The brain interprets irony or sarcasm conveyed by an emoji in the same way as it does verbal banter, researchers reported March 26 in San Francisco at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s annual ...

In the second experiment, which involved 178 participants, these emoji were replaced with GIFs - either a negative non-face GIF, a positive non-face GIF, a negative face GIF, or a positive face GIF.

Rumors back in September suggested that Google was looking for a way to produce better, faster recommendations for GIFs and emoji within its keyboard. Now it has one.

Kik, the messaging app popular among teens and young people in North America, has rolled out an interesting new feature that makes sending a GIF as easy as an emoji. As of today, the chat app now ...