Asking OpenAI's ChatGPT if there's a seahorse emoji causes the AI chatbot to suffer an epic, existential meltdown.

Some iPhones can use Apple Intelligence to create fun, custom emoji, and the iOS 26 beta adds an upgrade to the feature.

World Emoji Day falls annually on July 17, the date shown on the calendar emoji. Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" 🤪 and "fist bump" 👊 symbols into your texts -- today is World Emoji ...

Florie Hutchinson's crusade against emoji fashion started last year, on the heels of the presidential election and the 2017 Women's March. She'd been thinking about feminism, her three young daughters ...

Smiling at Gen Z? Better watch your back. What used to be the universal symbol of warmth and joy has taken a sinister turn — at least in the eyes of Gen Z. The classic smiley face emoji now means ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

When it comes to IRL facial expressions, most people can do a pretty good job deciphering the message someone is conveying by their beaming smile or disappointed frown. But, in the world of emojis, ...

If you’re that person in the WhatsApp groups with a sticker for every occasion, you’ll want to start playing with Gboard emoji combos. Emoji Kitchen lets you easily combine two standard emojis to ...

When Shigetaka Kurita created the first emoji in 1999, he had to work within a grid measuring 12 by 12 pixels. That’s a total of 144 dots, or 18 bytes of data, meaning that the Japanese designer’s ...

The Emoji Kitchen on Gboard combines two emoji to create a new mashup sticker. The collection houses thousands of combinations, and Google adds more every few months. The resulting mashups add more ...

Some iPhones can use Apple Intelligence to create fun, custom emoji, and the iOS 26 beta adds an upgrade to the feature. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast ...