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

As Elon Musk encourages many federal employees to resign from their posts, some have rallied around the spoon emoji, which ...

Emoji is actually a Japanese word that means "pictogram" or "pictograph." SoftBank, a Japanese wireless carrier, created the first known emoji set in 1997. When Apple launched its iOS 2.2 in ...

The Unicode Consortium has released the most popularly used emoji for the first time ever. The Unicode Consortium sets the international standards for characters, including emoji, across software ...

The OED chose this emoji because they said it best reflected the passing year in language. 5. Abraham Lincoln might have been the first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the difference between ...

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The first World Emoji Day was celebrated by the founder of Emojipedia Jeremy Burge on July 17 — a date which represents the calendar emoji on an iPhone. There’s one thing that has always come ...

To celebrate the centenary of property-owning women over 30 being given the right to vote, we’ve teamed up with Twitter to create the world’s first suffragette emoji. Attached to the hashtags ...