Conor McGregor’s latest social media outburst has sparked widespread outrage and reignited scrutiny of his past controversial ...

“It has been an honour and a pleasure to sit with you, nerd out and compare Biden impersonations ... for her former colleague: “Big (heart emoji) to you and your gorgeous family.” ...

Elon Musk, claiming to be a top-tier video game player, faced backlash after suspicions arose about boosting his accounts. Despite commendable in-game accomplishments, gamers dissected his gameplay ...

Live (SNL) opened with a spoof on the signing of the Declaration of Independence featuring president Donald Trump, where he referenced his new signed orders and dismantling diversity, equity and ...

But for Musk, “hardcore gamer” is a key part of the identity he has tried to project: a polymathic nerd’s nerd who is equal parts ... as Grimes and with whom he has three children, played a character ...

A security researcher claims to have discovered a way to hide extra information inside emoji.

The concept revolves around Unicode's system of representing text as a sequence of codepoints, with each codepoint being a number assigned meaning by the Unicode Consortium.

This is especially true for the emoji we use to express love … or is it passion? Heartbreak, maybe? Truth is, there’s a surprising range of heart emoji meanings. To get the scoop, we spoke ...

It may seem that your favorite character from your favorite TV show was always part of the main cast, but that might not be ...

Character AI, a startup that lets users chat with different AI-powered characters, is now testing games on its desktop and mobile web apps to increase engagement on its platform. The games are ...

And we’re not just saying that because many of them had a nerdy slant that was right in our Nerdist wheelhouse. (But it didn’t hurt.) Which ones managed to score with a pop culture-related pitch?

Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible for creating new emoji. Unicode proposed nine new emoji in November ...