The Unicode Consortium has released a preview of emoji that will be in the Unicode 17.0 release, including Hairy Creature and ...

It’s World Emoji Day — and a new batch of expressive characters will soon be coming to phones. Here's what to expect.

Apple and Samsung brought eight new emoji to their devices this year with the releases of iOS 18.4 and One UI 7. The new emoji include a face with bags under its eyes and a splatter. The Unicode ...

Social media users are convinced that an emoji showing a woman visiting the spa has vanished from their devices. Do you ...

The thought of V of BTS stepping into Squid Game carried a special thrill beyond the obvious. It combined his playful, ...

Keith Houston’s Face with Tears of Joy, a lively account of those little yellow faces, reveals the peculiar science behind their rise ...

The inclusion of an emoji made the exchange stand out. Emojis help us connect From a smiley face to a thumbs-up or even a slice of pizza, these tiny icons have become a fast, familiar way to say ...

Using the wrong emoji at work can shift the meaning of your message. Staying curious about tone and generational preferences leads to better communication.

One emoji that’s increasingly becoming a distinct marker of age is the previously mentioned laughing-crying emoji (😂). Despite being named Oxford Dictionary’s 2015 word of the year, and frequently ...

The go-to emoji for the job? Inevitably, it tends to be the baby, with its wide eyes, tiny curl of hair and slightly uncanny grin, although a heart (available in almost every colour of the rainbow) is ...

Emoji-fying your children is a way to provide an insight into what you and your (doubtless very cute) family are up to, without plastering their features all over the internet in perpetuity.

IN FOCUS: Plenty of parents see covering up their children’s faces online as a happy medium, allowing them to share family snaps without encroaching on their privacy. But is this actually ...