If you've been unenthused about the emoji of recent years, you're not alone. A flashlight? A toolbox? A fire extinguisher? A tin can? Who even uses these? The emoji set to appear on your phone next ...

Emoji are weird. While there are enough of them that people somehow manage to use them for entire conversations, there always seem to be odd omissions. Why are there about 10 different types of trains ...

In 2011, Apple introduced a downloadable keyboard language for its iPhones featuring a group of emoji based on a set provided by Japanese phone company DoCoMo. This keyboard was available on Japanese ...

Key Points of This NewsOn September 16, a new version of the global character standard "Unicode" was released, adding 9 new ...

There are 70 new emoji coming to iPhones in the coming weeks as part of the iOS 12.1 software update. The Unicode Consortium, the governing body for emoji, approves dozens of new symbols every year.

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A couple of months ago, NPR reporter Lulu Miller tweeted a question. She knew a 5-year-old who was texting exclusively in emoji, and wondered if were there any studies about kids, too young to read, ...