Happy World Emoji Day! This Emoji Day, let’s take a look at the most-used emojis of 2025. Are you one of their regular users?

July 17 is observed as World Emoji Day, a global celebration of those tiny digital symbols that say so much with so little.

Emoji add a new depth to communications, but what of their cultural impact? Keith Houston's Face with Tears of Joy offers some answers ...

The pictorial language has moved away from ideography and toward illustration. It’s lost some expressive power in the process.

Emoji really can speed things up in the office, and slapping a ️ or a 🎉 on a message can make a rote communication feel friendly and fun. Their reception is not always smooth, however.

As emoji grow more popular, the “language” also risks fragmentation As more emoji are created, it will take more work to keep them universal.

KidsPost New emoji appear every year, but where do they come from? Anyone can propose an emoji to the Unicode Consortium, which creates the quirky images that have become part of our online language.

When it comes to capturing and using emoji as evidence, this type of data presents a particularly unique set of challenges, both technical and interpretive.

Canadian court gives thumbs up on emoji counting as binding contract A dispute over a flax contract could usher in a ‘new reality in Canadian society’ as emoji make their way into everyday ...

Soon you may be able to send your friends emoji that look a little more like you. The Unicode Consortium, which sets the international standards for characters such as emoji, proposed an update on ...

November 16, 2014 9:00 p.m. Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji: The Rapid Evolution of a Wordless Tongue By Adam Sternbergh ...

The humble emoji has much to tell us about the legal system and the technologies it has come to rely on.