Deep in the bowels of the avant-garde, glass and metal MIT Media Lab, graduate student Kevin Hu is making faces into an ornate mirror. He opens his eyes and mouth as wide as possible in a caricature ...

Graphics Interchange Formats – more commonly known as GIFs -- have become an increasingly fun and addictive way to express our feelings on social media, but can they be used to map the language of all ...

“We were talking about GIFs one day,” Hu told Quartz, “and we realized that they’re becoming more and more serious of a medium. They’re more popular, they’re used for more things.” Buzzfeed, for ...

Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

Do you want to rule the internet? Better up your GIF game, dude. Here’s some help: GIFGIF is an interactive project by two students at the MIT Media Lab that catalogues moving images by emotion. You ...

Happy birthday to the legendary pop culture icon Nene Leakes! Today, the O.G. housewife turns 54 years old and we have no choice but to celebrate this queen for her flair, fashion, and witty ...

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I'd like to start with a simple public service announcement: Tumblr has its own GIF maker now, allowing you to create your own animated images from pictures and videos on your phone. That's right — ...

• If your yoga practice is as much an emotional roller coaster ride as a workout, you’ve got to see this: The 22 states of emotion you experience a yoga class—in GIFs, of course. [POPSUGAR Fitness] • ...

The holidays are guaranteed to bring a mix of emotion. You’re back home, reunited with family and friends for the first time in what feels like ages, and did we mentioned cookies are involved? If ...