President Donald Trump is facing backlash after claiming that a sharp decline in port traffic—and a significant drop in goods entering the U.S.—is actually a positive development. When warned that the ...

A forensic and legal linguist analysing text messages between Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge and Judges’ Secretary Andiswa Mengo found that the exchanges started off in a professional ...

In both samples, the link between emoji use and openness to experience was clear. “Those reporting lower levels of openness use the most emojis,” the authors wrote. The association held true ...

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“Banana is a fruit. But in the context of their conversation, the banana emoji is interpreted as a circumcised penis,” she responded. Docrat said Mbenenge’s use of a mouth-licking emoji ...

In the latest Google Messages beta, these full-screen effects will now automatically play for you (and your texting partner, if they're also on the beta) when you send them certain emoji in Google ...

A young entrepreneur who was among the earliest known recruiters for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has a new, related gig—and he’s hiring. Anthony Jancso ...

The app is now testing the ability to trigger Screen Effects with a single emoji in the latest beta release. Google Messages recently upgraded its Screen Effects feature by adding support for ...