The roots of smiley faces and emoticons date from the 1880s. Yet the story of emoji — the pictorial icons on cellphones — is traced to the mid-1990s in Japan, where such icons were added as a special ...

Emoji usage proliferates on phones and tablets because it’s very fast to bring up that virtual keyboard on Android and iOS. Now, Google Chrome is working on making it easier to use emoji on desktops ...

How can I type emoji on my PC keyboard? It’s a question that you’ve probably asked, given up on, shrugged, and then pulled out your smartphone. Now, with Windows 10 and the Fall Creators Update, a new ...

Emoji are intended to illustrate, or in some cases replace altogether, the words we send each other digitally, whether in a text message, email, or tweet. Taken together, emoji look like the ...

The humble browser address bar just got an emoji-forward glow up. If the string of emoji corresponds to an existing Yat, the browser will take users to the associated website. For example, instead of ...

I don’t know when I first noticed emoji. I probably assumed they were just another way for software to convert text-based emoticons into actual images, a feature I first saw in iChat on the Mac. But ...

Last summer, an article on Fast Company asked an important question related to the increasingly popular picture-based character set called emoji, now found on the majority of modern smartphones: Are ...