Humans have been communicating with pictures since the days of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Today, that tradition lives on in one of the most popular visual languages of the digital age: the emoji.

Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom found in fairy tale picture books and Super Mario Brothers. A ...

The only place I can think to use this is to signify that every day, my heart becomes a little less human and a little more machine. My spirit is calcifying from lively red to a matte, steely grey.

Emojis are basically the internet's way of speaking a language everyone understands. No matter where you're from, they just click. They bring feelings to life in a way plain text can't quite manage.

Apple and Google are rolling out dozens of new emojis that include cute critters, of course, but also expand the number of images of human diversity. Apple Inc. is releasing new variants of its ...

From simple smiley faces and love hearts to high heels and rainbows, it seems like there is already an emoji for every possible situation. Now, iPhone users have even more designs to use. As part of ...

The flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria. Scores of ...

The Unicode Consortium is finally listening to Apple and Google after the respective tech giants asked for diverse skin tones to be added to the available emojis on mobile devices. As more icons have ...

A new batch of emojis have been approved for iOS 26. A new batch of emojis has been approved for iOS 26. Surprisingly enough, Apple or Google isn’t the ones that decide which emojis come to your phone ...