The classic smiley face emoji now means something completely different to those under 30. Instead of conveying happiness, the grinning yellow face is now seen as dismissive, passive-aggressive, or ...

Even when emoji appear in the middle of tweets, they often come between complete thoughts, like this: They act like punctuation, providing cues about how to understand the words that came before ...

Emoji are being increasingly used in social and professional settings alike. Here's what some of them may be perceived as and how it affects the way you're perceived.

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has acquired two emojis — the hijab and an interracial couple — for its collection.

A Canadian farmer owes $82,000 for breach of contract after using a “thumbs-up” emoji in a text.

The latest wave of emoji have arrived, and one particular 'Italian' icon is raising questions.

Starship captain, Shakespearean thespian, and real-life knight Sir Patrick Stewart lends his gravitas to The Emoji Movie—out today—as the voice of Poop, a debonair dump. We traced the poomoji ...

The ruling pointed to what a judge called the “new reality in Canadian society” that courts would have to confront as more people express themselves with thumbs, hearts and smiley faces.

Poppycock, says Geoff Pullum. Dropping the occasional pictograph into their prose is not going to strip people of the capacity to form sentences.

A Canadian judge ruled that a thumbs-up emoji sent by phone represented a binding legal agreement. The case involved a grain seller replying to a sent contract with a thumbs-up, but then not ...

Man in Business Suit Levitating may be the most secretly interesting emoji of them all.

A Saskatchewan judge says an emoji can amount to a contractual agreement and ordered a farmer to pay more than $82,000 for not delivering product to a grain buyer after responding to a text ...