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

Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because before there were emoji, there were emoticons. Emoticons were the ...

A recently suggested update growing the number of emojis to almost 3,800 next year only contains eight new pictograms – the smallest release in more than 10 years.

Here’s the thing: You can set up a Focus that doesn’t block any notifications or apps, and in fact does nothing else but put a cute little emoji at the top of your screen next to the clock.