Today there are north of 3,500 accepted emoji characters. They appear in politics, movies, texts, our sex lives, and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. Keith Houston follows ...

Nearly 37% of professionals have questioned whether emoji usage was suitable for work, and this jumps to 41% for Gen Z.

The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization that maintains the Unicode Standard to ensure emojis work across devices, has announced Unicode 17.0, which includes nine new emojis slated for ...

No one likes it when someone else rains on their parade. Nor do they enjoy the wind being taken out of their sails, the rug ...

Hundreds of employees at one of Silicon Valley’s hottest AI start-ups gathered in their offices last Friday expecting a celebratory announcement. For months, OpenAI had been talking to Windsurf ...

While there was a tie for favorite emoji at CNET, one emoji received about 20% of the votes for most-used emoji, and that is the 🙏 folded hands emoji. While this emoji can be understood to mean ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced 8 new emojis that could arrive on iPhones with the upcoming iOS 26 update.

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A nationwide survey breaks down America's digital language of emotion, revealing the most adored and hated emojis ...

Ballet dancers, bigfoot hunters, Fleetwood Mac fans, and trombone players, today is a special World Emoji Day for you! The Unicode Consortium has announced the newest set of emojis to be released, ...

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