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 ...

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 ...

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 free agency battle for DeAndre Jordan spawned a rather clever emoji battle amongst fans for the NBA’s elite. After Kobe Bryant asserted his #Mambaout hashtag to the top of the ranks, the people ...

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 ...

Not a lot of people are sending messages flush with 💩 emoji. Users aren’t accenting outraged tweets with 😱 faces. No, according to a new report from Apple, most emoji users are crying tears of joy.

A court in Washington, D.C., has been stuck with a tough, maybe impossible question: What does 🌝 mean? Let me explain: In the summer of 2022, Ryan Cohen, a major investor in Bed Bath & Beyond, ...

I didn't know much about underwater pole vaulting, in fact I'd never heard of it until five minutes ago, but any opportunity to include Allison Stoke in Hot Clicks is one of which I must take ...

It may be surprising how many emoji there are relating to Japan. This collection gathers dozens together, which can act as an introduction to the country’s culture. (Please note that depending on the ...

The first annual Emoji Art & Design Show took place in New York City earlier this month, and one artist’s submission attempted to use emojis to understand the autism spectrum. New York artist ...