Don’t worry, there are 2,498 more cat GIFs where these came from. (Photo: Giphy) It used to be that when you needed a GIF you were beholden to typical search engines, trying out different combinations ...

There's nothing quite as momentarily incapacitating as a perfect loop GIF. No matter what is occupying your mind at the moment -- be it work, a first date, a bank robbery, whatever -- show someone a ...

The emergence of the animated GIF over the last few years has made short visual loops a regular part of our media diet, but the phenomenon is not an entirely new one. As Chris Baraniuk points out in ...

With the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, Apple unveiled Live Photos, which take a snippet of video as you’re taking a picture. A new app called Live GIF will take your live photos and turn them into looping ...

Sending a video file can use up a large amount of bandwidth, especially if you send the file repeatedly via your website or through an extensive customer email list. Converting the video into an ...

WhatsApp has expanded its media options by adding the ability to share short video clips as looping GIFs, allowing users to create custom GIFs from their stored videos. This feature, accessible on ...

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, ...

When is Natalie Portman's laughter not Natalie Portman's laughter? An Object Lesson. Aristotle called laughter an "ensouling mechanism," and the academic discipline of humor studies has built itself ...

Plenty of tech startups dream of building a new consumer brand that's used and recognized by hundreds of millions of people every day. Few of them get as close as Giphy, the four-year-old GIF search ...

If you ever needed to spice up your Tinder profile but did not know what to do than add that photo of yourself, Tinder has now come to your rescue and has officially introduced Loops that are two ...