— -- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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It's almost impossible to use the Internet today without coming across the grainy, looping images known as animated GIFs. Made popular by such websites as Tumblr and Imgur, GIFs (originally Graphics ...

(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, ...

From the truck to the line to the bag, Jess Jiang and Lam Thuy Vo use five animated GIFs to show how chip tech has advanced since the days of hand-packing.

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 ...

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 ...