EVERYONE’S partial to sending an emoji every now and again – but it turns out you might have been using the pesky characters all wrong. From showing excitement to telling someone you’re feeling ...

Alert your group chats: The overlord of all things emoji, Unicode Consortium (UC), is about to release Emoji 13.0 to start off the decade. The new set of emojis contains 117 new symbols and aims to be ...

When someone who usually texts with emojis suddenly goes cold—no faces, no punctuation softeners—the absence becomes its own ...

A gender-neutral Santa Claus and a crying smiley face are among 117 new emojis revealed in the latest list of icons for 2020. Due to be released this year, the icons have been approved by emoji ...

In the latest spout of confusion on how different generations use technology to communicate, it has been revealed that using the popular smiley face emoji may not be a good thing. Those in the ...

Like many people who are fond of texting, I spend a lot of time hunting for the perfect emoji. Although I’m particularly fond of the “loudly crying face” ð ­ and fire ð ¥ emojis, it’s often hard to ...

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The Stanford Internet Observatory has released an extensive analysis on Gettr, the largely unmoderated right-wing Twitter clone founded by longtime Trump spokesperson Jason Miller. The details—which ...