Emojis, as well as memes and other forms of short-form content, have become central to how we express ourselves and connect online. Yet as meanings shift across different contexts, so too does the ...

For the uninitiated, emoji are special characters, like a winking face, dancing girl or, yes, pile of poop. They’re approved and distributed by the Unicode Consortium, which creates guidelines needed ...

The folded hands emoji has popped up in more tweets than ever before to help express our feelings about seemingly every aspect of a health crisis that can sometimes defy words. (CNN) CNN – At a time ...

72 new emoji will be making their way to iPhone and iPad soon, likely with iOS 10. The Unicode standards body this week ‘released’ the latest round of new emoji characters, including sneezing face, ...

A new draft proposal published Tuesday at the Unicode Consortium outlines a way of diversifying the mostly white people who populate your emoji keyboard. The system, presented by Google software ...

Back in March, Apple admitted that the emoji palette millions of people use to communicate with their friends wasn’t diverse enough and said it was actively working on a solution. There are characters ...

If there’s one factor that explains why people have an emotional bond with group-messaging phenom Slack that’s unusual for an enterprise tool, it’s the service’s polish and playful sensibility. Slack ...

Get ready to step up your emoji game. Unicode just made its new emoji list for 2019 official, and the update adds 230 new symbols, including a yawning face, white heart, and pinching hand symbol.

Ever feel that the smiley faces you use to punctuate texts do a fine job of representing your emotions, but fail to represent you? That may change soon, thanks to a proposed addition to the Unicode ...