Emoji are weird. While there are enough of them that people somehow manage to use them for entire conversations, there always seem to be odd omissions. Why are there about 10 different types of trains ...

If you've been unenthused about the emoji of recent years, you're not alone. A flashlight? A toolbox? A fire extinguisher? A tin can? Who even uses these? The emoji set to appear on your phone next ...

From friendly smiley faces to cheeky aubergines, emoji now form a staple part of many people's daily messages. But despite their prevalence, people are only just realising what one popular character ...

In 2011, Apple introduced a downloadable keyboard language for its iPhones featuring a group of emoji based on a set provided by Japanese phone company DoCoMo. This keyboard was available on Japanese ...

Unicode has announced the much awaited Emoji 11.0 beta list. Apparently, more than 130 emojis were in the race for a place in the final version and some of them included cupcake, woman/man red-haired, ...

On Wednesday this week, dreams became a reality when over 150 new emoji were introduced alongside Apple's latest software update, iOS 9.1. Among the many new pixelated pals was a taco, a wedge of ...

In an attempt to humanize the most dehumanizing of tasks (layoffs), some companies have started adding emojis to their ...

The world is all about political correctness these days. The Unicode Consortium has approved 62 new emoji for operating systems. Many of these new emoji are inclusive rather than exclusive, as has ...