NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Viet Le of Short Wave about parrots dunking food in water, a giant hole in the sun and the lifeforms neglected by emoji makers.

The winner for the Most Popular New Emoji in 2024 was the head shaking horizontally (🙂‍↔️) followed by the head shaking ...

In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries declared the "face with tears of joy" emoji its word of the year. New York's Museum of Modern art has added the original emoji set to its permanent collection.

Keyboard app maker Swiftkey, which was acquired by Microsoft for $250 million in February, has officially launched its first product since that acquisition -- and it's an emoji-predicting keyboard ...

ANYTHING you can think off – a facial reaction or an object – there is an emoji made for it and it doesn’t always carry the simple meaning of representing simply what it is. Let&#… ...

Gun control measures have stalled in the legislature repeatedly. But there does appear to be one place where gun control is catching on: the ever-more-political world of emoji. On Monday, Apple ann… ...

DO you speak emoji? Can you tell your unamused from your confused? In fact, do you know your, er, peach from your elbow? The language of phone text icons might seem gobbledy-geek to you, but it ...

SNAPCHAT’s 2015 update saw the end of the best friends list and the arrival of a new feature to help users keep track of their friends on the app. Here’s all you need to know about the… ...

Tinder / Emojination via AP This undated illustration shows new variations of interracial emoji couples. In the world of emojis, interracial couples had virtually no options in terms of skin tone.

Comedian Jonny Sun's poll questioning the use and meaning of the monkey emoji has garnered over 100,000 votes. Digital Culture Tech Science Life Social Good Entertainment Deals Shopping Games Search ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Viet Le of Short Wave about parrots dunking food in water, a giant hole in the sun and the lifeforms neglected by emoji makers.

ANYTHING you can think off – a facial reaction or an object – there is an emoji made for it and it doesn’t always carry the simple meaning of representing simply what it is. Let&#… ...