Sometimes GIFs have words, as captions, but it's the picture that really counts. By the 1990s, the Japanese turned the sideways emoticon into a single character, now known as an emoji, and a bunch ...

a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to AI characters over calls. The feature currently supports multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese ...

If you're ever wondering though, now you know. The inventor of the GIF thinks it's pronounced with a J, like the peanut butter. I respectfully disagree. But Hey, again, he invented it.

Finding the right GIF can be tough. But thankfully, Google has rolled out a few new tools to help streamline the process of searching for the perfect GIF for your conversation.

Read more: Best Phone to Buy for 2024 Whichever way you pronounce it, there is something technical to keep in mind: GIF has become a byword for embeddable files that play a short animation on loop ...