Emoji made lots of headlines in 2015: Instagram enabled emoji hashtags, the characters came up in court cases, and the official word of the year wasn’t a word at all, it was an emoji! ( to be exact.) ...

Last year, the Unicode Consortium–which decides upon and standardizes emoji–added more skin tones to its catalog. Today, Unicode took another step towards making emoji more diverse: emoji are finally ...

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 Unicode Consortium updates its emoji file with hundreds of new characters, ranging from a John Travolta-like disco dancer to a joystick. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the ...

You may have heard of yuppies (young urban professionals), but if you aren't yet familiar with the concept of yuccies (young urban creatives), these emoji for city-dwelling creatives by Moving Brands ...

In betas of iOS 9.1 and OS X 10.11.1, Apple added a mysterious emoji symbol consisting of an eye inside of a speech bubble. At the time, it was not clear what purpose the mystery emoji served, but as ...

Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. The symbol dates back to ancient Greece, though tilde comes from Spanish, ...