Even if you’re not a regular texter, you’re definitely familiar with emoji (that’s right, the plural is the same as the singular): they appear in advertising, in captions, and in videos. In 2015, ...

Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

A University of Illinois professor helped win approval for a forthcoming new emoji symbol — a cup of bubble tea — as part of her research into how people communicate using the popular images. The ...