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 ...

Smiling at Gen Z? Better watch your back. What used to be the universal symbol of warmth and joy has taken a sinister turn — at least in the eyes of Gen Z. The classic smiley face emoji now means ...

When someone who usually texts with emojis suddenly goes cold—no faces, no punctuation softeners—the absence becomes its own ...

There was a time, back in the ‘Stone Age’ of 2015, when a simple laughing emoji was enough to show you were laughing. If you were feeling bold, you’d throw in a fire or a love emoji.But walk into any ...