Today is World Emoji Day, a “holiday” that is apparently a thing. To celebrate, both Google and Apple have shared…

The coronavirus pandemic has already been wrecking release schedules for everything from blockbuster movies to new…

Only a franchise as gleefully dumb as Star Wars could drop a major tease via the medium of...secret emojis?

More than 100 new emoji were officially announced on Wednesday, among them more inclusive emoji, a “pinched fingers…

Who doesn’t love a good Google blob? From 2013-2017, these doughy emoji served a special role in the digital…

When asked to be interviewed for this blog, a team of emoji designers for a major emoji platform requested to see…

July 17 is World Emoji Day, a fake but harmless holiday created by the founder of Emojipedia. To celebrate this…

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, emoji have become a key part of the way that many of us communicate, and that makes…

Our online conversations are riddled with emoji, and while the amusing characters can be a creative way to express…

In what now seems to be an egregious oversight on the part of Apple, the scientific community this week flagged an…

Sometimes words aren’t enough, and that’s where emojis come in. But even then, there are times you just can’t find…

It’s the 2018 midterms, and today you have your chance to record just how you feel about that. The New York Times…

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Twitter has made a subtle, but not insignificant change to the way it counts emoji in its 280-character limit.…

Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered an ancient wall relief dating back to the Caral civilization—the oldest known…

Look, I’m no emoji expert, but there’s one thing I do know: The basic smiley emoji is a goddamn liar. And using it…

For longtime Android users, it was a sad day when Google killed off its adorable blobs and replaced them with a more…

The pistol emoji has existed in one form or another since at least 2010, but in 2016 Apple shook shit up by…

On Friday, Apple submitted a proposal to Emojipedia for a suite of new accessibility emoji. There are 13 in total,…

This month the Unicode Consortium, the strange and little-known organization that decides which new emoji appear in…