What Emojipedia says: A yellow face with a big grin, uplifted eyebrows, and smiling eyes, each shedding a tear from laughing so hard. Widely used to show something is funny or pleasing. 11.

A big part of the problem is that not all emoji are created equal. Unicode, the computer industry standard for characters and text, now recognizes more than 1,000 different emoji.

Plenty of parents see covering up their children’s faces online as a happy medium, allowing them to share family snaps ...

BENGALURU: A wraith is haunting our conversations. We don’t type out sentences that convey our happiness, instead we insert a smiley face, quick and easy. Face ...

Emoji are often misinterpreted. Researchers at the University of Minnesota asked a few hundred participants to rate emoji for sentiment from -5 (very negative) to +5 (very positive) and asked for ...

While it’s hardly as charming as a great big old grin lighting up across the front grille, the time-tested horn at the center of the steering wheel still gets the job done. Follow us on Facebook ...

You’ve come a long way, smiley face emoji. You’re now officially art, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, just like the Picassos and the Jackson Pollocks. Your… ...