It’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous. They are a small invasive cartoon army of faces and vehicles and flags and food and symbols trying to topple the millennia-long ...

The meteoric rise in emojis' popularity over just a few years shows how much the world wanted a way to include those sort of indicators in text-based communication. There are currently 3.2 billion ...

From the proposals to the design, a bevy of rules govern emojis. To submit a proposal to Unicode, you must follow a strict format, in writing, that includes your emoji's expected usage level ...

Now the consortium has given developers the first Emoji 11 beta, which contains 130 draft emojis, including a female superhero, a lobster and a party face. There's no trace of the sad poo and that ...

The fourth annual World Emoji Day (yes, it's a thing) is Monday, celebrating the explosion in use of the little characters that have changed the way people around the world communicate.

Using emojis can be a drag -- and not in a good way. iPhone users are going gaga after discovering another way to use emojis, as seen in X posts currently blowing minds online.

There's a standard Unicode set of emoji written out, and every handset maker draws their own emoji that corresponds to the character. To use Apple's set, WhatsApp may have had to pay a licensing fee.