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 ...

The use of "GIFs" has exploded in recent years. They are used for news, views and entertainment but are most commonly seen as a light-hearted medium. Now scientists are beginning to see how GIFs can ...

For those of you who haven't experienced joy and procrastination at its purest level, there's a new app called PopKey. I'm not sure why it took people so long to create this — it's simple and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Antony Funnell: I want to start with a clarification. Hello, Antony Funnell here, welcome to Future ...

People want to express how they feel in pictures, not words. This is the mantra of tech world soothsayers and the backbone behind major platform revamps like Facebook’s recent inclusion of emoji-like ...

We’ve seen a massive shift in the way we communicate online with each other. People are replacing words with emoticons, photos and GIFs, and we’ve seen companies like Imgur ride this wave to great ...

The use of “GIFs” has exploded in recent years. They are used for news, views and entertainment but are most commonly seen as a light-hearted medium. Now scientists are beginning to see how GIFs can ...