New study shows emojis boost how caring and responsive you seem—helping friendships thrive, even through text.

The pictorial language has moved away from ideography and toward illustration. It’s lost some expressive power in the process.

No new emoji will be coming out next year because of knock-on effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit responsible for releasing standardized sets of emoji for ...

Instead, like the 246,000 #BalloonFiesta Instagram posters in 2023, they will be stuck making do with the red balloon emoji, which is not only a weak substitute for a hot air balloon, but kind of ...

The emoji for expressing illness are extremely limiting: there's a person with a thermometer in their mouth, and one of someone with a bandage on their head.

There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon. Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive ...

The Unicode Standard, a universal character encoding standard, is responsible for creating new emoji, and approved emoji are added to all devices once a year. With Genmoji, you don't have to wait for ...

Gmail unleashes “email emoji reactions” onto an unsuspecting world Gmail users can reply with emoji. Everyone else will get an additional email.

The hand-over-mouth and peeking-through-fingers faces were perfect for moments of shock and horror. But, in the end, no emoji was better suited for the ups and downs 2022 than the saluting face.

The "woman tipping hand" emoji was among the most confounding for people across the country, according to a study conducted last month which also put the “money with wings” and “nail polish ...