Kangaroos, cupcakes, a serious superhero, and a frowning poop emoji are all in the running to be Unicode’s next top emoji. Earlier this week, Unicode president Mark Davis revealed the new “draft ...

It turns out you can have too many emoji. Where the small pictographs were once useful in portraying and simplifying the expression of common emotions/things/places, it now seems humanity is set on ...

Weeks after a farce that saw Google LLC stop using a cupcake emoji thanks to accusations by social justice warriors that its use constituted fat shaming, a new drama has emerged at the body that ...

While the world still waits for this year's new emoji to arrive on our phones, the Unicode Consortium has released a list of new emoji candidates for 2018. The list includes fun animals like a llama ...

NEW YORK -- We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that's sad? There's loaf of bread and a croissant. But where's the sliced bagel? How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy ...

The international body that decides which new emoji to bring to our keyboards is getting itself into a right fuss over a frowning pile of poop. New emoji are approved every year by the Unicode ...

Soon, we might be able to Venmo our friends for a bagel without using "donut emoji minus chocolate emoji" as the caption. Just me? OK. Per Emojipedia, 67 new emoji have been announced as "draft ...

It's been a while since the Unicode Emoji Consortium released its sixth set of proposed emojis last June, with a follow up in August (which offered up a drunken face and unhappy poo, oddly enough).

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Hasbro ...