If you've been unenthused about the emoji of recent years, you're not alone. A flashlight? A toolbox? A fire extinguisher? A tin can? Who even uses these? The emoji set to appear on your phone next ...

Emoji are weird. While there are enough of them that people somehow manage to use them for entire conversations, there always seem to be odd omissions. Why are there about 10 different types of trains ...

Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective, depending on the context of a message and wider cultural trends. A "" or "❤️" are easy to understand, but what's the difference between "" and "", ...

From friendly smiley faces to cheeky aubergines, emoji now form a staple part of many people's daily messages. But despite their prevalence, people are only just realising what one popular character ...

In 2011, Apple introduced a downloadable keyboard language for its iPhones featuring a group of emoji based on a set provided by Japanese phone company DoCoMo. This keyboard was available on Japanese ...

If you have a smartphone, or use the internet at all in 2019, you probably know emoji – those small pictures that seem to punctuate nearly every written exchange today. (Some of you are probably even ...

It’s the year of the emoji. Or at least that’s what the Oxford Dictionary would have us believe. That venerable arbiter of language usage has selected the “face with tears of joy” emoji as the “word” ...

Unicode has announced the much awaited Emoji 11.0 beta list. Apparently, more than 130 emojis were in the race for a place in the final version and some of them included cupcake, woman/man red-haired, ...

The world is all about political correctness these days. The Unicode Consortium has approved 62 new emoji for operating systems. Many of these new emoji are inclusive rather than exclusive, as has ...

In an attempt to humanize the most dehumanizing of tasks (layoffs), some companies have started adding emojis to their ...