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 ...

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 ...

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

WhatsApp is finally adding support to play GIFs automatically. Popular WhatsApp tracker website WABetainfo has spotted GIF auto-play in the chat app’s latest beta build, giving testers early access to ...

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 ...

Users must know that this features enabled the users to send a personalized GIF just like a personalized sticker. By using this feature, you can trim a video and convert it to a GIF. After which you ...

The looping animations known as graphics interchange format quickly became a staple of the internet, although the pronunciation of ‘GIF’ was a frequent subject of debate. By Amanda Holpuch and Neil ...

Earlier this year, biggest social media apps Instagram and Snapchat introduced a Giphy GIFs feature for Stories, which they recently had to remove because of users’ complaints after seeing an ...

Scientists have successfully encoded an image and a short film – a GIF – into a bacteria’s DNA with the help of the genome editing tool CRISPR. US scientists from Harvard University inserted a picture ...

“Higgs Boson” was a contender. So were “superstorm,” “Super PAC” and “YOLO” (an acronym that stands for You Only Live Once). But Katherine Martin, head of the U.S. dictionaries program at Oxford ...