Emoji have come a long way in recent years, going from smiley faces made with brackets to depicting, with great detail, different human expressions and emotions, among other things. In that time, ...

In a time where people are largely dressed down and masked up due to the coronavirus pandemic, Apple has responded by creating a new face mask emoji character with a more positive outlook. The most ...

Emojis were created to convey thoughts more easily — but they seem more confusing than ever. Texting someone your age or older is fairly straightforward. Texting a teen on the other hand? We can ...

You are about to send a text message. Should you express an emotion with words or an emoji? According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, ...

There are some emoji in this world whose meanings couldn't be clearer — the taco emoji is meant to depict a taco, the lips usually indicate flirtatious kissing, and a red heart shows a love that burns ...

As part of iOS 14.5, Apple is adding new emoji from the Unicode Consortium’s Emoji 13.1 release, including skin tone options for some popular emoji and several new smiley faces and hearts. The company ...

In Slack’s emoji menu, there are two versions of basic smiley faces. As shown above, there is :slightly_smiling_face: and :simple_smile:. At first glance, it might appear that the first offers a ...

Also not cute: Emoji 4 Porn, a short-lived feature on Pornhub that sexualized innocent fruits and vegetables; monkey symbols used as racist imagery; drug dealers using emojis to flog their wares; gun ...

For an image to receive the coveted status of becoming an official emoji, it needs to satisfy multiple requirements set forth by the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit that reviews all emoji ...