Picture Character, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a documentary about the origins, rise, and future of the emoji. It follows the journey of the hijab, mate, and period blood ...

Period emoji was created to help girls talk about menstruation and end the shame around periods. The new emoji is coming to smartphones in March. Organizers hope the symbol will end the stigma ...

The Unicode Consortium, the organization that decides which symbols get to be emojis, released its 2019 additions this week. Technology Interracial Couples And Disability-Friendly Emoji Coming ...

Unicode just released its 2019 Emoji list, and the update included 230 new texting symbols, including a pinching fingers gesture that people on Twitter say represents a small penis and a drop of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Calendar and “facepalm” emoji, stand down: a dedicated "period emoji” will be included in the next emoji keyboard update, it ...

Unicode Consortium also unveiled emojis of wheelchairs, guide dogs, mechanical arms and interracial couples, in a bid to be more inclusive. Guest: Jeremy Burge, co-founder of Emojipedia ...

The decision to introduce the symbol follows extensive work from Plan International UK, which first submitted a bid for a “period pants” emoji after a 2017 survey found half of women in the 18 ...

A period emoji is coming to Android and iOS, and, honestly, what took SO long. We're actually getting 230 emojis in total and soon we'll be able to get things off our chest more precisely than ...

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 ...