Scrolling through Instagram recently, I saw a picture that an old friend from high school had posted of his dad with the caption announcing his father’s death. It was terrible news, and I immediately ...

USA Today’s Friday front page was more animated than usual — as the Gannett publication paired Emoji characters with front page headlines. A headline about the stabbing of a U.S. Air Force officer, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that's sad? There's loaf of bread and a croissant. But where's the sliced bagel? How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a ...

It's been a while since the Unicode Emoji Consortium released its sixth set of proposed emojis last June, with a follow up in August (which offered up a drunken face and unhappy poo, oddly enough).

The polling firm YouGov recently did a survey to find out how people interpreted emoji. Not surprisingly, there were significant differences of opinion on many. What looked like “shocked” to one ...

There was once a time in the mid 90s when the Internet became a viable option for everyday people, not something that was stuck in a dusty university lab. It was new, unpredictable, and a little ...

A BRITISH woman trapped in Gaza claims she was sent a sad face emoji by a Foreign Office official. Zaynab Wandawi, 29, has been in the terrifying warzone for more than three weeks now and says she’s ...

The Worker Flexibility and Small Business Protection Act may be one of the first times that a bill in Congress would require anyone to use an emoji. But if it passes, a frowning-face emoji would ...

NEW YORK -- We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that's sad? There's loaf of bread and a croissant. But where's the sliced bagel? How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy ...