The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this ...

In a world where it’s getting harder by the day to tell whether a paragraph, a painting, or even a scientific paper was shaped by a human mind or by an algorithm, Dubai has just planted a bold flag.Vi ...

In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary declared the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji its Word of the Year, an event that marked ...

Every year on July 17th, the world pauses for a moment, not to draft long texts or write eloquent messages, but to drop a ...

To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete three short phrases in as few moves as possible. The game is currently ...

Gone are the days of handwritten letters that people used to send to their loved ones on joyous occasions, happy moments, and ...

World Emoji Day started in 2014. It's celebrated every year on July 17 because that's the date shown on the calendar emoji .

Keith Houston’s history of the little emoticons charts how quickly technology has changed how we think and communicate.

A new book charting the history of the expressive little images shows how fast they have changed how we think – and asks whether they are killing language.