Last month, the Unicode Consortium, a group that oversees the way text is coded into computer-readable language, published a new draft proposal that outlined not just the addition of 37 new emoji ...

The little illustrated characters that are on smartphone keyboards are taking over the world. There are shoes with emoji on them, pants with emoji on them, emoji stickers, emoji yoga, and the list ...

Agreeing to a contract does not require everyone sitting around a table signing documents; sending a “thumbs up” text message emoji was sufficient to agree to a contract according to a recent Canadian ...

With 38 new symbols set for release, Chrissie Russell asks if in the future we'll all be speaking in smiley cat-faces started to communicate in icons Whoever said a picture paints a thousand words was ...

Four in 10 Americans believe a text feels naked without an emoji, according to new research. The survey of 2,000 Americans (aged 21+) revealed 41% of respondents believe a message needs to include an ...

Further to an existing Emoji Kitchen feature within Gboard, Google’s first-party keyboard now appears to be highlighting or surfacing the emoji-laden sticker packs in the predictive text bar.

A single text message made up of several emoji is wreaking havoc on iPhone users once again, thanks to a bug which causes the phone to temporarily freeze and restart. The string of text said to cause ...

Emoji are available to use pretty much everywhere, including in Chrome or on a Chromebook. And that’s hardly surprising. The expressive little characters have become an instrumental part of ...

In October, 1994, Hotwired, the digital counterpart of Wired, ran the world’s first online banner ads. Fourteen companies pitched their wares, including Club Med, Volvo, and Zima. A.T. & T.’s ad, a ...