What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

A new study has shown that when it comes to developing closeness in your relationships, the emoji you send in your texts are ...

Last year, I wrote about how emoji-coder Unicode added 230 emoji, such as a banjo and kite, but neglected to include the trans pride flag.That was rectified this year: A trans flag emoji has now ...

He found that while emoji are used to convey emotion in a way “that written language probably cannot do,” he said, they could be surprisingly lacking in substance—used as small talk when an ...

Emoji are showing up as evidence in court more frequently with each passing year. Between 2004 and 2019, there was an exponential rise in emoji and emoticon references in US court opinions, with ...

Send celebration Audio Emoji (probably 🥳 or 🎉) Send poop Audio Emoji (almost certainly 💩) Yes, it looks like Google is working on some sort of sound to represent the poop emoji.

Other acceptable alternatives: the 😭 emoji (officially called “Loudly Crying Face”), or just writing “lol” (laughing out loud) or “lmao” (laughing my, well, you probably know the rest).

Up until 2016, the Rose emoji only had two days in the sun: Mothers' Day and Valentines' Day. Since before the election of 2016, however, rose emoji began popping up in droves on social media, not ...

In a continuation of my ongoing exploration of weird technology tricks most of us probably don't know about (or at the very least, ones we definitely don't use on an everyday basis), today I bring ...

As of last week, there are now 3,053 emoji, counting the 230 just approved for this year’s cohort—yes, ... But it probably offers limited applicability compared with more ideographic emoji.

It's impossible to say how long the dying rose will mean what it means, or how long it will even be in use. As you probably know, things like this change all the time on the internet, and we're ...

Shigetaka Kurita is the man who created emoji, and during his time at Docomo he saw the shift happen first-hand. He was part of the team working on i-mode — a project that was just beginning to ...