The Tinder profile pic tends to be where our cheesiest side comes out. There is, of course, a degree of fantasy to every profile pic, although some fantasies are more on the mark than others. And now, ...

Inspired by looping videos like GIFs and Vines that have kept millions of Web and mobile users entertained for countless hours, a startup called Coub is adding an extra layer of creativity to the mix.

When is Natalie Portman's laughter not Natalie Portman's laughter? An Object Lesson. Aristotle called laughter an "ensouling mechanism," and the academic discipline of humor studies has built itself ...

Ade Olonoh, the founder of the anonymous Q&A site Formspring, is setting his sights on animated GIFs. Loop is an iOS app for sending text updates to all of your friends at once — à la Twitter — but ...

Animated GIFs have become so huge. They're everywhere. But why? On the surface, they're pretty silly—a few frames of video, endlessly looping in time. There are GIFs of Star Trek's Picard facepalming, ...

As far as entertainment value goes, architecture-related GIFs usually don’t have much on cat GIFs, fail GIFs, or GIFs of Oprah surrounded by swarms of bees. But these GIFs of procedurally-generated ...

Struggling to bag yourself a perfect partner with Tinder? This new feature could leave you swimming in swipe-rights TINDER is hoping that GIFs will be the quick-fix solution to finding you a bed buddy ...

GIFs are designed to loop short clips–generally a couple seconds long–over and over until you close your browser window. But As Long As Possible is a different kind of GIF; one rendered on a geologic ...

Okay, so technically they’re not GIFs, but “cinemagraphs,” short, seamlessly repeating videos. Either way, these incredible loops of dramatic waves from Ray Collins and Armand Dijcks are endlessly ...

TINDER is hoping that GIFs will be the quick-fix solution to finding you a bed buddy. The matchmaker app is trialling Loops, a two-second looping video that will let you “show more personality” on ...