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Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. He was 74.

If you’ve been on social media, or texted with GIF-loving friends, Drew Scanlon’s face has likely appeared on your screen.

How to correctly pronounce the word “GIF” has been the subject of a fierce debate for years — and it’s only intensified as more and more GIFs are created.

People can send each other animations of Baby Yoda again.

Teenage activist Greta Thunberg gave an impassioned speech at the United Nations Monday urging world leaders to do more to combat climate change and repeatedly asked, “How dare you?” President Donald Trump responded to coverage of her address with a mocking tweet. Thunberg said: “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and yet all you can talk about...

It’s been 25 years and ‘Friends’ is still there for you (even if it’s leaving Netflix). To celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of the series premiere–all the way back in September 1994–Warner Bros. is bringing ‘Friends’ to New York City with a pop-up experience.

Before the rise of social media, Border Patrol agents gathered in parking lots at the end of their shifts for what was known as “choir practice” — a chance to share what they saw that day and anything else on their minds. T.J. Bonner, who led the National Border Patrol Council during much of his 32-year career as an agent,...

The acting director for the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday he has directed an “immediate investigation” following ProPublica’s report into a secret Facebook group for agents that included sexually explicit posts about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and questioned the authenticity of a recent photo of a father and daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande. Kevin McAleenan tweeted that such...

Ancestry.com on Friday apologized for an ad that showed a mixed-race couple discussing escaping to the North during the Civil War era. The ad drew widespread criticism on social media for whitewashing slavery, prompting the DNA testing company to remove it from TV and its YouTube channel. Ancestry started running the ad on TV on April 15, according to research...

A French Open match took a serious turn Friday when Bosnian tennis player Damir Dzumhur collided with a ball boy on the court.

A pornographic video that falsely claimed to show Hillary Clinton engaged in a sex act has been traced back to an account that Reddit acknowledged on Tuesday is linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency, NBC News reported....
The account, Rubinjer, was the Russia-linked agency’s most popular account on Reddit and received almost 100,000 upvotes, or Reddit’s version of Facebook’s “likes,” in...

After the National Rifle Association invoked the spirit of Leslie Knope with a “Parks and Rec” GIF on Twitter, the show’s alumni slammed the organization for using their star to push a “pro-slaughter agenda.” The NRA had tweeted a thank you message to its spokeswoman Dana Loesch, who defended the group Wednesday night to survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas...

Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon found himself under fire on Twitter Tuesday from none other than the president’s son.

A CNN reporter is pushing back against critics, including Donald Trump Jr., who are suggesting that he blackmailed the Reddit user who created a video of President Donald Trump pummeling a man with the CNN logo superimposed on his face. Reporter Andrew Kaczynski wrote Wednesday that Reddit user “HanA**holeSolo” created the video of Trump, which was tweeted by the president...

It’s the gesture being tweeted around the world. Apple executive Eddy Cue, Senior VP of content, seemingly telling music superstar Rihanna to sit down at Thursday’s Warrior game.

For the second time in 24 hours, the first lady appears to brush off her husband’s hand.

The swat heard ’round the world appears to have a sequel.

Is New York the happiest city in the country? The answer is yes if GIF usage is any indication.

Microsoft is taking aim at Google as it introduced a Surface device for students and slimmed down Windows for the classroom. The new Surface Laptop is the first Surface device without a detachable keyboard. Microsoft says the new laptop will have up to 14.5 hours of battery life, compared with 12 hours for the MacBook Air. The Surface Laptop will...

Twitter has found more creative ways to ease its 140-character limit without officially raising it. Now, the company says that when you reply to someone — or to a group — usernames will no longer count toward those 140 characters. This will be especially helpful with group conversations, where replying to two, three or more users at a time could...