By chaining the selectors together, he was able to encode invisible messages inside an emoji (or any other Unicode character). Here is how it works: Unicode assigns variation selectors (U+FE00–U ...

U sing variation selectors, you can conceal messages of arbitrary length within emoji, or indeed any unicode character. "To be clear, this is an abuse of unicode and you shouldn't do it," writes ...

Sometimes it can be difficult to understand what someone means in a phone message. And when you throw emoji into the mix, things get even more complicated. A " " or " ️" are easy to ...

But if you're active on Twitter, you've probably seen its popular emoji mashup bots, which combine multiple emojis into one. Only recently, Emoji Kitchen was native to Android users on Gboard.