Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in ...

Sega's Emojam emoji pagers can can send up to 10 emojis at a time to friends over WiFi, even more beautifully limited than a ...

and sport are used to dress up banal text messages, throwing in splashes of color and individualism. Yet as societies and ...

Who creates the symbols so many of us now use to communicate? How do they get on our phones? And why can’t we all agree on ...

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, 21-year-old Hafeezat Bishi spoke about her experience with the emoji as some of her new ...

IF you’re bored of the current lot of iPhone emoji, there’s a way to unlock an enormous trove of new icons. All it takes is a ...

You can’t interpret a person’s tone through text messages like you can on a phone call. A simple mistake could lead to ...

Did you know that the inventor of the smiley face only made $45 for the design? The WGN Morning News team also discusses actor Laurence Olivier’s prosthetic nose and the Johnny and Joan ...

The sad news for 1990s retro-heads is that it's going to be available only in Japan, where it will sell for 7,150 yen (about $46), and will go on sale starting Dec. 10. So until then, a better time ...

If you've ever wanted an obscure emoji that the Unicode Consortium just hasn't gotten around to adding to the emoji lineup, Genmoji in iOS 18.2 offers a solution. In the iOS 18.2 beta right now ...