In celebration of World Emoji Day on July 17, the Unicode Consortium previewed some of the new emoji that will be coming with ...

The Unicode Consortium is a nonprofit devoted to developing, maintaining and promoting software standards and data, and it ...

Emojis were created to convey thoughts more easily - but they seem more confusing than ever. Texting someone your age or ...

A new emoji with an uneven face and rosy cheeks is driving the internet wild. One eye is open, one eyebrow is slightly furrowed, and the mouth is doing something pretty inexplicable.

Now the consortium has given developers the first Emoji 11 beta, which contains 130 draft emojis, including a female superhero, a lobster and a party face. There's no trace of the sad poo and that ...

Facebook and Messenger will soon use the same set of emoji — namely the Facebook standard emoji. Messenger’s emoji will be getting the boot, but at least the platform will have emoji consistency.

The Emoji's official name is "Face with Medical Mask" and it was added to iPhone iOS in 2008. Apple's move to alter the symbol follows Samsung, which gave its users a happier face mask emoji in March.

That’s where the melting face emoji comes in. The face, fixed with a content half-smile even as it dissolves into a puddle, is one of 37 new emojis approved this year by the Unicode Consortium, ...

Before he started working for The Verge, Jay Peters submitted the proposals for the yawning face and waffle emoji that became a reality in Emoji 12.0. Here’s how he did it — submitting ...