When cute smiley faces started popping up in text messages in Japan during the 1990s, software engineers like Mark Davis didn’t know if the digital images called emojis were just a fad. But by 2006, ...

Computer engineer [Marco Cilloni] realized a lot of developers today still have trouble dealing with Unicode in their programs, especially in the C/C++ world. He wrote an excellent guide that ...

Get ready for some new emojis to land on your digital keyboards. The Unicode Standard has released its latest set of emojis ...

The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday, June 20, released version 10 of the Unicode Standard, adding emoji counterparts of a T-Rex and Stephen Colbert's signature quizzical look, which sees one eyebrow ...

Graphic designer Ji Lee often uses his craft to comment on social issues. His Instagram bio even sums up his content as, “tiny sabotages of the normal.” So back in 2017, when Colin Kaepernick kneeled ...

There's no seahorse emoji. While many Reddit users were temporarily convinced of its existence, a perfect example of the ...

This past February, 157 new emoji were released by the Unicode Consortium, the organization that approves standardized digital symbols. Missing from that list is a transgender flag emoji. But the ...

Florie Hutchinson thought so. So she set to work creating a new one. That’s not just a cultural challenge, but a logistical one. A new word can be coined by anyone; for an emoji to be added to the ...

You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are some of the most popular emoji as of the beginning of September. The list changes periodically, so what's popular now might ...

Got questions for Jeremy Burge, an emoji historian and Chief Emoji Officer at Emojipedia? He’s hosting a TNW Answers session TODAY at 4:00PM (CET), ask your questions NOW! While there seems to be an ...

Did you know that July 17 is World Emoji Day? No, me neither—at least not until Ford used the celebration of these 21st century hieroglyphs to announce that it wants a pickup truck emoji. In fact, ...

It started with a cup of coffee, or more precisely, a hot beverage. Seven years later came fries, the now infamous eggplant and friends. Sandwich lovers waited for their time to come, while ...