Scrolling through Instagram recently, I saw a picture that an old friend from high school had posted of his dad with the caption announcing his father’s death. It was terrible news, and I immediately ...

A teacher in Russia's Siberia region has been fined for "discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation" because he reacted to some anti-war social media posts with emojis. Aleksei Argunov ...

Teddy, a 10-year-old Apple fan from the UK, has started a petition calling on Apple to redesign the “nerd face” glasses emoji. Teddy believes that the nerd face emoji’s prominent front teeth make it ...

Mockup of emoji skin tones with colors based on the Fitzpatrick Scale. (via Emojipedia) According to Unicode, the international coding standard that ensures symbols and letters appear uniformly across ...

Emojis have evolved since the day they became available, from the way they look to their connotation. Back in 2011, artist Tanya Mau (@lazymau) drew a set of blue emojis. The emoticons were highly ...

The Unicode Consortium is gearing up to approve the next batch of upcoming emoji. Here's what you can expect to see later this year. With World Emoji Day just around the corner, you may be curious as ...

Swiftkey, the British company behind some of the most smartphone keyboards, has released their One Billion Emoji report, which analyzed over one billion pieces of emoji data to learn how smartphone ...