This year, Oxford Dictionaries got creative with its Word of the Year. Instead of picking an actual word, it chose a familiar little yellow face. Upturned mouth, tears of joy streaming down its cheeks ...

In 2012 with the rollout of its iOS 6, Apple caught up with the times and included two new emoji representing same-sex couples of both genders holding hands. However, these emoji left much to be ...

This week at the Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced a number of fanciful updates to its iMessage platform, including the ability to write hand-scribbled notes, something called ‘invisible ...

If that doesn’t sound like a lot of diversity, it isn’t. These are the paltry offerings for non-white iPhone users, while the exact same emoji of a Caucasian woman gets represented nine times, between ...

Want to use that new selfie emoji? How about the facepalm or avocado? If you're on Android, or texting someone who is, there's a good chance those new characters aren't working. That's because Google, ...

Android has an emoji problem. No, it's not those weird blobs (RIP), but something that's been nearly as tricky to fix. Because of Android handset makers' inconsistent updates, not only do many Android ...

Emoji made lots of headlines in 2015: Instagram enabled emoji hashtags, the characters came up in court cases, and the official word of the year wasn’t a word at all, it was an emoji! ( to be exact.) ...

You have to give the Unicode’s Emoji Subcommittee some credit. As emoji has risen in popularity to become the primary way we express ourselves over text, the Unicode Consortium is burdened with the ...