The Unicode Consortium is tasked with setting the global standard for the icons. It’s a heady responsibility and it can take years from inspiration to a new symbol being added to our phones. Deciding ...

The garlic emoji is finally here, just in time to repel all of the local vampires on Halloween. Apple has released 398 new emojis, including nine food-related ones, some of which are long overdue. The ...

What do eggplant, fire and the number 100 all have in common? They’re all emojis that have twisted and evolved in meaning. As those little digital images change how we communicate, they’ve also ...

Today Google bent the knee to the Emoji overlords, changing their people-killing-pistol into a lovely classic water gun. In the past, Google was seen as a bastion of gun-related freedom, keeping their ...

Imagine you have a serious food allergy and are travelling across country borders to a place where you don't speak the language. You're not able to read food labels or ingredients lists to make sure ...

The Unicode Consortium released a list of the most frequently used emoji for the first time ever. 😂 and ️ topped the list. Unicode uses frequency to determine which emoji categories to focus on in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nirit Cohen covers the Future of Work, bridging trends with solutions. Emojis have become part of the way we work. Not as a ...

Keep your chats interesting with hundreds of new emojis in Teams. Microsoft is adding hundreds of new reaction emojis in Teams later this month. These will be available in all Teams platforms. This ...

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If a picture if worth a thousand words, then an emoji is worth at least 10,000, right? But with the sheer number of options to choose from... well, how is one supposed to know when to use them all?

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