Most of our communication online is typed – emails, text messages, Facebook and Twitter. But typing has no facial expressions, no tone of voice. No nuance. So, maybe it was inevitable that somebody ...

Much of the world’s information may now be saved in the virtual cloud, but the first data-storage systems were simple drawings like this: . Humans have been using images to communicate for millennia, ...

Editor’s note: Professor Vyvyan Evans is an internationally renowned expert on language and digital communication. He has published 14 books on language, meaning and mind. This is an edited excerpt ...

It's the most wonderful time ... of the month. That's right ladies and gentlemen, it is time for your monthly Emoji Power Rankings. We have seen some serious shake ups in the world of emojis as we've ...

Mosquitoes are coming. The Unicode Consortium has just announced that alongside your smiling face – or perhaps crying face – emoji you’ll soon be able to add a mosquito. The mosquito emoji will join ...

You’ve got your paramedic emoji, your policeman emoji, your private-detective emoji and many many more mostly male emojis. Isn’t it time we had at least a few professional-women characters out there ...

The proposal for a mammoth emoji—coming to an iPhone near you next month—doesn’t just give a brief natural history of the extinct pachyderm. It also includes a chart comparing the incidence of the ...

There are no sure things in life but death and taxes. Until this month, we thought that it was also a sure thing that the Smiling Poo emoji would forever reign supreme atop our Power Rankings. Yes, ...