Recently, text dominated each chat window. Then small digital icons came along and redefined how we communicate. These little pictures have become a worldwide visual language, akin to video subtitles.

Love them or judge them, emojis have become a full-fledged language of their own. We use them to express joy 😂, confusion 🤔, exhaustion 😩, and even passive-aggressive support 👏👏👏. Recent stats ...

A bulging aubergine; a snowflake; a cheerful pile of poo… Emojis have come to occupy a dominant role in modern-day communication, whether their meaning is innocuous or otherwise. But now they appear ...

No more yearning for Apple to drop a chicken nugget or head louse emoji. Soon, fresh emojis will be on demand with AI. This fall, some iPhone owners will get the power to make custom emojis using AI ...

Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia talks about how emoji get approved and what happens when companies lobby for emoji of their products. Emoji users: Your vocabulary is about to grow. The Unicode Consortium, ...

At a time when in-person conversations are harder to come by, many people are choosing to express their thoughts about 🦠 with a practical mix of 😷 and 🛒. But perhaps no emoji has come to embody the ...