - The internet creates world-changing technologies and unimaginable fortunes – just not always at the same time. Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the Graphics ...

James Van Der Beek sobbing. The guy who blinks in disbelief. That disturbing dancing baby. For these and millions more GIFs, we have Stephen Wilhite to thank. GIFs, those looping animated images, are ...