Riley Winn

When we heard that Fox Sports would be using 5G to broadcast the Big East Basketball Tournament, we figured they meant that they would be testing it out with one replay camera or some other non-essential part of the show. But we were wrong — Fox Sports is transmitting every second of the tournament over 5G. “The amazing part of 5G is the amount of video data that we’re able to push out on a single cell modem,” says Brad Cheney, vice president of field operations and engineering for Fox Sports.

In the past five years, nobody has dominated the GIF market quite like Giphy. Since the company’s inception in 2013, it’s been the internet’s go-to GIF platform. Every day, roughly 300 million people send over 2 billion GIFs through the service. To get the scoop on the company’s meteoric rise, Digital Trends dropped by Giphy’s New York HQ and sat down with CEO and founder Alex Chung. We asked him about the effects GIFs have had — and will continue to have — on communication, media, and, culture.

For the first time on Digital Trends Live, we took it to the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon — home of the NBA’s Trail Blazers — where Riley Winn got to chat with Nathaniel “Big Easy” Lofton of the Harlem Globetrotters. Big Easy has been with the Globetrotters for 14 years, and the way he got on the team is truly special. “I’m from New Orleans, and when Hurricane Katrina hit, our family lost everything,” he said.