Emoji reactions have been hiding at the bottom of your personal Gmail messages for over two years, and now they’re coming to ...

Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

Q: I see the icon to add emoji to iMessages on a Mac, but how do you add the characters to documents and email messages? A: Many desktop programs like iMessages and the Mac Twitter app include a ...

Smiling at Gen Z? Better watch your back. What used to be the universal symbol of warmth and joy has taken a sinister turn — at least in the eyes of Gen Z. The classic smiley face emoji now means ...

You’ve heard about the words of the year—Oxford’s vape, Merriam-Webster’s culture, and Dictionary.com’s exposure, to name a few. And perhaps you’re even eagerly awaiting the American Dialect Society’s ...

Security researchers at Cisco discovered a vulnerability in a popular messaging client that allowed hackers to use malicious emoji and mess with the files on a computer. The Register reports that the ...

Jan 09, 2026 - Viktor Markopoulos - We often trust what we see. In cybersecurity, we are trained to look for suspicious links, strange file extensions, or garbled code. But what if the threat looked ...

THE man who created the emoticon 33 years ago has an ambitious new project, and time is running out for him to make it a reality. And that’s exactly why it was invented 33 years ago, when a group of ...