What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

Apple added eight new emoji to all iPhones when the company released iOS 18.4 in March, and Samsung brought those same emoji to some devices in April with the initial release of One UI 7. The new ...

Conspicuously missing from the emoji catalog, however, was a wider selection of nonwhite human faces. As emoji have grown in popularity, people have wanted to see themselves reflected in the tiny ...

The first emojis can be traced back to the late 1980s, but it was not until 2011 that they became a part of our everyday ...

When the news hit Monday that Apple's next update for the iPhone would have 300 new emoji, the most exciting part was that we'd finally get a more diverse selection of skin tones for the human ...

Rene Ritchie When the news hit Monday that Apple's next update for the iPhone would have 300 new emoji, the most exciting part was that we'd finally get a more diverse selection of skin tones for ...

The human obsession with emoji, and the sheer number of them available on your phone, may have its origins in 6 million years of evolution. A new article in Nature Ecology & Evolution, titled ...