ON the surface, emojis seem laughably trivial—cartoon faces and tiny icons cluttering our phones. Yet behind their colorful simplicity lies a fascinating story of 21st-century global culture. These ...

Unicode 17.0 has been officially approved and will introduce eight new emojis to digital platforms. The update includes a mix of ...

Social media platforms like Instagram encourage emojis, both as a communication tool and a digital shield. But what's behind this emoji explosion?

While there was a tie for favorite emoji at CNET, one emoji received about 20% of the votes for most-used emoji, and that is the 🙏 folded hands emoji. While this emoji can be understood to mean ...

In 2024, the Unicode Consortium debuted new emoji in September 2024, including the face with bags under eyes and the splatter ...

AOL’s most legendary hacker built his seminal program through trial and error—the same way he rebuilt his life.

To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete ...

Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" 🤪 and "fist bump" 👊 symbols into your texts -- today is World Emoji Day ...

World Emoji Day was first observed in 2014, founded by Jeremy Burge, the creator of Emojipedia, a popular online resource for emoji meanings and history.

On World Emoji Day, celebrated on July 17, we celebrate emojis in all their quirky, colorful glory. Love them or judge them, ...