Bless the Unicode Consortium for enabling humans to express themselves more freely through the universal language of emoji. Ahead of World Emoji Day on July 17 (i.e. the date shown on the calendar ...

Next-wave emoji arrive with the release of Unicode 8.0 this week. This means that, while we do need to wait for software creators to implement the code, we'll be seeing such emoji as Hot Dog, Unicorn, ...

The emoji library is not entirely lacking in art references, and there are some really impressive ones: the Moai emoji 🗿, for instance, which alludes to the Rapa Nui’s ancient carved stone head ...