Your Facebook News Feed will soon become much more animated. Facebook has decided to begin supporting animated GIF images. An animated GIF is a graphic image that moves in a loop -- which is created ...

Animated GIFs have come back from the grave and this time, fans are rolling out the red carpet for them. My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I ...

There are some striking similarities between the career of Robert Downey Jr. and the GIF. After the invention of the GIF file format in the late ‘80s, pixilated animated GIFs—those "under construction ...

What does the history of GIF art look like? This is a tricky question to answer because while there has been no shortage of animated GIF exhibitions, there is a dearth of documentation. Bond Street, a ...

Casey Newton writes about Google for CNET, which he joined in 2012 after covering technology for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is really quite tall. Google is making it easier to find the perfect ...

You're messaging your friend, and they just told you the juiciest gossip you've ever heard. It's so utterly surprising that words simply won't cut it. So what do you do instead? You send a GIF of ...

The animated GIF is one of the few Internet-native forms of artistic expression. It is almost always ridiculous and almost always wondrous, because it is a mode of the knowing amateur. It is an ...

Bing announced there is a new filter within Bing Images to let you only see animated GIF images. Animated GIFs are a grouping of images that may appear as a movie but are just a series of images. You ...

Tony Stark suffers the DTs in a freaky animated GIF created from a classic The Invincible Iron Man cover. Lovingly crafted by comics creator Kerry Callen, the image is one of four he made to test his ...

Animated GIFs have become so huge. They're everywhere. But why? On the surface, they're pretty silly—a few frames of video, endlessly looping in time. There are GIFs of Star Trek's Picard facepalming, ...