A person with a white cane, an individual sitting in a motorized wheelchair, a prosthetic arm, someone signing the word "deaf." These are among the 13 variants of emoji to represent people with ...

The update, called Emoji Kitchen, comes to most Android phones today. There are 3,000 emoji on our phones today, including variants in gender and skin tone. And yet it can still be hard to find just ...

LONDON -- Emoji aren't just a means of embellishing our messages with poop, monkeys and salsa dancers. They're a way of expressing our identities. SEE ALSO: These 'femojis' may get you talking more ...

A 10-year-old boy in England is taking on Apple over its "nerd" emoji. Teddy Cottlel, of Oxfordshire, wants Apple to change the emoji, which depicts a glasses-wearing grinning face with two front ...

If you've ever hesitated to add a smiley face or a thumbs-up to an email, a new survey from Adobe may put you at ease. The software company, which conducts regular surveys on emoji use, found that the ...

A new study has shown that when it comes to developing closeness in your relationships, the emoji you send in your texts are doing some pretty heavy lifting. You know emoji – the expressive visual ...

There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon. Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive emoji, ...

In honor of World Emoji Day (yes, it's a thing), the Chinese tech company Baidu released a report spotlighting the most popular little characters used globally on the Facemoji Keyboard app over the ...

Emoji blog Emojipedia researched what emoji were used to talk about coronavirus on Twitter. They also looked at what emoji were more popular in coronavirus tweets to a random sample of tweets. They ...

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A dozen icons depicting the experiences of people with disabilities are coming to smartphones and other devices later this year. The Unicode Consortium — the organization that standardizes the emoji ...