Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. We’re all used to typing emoji on our smartphones and tablets, ...

Faces in Content Warning are easily customised at the suit station in the house, but you only get three characters, and not all symbols are seemingly allowed. If you just want to stick with letters ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. After months of hard (?) work, the nonprofit organization that oversees emoji has ...

Most people have had the experience of scrolling through their phone keyboards in search of a specific emoji, only to find it absent. A very small percentage of those people have actually stepped up ...

In 2015 Oxford Dictionaries named the “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji its word of the year, and in 2016 New York’s Museum of Modern Art acquired Kurita’s original emoji symbols, describing them as ...

Including a list of all the heart emojis available on your phone KNOWING which emoji to use at the end of your messages can massively improve your texting and impress your pals. Here’s all you need to ...

Emojis often express emotions without words. You may have used a heart, thumbs up or sad face to show how you feel. But others are more obscure - so you probably haven't used "aerial tramway" or ...