Last May, Google laid out a proposal for gender equality in emoji. It wasn’t right, the authors wrote, that male emojis got to be police officers and construction workers while female emojis were ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) At least 230 new emoji , when different skin tones and genders are included, are due to be released this year. That's a leap on 2018 when only 157 emoji were added to the ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall. Emoji characters that are coming include trombone, ...

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 you're annoyed by the "Pregnant Man" emoji, you're getting irritated by the technical equivalent of stacking three Lego bricks on top of each other. Here's how Unicode U+1FAC3 came about. Before ...

Unicode’s draft emoji list that could be released this year contains three proposed gender-inclusive emoji. Mashable reports that there are currently no emoji for people who identify outside the ...