World Emoji Day falls annually on July 17, the date shown on the calendar emoji. Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" 🤪 and "fist bump" 👊 symbols into your texts -- today is World Emoji ...

Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. The symbol dates back to ancient Greece, though tilde comes from Spanish, ...

In the digital age it’s emoji, rather than pictures, that are worth a thousand words. When replying to a low-quality post on Twitter, what words could possibly sum up your contempt better than the ...

It’s the year of the emoji. Or at least that’s what the Oxford Dictionary would have us believe. That venerable arbiter of language usage has selected the “face with tears of joy” emoji as the “word” ...

Love them or judge them, emojis have become a full-fledged language of their own. We use them to express joy 😂, confusion 🤔, exhaustion 😩, and even passive-aggressive support 👏👏👏. Recent stats ...

As Luke Thomas worked on building his software startup, Friday, he struggled to gauge the mood of his software engineers. Judging their morale was crucial–and not simply because Thomas considers ...

In June 2018, there will be 2,823 emoji in the Unicode Standard -- the global specification that ensures characters are interpreted the same across platforms. But nowhere in that list -- which has ...