Most people have had the experience of scrolling through their phone keyboards in search of a specific emoji, only to find it absent. A very small percentage of those people have actually stepped up ...

(NEXSTAR) — From the slew of emotional faces to the countless country flags, there are more than 3,600 emojis on your smartphone. That doesn’t include the roughly two dozen that are expected to become ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...

You are about to send a text message. Should you express an emotion with words or an emoji? According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, ...

The Unicode Consortium today released the list of new emojis that are coming in the Emoji 14 update, giving us a look at the new characters that we can expect to see introduced on Apple devices later ...

The Unicode Consortium has published a ranking of the most popular emojis in 2021. The top three are “face with tears of joy”, “red heart” and “rolling on the floor laughing”. The most common emoticon ...

The iOS 16.4 beta that was released today introduces new Unicode 15 emoji characters, adding new emoji options for the first time in more than a year. New emoji characters include shaking face, pink ...

Friday is World Emoji Day (yes, it's actually a thing), and Apple used the annual unofficial holiday to unveil some of the little characters coming to iOS devices later this year. The icons were ...

Jon Porter is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. It seems the rest of the world agrees, and the ...