Emoji is tipped to become the world's second truly global language and is the fastest growing form of communication in English speaking countries. But despite its ubiquitous use, the 'universal' ...

Apple is thinking pink with its latest round of emojis. Thirty-one new emojis — including the highly-requested pink heart — are coming to smartphones next year. Emoji 15.0 is set to be approved this ...

A total of 37 new emoji have been released today for use on a variety of platforms. They include popular requests such as a taco, a ‘bottle with popping cork’, a cheese wedge and even a turkey. It ...

World Emoji Day falls annually on July 17, the date shown on the calendar emoji. Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" 🤪 and "fist bump" 👊 symbols into your texts -- today is World Emoji ...

Unicode incorporates nearly 150,000 symbols, and our keyboards let us directly enter no more than several dozen—even with Shift and Option. Many of the remaining characters can be found in Character ...

An update to Unicode Standard is now available, and introduces approximately 250 emoji pictographic symbols. The emojis are a part of the Unicode 7.0 software update from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. We’re all used to typing emoji on our smartphones and tablets, ...

In betas of iOS 9.1 and OS X 10.11.1, Apple added a mysterious emoji symbol consisting of an eye inside of a speech bubble. At the time, it was not clear what purpose the mystery emoji served, but as ...

A University of Illinois professor helped win approval for a forthcoming new emoji symbol — a cup of bubble tea — as part of her research into how people communicate using the popular images. The ...

Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman is an expert on internet speech. Lately, he's been rather obsessed with a topic that most lawyers probably have never stopped to think about—the ways ...