Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...

Slack now forces you to use specific emoji depending on your system of choice. Mac and iOS users will still see Apple’s emoji, which used to be the default for all users. But now Windows, Android, and ...

The happy dance is alive and well -- It's playing out in delightful loops on our work computer screens. We're talking about the bouncing creatures improving your Slack conversations with their sick ...

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Some of us are addicted to favoriting tweets, but Slack had a better idea: what if you could favorite a message with emoji? After users consistently asked for a “like” button in its app, Slack wanted ...

Slack now lets you react to a message with an emoji, any one of the 722. Slack is ingraining emojis even deeper into your work environment whether you like it or not. Users were already able to send ...

If there’s one factor that explains why people have an emotional bond with group-messaging phenom Slack that’s unusual for an enterprise tool, it’s the service’s polish and playful sensibility. Slack ...

The “like” button has become so common on social media today that many click it reflexively to acknowledge a post or comment, even when “like” isn’t quite what they mean. Recognizing that messages can ...

Slack’s new Emoji Reactions are my favorite thing on the internet, at least for today. I have long pined for something more than a mere “like.” When someone shares that there has been a loss in the ...

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