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 ...

When Kurita drew the first emoji, only half of U.S. households had computers. Now the total number of words in all text messages sent every three months exceeds the word count of all books ever ...

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.