In a time where people are largely dressed down and masked up due to the coronavirus pandemic, Apple has responded by creating a new face mask emoji character with a more positive outlook. The most ...

The Unicode Consortium has submitted the proposal for Unicode 16, which includes seven new emoji characters like harp, shovel, fingerprint, and face with bags under eyes. The timeline from the ...

When you send an emoji to a friend, you want it to convey the same information. For example, if you sent a "rolling eyes" emoji to a buddy using a Samsung phone, they might not pick up what you're ...

Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

A new emoji, an eye (so an eyewitness), has been designed to stop bullying. It is part of a pro bono campaign called “I Am A Witness,” developed by GS&P, Adobe and the Ad Council. Apple, Facebook, ...

The Crying Laughing emoji (😂) is there for those moments when you’re laughing hard. If you feel the tears prickling the corner of your eyes, this is the way to express it. It’s one of the original ...

Challenging brain-teasers and optical illusions have been floating around the internet for what seems like forever. There were the hidden panda puzzle and the square riddle, and who could forget the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cheery Hi-5, a snobbish Poop and a conflicted Meh have starring roles in the animated "The Emoji Movie," which imagines a world inside cellphones where emojis rebel against ...

This year has been hard. Wildfire smoke has engulfed the West Coast, hundreds of thousands are dead from an ongoing pandemic, and the US government is deadlocked to the point of illegitimacy, ...

TNW Answers is a live Q&A platform where we invite interesting people in tech who are much smarter than us to answer questions from TNW readers and editors for an hour. Emoji blew up in 2012 and was ...