More than two decades ago, Compuserv developed the Graphics Interface Format. Ever since, GIF creators and watchers alike have debated the term's pronunciation.

The 9 Best Technology GIFs of 2016 It’s time to recognize the trusty sidekicks to this year’s important stories, without which, technology news would be a whole lot less mesmerizing.

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 ...

Its usage accelerated when the World Wide Web arrived the next decade, but the tech community put on the brakes as Unisys began patent enforcement action for the compression technology GIF uses.

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 ...

We collected the most mesmerizing short clips about emerging technology from MIT Technology Review stories during 2015.

The GIF, he continues, is a 30-year-old file format which is woefully inefficient and yet, despite all the innovation in technology, is used to tell stories all over the Internet today.

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 ...

But the patents expired, and so did Wilhite’s employer CompuServe. That makes the GIF one of technology’s great examples of accidental philanthropy.

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 ...