Last month, the Unicode Consortium, a group that oversees the way text is coded into computer-readable language, published a new draft proposal that outlined not just the addition of 37 new emoji ...

You’ve heard about the words of the year—Oxford’s vape, Merriam-Webster’s culture, and Dictionary.com’s exposure, to name a few. And perhaps you’re even eagerly awaiting the American Dialect Society’s ...

In today’s hyper-connected world, no online conversation or chat would be complete without the ever-present emoji as an efficient shorthand for expressing one’s feelings or vibe. But before there were ...

THE man who created the emoticon 33 years ago has an ambitious new project, and time is running out for him to make it a reality. And that’s exactly why it was invented 33 years ago, when a group of ...