You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are some of the most popular emoji as of the mid-December. The list changes periodically, so what's popular now might not be ...

With roots stretching all the way back to Mesopotamia, circa 3200 BCE, the written word has a distinguished place in the history of humanity. It is the building block of countless great works of ...

If you’ve ever had an idea for a new emoji bouncing around in your head, now’s your chance. The official online submission window for 2022 opened in early April and closes at the end of July. Anyone ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emoji may not have replaced text just yet, but they are getting closer: the pictorial icons have revolutionized digital communication since becoming a fixture of the iOS keyboard in 2011, and adopted ...

For emoji lovers, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: when we learn the latest batch of emoji likely to end up on our phones and tablets in the coming months. But this year’s candidates look a ...

When the very first set of emoji was designed by Japanese engineer Shigetaku Kurita in the 1990s, pixel-y dots within a 12-by-12 dot grid were about the entirety of what could be conveyed in emoji ...

If a picture if worth a thousand words, then an emoji is worth at least 10,000, right? But with the sheer number of options to choose from... well, how is one supposed to know when to use them all?