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 ...

A small digital image can be worth a thousand words. Loudly Crying Face. Rolling on the Floor Laughing. Smiling Face with Heart Eyes. Fire. Hand Clap. If you’ve spent any amount of time texting your ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. It seems the rest of the world agrees, and the “slightly ...

Independent developer Casey Liss is out with his newest app for iOS today, focused on letting you quickly and easily add emoji to images. Dubbed “MaserAid,” this app helps you protect your privacy ...

The Unicode Consortium is gearing up to approve the next batch of upcoming emoji. Here's what you can expect to see later this year. With World Emoji Day just around the corner, you may be curious as ...

I rarely share photos of my family – and more specifically, my daughter – online. I believe that she should have the right to choose if, and when her face is shared online. This means that I typically ...

It's not - unaccountably - an official holiday, but at least it's a good excuse to litter your texts, emails, WhatsApps and documents with them. And Apple has just announced a series of new emoji ...

New emojis are added to iOS devices on a near-yearly basis, with Apple adopting the characters voted on and approved by the Unicode Consortium on the regular. Image via Emojipedia The Unicode ...

The new emoji set to appear in 2021 will help you express relief or confusion. Or show that your heart’s afire, or that it’s mending. Those might seem fairly ordinary, but there is something extremely ...

Many emojis approved last fall came into widespread usage this year, with the new faces proving especially popular. The smiling, holding-back-tears face conveyed our most sentimental selves, while the ...

How does it feel to be back in society — back outside — after months indoors, dreaming about finally seeing your presumed-to-be-hot barista’s face without a mask on or going to the club and brushing ...

How would you explain to a Victorian-era time traveller that in 2025 our systems of communication have become so advanced that we can both read the works of Shakespeare on a gizmo the size of a ...