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

Once reserved for romantic partners and other loved ones, the heart emoji can now mean anything—which means it has no meaning ...

it should be an emoji that people will use frequently, often, and that a large number of people will use. Two, it has to be in that sweet spot of being specific enough to warrant a separate image ...

The internet is becoming increasingly visual. How do blind people experience emoji's and is digital communication becoming more inaccessible? This episode was originally podcast in October 2015.

Researchers who use Twitter took to the internet to tweet descriptions of their work using a language that's theoretically now the argot of the people: emoji. They used the hashtag #emojiresearch.

When to skip: Because red sometimes symbolizes romance, don’t use the red heart emoji if you want to be clear that your response is not romantic. “I generally don’t recommend people use the ...

and developers are finding a new opportunity in being able to give users better input methods for the emoji millions of people use every day. Last week, I covered David Smith’s excellent Emoji++, but ...

Many of this year's new emoji are focused on inclusivity, with symbols for deaf and blind people, prosthetic limbs, and wheelchairs. A bunch of old emoji have also been updated to have gender ...

In the early days of online chatting people used different characters on the keyboard as a shortcut to convey an emotion. The happy face :) to convey happiness or joy. The frowny face :( to convey ...