If a picture says a thousand words, then a GIF says a million. Communicating via GIF can be more effective — and hilarious — than words. On Thursday, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the GIF, ...

Although GIF is technically just an image format not unlike JPG, PNG, and BMP, its built-in ability to support animations has made it synonymous with creative, ridiculous, and sometimes entertaining ...

Commonly associated with those animated, looping photographs, the Graphics Interchange Format or GIF turns 30 on June 15 — and Facebook is celebrating by adding the option to find and use GIFs within ...

It's about freaking time. GIFs could finally be coming to more places on Facebook. The social network plans to start testing a new GIF button in comments, Facebook confirmed Friday, meaning proper ...

Despite the tepid reception for Facebook Stories, the social network is doubling down on its full-screen Camera feature. Today Facebook added the ability to go Live, shoot two-second GIFs and share ...

Yesterday, tech firm Giphy announced the launch of its Facebook GIFs product; within a few hours Gap posted one of the first branded GIFs on the social network. The GIF product was built on Facebook's ...

I’m pleading with 1.94 billion people right now. For the love of everything pure and good in the world, please don’t start adding animated GIFs to your Facebook ...

Facebook is beefing up its Camera functionality with a trio of Snapchat- and Instagram Live-inspired updates. Starting today, iOS and Android users have the ability to go live, create GIFs and share ...

At Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco, the company unleashed a new platform for users (and businesses) to use the Messenger app in all-new ways. The Messenger platform allows all ...

Facebook is bloated. It's slowly morphing into the iTunes of the social media world. At F8, the company's annual developers' conference, the company added even more features to its core apps and said ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Facebook has been building out the camera in its main app for a while now, and today is adding a ...

Facebook announced Friday that it's buying Giphy, makers of the popular GIF generator website. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed officially, but some outlets are valuing the acquisition ...