Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts ... been the first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the ...

An emoticon is a blend of ‘emotion’ and ‘icon’, made up of characters from a keyboard, whereas an emoji ... may not be representative of what he actually looked like. Smiley faces have ...

When Apple releases the next major iPhone update in April, there’s a raft of new features, including a collection of new ...

Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective, depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking smiley face should you use ... so what's popular now might not be popular ...

A security researcher claims to have discovered a way to hide extra information inside emoji. Paul Butler explained ... preserve variation selectors, they do not naturally attempt to decode ...