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 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 ...

That’s pretty much the only thought that ran through my head as I watched Sony Picture Animation’s first teaser for The Emoji Movie: Is a Meh character speaking in a monotone (voiced by Steven ...

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 ...

Communicating via the written word can sometimes fail to communicate the nuances of human emotion. For those times, there are emoji—and now you can actually buy a dedicated hardware emoji ...