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At the Webby Awards this week, Steve Wilhite, father of the Graphics Interchange Format, used his five-word acceptance speech to end a popular debate: It's pronounced "JIF," not "GIF.

You're surrounded by geeks every day. Your commute is filled with people playing Dots. Your best friend spends her Saturday nights creating Everquest fan art.

Hiring interns for your company means more than just finding a pair of hands to get you coffee or feet to run your clothes to the dry cleaner.

For all the amazing ways social media has changed our lives, it's come with some downsides, as well.

How did you spend you Friday night? Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk spent his answering questions about paying back the government and musing about the next kind of electric vehicle he might like to make.

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More proof that the cameras are everywhere. The frightening collapse of a bridge in Washington State on the busy Interstate 5 was actually caught by a surveillance camera.

There's perhaps nothing harder than changing the public perception of a brand once it's been imprinted in popular culture's psyche.

Gather 'round nerds, '90s kids and fans of Carlton Banks

Will Smith and son Jaden recently made an appearance on the BBC's Graham Norton Show.

Doctors at UCLA Health in Southern California documented a brain surgery on Thursday by using Instagram and Vine, showing yet another ground-breaking use of social media in the hospital setting.