It started with a cup of coffee, or more precisely, a hot beverage. Seven years later came fries, the now infamous eggplant and friends. Sandwich lovers waited for their time to come, while ...

Emojis can do more than just spice up text-based communication. Each one carries a bit of internet history. A Kickstarter campaign launched Monday gives customers the chance to experience the 176 ...

It’s World Emoji Day and lots of individuals and companies alike are celebrating. Follow along for a look the results of the World Emoji Day Awards, an illustrated history of emojis, how Ford got the ...

Angela Guzman was an intern at Apple when she helped design about 500 of the company's early emoji, including one very explicit piece of fruit. —Ellen Airhart Q: At the time, did you think the ...

Emojis help people show emotion in digital spaces — but the little, pixelated characters don't always represent the diversity of their users. And changing that isn't easy, as Rayouf Alhumedhi knows ...

What seems different about 21st-century English is the speed with which these changes spread and are adopted—at least ...

The iconic smiley face may seem like a modern squiggle, but the discovery of a smiley face-like painting on an ancient piece of pottery suggests that it may be much older. During an excavation of ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In November 2014, a tech-industry consortium announced a new set of emoji that would diversify the physical appearance of the ...

It might be tempting to assume that new emoji are flown in by stork, handed down from high atop a mountain or mined in caves below the Silicon Valley giants’ headquarters. The truth is even more ...

For every taboo subject, there’s a socially permissible emoji, and cannabis is no exception. Thanks to the fascinating evolution of the emoji language, Christmas trees, used for centuries as a symbol ...