A handful of airports across the country are pushing Unicode for a new plane-landing emoji after claiming the current one appears too “crash-y.” The social media team behind the Dallas/Fort ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

With just two days before World Emoji Day on July 17th, Emojipedia has shared a list of draft characters the Unicode Consortium will consider for final inclusion in Unicode 14.0. The list includes ...

The laugh-cry emoji, or 😂, is the most-used emoji in the world, according the Unicode Consortium. In fact, the 10 most-used emoji haven't changed much since 2019. The consortium, which votes on ...

The Unicode Consortium has proposed one quarter the number of new emoji it did last year. Experts say slowing down is the smart move.

Apple and Microsoft are being accused of getting political by pressuring Unicode into dropping two new gun emojis.

Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird.

With September upon us, just like clockwork, the Consortium has given the green light for Unicode 15.0, complete with 31 new emoji — and if that weren't enough, it's also being joined by Google ...

Every year, new emoji are released. But did you know they were created by everyday people? Here's a breakdown of how an emoji is created.

Kurita’s emoji quickly became popular in Japan, and ten years later the rest of the world followed. In 2010, the Unicode Consortium, which is responsible for the standardization of symbols in ...

In July, the Unicode Technical Committee was a bit of a buzzkill: It announced that for now, it would not add a white-wine emoji to Unicode’s standard emoji mix. The meeting minutes noted that ...