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Giphy (Bizarrely?) Calls GIF Images ‘Cringe’ and ‘Out of Fashion’
I have to admit that when someone mentions GIF images/animations, my initial thoughts do generally tend to go back to the days of the internet in the mid to late 90s. – At a time when dial-up connections could barely handle a 5MB download, let alone a 500MB video, GIFs…
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EU Parliament Approves Article 13 Copyright Laws
EU Approves Meme-Killing Law When it comes to our social media platforms, we often openly encourage our fans to respond to our news/reviews with memes or gifs. It is, after all, a rather fun way to express your opinion. This sharing of images/video, however, has been under threat for some…
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WhatsApp Removes Pornographic GIFS After Threat of Ban
WhatsApp Removes Pornographic GIFS After Threat of Ban from Country WhatsApp is a great way for friends and groups to communicate. The ability to share messages, photos, short videos and GIF animations mean that the social media program has become one of the most popular and download items on the…
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Researchers Find Malware Hiding in GIFs
Security researchers have found a type of malware on popular websites which hides in advertisement images and has been active for around two years. The Stegano exploit kit – discovered by Eset researchers – finds vulnerable computers and displays a custom GIF, the alpha channel of which contains malicious code.…
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Animated GIFs of Olympic Events Banned for Rio 2016
Love them or hate them, animated GIFs are a great way to capture amazing highlights in a format easily viewable and shareable for pretty much any web browser. In the past, Olympic athletes have had their moments of glory saved and shared across the internet in the tiny animated images.…
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Fair Use Limits Challenged by ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ as 569 GIFs
In a challenge of just how far the fair usage doctrine can be pushed, Jean-Baptiste Henri Franck Cyrille Marie Le Divelec has released his project 2001: A Gif Odyssey. The work is a comprehensive construction of the Stanley Kubrick sci-fi classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, using only GIF images, 569 of…
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Mathematical Equations In The Form Of Arty Animations
And now for something completely different, there has always been a drive for new and innovative tech applications, from transformers style political illustrations to the latest in gaming titles, tech is always moving in different directions. This avenue is an educational yet quite fun way to convey mathematical Equations and…
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Love Pixel Art? Check out These Stunning 8-bit GIFs of Japan
Japan has evolved to a somewhat juxtaposition within today’s fast moving tech world but has still kept its identity and influences from the past. It’s difficult to quantify how life moves within a new direction considering we as humans live through and are not aware of the imperceptible per day…
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Tumblr TV Is the Latest GIF Video Player on the Web
Tumblr just added a GIF search engine earlier this month and it now launched yet another GIF dedicated feature, namely Tumblr TV. From the looks of it, the feature aims to be a 9GAG.tv service, but for GIFs. Unlike its GIF search engine, users don’t have to be logged into…
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Facebook Messenger Gets its First Game
Facebook seems to be thinking of allowing games on its Messenger platform in the near future. The first one spotted on the platform is said to be Doodle Draw Game and although it’s nothing fancy, it still is the first one to pave the way for developers eyeing the platform’s…
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Facebook Now Supports GIFs
Brace Yourself! A flood of GIFs on Facebook are coming! Finally, Facebook is rolling out support for GIFs. Other Social Networking sites like Google Plus has supported this for a while. Facebook has not laid out full support at this time; the support is conditional and requires you to have…
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Imgur Introduces New GIF Format
The popular image sharing website, Imgur, has introduced its new GIF format. The company announced last year that it had a plan to reinvent the GIF, and now it has, sort of. The company’s format is called GIFV, which claims to provide much higher quality GIFs. GIFV is all part of the site’s…
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YouTube Testing GIF Maker
Surely this is the biggest tech story of the year – soon you’ll hopefully be able to make GIFs from any video on YouTube with no effort whatsoever. Well obviously it isn’t that big of a story, but it still looks pretty cool. Only available on the PBS Idea Channel…
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IMGUR To Give The Common .Gif an Impressive Upgrade
The Gif format has been around since the late 80’s, now used extensively online for sharing animated clips, which is ironic given that the format wasn’t even intended to be used for animation. There are many issues and glitches that plague the out of date format, but until now there…
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