Last month, the Unicode Consortium — a computer industry non-profit devoted to "developing, maintaining and promoting software internalization standards," according to its website (unicode.org) — ...

The proposal for a mammoth emoji—coming to an iPhone near you next month—doesn’t just give a brief natural history of the extinct pachyderm. It also includes a chart comparing the incidence of the ...

Lauren Gawne is a co-creator of Lingthusiasm. This research was funded in part by the Lingthusiasm Patreon. We’re much more likely to be hanging out on social media than at the watercooler these days.

A recent software update for Apple's iPhones includes a "pregnant man" emoji as well as a number of other gender neutral cartoons. Apple rolled out the update in mid-March according to the Wall Street ...

Once playful and innocent, emojis have become the visual shorthand of the digital era, used in billions of online conversations each day. But behind their cheerful colours and cartoon charm lies a ...