What the new symbols tell you about your relationships. — -- When Snapchat nixed its best friends feature in January, some avid users of the ephemeral messaging app freaked out about the change.

You might be a master at Snapchat tricks like skipping through stories or using multiple lines of texts, but you probably don't know what all those emoji by your friends mean. Released by Snapchat in ...

Before that taco, poop, or eggplant emoji found its way on to your phone, a group of people in a boardroom voted on it. The world’s emoji are the responsibility of Unicode, a nonprofit group founded ...

It’s tempting to hold up emoji as a kind of digital universal translator — so simple to use and understand, they can break down language barriers. Tempting, but wrong (or, in emoji, 👎). As everyone ...