It’s a banner day to be an emoji. Monday marks the tenth annual World Emoji Day 🗺️🤩📆, and there’s never been a better time to be a cute and colorful little communication character. ...

The first emoji convention, Emojicon, held in San Francisco, CA on Nov. 4 through Nov. 6, 2016. Katy Steinmetz for TIME.

Apple added eight new emoji to all iPhones when the company released iOS 18.4 in March, and Samsung brought those same emoji ...

Reporting from San Francisco — The soothing synths of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” filled a foam-lined karaoke room — but no one was singing. For participants, emoji karaoke is a ...

A "😃" or " ️" are easy to understand, but how are "😩" and "😭" different? Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends.

“Face with Tears of Joy,” the official name for the laughing crying emoji, is currently the most-used emoji on Emojitracker, a website that shows real-time emoji use on Twitter.It topped ...

Emoji users respect linear time and action. If you want to point a gun at something, it has to go to the left of the barrel, he says. It is this: Not this: ...

Emoji users: Your vocabulary is about to grow. The Unicode Consortium, a group that approves emoji, has added 112 new ones, including a melting smiley face, a coral reef, an X-ray and more skin ...

Every time you type on your cellphone's keyboard, you're punching in tiny bits of Unicode, a universal standard for creating text, numbers and emoji.