For those of you who haven't experienced joy and procrastination at its purest level, there's a new app called PopKey. I'm not sure why it took people so long to create this — it's simple and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Antony Funnell: I want to start with a clarification. Hello, Antony Funnell here, welcome to Future ...

We’ve seen a massive shift in the way we communicate online with each other. People are replacing words with emoticons, photos and GIFs, and we’ve seen companies like Imgur ride this wave to great ...

Animation by Slate. Yawning cat via Giphy. Recently Adam Leibsohn, the COO of the GIF platform Giphy, made his case that GIFs are superior to words as a medium of communication. Could this possibly be ...

In today's digitally-driven world, we all see them and we all use them. They're quick, six-second moving images which encapsulate the concept "a picture is worth 1,000 words" tenfold -- GIFs. "GIFs ...

Remember the early days of texting when you had to push the "7" key a dreaded four times to type the letter "S." Thankfully, smartphones have since made faceless communication exponentially ...

Constant connectivity and the emergence of smartphones has forever changed the way people consume content. Attention spans aren’t what they used to be. It's this reason that creates a preference for ...

Brigitte Nerlich receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC. The use of “GIFs” has exploded in recent years. They are used for news, views and entertainment but are most commonly seen as ...