Jennifer Daniel leads the Unicode Consortium’s emoji subcommittee. She tells us how emojis are chosen and discusses their importance in the world of language. Language has been evolving for as long as ...

Imagine sending a simple emoji in a text message—just a cheerful smiley face or a thumbs-up—without a second thought. Now, what if I told you that same emoji could secretly carry hidden instructions ...

Sanuj Bhatia, the managing editor at Pocketnow, is responsible for supervising and contributing to all the content published on the website, including news, reviews, features, and how-tos. He began ...

You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are some of the most popular emoji as of the beginning of November. The list changes periodically, so what's popular now might not ...

Version 17.0 of Unicode, the character encoding standard, was released on September 9, 2025. It adds 4,803 new characters, including four new characters and several emojis, bringing the total number ...

Apple and Samsung brought nine new emoji to their devices this year with the releases of iOS 18.4 and One UI 7, including a face with bags under its eyes, splatter and a harp. The Unicode Consortium ...

Whether it's a friendly smiling face or a cheeky aubergine, emoji now form a daily part of many people's day-to-day messages. Now, Unicode, the group responsible for approving new emoji, has revealed ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

More than 90 per cent of the world’s online population use emoji and according to data collected by the Unicode Consortium, the not-for-profit organization responsible for digitizing the world’s ...