Emoji and emoticons are often confused for being the same thing. Here’s a newsflash for you: They’re not. Even though emoticons predate emoji by almost 20 years, it’s easy to see why people ...

Emoji use is on the rise A study published Wednesday, July 2, in the journal PLOS One found that emoji use is on the rise, ...

Users of Outlook on Office 365, Microsoft's subscription-based cloud productivity suite, will find that the ":)" emoticon will actually get autocorrrected into a standard emoji.

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

Emoji are showing up as evidence in court more frequently with each passing year. Between 2004 and 2019, there was an exponential rise in emoji and emoticon references in US court opinions, with ...

While emoji like the party popper and the balloon adequately communicate one's need to p-a-r-t-y, we've missed the wild noisemaker and hat antics of the party emoticon.

Computing Emoticons Icon Internet memes Internet slang. Daily Newsletter. Get the best tech, ... The first emoticon was posted to a Carnegie Mellon University message board on September 19, 1982.

Emoticons and emoji are changing the way we communicate faster than linguists can keep up with or lexicographers can regulate. “It's the wild west of the emoji era,” said linguist Ben Zimmer ...

According to one linguistics expert, emoji is now the fastest growing language in the UK, and many find it easier to communicate using its smiley faces and icons than text, says one linguistics ...

The upside-down smiley face emoji was released in Apple emojis in 2015. However, Google released their own version in 2008 and it has been around ever since. Most read in Tech ...

It's rare for Microsoft products to invoke a pleasant sense of nostalgia, but MSN Messenger is a piece of software that does. The instant messaging software has been long dead, with Microsoft ...