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.

The GIF is old technology, it's digital and it's already making a comeback. Allan Hoffman may be reached via his website, allanhoffman.com.

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 ...

While the brief animations are not new — GIFs were created in 1987 by Steve Wilhite, a programmer at CompuServe, and have been omnipresent on desktops — major improvements in mobile technology ...

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

Giphy, the creators of the GIF search engine, have created a work-around that promises to bring the animated file format to the social network but fails to deliver.  ...

Finding GIFs to post is straightforward, but making your own is a bit complicated. There are dozens of ways you can make a GIF on your phone or computer without using dedicated software like ...

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 ...

Another aspect that made GIFs essential is that they didn’t take up a lot of memory. The technology employed the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm, which found repeating patterns in the images and ...

WebMs just got the blessing of one of the Internet's foremost trendsetters. Could they kill GIFs once and for all?