The Unicode Consortium has published a draft list of emoji that could come to smartphones and other devices in the future. The list shared by Emojipedia outlines 19 emoji candidates under ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 proposal for a mammoth emoji—coming to an iPhone near you next month—doesn’t just give a brief natural history of the extinct pachyderm. It also includes a chart comparing the incidence of the ...

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.

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 ...