Emojis have become an essential part of our online communication, offering an easy way to express emotions and reactions.

For the uninitiated, emoji are special characters, like a winking face, dancing girl or, yes, pile of poop. They’re approved and distributed by the Unicode Consortium, which creates guidelines needed ...

At the beginning of the 2010s when the Japanese-originating emoji keyboard first took the US by storm, I can admit now, I balked at the idea. Why did I need an extra keyboard? Why did my messages need ...

Sometimes words aren’t enough, and that’s where emojis come in. But even then, there are times you just can’t find the perfect little pictograph that encapsulates your exact mood. Even the slightly ...

The same emoji also won the award for the Most 2025 Emoji.

After launching over 100 new emojis in November 2020, Apple is unveiling a lineup of new options that will be available with the release of iOS 14.5 in spring 2021. On Tuesday, Feb. 16, the tech giant ...

A whole bunch of new emoji were released on Tuesday in iOS 12.1 — 158, to be precise. But there's one new smiley emoji in particular that people just can't figure out. The new emoji's expression is a ...

At this point in the pandemic, my colleagues have seen my laughing, crying, and smiling emojis more than my actual face. And based on a new release of Slack emojis, the messaging platform is banking ...

It’s about damn time! Facebook Messenger’s emojis are getting a huge makeover. “Messenger is bringing over 1,500 newly designed Messenger emojis to the world,” the company released in a statement. “We ...

There once was a time when all we could do was write "LOL" or "ROFL" to convey our enthusiasm in a text or IM. Then came the 😂and the world as we knew it forever changed. These little icons have ...

Saying "I love you" can be hard. But sending a heart emoji? No problemo! On Valentine's Day, heart emoji have their work cut out for them as our emotionally burdened fingers send pictographs of love ...