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Google, Twitter, Facebook and other tech companies fueled by social media have dodged a legal threat that could have blown a huge hole in their business models

The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday about whether the family of an ISIS terrorism victim from California can sue Google, whose YouTube algorithms, they say, helped extremists spread their message and attract recruits.

He created the image file format that defined an internet culture for decades in 1987 while working at CompuServe

Tributes have been paid to Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of popular internet feature the gif, after his death from Covid-19. People continue to debate the pronunciation of the word despite his intervention

Graphics Interchange Format creator Steve Wilhite succumbed to Covid-19 in early March after a two-week struggle, Bloomberg reports. The computer scientist was 74. Wilhite's team at CompuServe developed the GIF in 1987 before it became a signature feature of the early web and the go-to means for social media jokes, memes,…

As Wilhite was creating the GIF in his basement, he couldn’t have known that the format would go on to alter the way we behave online.

Programmer once clarified that ‘jif’ was the correct pronunciation of his famous file format