In Apple's next update of emoji icons, a number of the tiny cartoon people are now available in six different skin tones. The male and female faces, as well as thumbs up/thumbs down icons ...

The laugh-cry emoji, or 😂, is the most-used emoji in the world, according the Unicode Consortium ... Sign up An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Jump to ...

After months of anticipation and (apparently) some debate, 72 new emoji characters are officially on their way to smartphones everywhere as part of Unicode ... from 74 down to 72.

Now, Unicode, the group responsible for approving ... two-hearts, heart with arrow, heart with ribbon and beating heart. However, users have been desperately calling for the addition of a single ...