The Unicode Consortium today released Unicode 8, the next update to the Unicode Standard that defines special characters and symbols, including emoji. Unicode 8 introduces 7,716 new characters ...

To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete ...

There are plenty of reasons to look forward to iOS 26 — the debut of Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language, custom ...

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 ...

It’s official: The Unicode Consortium recently confirmed 72 new emoji for the Unicode 9 set, which is scheduled to drop later in June of 2016. If you’re wondering how to get the Unicode 9 ...

Unicode was forced to adopt these symbols in order to maintain global compatibility with Japanese texters. ... anyone proposing a new emoji to Unicode must prove the symbol is already widely used.

The release consists of 56 new emoji characters, a set of Typicon marks and symbols, and a Bitcoin sign. With the additions of Unicode 10, the Unicode standard consists of a total of 136,690 ...

Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a-Character," which allows you to adopt any emoji, letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard. Different characters cost different amounts ...

Among the new emoji in Unicode 7.0 are a spider, dark sunglasses, a hammer, an airplane arriving, a rocket and a satellite. It’s unknown when or if the new symbols will be available for use on ...

Unicode Consortium Don't expect to see new flags in your phone's emoji any time soon. The Unicode Consortium has warned it will "no longer accept proposals" for flag emoji, regardless of category.