EDMONTON, Alberta — When British inventor Edward Raymond Turner patented his color moving images in 1899, they were viewed as a failure: His clips often came out blurry. Undeterred, Turner continued ...

Sure, Polaroid cameras have been spitting out instant photos for years, but what about GIFs, those moving photos that fill up social media feeds? That is exactly what Abhishek Singh, a developer, ...

The days when Twitter treated Live Photos as still ones are over. This social-networking site now easily converts these moving images taken with an iPhone to GIFs. Making a Live Image into a GIF with ...

Messenger Lite, Facebook's stripped down version of its popular messaging app, is getting some new features for customization and expression. Starting today, users of the app will be able to send and ...

Now you too can join the ranks of time-honored GIFs, such as Homer Simpson hiding in a bush or Stephen Colbert eating popcorn. Giphy, a major search platform for GIFs, released an app for DIY GIFs, ...

When it comes to animated GIF art, the measuring stick of greatness is obscure. That’s the challenge facing the curators of Moving the Still, an art exhibition of animations composed by the world’s ...

While internet users are pretty divided on how to pronounce the word “gif” — some say it like the peanut butter brand Jif, while others pronounce it like the first part of the word “gift” — most can ...