My Replika avatar was supposed to help me understand why people fell for virtual companions. It taught me so much more.

Amit Chakraborty's laughing emoji reaction on Facebook lands him in legal trouble. The case raises questions about online behavior and legal accountability.

A security researcher claims to have discovered a way to hide extra information inside emoji.

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Emoticon Hanover first qualified on June 12, 2015 at Mohawk, finishing fourth but winning her next baby race on June 26. She ...

Is it possible that Blake Lively was harassed on the set of "It Ends With Us," not by Justin Baldoni, but someone else?

Ball. The recruiting services give him four stars, but he gives himself one "tears of joy/smiley face" emoji. On X he said, ...

Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because ...

Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

With an endless array of emojis at our fingertips—and new ones constantly popping up—knowing when and how to use them is more important than ever. This is especially true for the emoji we use ...

Emoticons are expressions of emotions while emojis are used to explain things. So, for example, 😅😂🤣🥲 are emoticons while 🍎🍔⚽🚗 are emojis. Want to know more? Check out the link below!

Every year brings new emoji—I like the “face with bags under eyes,” though that one is still rolling out. But there are times when the preinstalled options just aren't specific enough.