What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

Researchers found that 40 percent of emoji tested had a “sentiment misconstrual score” of 2 or more, so when two people look at the same emoji, the sentiment disagreement between them would be ...

Bad news for people who frequently use the 😂 emoji: It is no longer cool. In recent weeks, two internet-savvy generations have been clashing in videos and comments on TikTok over the hallmarks ...

Above: Google’s new emoji for Android. A ninja is being added to the people emoji as well. The animal lineup now includes a black cat, bison, mammoth, beaver, polar bear, dodo, seal, beetle ...

Apple added eight new emoji to all iPhones when the company released iOS 18.4 in March, and Samsung brought those same emoji to some devices in April with the initial release of One UI 7. The new ...

Seventy-two respondents said they repurposed emoji, with 21 per cent using them to express affection, 19 per cent using them to symbolise a person or pet, and seven per cent using them to refer to ...

The most changed are the people emoji. iOS 10.2 is adopting tons of new professions and designs from the Unicode 9.0 emoji, including more male and female versions of the same thing, as well as ...

There are emoji for pears, koalas, and jack-o’-lanterns; for a pine tree, a pizza slice, and a dragon’s head on a plate. But there are no emoji for black people. That seems likely to change ...

Obviously, emoji are fluid: “eggplant” can mean, uh, a few different things. But if Apple users all believe “crying face” is positive, and Google users don’t, you could end up with some ...

Even though it’s part of the card suits emoji collection, people often use this heart in contexts unrelated to a deck of cards. Famously, John Mayer once decreed it the “most masculine” of ...

That makes sense to me. But I still don’t know if I fully agree with white people using emoji in the first-person. Slack emoji, however, are a good example of a time when it’s chill to use ...

Bad news for people who frequently use the 😂 emoji: It is no longer cool. In recent weeks, two internet-savvy generations have been clashing in videos and comments on TikTok over the hallmarks ...