Stephen Wilhite was merely trying to solve a technical problem when he invented the GIF, or graphics interchange format, in 1987. As a programmer at the computer-services firm CompuServe, he was ...

The GIF is both the code and the precise result from running the code.

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 ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Wired recently profiled a couple of guys at the MIT Media Lab, both of whom are working ...

Every corner of the internet is packed with GIFs, whether that's an Instagram story, a comment on a Reddit post, a chat from your friend, or a promotional email from a shoe brand. And honestly, why ...

Everyone loves animated GIFs, but you might not realize that their grainy, jerky video can teach us a lot about the compromises that computer scientists everywhere have to make. The low frame rates ...

Of the many social networks present on the internet, Twitter is one of the most lively, telling, and communicative platforms of all. A large part of this has to do with the interactive behavior that ...