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 ...

Texting can sometimes feel bland, lacking the nuance and inflection of face-to-face communication. That's where emojis come in, adding a burst of personality and emotion to your messages. But what if ...

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 ...

In July, the Unicode Technical Committee was a bit of a buzzkill: It announced that for now, it would not add a white-wine emoji to Unicode’s standard emoji mix. The meeting minutes noted that the UTC ...

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 ...

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 ...