This week, before the holidays come and your issues get way too big for small emoji, Zoe Mendelson plays shrink. Had emoji been born in an English-speaking country, they might as well have been called ...

The high and low collided at the world’s first emoji convention in San Francisco on Saturday, and the result was . Linguists, emoji designers from tech powerhouses like Google and officials from the ...

There are emoji for pears, koalas, and jack-o’-lanterns; for a pine tree, a pizza slice, and a dragon’s head on a plate. But there are no emoji for black people. That seems likely to change soon: ...

Jovan Hill tweeted "Gays are cancelled". Ironically, Twitter then cancelled him. Twitter accidentally allowed the creation of a "No Homo" emoji this week — and then banned a prominent gay Twitter user ...

A number of iOS app developers have been mystified by a new wave of app rejections related to their use of Apple’s emojis. They’ve suspected that a new App Store crackdown is underway. However, the ...

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, ...

Florie Hutchinson's crusade against emoji fashion started last year, on the heels of the presidential election and the 2017 Women's March. She'd been thinking about feminism, her three young daughters ...

Mosquitoes are more than a spoiler of backyard barbecues. They threaten more than half the world’s population with their disease-spreading bites. In fact, mosquitoes are deadlier — by far — than ...

If you have a smartphone, or use the internet at all in 2019, you probably know emoji – those small pictures that seem to punctuate nearly every written exchange today. (Some of you are probably even ...

A public health expert and a designer have created a new digital communication tool to get more COVID-19 shots into arms -- a vaccine emoji. Social media users have been using the syringe, microbe, or ...