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 ...

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 ...

It’s easy to look at your keyboard and assume that its keys represent all the characters you can type. But nothing could be further from the truth. You can press the Shift key to get uppercase letters ...

“How much trouble are we in?” the general manager asked. I looked at the sheaf of text and Slack messages, loaded with emojis, and stopped on one sent in early March that asked, “Good to know you’re ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...