The Unicode Consortium has approved of 69 new emoji. Emoji 5.0 — which is slated to release in June 2017 — includes new smileys, foods, drinks, flags and people.

Yiying Lu's emoji depictions of chopsticks, a fortune cookie, a takeout box, and a dumpling will be available with the next emoji update in June 2017. ( Yiying Lu ) May 22, 2017 ...

There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon. Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive ...

Emoji that were previously one specific gender (the dancing woman or the man running) can be joined to a male or female symbol with a ZWJ character to create emoji of either gender.

New year, new emoji. In 2015, a campaign started by former New York Times journalist Jennifer 8. Lee and Yiying Lu, designer and Creative Director at 500 Startups, sought to get a dumpling emoji ...

In its writeup of the Android N emoji, Emojipedia noted that Unicode is considering implementing a gender selector — much like the skin-tone selector — that would let people choose between ...

Other emoji improvements include a woman as a private investigator, a construction worker, and a single mom. The same goes for new male emoji, like a single-dad one that will come to life in iOS 10.

There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon. Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive ...