The classic smiley face emoji now means something completely different to those under 30. Instead of conveying happiness, the grinning yellow face is now seen as dismissive, passive-aggressive, or ...

Emoji are being increasingly used in social and professional settings alike. Here's what some of them may be perceived as and how it affects the way you're perceived.

Even when emoji appear in the middle of tweets, they often come between complete thoughts, like this: They act like punctuation, providing cues about how to understand the words that came before ...

A Canadian farmer owes $82,000 for breach of contract after using a “thumbs-up” emoji in a text.

A new emoji showing a man or woman ‘kneeling’ has been hailed as the world’s first explicit blowjob icon. Until now, anyone seeking to discuss oral sex via the medium of emojis has had to ...

A Canadian judge ruled that a thumbs-up emoji sent by phone represented a binding legal agreement. The case involved a grain seller replying to a sent contract with a thumbs-up, but then not ...

Starship captain, Shakespearean thespian, and real-life knight Sir Patrick Stewart lends his gravitas to The Emoji Movie—out today—as the voice of Poop, a debonair dump. We traced the poomoji ...

Poppycock, says Geoff Pullum. Dropping the occasional pictograph into their prose is not going to strip people of the capacity to form sentences.

A Saskatchewan judge says an emoji can amount to a contractual agreement and ordered a farmer to pay more than $82,000 for not delivering product to a grain buyer after responding to a text ...