An emoji expert has shared his predictions for 2026’s emoji trends – and why Taylor Swift might have influenced this without ...

Four years ago, a Reddit user went on r/MandelaEffect and asked a simple question: ‘Anyone else remember the seahorse emoji?’ ...

Sixteen years after they first appeared on cellphone screens, the Oxford English Dictionary just named an emoji as its word of the year. The tears of joy symbol won out for its common usage — ...

There are emoji everywhere these days—but creating them doesn’t come cheap, and now, says the Unicode Consortium, it’s time to pay up. Of course, the consortium puts it a little more nicely than that: ...

A court in Washington, D.C., has been stuck with a tough, maybe impossible question: What does 🌝 mean? Let me explain: In the summer of 2022, Ryan Cohen, a major investor in Bed Bath & Beyond, ...

While there are some who will fight tooth and nail to say whether iOS or Android is the superior smartphone platform, most of us can get along just fine with one another, green bubbles be damned. What ...

An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of emoji that had been approved for the Unicode 17.0 update. Unicode has since confirmed that n ...