Most of our communication online is typed – emails, text messages, Facebook and Twitter. But typing has no facial expressions, no tone of voice. No nuance. So, maybe it was inevitable that somebody ...

As the go-to digital keyboard for Android, Gboard often sees a big change. The latest such update is more expressive hand gesture emoji on Gboard. Google’s approach to emojis has been more fun than ...

Editor’s note: Professor Vyvyan Evans is an internationally renowned expert on language and digital communication. He has published 14 books on language, meaning and mind. This is an edited excerpt ...

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 ...

Emojipedia tweeted about Unicode’s approval of several new emoji on Wednesday, with a pinched finger gesture drawing excited attention from prospective users online. The gesture is being claimed as ...

To help people show appreciation to frontline workers or anyone else who has shown a helping hand in these tough times, Twitter has unveiled a new emoji showing two hands forming a heart. Shutterstock ...