By chaining the selectors together, he was able to encode invisible messages inside an emoji (or any other Unicode character) ...

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.

Discover how hidden Unicode data, including emojis, is being used to exploit AI systems and what developers can do to ...

Using variation selectors, you can conceal messages of arbitrary length within emoji, or indeed any unicode character. "To be ...

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

Often when we talk about icons expressing emotions, we tend to use the words emoji and emoticon interchangeably. However, Merriam-Webster has revealed that the two words aren’t the same! ‘Emoticon’ ...

This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED For decades, choosing an emoji has been constrained to what's available on your smartphone's keyboard.

Now, those Windsors are positively everywhere. Travelling via dignity-defying minibus to see a play on a Tuesday. (Queen Camilla). At the gym. (Kate, The Princess of Wales). Behind the tills at a ...