And, as of this year, according to a breakdown of the website emojitracker by Luminoso, a text-­analytics company, the tilde was surpassed in usage on Twitter by the emoji symbol for “joy.” ...

“Emoji have come to embody a core aspect of living ... Here are the other words that made Oxford’s short list: ad blocker, noun: A piece of software designed to prevent advertisements from ...

Emoji have long been one of the most accessible parts of the Unicode standard, a piece of technological infrastructure which makes the Internet possible. They’re also just fun. (I mean ...

"The release is the first piece of a week-long narrative featuring emoji." Are you emoji-literate enough to decipher it? Translation: The all-new 2016 Cruze blends innovative technology ...

Angela Guzman was an intern at Apple when she helped design about 500 of the company's early emoji, including one very explicit piece of fruit. —Ellen Airhart Q: At the time, did you think the ...