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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The price was reported by multiple media outlets to be $400 million, but the companies did not confirm the valuation. The ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Last week, the family of the man who invented the GIF, Stephen Wilhite, announced that he had passed ...

And so on. But the thing is? The Times is right. The first GIF I ever made, which, lamentably, isn't currently online, was of breakdancers. (It was sort of like the image at left, which is from this ...

Online “visual” reactions have come a long way since the first sideways smiley-face emoticon appeared four decades ago. Animated GIFs — those files showing a few seconds of choppy motion, like the one ...

Pieces of art like statues or paintings are fairly simple to preserve and display: Make sure they don't physically deteriorate and place them in a room. Technological art, with its myriad variables, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Last week the Internet was aflame with postings about the future of 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 ...