NEW YORK -- We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that's sad? There's loaf of bread and a croissant. But where's the sliced bagel? How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy ...

MODERN day conversations have been hijacked by barfing faces, bearded men and beaming turds. While languages are deep-rooted in culture and history, it’s a widely accepted belief that cartoons or ...

It's been a while since the Unicode Emoji Consortium released its sixth set of proposed emojis last June, with a follow up in August (which offered up a drunken face and unhappy poo, oddly enough).

WHEN you have to pester someone over text to do something, there’s one emoji that’s guaranteed to guilt them into doing what you want… the sad eyes, obviously. That said, one iPhone user was left ...

The polling firm YouGov recently did a survey to find out how people interpreted emoji. Not surprisingly, there were significant differences of opinion on many. What looked like “shocked” to one ...

The Unicode Consortium is tasked with setting the global standard for the icons. It’s a heady responsibility and it can take years from inspiration to a new symbol being added to our phones. These are ...

There was once a time in the mid 90s when the Internet became a viable option for everyday people, not something that was stuck in a dusty university lab. It was new, unpredictable, and a little ...

The body in charge of creating new emojis has rejected a bid for a wind turbine version, leaving climate campaigners sad faced. There are a handful of emojis relating to energy and climate change, ...

We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that’s sad? There’s loaf of bread and a croissant. But where’s the sliced bagel? How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy bear, a ...