ON the surface, emojis seem laughably trivial—cartoon faces and tiny icons cluttering our phones. Yet behind their colorful simplicity lies a fascinating story of 21st-century global culture. These ...

In 2024, the Unicode Consortium debuted new emoji in September 2024, including the face with bags under eyes and the splatter emoji. You can find those emoji now on your Android and iPhone devices, as ...

Ballet dancers, bigfoot hunters, Fleetwood Mac fans, and trombone players, today is a special World Emoji Day for you! The ...

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.

But what a batch it is: We've got a musical instrument. We've got treasure. We've got one of those old-school cartoon fight clouds. And of course, we've got a cryptid. While new emoji have proven ...

To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete ...

Once a fun form of expression, emojis are now being misused by Gen Z to bully, isolate, and mock others online. From ...

Social media users are convinced that an emoji showing a woman visiting the spa has vanished from their devices. Do you ...

The inclusion of an emoji made the exchange stand out. Emojis help us connect From a smiley face to a thumbs-up or even a slice of pizza, these tiny icons have become a fast, familiar way to say ...

IN FOCUS: Plenty of parents see covering up their children’s faces online as a happy medium, allowing them to share family snaps without encroaching on their privacy. But is this actually ...