Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering Microsoft, gaming, and technology you sometimes wear. He previously wrote for ReadWrite, was a news associate at the social-news app Flipboard, ...

Everyone loves animated GIFs, but you might not realize that their grainy, jerky video can teach us a lot about the compromises that computer scientists everywhere have to make. The low frame rates ...

Scientists recently used the gene editing technique known as Crispr to implant DNA encoded with an animated image of a galloping horse into live bacteria. The experiment — detailed in today’s issue of ...

Brigitte Nerlich receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC. The use of “GIFs” has exploded in recent years. They are used for news, views and entertainment but are most commonly seen as ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More All the fans of animated GIF images out there are in luck: Google has ...

“Animated GIFs are the web’s vinyl records,” wrote Jamie Zawinski on Twitter a few months ago. It’s a sly but accurate observation. In the face of Flash and streaming video, the animated GIF, which ...

Humans have always lived singularly in the present moment; the internet has only accelerated the pace that we leap from one lily pad of existence to the next. And we’ve always tried to capture that ...

This portable program is a good pick if you find creating animated GIFs too fiddly and time-intensive. GIF animations are back in vogue, thanks to memes. Even without their use as humor postcards, it ...

WhatsApp has launched a new iOS beta update, 26.2.10.70, introducing a switch from Tenor to Klipy for GIF provision in future ...