Emojis were invented in 1999 by a Japanese artist named Shigetaka Kurita. In the early 2000s, emojis began appearing in ...

With the mission of “Everyone in the world should be able to use their own language on phones and computers”, the Unicode ...

A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji. Other approved emoji from Unicode 17.0 ...

ON the surface, emojis seem laughably trivial—cartoon faces and tiny icons cluttering our phones. Yet behind their colorful simplicity lies a fascinating story of 21st-century global culture. These ...

The Unicode Consortium is a nonprofit devoted to developing, maintaining and promoting software standards and data, and it ...

These new emojis have long-standing symbolic meanings, are visually distinctive, and contain multitudes of expression.” ...

Unicode 17.0 has been officially approved and will introduce eight new emojis to digital platforms. The update includes a mix of ...

The Unicode 17.0 update brings new emojis, and they’ll soon make their way to iPhone users with iOS 26. For the emoji enthusiasts who are always looking out for new additions to their phones, there is ...

Apple will roll out eight new emoji in a future iOS 26 update, as part of the Unicode 17.0 release. From an orca to a ...

While new emoji have proven surprisingly political in the past, this update seems more focused on crowd-pleasers.

Jimmy Kimmel gave a salute to “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” — and blasted rival network CBS — on Thursday evening, ...

From distorted faces to fight clouds and treasure chests, iOS 26 is about to serve major emoji drama. Apple fans can expect 8 ...