It's the latest issue dividing the generations: just what's in a wink when you add one to a message? Older people tend to use the winking face emoji to signify a jokey mood, but for youngsters it ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Millennials, rejoice: A winking-face emoji is worth a slew of ironic words. The brain interprets irony or sarcasm conveyed by an emoji in the same way as it does verbal banter, ...

There was no disrespect intended when a winking-face emoji headlined a 75-year-old Spanish woman's newspaper obituary notice. In fact, her family did it on her request. Grandma apparently loved that ...

And just like that, N. Gray goes from being an ordinary Jamaican to a #SuperMillionaire. Congratulations from Supreme Ventures. pic.twitter.com/OUrOkEvanc — Supreme ...

As if there aren't already enough opportunities for confusion and awkwardness for foreigners in Germany, here's another one to add to the mix - certain emojis mean different things here than they do ...

Our brains respond to irony from emojis in the same way as words. A team of researchers from the University of Illinois examined the brain activity of English-speaking college students as they read ...

A grandmother from Barcelona, Spain, might have the ‘coolest’ obituary spread in a local newspaper yet. The loved ones of 75-year-old Carmen Bustamante Barango fulfilled her dying wish by posting a ...

This lottery winner couldn’t stop smiling mainly because she was wearing a winking smiley emoji mask. But she probably still had a grin on her face under the disguise considering she’d just won ...