The winner for the Most Popular New Emoji in 2024 was the head shaking horizontally (🙂‍↔️) followed by the head shaking ...

Keith Houston’s Face with Tears of Joy, a lively account of those little yellow faces, reveals the peculiar science behind ...

During the Judicial Conduct Tribunal, emoji expert Dr Vincent Mello testified about the significance of emoji exchanges between Judge President Selby Mbenenge and complainant Andiswa Mengo, shedding ...

Pick a screen, any screen, and chances are someone is deep in a text conversation. While phone calls are still around, ...

One simple practice can boost how loved and understood your partner feels, a new study from UT Austin has found.

A new study has shown that when it comes to developing closeness in your relationships, the emoji you send in your texts are ...

In an oft-cited Washington Law Review article from that year, “Emojis and the Law,” Professor Eric Goldman referenced court ...

MeitY rejoins Unicode Consortium as a government member, influencing global standardization of text and emojis.

The Unicode Standard, a universal character encoding standard, is responsible for creating new emoji, and approved emoji are ...

Android 16 DP2 includes an updated emoji font file with 7 new emoji that are part of Unicode 16.0. Unicode, if you aren’t aware, is the universal text encoding standard that assigns unique ...

This was likely because 15.1 was only intended as a minor update to 2022's Unicode 15.0 standard. Most of the Unicode 16.0 emoji, by contrast, are their own unique characters.

The Unicode Consortium added eight new emojis to the Unicode 16 beta, which could be a part of iOS 18 and Android 15. These include Face With Bags Under Eyes, Fingerprint, and Harp.