Did you know that you can insert an animated GIF as a background in Word documents? GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) is a bitmap image format that supports both animated and static images. GIFs are ...

Lucy Dikeou, a 21-year-old senior at Stanford University, has long used English and the pictorial images known as emoji to text on her iPhone. A few months ago, she started messaging in a third ...

GIF, used as a verb, is the Oxford American Dictionaries’ word of the year. The dictionary company announced the pick with an animated GIF. The word of the year is “chosen annually as a word that has ...

Animation by Slate. Yawning cat via Giphy. Recently Adam Leibsohn, the COO of the GIF platform Giphy, made his case that GIFs are superior to words as a medium of communication. Could this possibly be ...

A picture may or not be worth a thousand words, but sometimes you need a series of moving pictures to represent just one word. Or at least that’s the case when a word has no direct translation in ...