How does it feel to be back in society — back outside — after months indoors, dreaming about finally seeing your presumed-to-be-hot barista’s face without a mask on or going to the club and brushing ...

As part of iOS 14.5, Apple is adding new emoji from the Unicode Consortium’s Emoji 13.1 release, including skin tone options for some popular emoji and several new smiley faces and hearts. The company ...

As a part of the Android 16 QPR3 beta update that rolled out to Google Pixel phones yesterday, Google has also updated its emoji set to include a few refreshed designs ahead of a larger update to come ...

In a time where people are largely dressed down and masked up due to the coronavirus pandemic, Apple has responded by creating a new face mask emoji character with a more positive outlook. The most ...

NEW YORK -- Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes. It's one of eight new emojis that will appear on smartphones and computers next year, ...

New York (CNN) — Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes. It’s one of eight new emoji that will appear on smartphones and computers next year, ...

Mockup of emoji skin tones with colors based on the Fitzpatrick Scale. (via Emojipedia) According to Unicode, the international coding standard that ensures symbols and letters appear uniformly across ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. It seems the rest of the world agrees, and the “slightly ...

The proposal for a mammoth emoji—coming to an iPhone near you next month—doesn’t just give a brief natural history of the extinct pachyderm. It also includes a chart comparing the incidence of the ...

The company rolled out Reactions globally on Wednesday, the new emoji responses you can add to Facebook posts. Instead of a “Dislike,” button that some people wanted, Facebook now lets you respond to ...

Facebook is at odds with a lot of groups these days—from Congress to Media Matters to people who just dislike hate speech. Now it’s diverging from Unicode, the universal standard bearer for emoji.

New emojis are added to iOS devices on a near-yearly basis, with Apple adopting the characters voted on and approved by the Unicode Consortium on the regular. Image via Emojipedia The Unicode ...