Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking smiley face should you use? Is there a difference between each ...

Formerly known as smileys and often confused with emoticons, emoji faces are used on SMS and social media apps like Instagram ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

as the iPhone introduced their own emoji keyboard and competing phone companies followed suit. The iconic yellow smiley face has an interesting story behind it - and it was around long before the ...

There will reportedly be a total of 164 new digital hieroglyphics, released as part of the Emoji 17.0 and Unicode 17.0 beta.

Who creates the symbols so many of us now use to communicate? How do they get on our phones? And why can’t we all agree on ...