The Unicode Consortium opened its beta review period for Unicode 16, which includes the all-new emojis coming with iOS 18 and Android 15.

Do you think your phone is gender neutral? From Siri’s voice to emojis, Indian teens are learning gendered rules about what’s ...

According to Unicode, this is the emoji we use the most Quantitative data about emoji usage reveals a lot about their role in language—and how they help us express emotions we have no words for.

A new cast of draft emojis stands for final approval by the Unicode Consortium Emoji Subcommittee, the America’s Next Top Model panel of emoji judgment. If you, an emoji, think you’re going to ...

Unicode, a consortium of giants like Apple, Facebook, and Google, oversees standard, “official” emojis. But how they are drawn and when they roll out over the next 12 months are company decisions.

The Unicode Emoji Subcommittee reviews new submissions. Emoji, the silly little pictorials that fill digital communication, are a fun way to deliver a message for many people. But for those who ...

Though Unicode can seem like an impenetrable and distant fortress from the outside, recent updates to the emoji catalog have proven that change certainly isn't out of the question.

The Unicode Emoji Subcommittee determines which characters will become part of the official emoji lexicon, creating a uniform code that can be used across platforms.

The new version of Unicode is slated for release June 21, though you shouldn’t expect to be adding the new emojis to your Instagram captions that night.

Dozens of new emojis are planned for 2018. One of the most popular additions? Redheads. "People felt like they were getting left out," says Jeremy Burge of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. It's ...

The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday showed off 236 draft candidates for Emoji 12.0, which should make its way onto Apple platforms sometime in 2019 with iOS 13 and macOS 10.15.

A new draft proposal published Tuesday at the Unicode Consortium outlines a way of diversifying the mostly white people who populate your emoji keyboard. The system, presented by Google software ...