Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. We’re all used to typing emoji on our smartphones and tablets, ...

Faces in Content Warning are easily customised at the suit station in the house, but you only get three characters, and not all symbols are seemingly allowed. If you just want to stick with letters ...

Get ready to step up your emoji game. Unicode just made its new emoji list for 2019 official, and the update adds 230 new symbols, including a yawning face, white heart, and pinching hand symbol.

Most people have had the experience of scrolling through their phone keyboards in search of a specific emoji, only to find it absent. A very small percentage of those people have actually stepped up ...

In 2015 Oxford Dictionaries named the “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji its word of the year, and in 2016 New York’s Museum of Modern Art acquired Kurita’s original emoji symbols, describing them as ...

The classic smiley face emoji now means something completely different to those under 30, The New York Post reports. Instead of conveying happiness, the grinning yellow face is now seen as dismissive, ...

There are language purists out there who insist on the Queen’s English, eschewing text speak and correcting bad grammar whenever they see it. But it can’t be denied that the way we talk has shifted ...