Once reserved for romantic partners and other loved ones, the heart emoji can now mean anything—which means it has no meaning ...

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

Emojis allow users to convey feelings and emotions vividly, which can sometimes be challenging with words alone. If you've ...

A picture may tell a thousand words, but the secret meaning behind an emoji can be enough to strike fear into any parent’s heart. We all use emojis and acronyms to bring some light hearted fun ...

One of the most commonly used is the heart emoji, which comes in a rainbow of colors. Each of those colors has a different meaning, and it's important to know each of the heart color meanings when ...

You might think the sentiment conveyed by a text message heart emoji would be self-explanatory but new research finds ...

Your favourite emoji might not mean what you think it does. A forensic linguist explains how these seemingly innocent symbols could have legal and social implications.

And so emojis were born in a (highly successful) attempt to bridge the gap between the spoken work, and text-based formats. I could´, for example, send a message to my boss, telling him that as today ...

The concept revolves around Unicode's system of representing text as a sequence of codepoints, with each codepoint being a number assigned meaning by the Unicode Consortium.

In his lawsuit, Justin Baldoni says The New York Times' omission of an emoji misrepresented his publicists' conversations about Blake Lively.