Cue up your pictographs and send your sentiments my babies, World Emoji Day is upon us. From hieroglyphs and rune stones to stop signs and the fraught eggplant, human beings have long used icons as ...

The Snapchat world is filled with emojis that indicate to users and their friends the type of friendship they have with one another on the social media app. The 13 emojis typically appear next to user ...

According to Emojipedia.org, the red heart is the most popular heart emoji, based on data analyzed from Twitter. It’s your best bet if you’re looking to show affection, appreciation, or love to your ...

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 ...

Sometimes it can be difficult to understand what someone means in a message. And when you throw emoji into the mix, things get even more complicated. A "😃" or " ️" are easy to understand, but how are ...

Today is the very real holiday known as World Emoji Day, which means tech luminaries and companies alike are busy celebrating the diminutive, textable icons. Over at Facebook, co-founder Mark ...

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 ...

The last couple of years haven’t exactly been great for most people, but if the planet’s most-used emoji are anything to judge by, at least we’re still in fairly good spirits. The Unicode Consortium ...

What’s your dream emoji? The one you wish existed but doesn’t? Maybe it’s among the 117 revealed today by the Unicode Consortium. That total figure comprises 62 all-new emoji plus 55 variants which ...

Unicode approved 217 new emoji for 2021. There are a few new smiley faces, and most are skin tone and gender variations. These emoji are Emoji 13.1, as Emoji 14 was pushed back because of COVID-19.