Emoji may not have replaced text just yet, but they are getting closer: the pictorial icons have revolutionized digital communication since becoming a fixture of the iOS keyboard in 2011, and adopted ...

IN THEORY, inserting one of those cute cartoonlike drawings known as emojis into your smartphone messages should be simple. Simplicity, after all, is part of the appeal of expressing yourself using ...

Scooch over Aubergine, there’s a new emoji about to drop on keyboards this spring: the period emoji. At long last Unicode, the bods-that-be who make the decisions about emojis, have confirmed the ...

With an estimated 90 per cent of the world's internet users using them every day, emoji are becoming more and more important in how we communicate online. Now, an expert in language and communication ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, which might have worked against you on the emoji homebuyer challenge HousingWire published on Tuesday. So how fluent are you in emoji? With the help of a ...

Emoji might be one of the fastest-growing communication methods of the digital age, but a lot of people probably think the whole thing is silly. Yes, there are very creative rebus-like forms of emoji ...

Before Jennifer 8. Lee started working with emoji, communicating a complex thought using only the tiny icons felt a bit like trying to color the entire world with just an eight-pack of Crayolas. You ...

Emoji are now so popular that they're the fastest growing language in the UK. Eight out of ten people use the little symbols and icons to communicate. Everyone with a smartphone is borderline obsessed ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

Mosquitoes have arrived on our emoji keyboards as a part of the iOS 12.1 update. The Unicode Consortium approved the design earlier this year. The mosquito emoji was released alongside other emoji ...

The ‘small penis’ emoji may have garnered all the attention following the announcement of 59 new additions, but many people hope it’s the women’s period emoji, symbolised by a drop of blood, that gets ...