From friendly smiley faces to cheeky aubergines, emoji now form a staple part of many of our messages. While most popular characters are harmless fun, other seemingly-innocent symbols have secret ...

The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit that develops and maintains the computing industry standard for how text, punctuation, and emoji look across platforms, recently updated its emoji chart. The ...

As we know, emojis took center stage for the first time in the history of NBA free agency on Wednesday evening as members of the Los Angeles Clippers and Dallas Mavericks hit the road to Houston in ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Emoji: we've been doing them wrongly. There are rules about these matters, as it transpires - codes and regulations, guidelines and ...

Communicating via digital means—such as text message or Twitter—can be a bit of a minefield. After all, without the nonverbal cues of face-to-face interaction, it can be hard to tell whether that ...

The proposal for a mammoth emoji—coming to an iPhone near you next month—doesn’t just give a brief natural history of the extinct pachyderm. It also includes a chart comparing the incidence of the ...

After months of anticipation and (apparently) some debate, 72 new emoji characters are officially on their way to smartphones everywhere as part of Unicode 9.0. The emoji keyboard update, released to ...